Page 124 – POST, November 15, 2014 PClassifieds P POST PROPERTY DALKEITH DALKEITH NEDLANDS STEVEN MAILEY FOR ALL YOUR RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE NEEDS "What is worth doing is worth doing well" 9386 8255 0416 191 941 MOSMAN PARK Chinese snap up local home units • From page 1 residency in Australia for overseas investors. “Almost half of all investment comes from institutions, with the remaining investment comprising high-net-worth individuals, superannuation funds and overseas investors, including immigration visa investors.” Meanwhile, the POST is aware of at least two Chinese websites selling another Subiaco redevelopment. Finbar is building 245 apartments and 19 shops in two seven-storey blocks in Roydhouse and Hood streets, in Subi Centro. Finbar bought the 7882sq.m block of land two years ago for $17million and expects the apartment blocks to fetch $174.1 million. The builders claim to have sold 75% of these units, with the first ones due to be occupied mid-next year. 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Neighbours ‘swear like FIFO workers’ • From page 9 “The property could be let without any reference to the council for two years to the neighbours from hell. “Or they could let each bedroom to university students,” Mr Hassell said. Councillor Leo McManus asked who would monitor activity at the house. “We cannot monitor parking at Mt Claremont markets,” he said. Councillor Gordon Hay, who lives in a rented house two doors away, said controlling short-stay accommodation was a problem facing planning authorities around the world. “When it becomes a business every day of the year it is a different proposition,” he said. Mr Hay said visitors did not become part of the community or get to know the neighbours. Time of the signs in the suburbs are in a poor or appalling condition,” he said. “They are illegible, out-of-date and no longer functional. “Many have symbols or text that is partially or completely faded.” The survey included Mosman Park, Subiaco, Nedlands, Claremont, Peppermint Grove, Cottesloe and Cambridge. Mr Duncanson said signage was a “major but poorly maintained asset of councils”. “The local governCompletely illegible ment reform process … A Town of Mosman provides an opportunity to improve and better Park sign. manage this asset.” Council mergers will mean tens of thousands of councilbranded signs will get a much needed upgrade, according to a strategic signage planning consultancy. Wayfound – who conduct council signage audits – say existing councils will need to allocate funds for signage changes in their 2014-15 budgets if councils merge. Wayfound signage consultant David Duncanson said many western suburbs council signs were in poor condition and needed replacing or modification. Mr Duncanson said a survey conducted by Wayfound showed western suburbs street names, parking, bus shelters and sporting centres signs were among those that needed replacing. “Our survey also reveals that about 30% of (Perth metro) signs He said local governments would have to address the issue quickly. “If you live in the Town of Cambridge but you pay rates to the City of Subiaco then the signage has got to keep up with the change,” he said. John’s on track • From page 136 John said he had been inside almost every house in Dalkeith and Nedlands south of Stirling Highway since starting his real estate career in 1969. He has sold hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property, sometimes selling the same house three times over the decades. He said Acton in Dalkeith had started at the perfect time, when most real estate was sold via the St George’s Terrace-based agencies. “They were run by ex-servicemen who were coming to the end of their working lives,” he said. “We worked hard, in the office every day by 7am and building the business rapidly. “It now has 300 employees.” But it was racing and Stirling Moss that trumped it all. “I lived my childhood dream,” he said. “It was what I wanted all my life.” Hit and miss for Subi shooters • From page 11 longest serving mayor from 1950 to 1974] was our first patron, Tony Costa was the second last one and the current mayor Heather Henderson is our patron now.” The club still uses the council’s old coat of arms. Swanbourne was established in 1913 as a rifle range and the Subiaco club was formed in 1919. Like other clubs, Subiaco has a club house on the range which is a place to show off trophies and plaques and for members to hang out, catch up and share a cuppa. Back in the day it was a bit of a party house as well. The club will leave the Swanbourne site – beside the SAS barracks at Campbell Barracks – just before Christmas. They are about to build a new club and state-of-the-art facilities at Pinjar but this may not be ready until the end of next year at the earliest. In the meantime they have arrangements in place with Bindoon, Yarloop, Chidlow and Pickering Brook rifle clubs to shoot there as visitors. “I’ve been shooting for 56 years and I’ve been at Swanbourne all that time,” Merve said. “Betty, my wife, started shooting after I started and she was the first lady captain of the club. She’s been here for 40 years. “We’ve been married for 58 years and we’ll miss the place when it's gone.” Like the POST on facebook Cops raid UWA crime lab • From page 1 university terminating the firm’s link to the centre in October last year. UWA sources said Professor O’Donnell told the firm to go. They said the suspended professors had been the subject of a UWA investigation. The Firearms Act has penalties of $2000 (for a first offence) or 12 months’ jail and/or a $4000 fine for not storing bullets safely. UWA sources said the bullets and gunpowder could only be accessed with a swipe card and a key. Centre staff have links with the FBI, federal police and other universities. It helps with cold case reviews, forensic testing, forensic advice about legal matters and disaster victim identification. The centre offers graduate diplomas, masters and combined masters/PhD programs in 22 disciplines. It has four academic staff, eight research staff and 23 adjunct positions. Thirty-eight police officers are members of the centre’s 100-strong student body. In August the POST reported on a PhD student’s work aimed at identifying the “fingerprints” of bullet and shotgun pellet fragments left at crime scenes. UWA hopes her work will change the way police the world over gather forensic evidence (“Anna’s science is No.1 with a bullet”, POST, August 9). Oasis blooming with paid parking • From page 9 Three weeks ago the cost of all-day parking in the Wilson-run carpark underneath Woolworths doubled to $30. “The problem is that you had people working in the city, or tradies, for who a $15-all day parking charge was still more attractive than what they’d pay elsewhere,” Dean said. “They would take up most of the car bays, making it difficult and frustrating for our customers to get a park. “People would not come here to shop and it was hurting our businesses. “Customers can still get 90 minutes' free parking, and pay a little bit more if they need to stay longer, but the new charge has stopped the problem and in the last few weeks there are always car bays free.”