Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for this Tuesday, the 14th of July.
Making headlines today, property prices continue to rise across Perth, but it doesn’t seem to have impacted prospective buyers looking to spend more than $2 million on a new home.
The median house sale price increased by 16.3 per cent over the past financial year to $930,000 with the time to sell properties also increasing from just over a week, to 18 days.
But properties in affluent suburbs including North Beach, City Beach, Bicton and Mosman Park are seeing homes fly off the market in the same amount of time as those half the price.
Meanwhile, lawyers for a Perth hospital warring with a local gym claim they are not being “unduly sensitive” over ongoing noise complaints from weights and music, while the gym’s lawyers say the hospital should not have moved into the building in the first place.
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