WA news LIVE: Man charged over setting Innaloo house alight, throwing Molotov cocktails at real estate agency
Morning all and welcome to Tuesday’s live blog.
This morning, property reporter Sarah Brookes has revealed that one of the state’s largest home builders – BCG – has raised eyebrows after it bought vacant blocks of land in popular housing estates and built houses on them in less than 12 months.
This is despite the fact it is facing a class action over thousands of building contracts that have languished for years.
Read more about that here.
This house on Sandstone Road in Eglinton was completed quicker than most new builds in Perth.Credit: Domain
Sarah has also written an opinion piece on the benefits of living in Sydney, after moving there from Perth recently.
In another story, political reporter Hamish Hastie also has a story on a multimillion-dollar promise made by the federal government to upgrade one of Perth’s most notorious intersections.
Find out where that is, and how much has been promised, here.
And, in case you missed it on 9 News last night, WA Premier Roger Cook has taken a swipe at Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’Landys for the way he handled negotiations.
Read more here.
Stay with us today as more news breaks.
