Sarah Brookes
Sarah Brookes is a journalist with WAtoday, specialising in property and government and is the winner of four WA Media Awards.
Analysis
Population
The Perth suburbs where deaths of residents outnumber births
Perth’s local born population is shrinking. Use our interactive graphic to find out how your suburb is doing.
- by Sarah Brookes
Latest
The top five suburbs in Australia for price growth in the 12 months to April are in Perth
Ray White Group chief economist Nerida Conisbee said all suburbs across Australia were now seeing year-on-year price growth, with the top performers in Perth’s outer suburbs.
- by Sarah Brookes
Updated
Marine life
Mass casualties: 160 whales in beach stranding in WA’s south-west
More than 100 pilot whales have become stranded on a beach near Dunsborough on Thursday morning.
- by Sarah Brookes and Heather McNeill
Parts of Perth are more crowded than Berlin and Paris. Find out how dense your suburb is
Perth has recorded the largest increase in population over the past 20 years in Australia, while also clocking the highest portion of detached houses of any capital.
- by Sarah Brookes
Perth continues to sprawl as residential infill rate goes backwards
Perth has fallen short of its infill target every year since 2017, with the rate of residential infill going backwards for the past two years.
- by Sarah Brookes
Perth house prices have hit a new record high. So what’s your suburb’s value?
Perth is now the third-cheapest capital to buy a house in, despite prices rising 1.5 per cent in the March quarter. Use our interactive tool to see your suburb’s median.
- by Sarah Brookes
WA house price boom not just about migrants – another population’s exploding
This demographic was minuscule in WA in 1993. You never saw them around – just in your community paper from time to time. But their number has since exploded.
- by Sarah Brookes
Why this WA farmer is digging a mass grave for 3000 sheep
The heartbroken farmer says he “can’t cope with the thought of shooting them” but that he has no choice. He is not the only one.
- by Sarah Brookes
What keeps homeowners in these Perth suburbs where no one wants to leave?
The suburbs in Perth where homes very rarely go up for sale are scattered across the city from the coast to the hills.
- by Sarah Brookes
‘We just want Oakley back’: Perth family’s petition calling for pup’s return gathers pace
Meanwhile, a Perth vet has urged a commonsense approach to animal rescue issues.
- by Sarah Brookes
Bond behind Perth’s biggest city retail deal this year
Alan Bond’s grandson Banjo Bond’s company has purchased a key building in the Murray Street Mall for $32.25 million.
- by Sarah Brookes