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One of the best parts of working at STRATOSFEAR is working with great people and their businesses to achieve their goals. That's why so much of our business comes from referrals. If you've got a friend, family member, colleague or neighbour who's: wanting to improve their business. talking about selling their business. wanting to purchase a property. refinancing or renovating. want an investment property - commercial or residential. wanting to run a gap analysis on the busine

Brodie Stewart - Associate Director New software is Not the Solution you are seeking. Every few months another business owner changes accounting systems and ends up worse off than before they started. The migration gets sold as a job that will take only a few weeks. You take out a subscription, import the chart of accounts and away you go. What actually happens is opening balances that will not agree from the old system to the new, a year of comparatives nobody can reconstruc

Tristan Holroyd - Manager - Specialised Finance The WA residential market is beginning to show signs of becoming more balanced. The number of properties listed for sale in Perth has increased significantly, giving buyers more choice and reducing some of the urgency we have seen over the past few years. REIWA reported 7,352 Perth properties for sale in the week ending 6 September, compared with 2,905 at the same time last year. REIWA Perth market data While Perth remains funda

Tristan Holroyd - Manager - Specialist Finance Broker The WA commercial market remains active, particularly for good-quality industrial, warehouse and well-located commercial assets. Strong properties with quality tenants and realistic pricing are still attracting buyers quickly. However, describing the entire commercial market as being at an all-time high may be too broad. WA commercial transaction volumes fell 34.4% in FY26 to approximately $3.19 billion, although industria

Jamie Holroyd - Managing Director Organic growth is important but it is not the only path to scale. Acquiring a competitor or complementary business can accelerate growth by adding revenue, customers, capability, geographic reach and market share. It can also improve industry structure by reducing fragmentation and creating a stronger, more efficient combined business. For many owners however, an acquisition appears financially out of reach. In practice, it may be more achiev