Adrian Fini reaches across the table in the private dining room at Perth’s upmarket State Buildings precinct, grabs a sheet of paper and scrawls out a graph to help explain his approach to property development.

“If I want to own something for 50 years, the property goes up by 3 per cent per annum,” the notoriously media-shy Perth businessman tells The Australian Financial Review in a rare interview. “But if I make the whole environment around it better, my property goes up by 4 per cent.

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