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🚀 The latest residential construction news from new sources around Australia for the week ending 18-10-2024
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- 🌞 Designing for Comfort & Efficiency: Shading Tips for Your New Home Published on 18-10-2024 at 8.00am
Overview: Discover how smart shading solutions like eaves, pergolas, and louvres can improve comfort and reduce energy costs in your home. Tailored to different climates, these tips help block summer heat, invite winter sunlight, and use natural elements like trees to create a more efficient, sustainable living space year-round.
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🔥 News
What else is brewing in the construction sector?
We've highlighted a couple of our favourite news article by marking with a 👉️ and this formatting.
11th October 2024
Nicheliving customers urge government to scrap mystery deal - LINK
Canberra builder goes bust owing $4 million - LINK
Sumitomo, sparkies’ wages soar, sustainability reporting at the top end of town, Tzannes and Yerrabingin and DCCEEW - LINK
👉️ Infrastructure boom drives housing construction bust - LINK
NT building work above national average - LINK
👉️ Phantom Dwellings in Australia: A Growing Barrier for Renewable Energy Projects - LINK
Around the grounds: Australia’s latest property market trends - LINK
Making Room project helping Melburnians - LINK
Small wins in building approvals – but red tape maintains its stranglehold on housing - LINK
Housing crisis hinders release of SA prisoners, concerns re-offending will increase - LINK
‘Overwhelmed, hopeless, crushed’: Swinburne report reveals how housing crisis is reshaping young people’s lives - LINK
On why not 30 per cent public housing - LINK
Land supply just one issue in housing crisis - LINK
No real housing crisis solutions allowed - LINK
👉️ Suburban homelessness driven by housing shortage - LINK
12th October 2024
Nicheliving cuts deal that leaves taxpayers forking out $40 million to build unfinished homes - LINK
Perth home builder Nicheliving to lose its building registration after cutting a deal with WA government - LINK
NSW President's report - LINK
Hundreds of new defence homes to be built in Rockingham region - LINK
SA government allows Riverlea housing project to continue after discovery of Aboriginal remains - LINK
Australia's Housing Crisis: A Call for Reform - LINK
Build public housing - LINK
Housing wars: Strata owners vs owners corporations - LINK
WA Likely to Miss National Housing Accord Target - LINK
The surprising number of people who are homeless in your suburb - LINK
Harrowvale - The Future Of Housing For Parkes Assured - LINK
👉️ Why Australia’s New Build-to-Rent Wave is Fuelled by Japanese Cash - LINK
'Like a kick in the guts': Failed builder's staff shocked and disappointed - LINK
13th October 2024
👉️ Battle over cut sewage pipe, dangerous mould in new home - LINK
The VBA's powers in such matters are limited, as the authority cannot compel a builder to address defects of non-compliance after an occupancy permit has been issued and the building occupied.
WA’s building industry starts tentatively re-emerging from tough traumatic years - LINK
New report reveals the insane amount rent has increased across Australia since the pandemic - LINK
'Pie in the sky': NSW government's bold housing plan could make small towns more crowded than New York - LINK
The Australian city where there are 3700 vacant homes for every 100,000 people - LINK
Australian housing swings sharply into buyer’s market - LINK
Builder forced to sell his own property to survive building crisis - LINK
14th October 2024
Construction nightmares: How builder bankruptcies are costing Aussie homeowners millions - LINK LINK
New precinct featuring eight housing typologies approved for central NSW - LINK
Subbies deserve better protection in the building industry - LINK
Collaboration enables delivery of much needed housing for vulnerable women and children - LINK
Victorian councils sidelined from state housing plans, says peak - LINK
Housing market ‘diversity’ widening, flags CoreLogic - LINK
Joint media release: Cutting power bills for social housing tenants - LINK
Steamroll laggard councils over housing: business lobby - LINK
15th October 2024
Revealed: Australia’s top 20 occupational shortages for 2024 - LINK
👉️ Call to ring-fence new homeowners’ money for better protection - LINK
Our Comment: Project Accounts have been used in commercial construction for eons. It is a methods to mitigate financial risks but does require a heap of administration to manage, meaning, more costs added to the price tag for consumers. We are definitely not against them in any way. There needs to be an education and management strategy in place to deploy this option.
👉️ Australia’s home building industry “structurally damaged” - LINK
👉️ Family’s ‘dream’ dashed over $100k dispute - LINK
Housing market confidence on the rise - LINK
👉️ Liability insurers await final word on building defects row - LINK
👉️ Tradie’s alarming discovery at new build exposes costly problem for Aussie home owners: ‘Wild West’ - LINK
State’s deal with embattled builder clears way for home claims - LINK
Housing Australia supports Brisbane Housing Company to deliver over 600 new homes across South East Queensland - LINK
When the RBA cuts interest rates, housing affordability relief may only be temporary for first home buyers - LINK
Positive data may be masking dire plight of construction sector - LINK
16th October 2024
Residential construction costs pick up pace - LINK
Construction cost re-acceleration puts 1.2m homes goal in jeopardy - LINK
New home build costs may be moderating, but they won’t fall back to pre-pandemic prices - LINK
👉️ Build-to-rent is the latest craze in Australian property investment. But has it solved housing crises overseas? - LINK
Our Comment: read our blog post on BTR to find out about what we think of BTR. Click the link below.
Anthony Painter
More cranes in the sky, but fewer building homes - LINK
Over 1,000 more homes for Queensland - LINK
Housing industry: Rental crisis “locked in” - LINK
Housing Australia, ART invest with Queensland government in new homes - LINK
Initiative to cut energy bills in NSW social housing - LINK
Essential workers priced out of rentals, Anglicare calls for urgent social housing boost - LINK
👉️ Business Council gaslights on housing crisis - LINK
From Bunnings to Lendlease: New Chair’s Plan to Build Trust and Thrive - LINK
Tradies desperately needed: Hunt is on to find 83,000 workers to reach 2029 housing goal | HIA - LINK
17th October 2024
Residential construction costs pick up pace in September quarter - CoreLogic - LINK
👉️ Construction nightmares: How builder bankruptcies are costing Aussie home owners millions - LINK
Cost to build a new home picks up pace in Perth, putting pressure on established market - LINK
👉️ Australian housing supply indicators collapse - LINK
Business Council calls for major rezoning of land to boost housing supply - LINK
👉️ Australia’s construction sector needs tradies, not suits - LINK
The Tasmanian government promised 10,000 new homes by 2032 but many won't involve a new house - LINK
Application for Brisbane community housing project lodged - LINK
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