Construction
WA home owners who have a beef with their builder to get free inspections
It is a move that the department expects will save Western Australian home owners about $2.2 million per year and streamline what had been an arduous process which often pitted one building inspector’s report against another.
- by Daile Cross and Hamish Hastie
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Property market
WA's border controls will hinder property price recovery: NAB economist
NAB’s global head of markets research says WA is poised to survive the national property downturn better than most, but there are some key factors that will hamper its road to recovery.
- by Aja Styles
Home
Renovating for $25,000 grant? Don't over-capitalise
A building industry rule of thumb is that the cost of improvements should not exceed about 10 per cent of the value of the home.
- by John Collett
Perth
WA two-storey builder Ben Trager stops accepting new home orders, dumps sales staff
A spokeswoman confirmed Ben Trager had stopped accepting new orders but existing orders would be fulfilled.
- by Hamish Hastie
Property market
WA builder raises concerns of price gouging just days after state and federal new home grants
Ross North sales and marketing manager Shane Casserly recalled an instance just days after the federal grant was announced where a developer sold a parcel of land from underneath a client 45 minutes before they were due to view the block.
- by Hamish Hastie
Mining
Cash carrot revealed to lure eastern states FIFO workers to WA
The bonus, announced on the weekend, will be made available to the 6000 eastern states workers who fly to the state to work on resources sites across WA.
- by Hamish Hastie
Australian economy
HomeBuilder stimulus pushed through without House vote
Home builders and renovators will start receiving the Morrison government’s $688 million boost to the construction industry without any need for a vote in Parliament to authorise the outlay, despite a Labor move to amend the scheme.
- by David Crowe
Editorial
Editorial
Social housing should be added to make stimulus fair and efficient
The HomeBuilder package will benefit 27,500 households but more investment is needed in projects that deliver long-term public good.
- The Herald's View
Queensland
Brisbane builder expects stimulus to do the trick
A Brisbane building company says the government's $688 million HomeBuilder scheme might move hesitant clients to start renovations.
- by Darren Cartwright
WA residential property
HomeBuilder package to drag WA construction industry back from cliff edge
The Federal Government’s HomeBuilder stimulus package will kick-start the state's residential building sector which had been looking down the barrel of its toughest year in history.
- by Daile Cross
Australian economy
New HomeBuilder package aims to safeguard jobs of a million tradies
The government will on Thursday reveal a $688 million HomeBuilder program, offering Australians $25,000 to build or substantially renovate their home.
- by Rob Harris