ABC News When it comes to housing, Australia loves a taskforce. More than 50 years ago, the federal government established one to “investigate modern housing techniques” to boost Australia’s “large, unsatisfied demand for housing”. It published a 114-page report in 1974, describing, in minute detail, the benefits and challenges of shifting housing construction in Australia […]
Business News Henning Larsen is a household name in Scandinavian architecture. The Copenhagen design firm, bearing the name of its late founder, is a leader in mass timber design. It has designed buildings using wood materials for several years, with its first large-scale timber project the World of Volvo in Sweden. Conceived in 2018 and […]
The West Australian When COVID-19 disruptions caused inflation to shoot up, so did the cost of building new homes. So, as inflation returns to normal, why are construction costs accelerating again? It’s a dilemma that is throttling the industry and preventing it from delivering the new supply needed to ease housing affordability. When COVID-19 disruptions […]
The West Australian Building mogul Dale Alcock says the industry needs a freeze on red tape and a big inflow of workers to fight the housing crisis. The Federal Government wants 1.2 million properties finished within five years but the boss of Australia’s second biggest home builder has warned growing regulation is adding to construction […]
WA Today The cost of building a new home in Perth has continued to climb, pushing the city’s depleted established residential property market to new highs. CoreLogic’s latest Cordell Construction Cost Index, which tracks the cost to build a typical new dwelling, showed residential construction costs grew 1 per cent over the September quarter, in […]
Domain Demand for housing is booming across Perth, with new figures from the Urban Development Institute of Australia in WA revealing a 92 per cent increase in the number of new land sales over the past 12 months. According to the institute’s Urban Development Index for the December quarter 2023, new land sales in the […]
The West Australian Despite a crisis of confidence in the building sector, the house-and-land package dream is being revived, with Perth recording its largest number of land sales in more than three years. The rise follows a period of poor sales, as buyers shied away from the troubled industry amid a raft of company collapses and tardy […]
Business News The pathways to access power supply on new residential subdivisions will be simplified by the state government, in a move designed to accelerate project delivery and shorten a growing waitlist. The changes announced today by Energy Minister Reece Whitby will give land developers multiple pathways to achieve pre-design conformance review clearance on subdivision projects. Developers […]
Business News ABN Group head Dale Alcock has slammed the federal government’s IR reforms, calling the changes “a load of s**t” while predicting the construction industry’s woes will remain. Federal Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke’s second tranche of the Closing Loopholes legislation today passed the Senate, which will allow millions of employees to ignore work communications after hours and giving casual […]