Established home values are falling while the cost of building keeps rising. On a new build, those two lines meet at the lender’s valuation, and the bill for any gap usually arrives with the last progress claim. National home values have now fallen for six months in a...
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Established home values are falling while the cost of building keeps rising. On a new build, those two lines meet at the lender’s valuation, and the bill for any gap usually arrives with the last progress claim. National home values have now fallen for six months in a...
American construction is hiring steadily, yet vacancies keep climbing as data centre work pulls tradespeople toward big projects and retirements thin the workforce. The industry is starting to treat labour as a productivity problem, not just a recruitment one....
Approvals are up, more homes are under construction than ever recorded and dwelling investment just hit a record. Read the datasets underneath those headlines together and they describe an industry that is busier, more expensive and finishing a smaller share of what...
Ben Donaghy came up through roofing, carpentry, concreting, rigging and commercial site management before opening Stroud Homes Brisbane North. He told Az what that path taught him about trades, transparency and tricky blocks. Ask Ben Donaghy what makes a good builder...