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The New Priorities Shaping Multi-Residential Projects
The current state of Australia’s housing market is pressured, to say the least. New apartments and built-to-rent developments still lag behind demand, and although some states show promising growth...
NSW Puts the Call Out to the World’s Modular Manufacturers. What Its Factory Tender Actually Offers.
The state has stopped describing the factory and started shopping for the company to run it. The detail worth reading is what NSW is prepared to put on the table to get one here. NSW has moved from...
The builders who moved hardest in FY2025/26, and the ones only pretending to fall
The Good Builder's Top 100 Queensland Builders report ranks the state's hundred largest residential builders across two financial years. The averages tell a calm story. The individual builders do...
Why Builders Lose Their Margin Before the Job Starts, and the Queensland Roadshow Built to Win It Back
On the latest Good Builder Podcast, Owen Chambers from The Professional Builder made a claim most builders never hear said plainly. The money leaks out of a job long before the first tool comes out....
AI Now Runs the Ad Auction. Here Is What That Means for Your Marketing Budget
The platforms builders advertise on have quietly handed the steering wheel to AI. Understanding what you still control is the difference between cheaper leads and a burnt budget. AI advertising for...
Industry Body Demands Treasury Reveal How Many Homes the SMSF Borrowing Ban Will Cost
The government modelled the housing impact of its negative gearing changes. The HIA wants to know why the same test has not been applied to the SMSF borrowing ban. The Housing Industry Association...
Unfair Contract Terms Crackdown Gets Sharper: New Regulator Powers Confirmed as Treasury Review Lands
The government is handing regulators a faster way to punish unfair contract terms. For builders, the contracts in the firing line are the ones you use every day. The crackdown on unfair contract...
Fewer homes, more money: what Queensland’s biggest builders did in FY2025/26
The Good Builder's inaugural Top 100 Queensland Builders report ranks the state's hundred largest residential building businesses by contract value. The headline is a paradox: the market built fewer...
Why Public Liability Premiums Are Rising for Builders, and What Is Coming Next
Builder liability premiums have climbed steadily since 2019, even for operators with a clean claims record. A federal inquiry now underway could reshape the rules behind that cost. Here is what is...
Detached House Approvals Are Having Their Best Run in Years. The Headlines Just Aren’t Telling You
The May figures came with an "approvals fall" headline. For most builders, that headline is describing a part of the market they do not work in. If you build detached homes, May was a good month....
Tasmania’s Newest Suburb Starts Building. What Huntingfield Means for Builders Chasing the New Grant Window.
The diggers are in and the first homes are going up at Huntingfield. For Tasmanian builders, the timing of this land release matters as much as the location. Construction has started at...
Billbergia and Metrics Lodge $1.3 Billion Chatswood Towers Through the HDA Fast-Track, Signalling Where the Big Pipeline Is Heading
A Chatswood project that started life as a 251-apartment scheme is now before the state as 552 apartments across two towers of 58 and 60 storeys. The size of the jump tells builders something useful...
Material Cost Movements in Australian Construction: What’s Stabilising, What Isn’t, and Why
For most of this year, there has been one question on every builder's mind when a supplier notification lands in the inbox. How much, and what next. For the first time in months, the answer is...
Construction Costs Set to Climb Again Through 2026, but MaxCap Research Says Builders Are Better Prepared This Time
A new research report from commercial real estate fund manager MaxCap puts numbers on what builders have been feeling on the tools for months: another round of cost inflation is coming, and this...
Waterproofing Failures in New Construction: What the Defect Data Actually Shows
It is the number one defect in Australian homes. It is also the one that responds most reliably to good practice. Here is what the numbers say and what the next code change means for the work you...
Where Australia Is Actually Building Right Now: The State-by-State Picture Behind the National Recovery
New dwelling approvals are up 8.7 per cent nationally. But the build is not lifting evenly. Here is where the work is moving, state by state, and what it means for builders deciding where to put...
A Western Australian Timber Supplier Is About to Quadruple Its Framing Output. Here Is What That Means for Builders.
Colli Timber & Hardware has secured a $2.734 million government grant and is matching it with its own funds to build one of WA's most advanced truss and framing facilities. The result: capacity...
NSW Opens Nearly $4 Million in Grants to Push Modern Construction Into Mid and High-Rise Housing
The Minns Government wants to move modular building beyond detached homes. For manufacturers and smaller innovators, the question is whether the money is worth the co-contribution. The New South...
The Payment Dispute Problem: How Much Money Australian Builders Lose Every Year to Slow and Non-Payment
Construction has the worst late-payment record and the highest insolvency rate of any industry in the country. Here is what slow and non-payment actually costs, and what you can do about it. Ask any...
Calls for a Royal Commission Into Victoria’s Big Build Are Growing. Where the Claims Stand.
Robert Redlich and Deborah Glass, two of the most senior figures to have run Victoria's integrity bodies, want a royal commission into the $109 billion Big Build. The government has said no again....
Fewer homes. The same money. The year Queensland’s 100 top builders changed what they sell.
The Top 100 Queensland Builders, FY2025/26. The inaugural edition lands Friday 3 July, 2026. Volume did not carry the year for Queensland's hundred biggest residential builders. The money did. You...
1 July 2026: Changes That Hit Your Building Business and What You Need to Know
Award wages, superannuation, parental leave, compliance and tax reforms all land in the same week. Here is the full picture. A new financial year always brings change. This one is carrying more than...
Colac’s Flood Problem Just Became a Housing Opportunity
Seven hectares of flood-prone land has been turned into infrastructure. Nearly 70 hectares of residential potential has been unlocked behind it. Colac has a housing problem that has been building...
Yandina Industrial Fund Sells Out Before DA Is Lodged, Signalling How Tight the Sunshine Coast Market Has Become
A Sunshine Coast industrial fund has been fully subscribed before its development application has even been lodged, a result that says as much about the state of the regional market as it does about...
Why Good Builders Still Lose Money
Most builders who struggle financially are not bad builders. They are good builders running businesses that were never quite set up to be profitable. Talk to enough builders and the same story keeps...
32 Social Homes Taking Shape Across Western Sydney as GTT Puts Offsite Manufacturing to the Test
A home that did not exist a month ago is now standing in Revesby. That is the headline from Green Timber Technology's Homes NSW project, where the Orange-based advanced manufacturer is currently...
NEXTDC Buys Into Geelong’s Planned Housing Precinct. The 2,000 Homes It Displaces Illustrate a Wider Problem.
Data centre operator NEXTDC has acquired 169 hectares inside one of Victoria's largest planned residential precincts. The site was earmarked for 2,000 homes. The question it raises is one...
Brad Acheson Built One of Dubbo’s Most Respected Building Businesses. Then Realised He Was Missing the Right Systems.
Thirty years of reputation. Thirty-five homes a year. His own name on the door. Brad Acheson had built something most builders only dream about. Then he decided it still wasn't enough. Brad Acheson...
WA Passes the Nation’s Highest Build-to-Rent Land Tax Exemption
Western Australia has legislated a 75 per cent land tax exemption for eligible build-to-rent developments, the highest rate of any state. What it means for the rental pipeline and for builders...
Queensland Has Scrapped BPIC and Subcontractor Pre-Qualification for Good. Here Is What Changes on a Government Tender.
Published June 2026 Queensland has permanently removed Best Practice Industry Conditions from government construction work, and it has scrapped the requirement for subcontractors to be pre-qualified...
Australia Has No Independent Timber Origin Testing, Leaving Builders Reliant on Certificates the Government Can’t Verify
Half the imported timber the government tested could not be traced to its source. For builders, the problem is not just where the wood comes from. It is that the paperwork meant to prove it has...
NSW Freezes Workers Compensation Premiums for 2 Years. What It Means for Every Building Business in the State.
The 2026-27 NSW Budget locks in a two-year premium freeze for 340,000 employers, avoiding $4.1 billion in forecast cost growth. For construction businesses carrying some of the heaviest insurance...
Queensland Budget 2026-27: A Record $119 Billion Build, a Bigger Housing Bet, and the Productivity Reforms Reshaping Government Work
Treasurer David Janetzki handed down the Crisafulli Government's second budget on Tuesday, and for the construction industry the headline is straightforward. The state's four year capital program...
NSW Budget 2026-27 Bets Big on Housing, Prefab and Western Sydney Infrastructure
The Minns government has handed down its fourth budget with housing delivery and construction pipeline front and centre. Here is what builders operating in NSW need to know. The NSW Government...
WA Opens $10 Million Capital Grant Round to Expand Construction Training, Up From $6 Million Last Year
Western Australia’s Construction Training Fund has opened applications for a $10 million capital grant round aimed at private training providers. The pool has nearly doubled in two years, and the...
Australia Just Built a Tariff Wall Around Chinese Steel. Here Is What It Adds to Your Build Costs in 2026
Anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imported steel have stacked up fast this year. Layered on top of WT's forecast that building costs stay above 5 per cent, the message for anyone pricing...
Trade Apprenticeship Starts Jumped 12.5 Per Cent in the December Quarter. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Show
New NCVER data points to a turning quarter for the trades, but the annual trend is more mixed than the headline suggests. Trade apprenticeship commencements rose 12.5 per cent in the December 2025...
Residential Construction Quality, Standards and Compliance
The regulators have more data than they have ever had, the tribunals are seeing clear patterns, and the code has just shifted again. For builders already working to standard, the useful question is...
Australian Builders Are Among the World’s Top Tech Adopters, But Turning Tools Into Results Remains the Real Challenge
A new Autodesk and Deloitte Access Economics report places Australia second in the Asia-Pacific for weekly use of construction technology. The ranking is encouraging. The findings behind it are more...
Technology and AI in Australian Construction
A data-driven look at where Australian builders actually stand with technology and AI in 2026 — the adoption rates, the software market, the productivity gap, the cybersecurity exposure, and what is...
Australian Construction Industry News and Analysis
The Australian residential construction sector grew through 2025, then stalled. Demand is strong and supply cannot keep up. Here is what the data actually says, and what it means for the builders...
NSW Will Build Its Own Modular Home Factory. Here Is What It Means for Builders.
The New South Wales government is no longer just talking about modular construction. It is preparing to build the factory itself. On Sunday the government confirmed that Tuesday's state budget will...
The Work From Home Debate Has Put a Land Tax Trap for Home-Based Builders and Tradies Back in the Spotlight
Last updated: June 2026 Victoria has just introduced laws giving employees a right to work from home. The headlines warned of a new land tax for remote workers. That part is largely a beat-up. But...
Fuel Excise Relief Extended Into July, but the Discount Halves From 1 July
The fuel excise cut that was set to expire on 30 June has been extended for another month. The relief is smaller, and it is the last step before prices revert. The Albanese Government has confirmed...
Australian Modular Builders Are Eyeing Vietnam, and the Supply Chain Question Is Bigger Than One Factory
As local manufacturers look offshore to scale up, Vietnam is being positioned as Australia's next modular partner. For builders, the real story is what offshore production does to cost, lead times...
Inside the Build Behind Queensland’s Most Expensive Apartment
A penthouse at Burleigh Heads has just reset the state's apartment record. The headline number is the easy part. The harder, more useful question for builders is what it takes to deliver a residence...
Maple Living Passes 107,000 Meals Donated, Showing How a Builder Can Tie Giving to Every Home It Delivers
The Melbourne townhome builder has reached a community milestone by linking a meal donation to every home it builds. Head of Sales and Acquisitions Sam Martinez explains why the model is...
Running a Building Business in Australia
You already know how to build. This guide is about the places where experienced builders still come unstuck, and why the business problems that end careers rarely announce themselves in advance....
How to Market a Building Business in Australia
Last updated: June 2026 Most builders sit at one of two extremes. Either they do no marketing at all and rely on referrals that arrive in waves, feast then famine, or they spend money chasing leads...
WA Lifts Builder Registration Threshold for Sheds and Garages
From 1 July 2026, Western Australia will no longer require a registered builder for non-habitable structures valued under $50,000. The change opens the door for more tradespeople to quote this work,...
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