Topic

Construction

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A partially built apartment tower with two tower cranes under a grey sky

Australia's apartment shortage is becoming a construction problem

Builders are declining work that would have been taken without hesitation five years ago. Fixed-price contracts, insolvency risk and a thin subcontractor market are converting a planning problem into a delivery problem.

Tom Brennan/26 Aug · 5:30am

Development

Build-to-rent reaches scale in Melbourne

The sector has moved from pilot to fixture, and is now large enough to influence advertised rents in the inner city.

Tom Brennan/21 Aug · 8:45am

Development

Apartment design standards add 9 per cent to delivery cost, study finds

The study finds that identical apartment layouts cost between 4 and 13 per cent more to deliver depending on the state in which they are built.

Amara Okafor/18 Aug · 9:00am

Policy

Social housing delivery falls short of target in three states

Construction capacity, not funding, is the binding constraint on the current social housing programme.

Tom Brennan/17 Aug · 8:00am