A new PrefabAUS contract ties prefab home payments to factory milestones. How it works, what CommBank changed, and the risk it leaves open.

NSW, Victoria and Tasmania passed land lease laws within weeks, and Queensland added maintenance plans. Here is how the rules now compare.

South Australia has changed how it decides which land attracts stamp duty. More vacant land is now dutiable, with a new refund path for commercial bui ...

Stylemaster Homes requires a canibuild siting before it takes a deposit. Its sales manager explains how digital site feasibility works, and where it s ...

WA's $4 million Cardup brickworks restart adds a second brick producer, but not before 2027. The plant returning is the one that closed.

Sumitomo Forestry, Kajima, Obayashi and Sekisui Chemical now control major Australian builders. What comes with them: factories, supply chains, capita ...

Total dwelling approvals fell 6.1% in August 2026, but house approvals rose to 10,885, the highest since 2021. The ABS numbers behind the split.

Bricks, cement and glass are fired with gas. Queensland has opened new Taroom Trough acreage, and the supply timeline runs to 2030.

A $5 million TAFE centre at Alexandra Hills targets the capstone queue, the point where electrical apprentices now wait to get signed off.

A three person Macedon Ranges builder with a year of work ahead explains why he treats the code as a starting point and turns down jobs that do not fi ...

Queensland declared three steel projects worth $1.9 billion as Prescribed Projects. What the declaration does, and why the rebar does not land until 2 ...

Victoria has set rules making data centres fund their own grid and water upgrades. Housing has no equivalent rule, and it is the same network capacity ...