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Aris Dimos from Fyve.

‘Focus on the north shore and east’: Developers deserting western suburbs

One developer used to build in Liverpool but its newest acquisitions are in Northbridge and Rose Bay.

  • Mostafa Rachwani

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The government is fast tracking assessments to push more housing into the construction pipeline.

AI and a new ‘strike team’ deployed to combat housing crisis

The federal government will fast track the assessment of 26,000 homes held up by delays in the environmental approval process as it tries to meet its targets.

  • Nick Newling
Since the pandemic, housing construction costs in Australia have jumped by 30 per cent, according to CoreLogic’s Cordell Construction Cost Index.

We were offered an abundant utopia. We got something much less

Imagine living in a comfortable home with tiny energy bills, the kitchen stocked with organic vegetables and succulent meat. Then think again.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Builder Anthony Malone just got approval to build a home - with 86 conditions.

Anthony is trying to build a house. It comes with 86 conditions

The builder has seen regulations blow out over the years, making it harder to deliver affordable housing.

  • Elizabeth Redman and Kristy Johnson
Australia has many small households, but not many one-bedroom homes.

Call for ‘desirable’ spare bedrooms to be taxed to help fix housing

More than 60 per cent of Australian households contain only one or two people, but new research shows most homes are family-sized.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport Anika Wells, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Cities Clare O’Neil and Minister for Education Jason Clare as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the start of a Cabinet meeting, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 26 May 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Housing minister, roundtable keen to take red pen to 3000-page building code

 Business bosses, unions and ministers have agreed Australia must strip away red and green tape to speed up home construction, as momentum builds to overhaul Australia’s complex building code. 

  • Paul Sakkal, Shane Wright, Millie Muroi and Brittany Busch
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As housing costs rise, more people move in together.

We’re building 1.2m new homes, but we’re not using the homes we have

Work has started on speeding up the delivery of new home-building, but there are also options to put existing homes to better use.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Are housing standards holding back development?

The rules you must follow when building a home – and how much extra it costs

Ever tighter government rules cover everything from balustrade heights to windows and parking, sparking warnings that well-intentioned rules are strangling housing supply.

  • Millie Muroi
Laura Jennings has a modular home built by Prebuilt is in Waratah Bay, Victoria.

How Laura’s stylish house was built twice as fast as normal

She loves the level of finish on the family home with an ocean view and bush setting. But it’s what cannot be detected that is most exceptional.

  • Emily Power
Eleni Taylor and interior designer Greg Natale transformed her Hollywood Regency-era home in Bellevue Hill into a European minimalist abode with marble detail.

Eleni had a vision for her Bellevue Hill reno. First she had to import 20 slabs of marble

Eleni Taylor’s home renovation doesn’t feature just any marble – and getting it here was a process.

  • Kristy Johnson