Ask the right question and get a Registered
Building Practitioner
Before the first nail is hammered
on your next building project, an important question
needs to be asked of any prospective builder - Are
you a Registered Building Practitioner?
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House Approvals Hit By Rate Rise Jitters
Interest rate jitters early this year has seen a slowing in building approvals
in February and is likely to fall back further as the interest rate rise
announced on 2 March begins to impact, according to Master Builders Australia,
the peak body for the building and construction industry.
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Government proposals set to increase
cost of new housing
New housing affordability in Queensland
will continue to decrease if proposals outlined
in the State Government's "Towards Sustainable Housing
in Queensland and Regulatory Impact Statement" are
introduced, according to Master Builders Queensland.
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HIA Welcomes Move to Protect Independent Contractors
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) welcomed today's release of the
Federal Government's discussion paper into independent contracting and labour
hire as a significant step towards greater security for contractors.
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New
Housing Stabilises
After two months of growth, the
new housing sector eased in the month before the
most recent rate rise. Figures released today for
February showed a 3.4 per cent fall in detached
house approvals (down to 8,543), outweighing a rebound
in flat/unit/townhouse approvals, (up 11.5 per cent
to 4,451) resulting in a net fall of 0.5 per cent
for the month.
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Slower Times Ahead for Housing
The housing
sector began to slow in the second half of last
year and this trend is set to continue until mid
next year. Commenting today on the release of the
March quarter 2005 HIA National Outlook publication,
HIA's Senior Economist Mr Harley Dale said that
while there was no housing crash looming, the industry
was in for a weaker couple of years.
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Spec-Net
Building Index is Number One
Spec-Net is the largest web developer in the
Australian Building Industry - managing 600 Construction/Building Manufacturers
web-sites thus is in a unique position to see which are
the Dominant Search engines, in the Building Industry.
On recently aggregating all our statistics - There
are four search engine referrers that are dominant, in the following order
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Number 1 - Google - including and
www.google.com.au and
their variants
Number 2 - Spec-Net - including www.spec-net.com.au and
www.buildingindex.com
Number 3 - Microsoft - including www.ninemsn.com.au and their
variants
Number 4 - Yahoo including www.yahoo.com.au and their
variants
The only Building Industry Specialist in the above
category is Spec-Net.
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