A Long Cold Winter for New Housing
Rising interest rates, land shortages, and a lack of urgency among home buyers is keeping the brakes on new home building.

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  Mandating Rainwater Tanks Not the Answer
At a time when housing affordability in Queensland is at an all time low it is extremely concerning that the Opposition’s water policy is targeting new housing in an attempt to address water shortages in Queensland says HIA Qld Executive Director Warwick Temby.

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  Strong Demands For Housing Continues
Today’s solid lending figures for housing is welcome news for the ACT’s home builders and renovators as the strong pipeline of work continues.

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A Long Cold Winter for NSW New Housing
Rising interest rates, land shortages, and a lack of urgency among home buyers is keeping the brakes on new home building in New South Wales .

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Planning Reform Bill first step to a better Canberra
The Housing Industry Association welcomes the publication of the ACT Government’s draft Bill for Planning System Reform as a first step towards untangling a complex, frustrating and uncertain development approval process.

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Solid Rise in Home Lending - Rate Rise Yet to Hit
The surprisingly strong rise in housing finance in May comes in the face of the rate rise and is a positive sign, by itself, for recovery in the housing market, according to peak building and construction industry organisation, Master Builders Australia.

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Building Surveyors Working In Your Interest
Most people who build or renovate know that a building project relies heavily on the builder. It may surprise you to know that there is another practitioner who is integral to the building process – the building surveyor - who is also there to work in your interest.

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