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Will new home builders have to raise their bids because of carbon taxes? There is a lot of hot air blowing about in building products companies that are the worst carbon poisoning culprits giving us the doom and gloom scenarios. But do any arguments against restraining our worst carbon air polluters hold any fresh air? [...]

Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman says the council wants to build new homes in the interim to a minimum height of 0.5 metre raise above the defined Brisbane flood level of 3.7 metres for all habitable floor levels, until that Royal Commission into the Queensland/ Brisbane floods makes its findings public, and the findings are put into practical and new building codes for flooded areas and flood plains in the future. This could also mean jacking up existing dwellings to meet the new standards so set.

The Good News. New home sales are happening as we speak
Home builders that are building home designs that customers want, or on difficult lots or are custom designing homes for their clients will fair well because they are customer focused.
How New Home Builders are making sales in this market month in month out

I was sitting in my Display home sales office at Waterford in late February 2011, surveying the empty visitors parking lots. It had been this way in January before the floods. [Everything right except the "sales" part.]

This article gives over 30 tips, some major, most minor, but all good, that will help you design a better cooler home.
The article includes the secrets to designing a cool home that most builders don’t know!
Hope you enjoy Home Design for cooler living here.

New home sales are falling despite record housing shortages. Are home builders part of the problem? What is really wrong with home building industry today. Most Home builders see the market cool and do nothing, continue to design homes that nobody really wants, or copy what appears to work for more successful builders seem to [...]

The housing shortage in Queensland, the cost of land, and the cost of providing utilities and infrastructure to fringe suburban developments will mean that we will see a lot of smaller lot sizes, on sloping land and that means a lot of better and new home designs to meet these challenges.