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As the HIA advocates more Government handouts to stimulate the home building industry I wonder “has Australia’s peak housing body has lost its way?” The IMF are now saying that Government incentives, Stimulus packages and low interest rates hurt home builders and home owners because they disrupt housing sustainability. That is, they are the cause [...]

Home builders australia wide are doing it tough as home buyers shun high land prices. Land prices have hit the ridulous in Queensland, and this is where the pain for the construction industry is worst. There is no other reason but too higher land prices that I can see for people to stop wanting to [...]

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.

From that I make two points. They would stil be the top home builders without the CRMs, and:

This same company uses a CRM and their sales fell from nearly 500 land sales in 2009, to under 100 in 2010. So if the CRM did not work for them, why would they want to push it onto others?

The reason is that they wanted these same builders not using CRMs to buy more land and were trying to prove that they could make more sales.
The real motive was to the Land Sales company to shift land that wasn’t selling. Hope no home builders fell for that scam.
The fact is that people can’t buy a building contract without land, and if the Land Developer can’t sell their land, then home builders can’t sell homes. Its that simple.

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 [...]

As new home project builders trim back their operations, and developers go into bankruptcy, some builders have their order books full because they have made a trend their friend.