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Home Builders: Is the Housing Industry Association doing it’s job

HomeMate — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:30:28 +0000

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 building at crisis point in QLD: Why I feel like the one eyed man in the land of the blind

HomeMate — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:26:00 +0000

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 [...]

New Homes: Will carbon dioxide tax raise building costs or purify our air we breath?

HomeMate — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:41:04 +0000

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 New Homes to reach new heights, and maybe higher!

HomeMate — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:32:59 +0000

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.

Land Lots: Are lot sizes too small for home buyers?

HomeMate — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:21:54 +0000

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.