So the time has come. It’s going to be your first home purchase – an existing home. You have settled on the basic features you want and the suburbs where [...]

Standing in the living area of a two-bedroom apartment in Southbank, it quickly becomes obvious why this building’s residents are having trouble sleeping. The click, creak, click emanating from the [...]

I am pleased to welcome Mr Constantine, who likes to be known simply as “Con”; our soon-to-be regular columnist and a man I am certain most of you will [...]

It’s an unfortunate truth: the Melbourne building inspection industry is rife with under qualified inspection agencies with little to no experience — or a wealth of experience in the wrong [...]

As any property expert will tell you, investing in rental housing is a long-term commitment and there is more to being a landlord than just filling a house with [...]

Last week,  while inspecting a home for one of our clients we found a serious contender for our notorious "Worst New House of the Year Award". Like so many [...]

Two questions we hear all too often: "Aren’t Building Inspection Reports all pretty much the same" and  "shouldn’t I just get the inspector offering the lowest price?" The answer to [...]

There are lots of people in the building industry who think they would make a good Building Inspector -the kind people who think they have just the right type of [...]