defects

Building defects cost Aussie home owners an average $6,434

2020-10-07T16:26:28+11:00

28 AUGUST 2019 Australia’s homeowners have been forced to fork out $10.5 billion in the last 10 years to address building defects, with the average apartment defect bill hitting $6,434, new research reveals. And while the average bills were less than $10,000, 4 per cent of apartment owners have had to cough up more than $50,000 to address issues. While the sum is significant, Owners Corporation Network (OCN) executive officer Karen [...]

Building defects cost Aussie home owners an average $6,4342020-10-07T16:26:28+11:00

ACT government calls for strong federal anti-phoenixing laws

2020-10-07T16:27:24+11:00

22 AUGUST 2019 The ACT government is calling for the urgent introduction of strong federal anti-phoenixing laws, arguing it cannot "adequately" punish Canberra's dodgy builders without them. But apartment owners say the territory government can do more, suggesting it could refuse to sell public land to companies with histories of poor construction work. Owners Corporation Network president Gary Petherbridge said people stung by phoenixed companies were left emotionally stressed, out of [...]

ACT government calls for strong federal anti-phoenixing laws2020-10-07T16:27:24+11:00

Australia’s building crisis fix will cost $6.2 billion: report

2020-10-07T16:29:17+11:00

20 AUGUST 2019 The cost of fixing the unfolding national building crisis, including widespread residential apartment block defects and the use of dangerous combustible cladding, could soar past $6.2 billion, according to a new economic analysis. More than 3400 residential unit blocks across the country have potentially flammable exterior cladding, according to a report commissioned by the construction union. Those high-rise blocks take in about 170,000 apartments. In NSW, hundreds of [...]

Australia’s building crisis fix will cost $6.2 billion: report2020-10-07T16:29:17+11:00

ACT Government needs to go after developers and toughen laws, say unit owners

2020-10-07T16:30:17+11:00

20 AUGUST 2019 The ACT Government was on the right track by putting property developers in its sights with a potential licensing scheme but it needed to go further if it was serious about fixing the building quality issue in the ACT, according to the ACT Owners Corporation Network. President Gary Petherbridge, commenting after Tuesday night’s Four Corners report Cracking Up that highlighted Canberra’s decade-old Elara apartments debacle, said the issues [...]

ACT Government needs to go after developers and toughen laws, say unit owners2020-10-07T16:30:17+11:00

‘Hands Off’ regulation leaves thousands of apartment owners ‘out in the cold’


2020-10-06T22:08:30+11:00

OCN MEDIA RELEASE: 19 August 2019 ‘Hands Off’ regulation leaves thousands of apartment owners 'out in the cold' "The residential building industry has abandoned apartment buyers and the risk of costly defects has been shifted onto innocent apartment home buyers left devastated by sub- standard work” Jane Hearn, Director of the Owners Corporation Network said today. The Owners Corporation Network (OCN) is the only association of apartment owners whose sole [...]

‘Hands Off’ regulation leaves thousands of apartment owners ‘out in the cold’
2020-10-06T22:08:30+11:00

NSW government scrambles for answers at building defects inquiry

2020-10-07T16:33:38+11:00

12 AUGUST 2019 The pain of NSW's building crisis was captured in Mascot Towers owner Vijay Vital's testimony at the inquiry, when he broke down describing the loss of his home. Mascot Towers was evacuated on June 14 due to cracks but engineers have yet to find the cause. "I stand here as a parent and my daughter asks me "when can I go home?" he said amid tears. "I have [...]

NSW government scrambles for answers at building defects inquiry2020-10-07T16:33:38+11:00

Channel 9 News – “Under Construction”

2020-10-07T16:34:31+11:00

6 AUGUST 2019 In 2018 the government announced "the biggest crackdown on dodgy certifiers in our State's history". In July 2019 the opposition asked what has happened? The Minister responded that there is a raft of practitioners with their fingerprints all over building defects. That's true. But OCN pointed to all the owners who are suffering terribly while government dallies. > Watch the channel 9 news clip at youtube.com Eddy Meyer

Channel 9 News – “Under Construction”2020-10-07T16:34:31+11:00

Mascot Towers Owners Hit $76,000 per Unit

2020-10-07T16:35:36+11:00

4 AUGUST 2019 Owners of apartments in the evacuated Mascot Towers building in Sydney are planning to sleep on the street to protest a damages bill of at least $76,000 per unit to fix defects, as questions continue on who will ultimately have to pay. The owners face a $10 million bill – half the initial building cost of $22 million – to fix cracks in the building's primary support structure, [...]

Mascot Towers Owners Hit $76,000 per Unit2020-10-07T16:35:36+11:00
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