Practical Guides for Smarter Renovations

Explore expert renovation guides, cost insights, planning advice and practical tips to help you make better decisions at every stage of your project.

Sydney is the most expensive city in Australia to renovate, and it is not close. The same bathroom that costs

Fifty thousand dollars is a real budget in Sydney, but it is not a whole-house budget. Spent across too many

Renovating for profit in Sydney is harder than it was a decade ago and still entirely possible. What has changed

Brisbane’s premium renovation market has grown substantially and it has a character of its own. It is concentrated in a

At the top of the Melbourne market, renovation stops being a cost exercise and becomes a resolution exercise. The materials

Brisbane is cheaper to renovate than Sydney or Melbourne, and its housing stock offers something neither of those cities has:

Melbourne sits in the middle of the Australian renovation cost range — meaningfully cheaper than Sydney, meaningfully dearer than Adelaide

Fifty thousand dollars is a real budget in Melbourne, and it goes further here than in Sydney. It is not,

Melbourne rewards renovation more reliably than most Australian cities, for a structural reason: a very large proportion of its housing

Fifty thousand dollars goes further in Brisbane than in any other east coast capital. It is still not a whole-house

Brisbane offers a renovation strategy that neither Sydney nor Melbourne can match at scale: buy a raised timber house, build

Perth’s premium renovation market is concentrated in a narrow band of suburbs — the western suburbs, the river frontages and