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.

Perth has the largest average residential block of any Australian capital, which makes extending outward more feasible here than in

Perth has the most favourable knockdown rebuild economics of any Australian capital, and understanding why is the key to this

South Australia made a quiet but significant change to granny flat rules that many Adelaide homeowners still have not caught

Adelaide is unusually well suited to extending. The city was laid out on generous allotments, the classic villa and bungalow

At some point in most Adelaide renovation projects, someone says it out loud: would we be better off knocking it

Queensland removed the occupancy restriction on secondary dwellings in 2022, which meant a granny flat could be rented to anyone

Extending on the Gold Coast is shaped by three things that do not apply in most Australian cities: a minimum

The Gold Coast is the easiest capital-city market in Australia to knock down and rebuild in. There is no sweeping

New South Wales has the most permissive secondary dwelling regime in Australia, and Newcastle is one of the better places

The rules for second dwellings in Canberra changed fundamentally on 1 July 2026. The Missing Middle Housing Reforms removed the

Extending in Canberra is shaped by four things that do not all apply anywhere else: leasehold land with a purpose

The knockdown-versus-renovate question changed in Canberra on 1 July 2026, and a lot of owners have not caught up. The