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.

Adelaide has more protected residential fabric per head than any other Australian capital. The city’s inner ring was built quickly

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

South Australia has the highest penetration of rooftop solar in the world and one of the most renewable-heavy grids of

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

Newcastle has a benign climate and a housing stock that does almost nothing to take advantage of it. The temperate

Newcastle sits inside the New South Wales planning system, so the structure will be familiar to anyone who has renovated

Newcastle’s climate makes outdoor living genuinely usable for most of the year — warm humid summers moderated by a reliable

Bathrooms are the most expensive room per square metre to renovate anywhere in Australia, and Newcastle adds a structural complication

Waterproofing failure is the most common defect in Australian residential construction and the most expensive to remedy, because fixing it

A handful of decisions, almost all made in the first few weeks, account for most of the money lost on

Canberra is an unusual renovation market. It has the highest median household income in the country, a buyer pool that

Fifty thousand dollars will not restructure a Canberra house. It will, however, make a genuine difference to how the house