No end to the ‘property cyclone’ as construction costs keep rising and more builders head into insolvency
Alyssa Luc and her partner Xuan Tri Mai are among many Australians who wish they hadn’t rushed into building a home. It was the end of 2020 when the couple purchased a block of land in Catherine Field, a growth area suburb south-west of Sydney. Their block cost about $500,000, and they spent another $700,000…