Insane time it takes to build a house in 2025

Insane time it takes to build a house in 2025

Construction time for an average home has increased by a whopping 50 per cent in the past year, with Australia’s ambitious 1.2 million homes target already 55,300 homes behind just one year in.

Nationwide handbrake on housing construction

Download the research noteDownload Key findings In 2014, building a house took approximately 8.5 months on average. In 2024, building a house took, on average, approximately 12.7 months. This represented an increase of 50 per cent over the last decade. The cost of material needed to build a house has also increased by a comparable amount: 53 per cent between 2014 and 2024. State-by-state, the increase in house construction time between 2014 and…