Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building Contract Increase in Price - Is This Common? 6May 30, 2018 12:09 pm Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Building Contract Increase in Price - Is This Common? 10May 30, 2018 12:47 pm Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Building Contract Increase in Price - Is This Common? 11May 30, 2018 12:59 pm Unfortunately, all the builders we spoke to said that they only hold the price for a certain period. I would have to imagine that after 10 months, there is definitely price increases. $2000 actually sounds pretty good. I just looked at the Coral website and the price from May 2017 to May 2018 has gone up by $4700 over the 12 months. But, like I said, we were able to lock the price in for September which was only $1000 more. Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 57967 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 24151 How are you doing Ben? Extremely interested in hearing what you are doing or plan to do! 12 12696 |