RISE IN BUILDING COSTS
SYDNEY’S UPWARD TREND. SYDNEY, Jan. 7. The ever-upwards trend of building costs in Sydney is reflected in figures which show an increase in the average cost of a new home, of more than 88 per cent., comparing the expenditure in 1926 with that in 1914. What is the cost of a home In Sydney likely to be in say. another ten years If the outlay to-day is 88 per cent, more than it was twelve of thirteen years ago? It Is no doubt the heavy outlay which explains the fact that fewer buildings were erected in Sydney and its suburbs in 1926 than in the preceding year. Tho expenditure last year, however, compared with 1925 showed an increase of considerably more than £1,500,000. In the city itself nefv buildings Involved an outlay of nearly £3,000,009 last year.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3538, 21 February 1927, Page 2
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