{"id":827311,"date":"2026-07-27T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:57:15","slug":"falling-house-prices-wont-cut-australias-construction-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827311\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling house prices won&#8217;t cut Australia&#8217;s construction costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrone Shandiman, managing director of Strata Insurance Solutions, said the correction does reopen the\u00a0question the industry hasn&#8217;t had to ask in years. &#8220;So the question is: if prices are falling, does that mean fewer people want to buy or build new properties?&#8221; he said. Fewer projects chasing the same trades and materials could, in theory, ease pressure on builders. &#8220;It could mean there&#8217;s free capacity, and that the cost of construction comes down,&#8221; Shandiman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrone Shandiman, managing director of Strata Insurance Solutions, said the correction does reopen the\u00a0question the industry hasn&#8217;t had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,40137,400507,44,400508],"class_list":["post-827311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-construction-costs","tag-construction-insurance","tag-news","tag-sums-insured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}