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WA tradie prices soar as incentive-fuelled building boom continues apace – WAtoday
The concerns come after the housing industry sounded the alarm over a shortage of concreters and bricklayers earlier this month, which had led to a major construction…
Mr Hasanovic said he was paying about 80 cents per brick pre-COVID-19, but a surge in demand for bricklayers had increased rates to about $1.80 per brick.
WA tradie Adam Hasanovic. Credit:Nine News Perth
“I’ve been gathering quotes to get it all done and it appears to be $30,000 more per house than what it was pre-COVID,” he said.
“A concreter would have been in the vicinity of $6000 a slab but now you are looking at $7000-plus.”
Mr Hasanovic, who runs a plumbing and electrical business, said he…
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