Mission Gardens II, a 14-home San Miguel development, will open applications Dec. 2, 2024, for households looking to participate in People’s Self-Help Housing’s owner-builder program. Builder-owners ...

No one wants to have to learn from their own mistakes – particularly when there’s money involved – and the stakes are inevitably high when you take on the role of an owner-builder. The challenges of ...

Every year, more than 8000 Victorians apply to the Building Practitioners Board for permission to take responsibility for much of the building of their own property. While some owner builders restrict ...

After our last renovation (adding another level and cosmetic changes to a terrace home) I said I’d never renovate again. We had a builder who decided to up and leave for the UK, with two months left ...