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  • Building contracts

    Information for consumers about building contracts, including when you must have a written contract, before signing a contract, contracts for home improvements, liquidated damages and unfair terms.

  • Building contracts checklist

    Checklist to help people with home building contracts in Victoria; pre-construction contract, major domestic building contract, prime costs, provisional sums.

  • Home-building projects

    29 Sep 2022 - Current market factors in the building industry - including a shortage of labour, supply chain constraints and the availability and cost of materials - are affecting many home-building projects.

  • FNP Pty Ltd and Grigoriy Trunov - Court action

    03 Mar 2013 - Melbourne Magistrates Court has restrained building contractor FNP Pty Ltd and its director, Grigoriy Trunov, from entering into major domestic building contracts until 1 January 2016.

  • Adam Greiner - Court action

    29 May 2013 - Unregistered builder Adam Greiner has been convicted, fined $10,000 and ordered to compensate a consumer, after accepting payments for building and landscaping work he did not complete.

  • Haki Zyka - Court action

    18 Oct 2012 - An unregistered builder has been convicted, fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $7500 compensation for multiple breaches of the law, including accepting payments for uncompleted building work.

  • Michael Johnson - Court outcome

    07 Jul 2022 - Unregistered builder Michael Johnson has been ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars in compensation to former clients, after pleading guilty to multiple breaches of the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (DBCA).

  • Tim Phan - Court outcome

    29 Jan 2018 - An Avondale Heights man who worked as a builder while unregistered has been ordered to refund three of his customers a total of more than $26,700 at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.

  • Domestic building contracts

    Information for builders and tradespeople about home building contracts, including laws, defining work that requires a contract, preparing major contracts, cooling off and changing contract price.

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