Independent inspection to AS 4349.1 by a registered building contractor. What you are buying, read by someone who has built. Report within 24 hours.
Lakelands is one of the newest suburbs in the Mandurah district, with Lakelands station on the Mandurah line opening in June 2023 to serve an estate still under active development. Brand-new homes, homes a year old, and homes completing this week all sit in the same suburb, and a pre-purchase building inspection here reads for what buying into a suburb still building actually means: fresh construction on recently engineered ground, first-time slab load, and the specific defects that the new-build read finds that no walk-through or listing photo reveals.
The new-build read is the pre-purchase priority. A home completed in the last one to three years is carrying its first real building load, and this is when construction quality declares itself: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740 that was correctly installed holds, and one that was not begins to fail behind the tiles. Roof plumbing with correct falls sheds water cleanly, and one with insufficient falls silts and backs up. A slab on well-compacted ground settles uniformly, and one on variable compaction shows early cracking. The pre-purchase inspection reads all three before you commit to the price.
The ground is a specific concern on recently completed estate stages. Freshly engineered sandy soils near the lakes and wetlands that name the suburb may have variable compaction from the development process, and the first years of real load are when that variability shows in the slab. We read the crack pattern and the floor levels at this age to establish whether what is there is within the expected range for new-build estate ground.
For homes near the constructed lakes, the water table near the lake edge is higher than on blocks set back from the water, and the subfloor and drainage read reflects that position.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building scope on its own, to AS 4349.1, with the defects that matter set out plainly and separated from the cosmetic. In Lakelands, where the estate is still forming, that reading tells you exactly what you are buying into the day you buy. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Meadow Springs and Singleton.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric of a new home before you buy, where the suburb is still under active construction and the new-build read applies to every home regardless of how recently it was completed.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof plumbing with correct falls, slab settlement on freshly engineered ground, and any cracking or deflection that early load is producing.
Because the first year under real load is when construction quality declares itself. A defect found now can be fixed under the builder's warranty; the same defect found after settlement is the buyer's problem.
Sandy soils near the lakes, recently cleared and compacted, may have variable compaction that shows in the slab under real load. We read the crack pattern and floor levels to see whether what is there is within expected range.
The water table near the lake edge is higher than on set-back blocks. The subfloor and drainage read reflects that position, as in other Perth lake-adjacent suburbs.
Yes. A pre-settlement or practical-completion inspection lists the defects for the builder to fix while the cost is still theirs, not yours.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
Yes, where there is safe access. On lake-adjacent lots the subfloor drainage is part of the ground read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Lakelands — both scopes in one visit to AS 4349.1 and AS 4349.3, one report within 24 hours.
Combined B&P inspection →Our office is at Suite 55, 15 Labouchere Road, South Perth WA 6151 — on the Swan River foreshore near the Perth Zoo.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
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