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.
South Perth is one of Perth’s oldest addresses, separated from the city by Perth Water, and a pre-purchase building inspection here reads a suburb of two distinct eras. Intact interwar precincts from 1914 to the mid-1930s survive along Canning Highway, while the river frontage is lined with modern apartments and towers. Which of those you are buying decides almost everything about the building read.
On the interwar homes, the read is about masonry and moisture. These homes were built in solid brick with no damp-proof course and have stood in riverside air for close to a hundred years. We read the base of the walls for rising damp and salt, the mortar and tuckpointing for what decades of winter weather have done, and the roof structure and its flashings for where a century’s worth of maintenance has been adequate and where it has not. That read is what decides whether the price reflects a cared-for home or one that owes work.
On the river apartments the read is about the building envelope and strata. The waterproofing of balconies and wet areas, the external cladding and glazing facing the river, and the shared services that connect your lot to the building are what the pre-purchase read covers. On a strata title the boundary of your maintenance obligation is not always the boundary of your walls, and knowing that before you buy is the point.
Between the two eras sit character homes from the early twentieth century through to the 1960s, extended and altered over time, each read as it actually stands rather than assumed to match a single era.
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 South Perth, where the eras sit side by side, that reading tells you exactly which home you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Como and Kensington.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric of the home before you buy, which in South Perth means reading either a century-old masonry home or a modern river apartment, with very different results.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the timber pest check as well, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Solid brick with no damp-proof course near the river. We read the wall bases for rising damp and salt, the mortar and tuckpointing, and the roof structure and flashings for a home that has been standing a century.
The building envelope, the waterproofing of balconies and wet areas, the external cladding and glazing, and the shared services that connect your lot to the building, because on a strata title the boundary of your problem is not always your walls.
Balcony waterproofing, façade cladding, roof plant and building services can affect your lot but sit in common property, meaning the owners corporation, not you alone, decides when and how they are fixed.
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. We read your lot and the elements of the building it connects to, so you understand what you are buying and what you share.
Each is read as it actually stands, including any extension or alteration, rather than assumed to match the nearest era, because mixed fabric is common in this suburb.
If we find it, yes. Solid-brick rising damp with salt is a real remediation cost and belongs in your decision, not your first winter.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a clear read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in South Perth — 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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