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.
Subiaco has 928 heritage-listed places, and it voted seventy-three percent against being absorbed into the City of Perth in 1935 — a result that kept it independent and preserved the inner-city heritage fabric that a pre-purchase building inspection here is very likely to be reading. When the building you are buying is a Federation terrace house, a California Bungalow or an interwar arts-and-crafts home, the heritage is part of what the price reflects, and the pre-purchase inspection is when you find out whether the condition matches the heritage before you commit to that price.
Heritage fabric is the pre-purchase priority on the older stock. Face brick from a 1908 workers’ cottage needs reading differently from rendered masonry. Lime mortar in the joints fails differently from modern cement pointing, and the failure is quieter and earlier. Original jarrah floors, leadlight and wide verandas all age in ways that carry their own cost implications, and finding what those implications are at the pre-purchase stage is the point of the inspection. On a heritage home in a suburb where the original fabric commands a significant premium, that reading belongs before the price is paid.
Subi Centro is a specific pre-purchase context for homes in that precinct. Modern townhouses and apartments built on reclaimed former-industrial railway land at the Wembley end of Subiaco earn the modern read of waterproofing, building envelope and strata common property, on ground whose industrial and railway-operations history is the cleared foundation they sit on.
The Hay Street and Rokeby Road commercial strips and the major institutional uses nearby add site-context notes for homes adjacent to those uses.
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. At Subiaco, where the heritage fabric is a large part of what you are paying for, that reading tells you whether the condition supports the price. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Shenton Park and Wembley.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric of a heritage home before you buy, where the original construction is both what gives the home its value and what the inspection has to read on its own terms.
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.
Face brick, lime mortar, leadlight and original jarrah floors all age and fail differently from modern equivalents, and finding the cost implications of that age before the price is set is the whole point of the pre-purchase inspection here.
Lime mortar fails more quietly and earlier than modern cement pointing, and the failure can allow moisture into the masonry before it is visible on the surface. Finding it at the pre-purchase stage is more useful than finding it after settlement.
Modern waterproofing and building envelope, on reclaimed former-industrial railway land at the Wembley end of the suburb. Strata titles earn the common-property read on top of the standard modern build read.
No. It tells you the original construction is significant. The inspection tells you the condition. The two can be very different in an old home that has been cosmetically refreshed for sale.
Yes. Heritage condition findings can be significant, and the inspection sets them out plainly so you can negotiate from a position of knowledge rather than discovery after settlement.
Yes. Original subfloors, lime-mortar and terracotta that holds moisture, and established inner-city gardens all give termites strong conditions. The combined inspection covers this in the same visit.
Yes. On Federation and interwar homes the subfloor condition and drainage are central to both the age and the pest 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 Subiaco — 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.
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