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.
Victoria Park is one of Perth’s densest inner suburbs, and a pre-purchase building inspection here has to match that density. Built around the long Albany Highway strip, a working-man’s district by the 1930s, its core is tightly-packed workers’ cottages, and its blocks have been subdivided hard into grouped dwellings and survey-strata infill. The building read depends heavily on which of those you are buying, and on whether the home sits on a quiet street or a busy road.
On the older cottages, the read is about age. Modest brick-and-tile homes and workers’ cottages from before and between the wars show their years in the roof and gutters, in wet areas redone over the decades, and in original wiring or stumps where these survive. We read them so you know whether the price reflects a home kept up or one due for work behind a fresh coat of paint.
On the infill, the read is about density and modern building. Grouped dwellings and survey-strata homes, often on a battle-axe leg behind another house, get the modern read of waterproofing and roof plumbing, and they get the boundary read of retaining and dividing walls shared with a neighbour and drainage between closely-set dwellings. Those shared elements can carry shared costs, so they belong in your decision.
Where a home fronts Albany Highway or another arterial, we note what that proximity means, and where a former shop or a shop-top dwelling is being sold as a home, we read it for the questions a converted commercial building brings rather than assuming it behaves like a house.
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 a suburb as layered as Victoria Park, that reading is what tells you exactly which home, on which block, you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Burswood and Carlisle.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, which in Victoria Park means reading exactly which home, cottage or infill, you are getting.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the timber pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Their age: the roof and gutters, wet areas redone over the years, and original wiring or stumps where they survive, so you can tell a kept-up home from one due for work.
They get the modern read of waterproofing and roof plumbing, plus the boundary read of shared retaining and dividing walls and drainage between close dwellings, which can carry shared costs.
They can. Retaining and dividing walls shared with a neighbour, and drainage between close homes, sometimes bring shared obligations, so we read and flag them before you commit.
It is worth knowing. We note what an arterial frontage brings, and read any converted shop or shop-top dwelling for the questions a commercial conversion carries.
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.
Not at all. It is simply an age read, where value lies in knowing whether the fabric has been kept up or is quietly due for renewal.
Yes, where there is safe access. On cottages still on stumps, subfloor damp, ventilation and timber condition are part of the building read.
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 Victoria Park — 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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