Housing construction costs are already rising, increasing risks of builders going bust

By Lyndall Bryant, Senior lecturer, QUT Centre for Justice, School of Econmics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
Amanda Bull, Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology
Elizabeth Streten, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Fiona Cheung, Senior Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture & Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology
Morgan O'Neill, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology

Home builders with fixed price contracts can only absorb so much cost pressure. Research shows which builders were already at most risk, even before the war started.

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