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Building Science Forum of Australia 1990 Award for The Best Book on Building

Buy or Build has been updated for the 21st century

 
 


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CONTENTS
 
v
Copyright
 
vi
Preface
 
ix
The Great Australian Dream
 
x
A quick guide to using this book
 
1
Buying or building, it's an investment decision
 
2
First, choose where to live
 
3
Everybody wants to be comfortable
 
4
The right housing for you
 
5
Sooner or later you will have to sign a contract
 
6
The perfect block of land
 
7
Architect designed
 
8
Builders and drafting services
 
9
Project builders
 
10
Designing your own home
11
So you'd like to be an owner-builder
12
Buying housing—a chapter for everybody
13
Buying to alter
14
Terrace houses—townhouses of the 19th century
15
Townhouses and villas
16
Home units
17
High-rise apartments
18
Buying for retirement
19
What style?
20
Further help
  Index

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