The building inspection is for the benefit of the purchaser, not the vendor. The purchaser can put forward whatever conditions they like, it is up to the seller whether or not they are acceptable. If you are conditioning your offer subject to a satisfactory report you may need to advise what an unsatisfactory finding is (or what a satisfactory report is), after all the reports are designed to protect the building inspector's professional indemnity insurer (not the party relying on it).

these are asking rents for short-term rental not rent under a lease agreement, I can’t even be sure that these aren’t the asking rent for various units with differing fitout. If the apartment management is seeking to fill a vacancy at short notice then the rent may be discounted, same as ‘last minute’ etc.

Rents can fall if cpi is negative over the review period but this is rare – even at the peak of the gfc we did not have 2 successive quarters of shrinkage.

Well, according to Monique Wakelin (Eureka Report) & plenty of other commentators, it is well overdue to dump the totally ineffective and expensive FHBG.

It artificially boosts savings of FHB
It pushes up the price of houses by increasing the bottom end of the market
It also increases the amount which may be borrowed
So it doesn't benefit the FHB at all as they pay more and for longer

Dump the subsidy now.

I’m more than capable of getting the works complete but you’ll be the first to complain to Suncorp if the works done by your partner was not satisfactory – what comeback would you or the insurance coy. have?

The insurer is covering its risk.

I’ll disagree, the only way is up & that’ll help pull the AUD down creating upward pressure on inflation as the cost of imports rockets upwards.

only a couple of hurdles: you may need 75% or more of owners corporation to agree & pass a special resolution; all owners will be your development partners; the strata cannot borrow, so all owners will need to contribute to the project; a new strata plan will need to be prepared; the entire building may need to be brought up to BCA compliance; will the additional buildings exceed the allowable fsr for the site; council contributions etc.

You may need to engage a town planner in the first instance.

I wouldn’t write off things like commercial/industrial esp if you buy something with a few years left on a lease & possibly an option.

VF is one option – at least it doesn’t use all the checks & balances that the banks undertake. If using conventional finance you’d quickly exceed serviceability limits.

I wouldn't know how to survive if I were to be a millionaire. What do I get rid of?

Areas are zoned for units – check with council to see if more units are planned.