Building & Sustainability Consulting

Is your existing Depreciation Schedule just a Placebo ?

There have been a few movements in the area of depreciation over the 2010/11 financial year overall, though there are not that many changes over the past 12 months that you should be concerned about… or is there?

Below is an example of a depreciation schedule, a client asked Napier & Blakeley to provide a health check on, with regard to the dollar value of their depreciation claims.

This property relates to a strata property purchased in a capital city CBD area, the building was a number of years old.

The numbers below are the actual figures.
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If you’re not properly insured … then it will be a real disaster

Damage to property and buildings by fire and other disasters, natural or otherwise, costs Australians hundreds of millions of dollars every year. In the last year this has been even more defined by the recent floods in Queensland and Victoria.

Notwithstanding the substantial number of properties that suffered as a result of the recent floods, the most common building disaster in Australia is fire, so it is important to be prepared. Luckily we have only had one earthquake in recent history and although the chances of these occurrences are low, the devastation they can do has been clearly seen in Christchurch. Continue reading