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Anketell sits south of Perth in the City of Kwinana, on land that was part of early settler Thomas Peel’s original grant and later used for the 1920s Group Settlement Scheme across the Peel Estate. It stayed lightly populated rural and semi-industrial land for decades, named after Richard John Anketell, the surveyor who mapped the Peel Estate, and it’s only in recent years that residential development has properly arrived, most notably the Albero Estate, completed in 2020. With a population of just 280 at the last census across 6.8 square kilometres, Anketell remains a suburb in transition, moving from Group Settlement-era farmland and light industry towards new housing estates alongside The Spectacles wetland reserve.

The three defect categories we see most in Anketell’s new estate homes are builder workmanship shortcuts, plumbing and wet area failures, and drainage issues on flat, low-lying land. As a genuinely new estate suburb, most homes here are recent builds, and we still find missing roof tie-downs, cracked render and other shortcuts that a rushed trade leaves behind. Homes built roughly 2017 to 2023 may have Iplex plumbing worth checking, and we test shower waterproofing for leaks. Being flat land close to The Spectacles wetland system, drainage and site fall need proper attention, since water sitting against a new slab causes problems fast.

A new estate home isn’t automatically a defect-free one, and in a suburb this new, most problems are still the original builder’s to fix if someone finds them. Our registered builders check the work against the code properly, with your report within 24 hours.

The difference with WA Building Inspections is simple: our inspectors are licensed registered builders (BP104751). Real Builders. Better Inspections. That’s why over 30,000 Perth home buyers have trusted us.