Ryan Bridge: Have we found the next leaky building saga?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 30, 2026 · 1m · transcript

Two questions for you this morning if you're buying or have bought a property recently.

1. Did you get a pre-purchase inspection done?

2. And did that person have a qualification?

Remember leaky buildings? Well, there are a builders and surveyors out there who reckon we're sitting on another leaky building saga.

There was a very good piece in the Herald at the weekend about this.

New builds, builds less than 10 years old, failing. Looks spick and span on the outside, underneath, the timber's damp. There's mould.

Water is getting inside the walls of houses that are pretty new.

I don't know…