Jun 16, 2026 – 5.35pmResidents in Opal Tower, the poster child for Australia’s crises of poor quality and weak consumer protection in apartment construction, say their building is defect-free, more than seven years after a cracking concrete structure forced their evacuation a day before Christmas.Long walk ahead: Recovery has been a lengthy slog for owners and residents of Opal Tower. Edwina PicklesSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Opal Tower finally defect-free, and one sale even manages a profit
The structural problems in the 36-level tower have been fixed, but values are down a median 12 per cent in the once-troubled tower of 392 apartments.
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