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Eliza Burke, 27, and partner Jai Green, 31, have put their wedding and second child on hold since signing a $360,000 contract with Pantha Homes in 2020 before it went bust this week.
Brisbane-based Pantha Homes has been wound up and put in the hands of liquidators after soaring raw material costs and rising interest rates wreak havoc.
A company that had a turnover of nearly $100million just two years ago has become the latest construction industry business to collapse.
Shortages are curbing the sector’s ability to produce new homes and meet the record demand stimulated by record-low borrowing costs and government stimulus.
The company that expanded rapidly thanks to HomeBuilder and other stimulus programs is now suffering a huge hangover.