Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to UK VS AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE: Homes Design" video.

Basements are extremely rare in Australia. Two story houses are becoming much more common. Partly as land prices are rising sharply, compared with actual house cost. Not unusual for land to go into $700,000 and up, while single level house could be under $300,000 to $400,000. Having afforded the land similar house cost allows a much roomier home, also often a multi car garage at ground level, makes living space above desirable. Still it is also a bit status driven, and especially among recent Asian migrants. These double "palaces" are in common terms referred to as ".Mac Mansions" often built replacing older single level houses, and often occupying all the land with virtually no garden, while garden front and rear yards are/were to norm so far. Asian often wipe out all bushes and trees of established properties they buy leaving at most low flower garden edges.
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Australian construction is commonly wood frame with cheaper end wooden slats, or called weather board, or brick single layer, called brick veneer, or at better homes at higher prices double brick. Ultra cheap, though now less common in major cities comment sheeting outside. Many older weatherboard houses are being sheeted with false brick looking panels.(mine is) Roofing is most commonly cement tiles, but even corrugated metal still occurs especially in more rural settings.
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@helenlecornu1651 sorry, but in the major cities houses are rarely corrugated iron, sheds and garages yes, but not homes. Though I have no experience with Perth, and do recall Adelaide , Darwin with corrugated iron. Otherwise as I said rural places do too.
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@helenlecornu1651 Sorry a matter of definitions. To me the region cities are part of rural area which is not just farms and homesteads. It is related to numbers of homes, big city homes far outnumber all regional home numbers by orders of magnitude
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