Sky News host Caleb Bond has responded to a dire warning to New South Wales residents about the quality of their new build apartments.

A new report from the New South Wales government, which looked at 600 new or strata buildings, found 53 per cent of them had serious or major defects within six years of being built.

“People would prefer not to live in cheaply built apartments, but they don’t have much choice," Mr Bond said.

“There’s not much choice around.

“We dud ourselves on two accounts, we bring all these people in for whom we don’t have housing.

“We build the housing, but then the housing is rubbish and you have to pay more to fix it up further down the line.”