What are the stages of building a new home in Brisbane?
Five stages, and each one has a fixed set of steps behind it. We visit your block and give you a concept plan and an estimate. You sign a preliminary agreement and we produce working drawings. You go through your inclusions and selections. We issue a tender contract priced on those selections. Then we build, and you get handover on a date we committed to.
Behind those five stages sit 47 detailed systems and around 500 individual tasks. That is not a slogan. It is the reason your build does not depend on somebody remembering something.
How long does it take from signing to handover?
Council approval takes about 4 weeks, then construction takes about 52 weeks, so roughly 12 to 18 months from signed contract to handover on a typical build. You get a real date range at concept stage rather than a best case, and if something moves you hear it from us before you have to ask.
Where new builds go wrong, and how we stop it
Most build horror stories come from the same three places. A price built on allowances that were always going to move. A design nobody engineered properly before it was quoted. And a builder carrying too many jobs to notice a problem early.
We price on your actual selections rather than allowances, we draw and engineer before we quote because we design and build in the same company, and we take on a limited number of homes each year. Jay came up as an apprentice watching everything live in one person’s head, and built the systems so it never does here.
Why homeowners across Brisbane build with us
- QBCC licence number 15156763. Member of Master Builders Queensland.
- A seven year structural guarantee on our workmanship.
- We take on a limited number of homes each year, around 10 depending on size, so Jay is across your job rather than one of hundreds.
- If you do not love your concept plan we redesign it at no charge and take $1,000 off your contract.
Written by Jay Mostyn, founder and director of Luxury Lifestyle Homes. Jay is a qualified carpenter and licensed builder, QBCC licence 1133655, with 30+ years building custom homes across Brisbane and the Moreton Bay region.