The people we put our name behind.
Building designers, builders and finance brokers we know well enough to introduce. We reach out to each one personally, we understand their work, and no one pays to be here. When we point you to someone, it is because we would happily use them ourselves.
We reach out first
Every partner is someone we approached and got to know. There is no open sign-up.
We know their work
We look at real, recent projects before we make any introduction.
Never pay to appear
Placement here cannot be bought. It is how we keep the list worth trusting.
Across Australia
4 states and growingtap a state to filter
Design partners
19Building designers and architects doing considered residential work, who we are glad to point homeowners toward.

House Design Solutions
Preferred PartnerAlbert ParkNew homes · Extensions · Unit developments
New homes, extensions and unit developments across Melbourne, designed to be built, not just drawn.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Summerhill Building Designers
Preferred PartnerMelbourneCustom homes · Multi-unit developments · Extensions
Custom homes, multi-unit developments and extensions across Melbourne, with the planning and permits handled end to end.
Based in VIC4.5Google
Quorum Studios
Preferred PartnerBrisbaneLuxury new homes · Character dwellings · Pre-designed house plans
A deliberately small Brisbane residential studio, pairing a registered architect who has judged Queensland’s HIA awards with a director trained in psychology and people development.
Based in QLD5.0Google
Evoka Studio
Preferred PartnerNiddrieNew builds · Renovations · Townhouse developments
New homes, renovations and townhouse developments across Melbourne, carried from feasibility to construction documentation with care.
Based in VIC4.9Google
SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants
Preferred PartnerCamberwellBuilding design · Town planning · Dual occupancy
Building design and town planning under one roof, shaping Melbourne projects for council approval from the first sketch.
Based in VIC4.9Google
Metro Building Designers
Preferred PartnerReservoirExtensions and renovations · New homes · Unit developments
Extensions, renovations, new homes and unit developments, designed around the way Melbourne families live.
Based in VIC4.9Google
Praeditos Designs & Drafting
Preferred PartnerCanberraNew homes · Extensions and alterations · Working drawings
Concept design, drafting and approval-ready working drawings for Canberra homes, extensions and small commercial projects.
Based in ACT4.7Google
Architects Ring & Associates
Preferred PartnerKingstonCustom homes · Multi-unit and commercial · Interiors
One of Canberra's most awarded architecture practices, designing homes and buildings across the capital since 1991.
Based in ACT4.8Google
Levan Design
Preferred PartnerElthamNew homes · Renovations and extensions · Interior design
A boutique Eltham practice where one designer carries your home from first sketch to documentation, as she has for more than two decades.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Neighbourhood Architecture
Preferred PartnerKingstonNew homes · Renovations and extensions · Energy performance modelling
Canberra’s high-performance home specialists, designing new homes, renovations and extensions with energy performance tested from the first concept.
Based in ACT5.0Google
DNA Architects
Preferred PartnerBraddonNew homes · Renovations and extensions · Multi-residential
One of Canberra's most awarded residential practices: a Braddon studio of more than twenty architects and designers, designing homes across the capital and the coast since 2001.
Based in ACT4.0Google
Adam Hobill Design
Preferred PartnerNarrabundahCustom homes · Extensions and renovations · Spec and display homes
A Narrabundah practice named the region’s Residential Building Designer of the Year six times over, designing custom homes, extensions and renovations across Canberra and southern New South Wales.
Based in ACT5.0Google
Dawes Design & Drafting Group
Preferred PartnerNarre WarrenNew homes · Extensions and renovations · Multi-unit developments
More than two thousand completed Victorian projects: a Narre Warren studio designing new homes, extensions and multi unit projects across Melbourne, the Peninsula and Gippsland since 1997.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Elite Building Design
Preferred PartnerBelmoreNew homes · Duplexes and dual occupancy · Renovations
A Belmore studio designing about seventy homes a year across Sydney, the Illawarra and Newcastle, with fluency on both sides of the drawings: design and construction.
Based in NSW5.0Google
Design Plus Drafting
Preferred PartnerLeichhardtNew homes and knockdown rebuilds · Extensions and additions · Attic conversions
Sydney's Inner West design and drafting studio, reimagining homes from attic conversions to full knockdown rebuilds, with the approvals process handled end to end.
Based in NSW4.9Google
Niche Home Designs
Preferred PartnerSydneyNew homes · Alterations and additions · Multi residential and sustainable
A multi award winning Sydney studio designing bespoke homes since 1994, known for a signature modern look and for carrying every project hands on through council approval.
Based in NSW5.0Google
Studio LIRA
Preferred PartnerNewtownNew homes and additions · Heritage properties · Interiors and commercial
Two Italian architects, registered in Sydney and Rome, whose Newtown studio brings a European sense of proportion and restraint to homes, interiors and fit-outs.
Based in NSW5.0Google
Ferrari Architecture
Preferred PartnerMelbourneArchitecture · Interiors · Landscape
A Melbourne architecture practice led by Renato Ferrari, an architect who trained in Brazil and has practised in Australia since 2012.
Based in VIC
Nimbus Workshop
Preferred PartnerMelbourneNew homes · Interiors · Townhouses and dual occupancy · Specialist Disability Accommodation
A Melbourne studio that draws the architecture, the interiors and the landscape as one piece of work.
Based in VIC5.0GoogleBuilder partners
2Builders we have met, whose recent work we have looked at, and who we are glad to put in front of an owner.

The Builder’s Project
Preferred PartnerMelbourneCustom homes · Renovations and extensions · Heritage restoration · Development projects
A design-led Melbourne builder that treats every project as if it were their own.
Based in VIC4.9Google
de Lune Construction
Preferred PartnerHawthornComplex architectural builds · New homes · Commercial projects
A Hawthorn construction team led by an architecture graduate with dual builder registration, carrying Melbourne's complex architectural projects from concept to completion.
Based in VIC5.0GoogleConveyancing partners
1Licensed conveyancers who read the title, the covenants and the overlays before a client commits to a site.
Finance partners
14Brokers with real construction finance experience, and clients who speak well of them.

Ed Akgun
Preferred PartnerAirport WestConstruction loans · Refinancing · Lender comparison
Mortgage advice for people buying and building, from a broker who spent a decade inside Australia's biggest bank.
Based in VIC4.9Google
Billy
Preferred PartnerMelbourneConstruction loans · Development finance · Refinancing
Residential, construction and development finance, from a founder who has sat on the credit side of the desk.
Based in VIC
Jason Pogorelec
Preferred PartnerWest MelbourneConstruction loans · Investment lending · SMSF
Finance broking for people building homes and portfolios, with strategy that looks past a single settlement.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Maninder Kaur
Preferred PartnerCampbellfieldConstruction loans · First home buyers · Complex approvals
Home, construction and commercial lending, from a principal broker who invests in property herself.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Tim Murphy
Preferred PartnerMelbourneFirst home buyers · Investment lending · Refinancing
First home, investment and refinance lending from a broker who brings a strategist’s eye and negotiates hard with the banks on your behalf.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Rhys Elmi
Preferred PartnerCheltenhamFirst home buyers · Investment lending · Construction loans
A first home buyer specialist and property investor himself, guiding buyers through every step with a teacher’s patience.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Julie Judge
Preferred PartnerSydneySelf-employed lending · Business and commercial · Complex income structures
A Sydney finance broker at her best with the applications others find hard, structuring lending for self-employed clients and business owners, including those running construction and engineering firms.
Based in NSW5.0Google
Luke Brodie
Preferred PartnerSutherland ShireConstruction and development · Trust and SMSF · Self-employed
A boutique broker from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire who takes complex lending scenarios in his stride, specialising in construction and development finance, trust and self-employed lending.
Based in NSW5.0Google
Alex Burley
Preferred PartnerBeacon HillFirst home buyers · Investment lending · Refinancing
A Northern Beaches adviser who came up through financial advice, sourcing home loans that fit the bigger picture and answer to you, not the banks.
Based in NSW4.8Google
Nathan Newlan
Preferred PartnerBendigoFirst home buyers · Investment lending · Refinancing
An award winning Bendigo broker who owns his Mortgage Choice business, as invested in the local community as he is in getting clients across the country the right result.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Bianca Dacic
Preferred PartnerNiddrieLow deposit home loans · First home buyers · Commercial and asset finance
A Niddrie broker known for getting first home buyers into a place of their own, even with little or no deposit, and for the calm guidance that gets them there.
Based in VIC5.0Google
Matthew Hayes
Preferred PartnerManukaFirst home buyers · Investment and wealth creation · Refinancing
A born and raised Canberra broker with a thousand loans behind him, who structures finance around long term wealth rather than just the day’s interest rate.
Based in ACT5.0Google
Tristina Haines
Preferred PartnerDeakinConstruction loans · First home buyers · Complex and self-employed
With 15 years in finance and a decade inside banking, Tristina knows how to structure and present a loan application to give it the strongest possible chance.
Based in ACT5.0Google
William Kiln
Preferred PartnerLower North ShoreLoan structuring · Investment lending · Commercial and development
A broker who spent fifteen years building and pricing the major banks’ own mortgage products, now using that inside knowledge to structure lending on the client’s side.
Based in NSW5.0GoogleFor practices and brokers
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