Our Partners

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

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Design partners

19

Building designers and architects doing considered residential work, who we are glad to point homeowners toward.

House Design Solutions

House Design Solutions

Preferred Partner

Albert 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

Summerhill Building Designers

Preferred Partner

MelbourneCustom 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

Quorum Studios

Preferred Partner

BrisbaneLuxury 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

Evoka Studio

Preferred Partner

NiddrieNew 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

SilverPoint Building Designers & Planning Consultants

Preferred Partner

CamberwellBuilding 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

Metro Building Designers

Preferred Partner

ReservoirExtensions 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

Praeditos Designs & Drafting

Preferred Partner

CanberraNew 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

Architects Ring & Associates

Preferred Partner

KingstonCustom 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

Levan Design

Preferred Partner

ElthamNew 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

Neighbourhood Architecture

Preferred Partner

KingstonNew 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

DNA Architects

Preferred Partner

BraddonNew 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

Adam Hobill Design

Preferred Partner

NarrabundahCustom 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

Dawes Design & Drafting Group

Preferred Partner

Narre 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

Elite Building Design

Preferred Partner

BelmoreNew 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

Design Plus Drafting

Preferred Partner

LeichhardtNew 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

Niche Home Designs

Preferred Partner

SydneyNew 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

Studio LIRA

Preferred Partner

NewtownNew 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

Ferrari Architecture

Preferred Partner

MelbourneArchitecture · 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

Nimbus Workshop

Preferred Partner

MelbourneNew 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 VIC5.0Google

Builder partners

2

Builders we have met, whose recent work we have looked at, and who we are glad to put in front of an owner.

Conveyancing partners

1

Licensed conveyancers who read the title, the covenants and the overlays before a client commits to a site.

Finance partners

14

Brokers with real construction finance experience, and clients who speak well of them.

Ed Akgun

Ed Akgun

Preferred Partner

Airport 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

Billy

Preferred Partner

MelbourneConstruction 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

Jason Pogorelec

Preferred Partner

West 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

Maninder Kaur

Preferred Partner

CampbellfieldConstruction 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

Tim Murphy

Preferred Partner

MelbourneFirst 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

Rhys Elmi

Preferred Partner

CheltenhamFirst 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

Julie Judge

Preferred Partner

SydneySelf-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

Luke Brodie

Preferred Partner

Sutherland 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

Alex Burley

Preferred Partner

Beacon 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

Nathan Newlan

Preferred Partner

BendigoFirst 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

Bianca Dacic

Preferred Partner

NiddrieLow 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

Matthew Hayes

Preferred Partner

ManukaFirst 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

Tristina Haines

Preferred Partner

DeakinConstruction 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

William Kiln

Preferred Partner

Lower 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 NSW5.0Google

For practices and brokers

Doing work like this?

Building designers, builders and finance brokers. Introduce yourself and we will take a proper look at your work. No fees, no contracts, and leaving takes one email.

For homeowners

Building soon?

Tell us what your build needs and we will introduce the partner who fits. No charge, no obligation.