The Daily Dose #311 | Fewer Homes, More Money: Inside the Top 100 Queensland Builders Report

The Top 100 Queensland Builders report dropped on Friday. Most builders will scroll past the first 30 pages to see if they beat the bloke down the road. This episode is about everything else in there.Host Az walks through the read behind the ranking. It runs on official QBCC data, so no builder is missed, and it groups the franchise networks so you can see who the biggest really are. But this goes well past a league table. It is an intelligence report.The line for the year: fewer homes, more money. Queensland's hundred biggest builders wrote fewer new home contracts than last year, yet total contract value climbed. And most of that lift is not cost being passed on. It is a market quietly building fewer cheap homes and more expensive ones.In this episode:Why the cheap house is quietly disappearingThe big movers, and the builders who walked away from volume on purposePremiumisation and the quiet operators who defined the yearWhere the work is actually landing next, from approvals to land releasesWho holds number one, and how concentrated the top really isIt is not a list of who is winning. It is a map of how the game changed for Queensland, and where it goes next.If you build in Queensland, or you sell to people who do, this is the most honest picture of the market you will get this year.Grab the report at https://qldtop100.thegoodbuilder.com.au/home.Ranking data built on Australian Construction Data. constructiondata.com.au