Romeo homes, rawdon hill homes, premier builders group

VICHOME · Apr 18, 2019 12:07 am

Hi there, much appreciated if u could share your experience in building with any of above builders?

Mamz · Apr 29, 2019 7:07 pm

We contemplated building a period home with Premier Group (who were associated with Onley constructions a few years ago). Always felt a bit... wary. We were looking for a period home - so looked at Premier, Rawdon Hill, Romeo and Kialla.

After reading the reviews on the productreview website and looking at the quality of their (then) latest display homes (the Avalon in Officer) we walked away. The quality was average at best. Too many alarm bells and I went with my gut feeling. The base price of the house was reasonable, but EVERYTHING was an upgrade (I felt).

Premier and Romeo used to be one, but Romeo split off a few years to become to focus on 'higher end' (read: quality) period builds. The display homes of Romeo we visited were good quality (I use the quality of a builder's display homes as a yardstick - if they can't get their "showcase" display homes right, why would you give them money to build your house?). Romeo were good, but the sales guy we dealt with didn't fill me with confidence.

We kept looking and ended up doing a full custom build with Kialla. Still in the design stage, but their quality is great, their pricing is very transparent and the list of inclusions compared to other builders is really good.

CarnTheHawks · Jul 21, 2019 3:06 pm

Premier builders group was like a sales company. Sales were started at the displays. Then several builders (3-4) would tender for each job. Each home (including displays) are basically the same, but lots of small differences, based on builder preferences.
Around 3 months ago, they were bought out by one of those builders (prime), who now build all homes.
Tighter control over everything from quality & consistency, to marketing & pricing.

storewallAU · Jul 28, 2019 8:40 pm

what was your thoughts on Rawdon Hill, has anyone done any custom work with them. I am interested in the fact that they do split levels and can custom with a new or existing design.

ausnix · Aug 28, 2019 8:20 pm

storewallAU

what was your thoughts on Rawdon Hill, has anyone done any custom work with them. I am interested in the fact that they do split levels and can custom with a new or existing design.

Hi StorewallAU. Our experience with Rawdon was terrible at best. I'm not going to post specifics because they hide behind "it's built to standard clause" although areas are not fit for purpose (verified by independent trades). The build quality is about 2 out of 5

storewallAU · Sep 01, 2019 8:34 pm

thanks for the feedback. I hope they have sorted the issues for you.

1234567 · Mar 21, 2020 12:34 pm

Hi all,

Sorry to give life to an old post. We are currently building with Romeo Home and it has not been a great decision. We began with them in August 2018 and still to this day (March 2020) we are only almost at lockup. Their communication is poor and a lot of our issues come down to our supervisor. I requested a site visit in January 2020 (first time we ever met our supervisor) and he asked us what the gate code was, indicating that he had not been on site as would be expected of a supervisor.

There’s a review on Glassdoor by a previous employee which is an interesting insight.

We set out on this building journey with trust and excitement, and have been rudely awakened to the nature of some companies.

storewallAU · Mar 21, 2020 12:58 pm

Unfortunately there aren't enough happy stories in this building adventure. Maybe our expectations are too high or builders just don't make enough money out of this industry to please their customers and themselves.