Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Custom builder or pay for own floor plan and take to bui 8Jan 24, 2024 6:29 pm NativeZen I'm a building designer based in Perth. We tender our designs out to several builders to get the best value for the client. If the client signs up with one of them then we earn our fee through a commission only. Quite a few designers and building brokers utilise this process so it could be an option for you. It doesn't inflate the cost of the house to the client - the designer just gets the comission instead of the sales rep. It's a great way to compare builders while retaining ownership of your design. Wow! That is great to hear! Very interesting, will look into it further, thank you ☺️ Re: Custom builder or pay for own floor plan and take to bui 9Jan 24, 2024 6:38 pm ponzutwo you should ask yourself what your budget is first. Custom is always more expensive when comparing apples to apples (same size house, finishes, etc). If yuore afraid of the cost, you probably not in a position to have a custom home built. When you have your own plans done, that wont guarantee you any safety, pricing certainty or taht the builder wont go bust on you. All of these risks apply to all builders. However, a GOOD custom builder with appropriate financial acumen will have priced that risk in and passed it on to you anyway. When you get your plans done, you will be paying up front for some drawings, files etc. These are not cheap. Think that youll get yourself a good deal at ~10k if its legit custom. the only thing that getting your own plans guarantees you is choice of builder and the ownership of those plans (as long as you have discussed and agreed that aspect with the designer/architecht) - for that privilege you will pay a healthy sum. You can take those plans to as many builders as you like that offer custom builds, and you can get a thousand quotes if you wish. My suggestion is get a feel for the size of the house you would like - 20 squares, 30 squares, 40 squares? look at those prices at a volume builder, add 20-40% for as those house prices are BASE regardless of what the marketing makes you think you get. Is that pricing what you expected or do you have a lot more wiggle room? If you do have wiggle room, then, hey you may be lucky enough to go custom. If those volume builder prices +20-40% prices are even remotely close to you budget, you cant afford a custom builder. Yep, very good point. I’ll do more research and see what figures I get. Thank you! Re: Custom builder or pay for own floor plan and take to bui 10Apr 01, 2024 8:18 am Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out to many builders and compare quotes, however, you will need to pay for these services upfront. Typically when getting plans drawn up by a builder they will own copyright of the plans and you can't get others to tender. The advice from NativeZen is consistent with most building designers. Hope this helps! Building Designer | Sunshine Coast www.draftroom.com.au Hi, Seeking volume or semi-custom builder in victoria(east), which have existing double story wide floor plans. Seeking 18-20m wide homes with depth of 12-15m long. Or… 0 25572 6 56161 Hi there! Absolutely agree on the wasted space. We have no desire for the master to be that oversized, but it occurred when we increased the depth of the garage. We have… 4 12891 |