Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis price increase 3Jul 02, 2017 8:39 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 9Jan 08, 2018 8:07 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 11Jan 08, 2018 8:29 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 13Jan 08, 2018 9:13 am rum_home This was the major reason I switched from Porter Davis to another volume builder, they had too large jump in price. That doesn't make sense? Builders experience the same pricing pressures and they choose to put up the prices when it suits them, they may hold off monthly increase for quarterly...If they have not commenced on site within 12 months expect a 12 month price increase Alternatively, expect a lot of excuses for site delays, but you will still get the price whack. Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 14Jan 08, 2018 2:57 pm Different volume builders have different margins. Heavy marketing companies such as Metricon, Carlisle, PD (to name a few) would have very high marketing costs. So they recover their costs with big price increases. While other builders, namely 8homes, don't have those large ones. They still have them, but not as high as the above mentioned companies. This is my guess on the rises anyway.. Re: Porter Davis price increase 15Jan 09, 2018 8:28 am I would expect builders to put up pricing minimum of 12 months. PD email sounds like a scare email to get people to sign on their books so they can have some sort of commitments of builds going forward. Its a very competitive market and there are a lot of builds happening at the moment. I remember when we were first looking at PD (as I loved their designs) not so much their pricing and they wanted us to put a deposit down with the spiel that prices were increasing in the new financial year. We didn't. I would be wary committing to any building contract or deposit whereby you had penalty clauses (which some I read are very heavy per month if you don't commence building after certain time) when your land isn't titled or months or over a year away from being tilted. I know in Victoria there is a lot of building happening and all parts of the process are flat out so expect some delays due to this and maybe factor it in. Re: Porter Davis price increase 16Jan 10, 2018 9:46 am StructuralBIMGuy rum_home This was the major reason I switched from Porter Davis to another volume builder, they had too large jump in price. That doesn't make sense? What doesn't make sense? Porter Davis is usually the leader in the price increase cycles, and their jumps can be large. I remember when their balcony option jumped ~60%. But I think when I was looking at the Charlton it went up 13% from when I started, to when I switched. Their Prestige lines can usually go up 10's of thousands of dollars each adjustment cycle. Re: Porter Davis price increase 17Jan 10, 2018 11:05 am rum_home StructuralBIMGuy That doesn't make sense? What doesn't make sense? Porter Davis is usually the leader in the price increase cycles, and their jumps can be large. I remember when their balcony option jumped ~60%. But I think when I was looking at the Charlton it went up 13% from when I started, to when I switched. Their Prestige lines can usually go up 10's of thousands of dollars each adjustment cycle. Trades get paid the same rates irrespective of the builders size. If I am not working next month I will consider dropping my rates. Large builders get bigger manufacturers rebates but they rarely get passed on to the consumer. I would say your balcony price was a stuff up.. 60% increase is nonsense that can't be blamed on labour and material increases, it sounds like the salesman, estimator, or someone make an error What you will find larger Builders doing now is loading their order books while waiting for rates to drop. BTW those builds will take years to build. This is exactly what happen in perth, during the last boom cycle Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 18Jan 11, 2018 8:20 am StructuralBIMGuy Trades get paid the same rates irrespective of the builders size. If I am not working next month I will consider dropping my rates. Large builders get bigger manufacturers rebates but they rarely get passed on to the consumer. I would say your balcony price was a stuff up.. 60% increase is nonsense that can't be blamed on labour and material increases, it sounds like the salesman, estimator, or someone make an error What you will find larger Builders doing now is loading their order books while waiting for rates to drop. BTW those builds will take years to build. This is exactly what happen in perth, during the last boom cycle Well volume builders can in ways force rates from builders, and the balcony wasn't one I was directly looking at. But it wasn't an error, the price when from ~15k to $25k and has stayed at that price since. Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 81728 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12345 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 29756 |