Who is actually winning work.
Every licensed builder in Queensland, measured on their own lodged jobs — rank, market share, growth, steadiness, price position and claims. The Elite 1500 lives in here now.
Measured, not listed.
A directory says a builder exists. These figures say who is winning work and who is losing it, from the jobs they actually lodged.
Top 400 builders, ranked.
Ranked by current position in their region. Search by name, or filter by region or price position. Share is their slice of work lodged in that region; trend is whether that slice grew or shrank against the window before.
| Rank | Builder | Region | Share | Trend | 3yr growth | Steadiness | Price | Years | Claims |
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Who holds the most of each region.
Biggest share of their region
The builder's slice of all work lodged in their region this window.
Most work lodged this window
Value of jobs lodged since the start of the window, by builder.
Volatile is the norm, not the exception.
Which matters when someone waves a single good year at you. Judge a builder on a run of years — that is what the three-year growth column above is for.
Most builders are volatile
How much a builder's volume swings year to year.
What this means
Only 284 of 6,175 builders with enough history are genuinely steady — under 5%. Residential building is lumpy: a handful of larger jobs moves a small builder's whole year.
The market splits in two
Where a builder's average job price sits against their region.
What this means
Premium and budget are matched at about 3,950 each; the middle holds just 778. If you sit mid-market you have few direct rivals — buyers are choosing between cheap and premium, not between you and a close comparison.
The spread is enormous
Compound annual growth over three years, for the 5,390 builders with enough history.
What this means
The typical builder grew 6.3% a year. The bottom tenth shrank by nearly half annually and the top tenth almost doubled — same market, same three years.
Nearly half have under five years
Years since a builder's first lodged job.
What this means
3,995 of 8,693 have been going under five years; only 588 have passed twenty. A young licence is not a warning on its own — paired with volatile volume and a budget price position, it is a different proposition to a twenty-year builder.
Claims: the number almost nobody has
8,408 of 8,687 builders have zero QBCC claims. The median is zero and so is the ninetieth percentile — fewer than one builder in ten has any claim at all. So a claim is not a routine cost of doing business; one claim puts a builder outside the top 90% of the register.
Judge a builder on a run of years. One good year proves almost nothing here.