The Good Builder’s Top 100 Queensland Builders report ranks the state’s hundred largest residential builders across two financial years. The averages tell a calm story. The individual builders do not. Some doubled and tripled. Some shed most of their volume. And a few of the steepest falls are not falls at all.
Read the panel as a single number and FY2025/26 looks orderly: fewer homes, more money, a market drifting upmarket. Read it builder by builder and the calm disappears. Behind the averages are operators who moved hard in both directions, and the report ranks every one of them against its own prior year.
A handful of the swings are impossible to miss.
The risers
Glenvill Homes went from 53 builds to 309, a rise of 483%, and did it as a Victorian headquartered arrival in a Queensland ranking. Gemlife followed a similar arc off a similar base. These are the numbers that stop a scroll.
But a big swing off a small base is not the same as a big swing off a large one, and the report is built to tell them apart. The steadier story sits a little further down the riser list: builders adding real scale, not just a big percentage against a thin starting figure. Homecorp is the clearest of them, growing 40% off a base most operators would envy. Which builders are climbing on genuine volume, and which are climbing on arithmetic, is exactly the distinction the full table draws.
The falls that are not falls
Now the counterintuitive part.
Some of the sharpest declines in the ranking belong to builders who are not in any trouble at all. One Gold Coast operator dropped 89% by volume. Another shed three quarters of its builds. On the surface, that reads as collapse.
Look at the average contract beside those names and the story inverts. These are not volume builders losing work. They are project home builders walking away from volume on purpose, pivoting to custom and one off high end homes, with average contracts that balloon past three million dollars on a fraction of the build count. It is a category change dressed as a decline.
The report names them, separates them from the genuine fallers, and explains why ranking a custom builder’s multimillion dollar average beside a project builder’s is a mistake. Reading the top of the fallers list as a wipeout is the single easiest error to make with this data. The report is designed so nobody makes it.
The cohort that actually defines the year
The loudest movers are not the ones that matter most.
The year’s real signature belongs to a quieter group: builders who did fewer builds and still booked more total value. Fewer jobs, bigger jobs. That is premiumisation happening not across the market in the abstract, but inside individual businesses, one operator at a time. They do not top the riser list or the faller list. They sit between them, and they are the clearest read on where the market is heading.
How many builders pulled it off, and who they are, is in the ranking.
The rest is in the report
The names above are a fraction of the movement. The full Top 100 ranks all one hundred businesses with both years of builds and value and the year on year move on each, the risers and fallers separated from the business model switchers, the franchise networks broken out, and the average contract that tells you which story you are actually looking at.
If a builder is large enough to rank in Queensland, its year is in here. Including, most likely, the ones you compete with.
Read the full report: https://qldtop100.thegoodbuilder.com.au/home
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