Insights & Industry Views | Brian Malone Homes

Building a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people make, and the information available online rarely reflects what actually happens on site. This is our attempt to close that gap — we share what we have learned from delivering 200+ homes across Brisbane and the surrounding region, and where we disagree with popular wisdom we say so plainly. These are general observations and professional opinion, not specific advice for your circumstances.

Why Your Energy Bills Will Be Lower Than You Think

New construction standards have quietly improved energy performance. Here is what we are seeing on the meter in recently completed homes, and what it means for your running costs.

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Should You Buy the Land First?

The common advice is to buy the land before you choose a builder. We think that is often backwards — and here is the reasoning behind that view.

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The True Cost of "Just Renovating"

A kitchen upgrade can quietly become a full rebuild. How to assess when a renovation stops making sense and a rebuild starts to.

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How We Write These

From the job, not the office: Every article starts with a pattern we have observed across multiple client projects over the years, not with a headline written for search traffic.
Numbers where we can: Where we have real project data we include it — square metres, durations, cost ranges. Where we do not, we say so.
We name the trade-offs: There is rarely a single right answer to "should we renovate or build new". We lay out the trade-offs as we would for a client at the kitchen table.