A pre-built home in Queenstown costs between $5,800 and $9,000+ per square metre for the build alone in 2026. For a typical 200-square-metre home, that translates to $1.16 million to $1.8 million before land. Add a Queenstown section ($450,000 to $950,000+) and your total package sits at $1.6 million to

This is a very real and honest discussion about the myth that a Queenstown builder can offer an accurate square metre rate without spending hours looking at and pricing your plans. You have purchased a section in Queenstown, you are feeling all the excitement that we all feel when we

A fixed-price contract protects you better. That is our position, and we will explain exactly why. In Queenstown’s building market, where schist rock lurks under topsoil, where slopes demand engineered retaining, and where a single geotechnical surprise can add $80,000 to a project, the question of who carries the risk

A pre-built home in Queenstown is a house where major components (walls, roof panels, floor cassettes, and sometimes entire rooms) are manufactured off-site in a controlled factory environment, then transported to your section and assembled on permanent foundations. It is not a relocatable. It is not a caravan. It is

A house and land package in Queenstown costs between $1.1 million and $2.5 million or more in 2026, depending on the subdivision, section size, build specification, and whether you are buying a completed turnkey product or commissioning a custom design on a titled lot. Build costs alone sit at $6,500