You might be reading this review coz you’ve made up your mind to custom build your dream house and want a good quality, honest and efficient builder and you are in the process of narrowing down the best one who’d realise your dream.
After having built a $700k+ custom house in Mt. Eliza through Hallbury in 2018, I can truly recommend that it’s better that you look somewhere else.
Hallbury Homes is not mature enough to handle a custom build. Their team are inexperienced, do not communicate well, manipulative and lack integrity.
In my case, the design phase lacked proper communication. There is no single person point of contact, who would take up responsibility. The build was marred with ongoing errors and nothing was smooth sailing. In spite of the dimensions being clear on the plans, I got a narrower door and a staircase.
Everyone at Hallbury acts as if they are the owners of the company, but when it comes down to getting the work done, no one takes responsibility. Especially so with the construction manager I was assigned. It’s pathetic that I had 5 different site supervisors, each lasting no more than a month, because the construction manager who desperately needs a course in anger management, fired them left, right and centre. During the final phase of the build I had no site supervisor at all, well, no one could tolerate a boss like this. To top it up, he verbally abused the independent building inspector (whom I had hired) during the site inspection.
Well, I can go on and on highlighting the various issues I had to face during my nightmarish build, but rather I prepare for the DBDRV/ VCAT session coming up soon. Hope you get the point.
All the best with your build, keep searching.

Approximate cost: $725000