We built with Coral on the Sunshine Coast and were happy. We enjoyed it and would build with them again. My advice is to get all the extras when you build if you plan to live in the house, with the builder we used it worked out thousands cheaper to do it that way (sorry to give conflicting advice on previous posts). An example of this we got tinted windows, fans in all the rooms, power points & light switches everywhere and dimming lights. Lots of people just get the standard stuff the builder throws in but we wanted the works.
I work for a builder in SA. I would say in my experience dealing with people and having built myself, everyone thinks of going to the big project home builders because they seem to be cheaper initially, but they dont include HEAPS of stuff. I would work out exactly what you expect from the build and then shop around a few custom builders and maybe one big project builder. You just want to check they are all including for the same things because there can be big price differences in things that you may think are only small.
I know this is a bit late, but we've built twice, the most recent house our current house that we moved into in Nov 2010. We plan to build again in the future (so we haven't been too scared off lol). I agree with the others that you do need to ask lots of questions and keep on top of things, which can actually be very time consuming. If you still have any specific building questions, please ask
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