Licensed Custom Home Builder Point Piper — Design & Construct
NSW licensed builder (Oliver Alameri) delivering fixed-price custom homes across Point Piper 2027. Engineered slab for Class M soil, BASIX 2025, 6-year structural warranty.
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MBA NSW0476 300 300Custom Homes Designed for Point Piper
A custom home builder in Point Piper is building on the most expensive dirt in the country, so nothing about the job is casual. Wolseley Road and Wunulla Road hold Federation and inter-war mansions on 600 to 2,500m² blocks that run down to direct harbour frontage. The land does the talking here. The build has to be worthy of it, and Council expects exactly that.
Every street sits inside a Heritage Conservation Area, so the first question is never the floor plan. It is what the heritage status of your specific address allows. Some of these houses are protected and stay. Others can be replaced with a contemporary home if the design answers the streetscape and the harbour setting. You do not find that out from a real estate listing. You find it out from the mapping.
Then the ground. Point Piper is sandstone, the blocks fall hard to the water, and rock anchoring is standard, not a surprise. A harbourfront build here means suspended slabs, serious retaining, marine-grade everything, and an engineering budget that would build a whole house in Western Sydney. That is the price of the address, and it belongs in the numbers from the first meeting.
What I would check first on a Point Piper block: the heritage listing, the Foreshore Building Line, and how the fall and the rock shape what can actually sit on the waterline. Those three decide the envelope before an architect draws anything. On a site worth what these are worth, guessing is the one thing you cannot afford.
This is a small, private world of building, and we treat it that way. Fixed-price, licence HBL 487805C, and the scope agreed on contract day is the scope at handover. If you have secured a Point Piper block or you are close, bring us the address. We will give you a straight read on the heritage, the foreshore rules, and what a build of this calibre really costs.
Buildana's design-and-construct service covers everything — from initial design brief and land assessment through to council approval and fixed-price construction. One builder, one contract, one point of contact.
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- Custom homes in Point Piper from $450K
- Designed for your 600–2,500m² block
- Woollahra Municipal Council DA and CDC approvals managed
- Point Piper zoned R2 Low / R3 Medium / R4 / B2/B4 mixed
- Single and double storey designs
- M — engineered slab included
- 6-year structural warranty
- Free consultation — near Edgecliff (2 km, ferry from Double Bay) station
Reviewed by Oliver Alameri
Licensed Builder (NSW 487805C) · Master of Property Development · PhD Student · Building across Western Sydney since 2010
The harbour frontage is the brief, and the constraint
People buy in Point Piper for the water, so the house has to earn that frontage. The north fall to the harbour is where the living areas and the glazing belong, and the design lives or dies on how it steps down the block toward the water. Get the level changes and the sight lines right and the house feels inevitable. Get them wrong and you have paid harbourfront money for a home that looks the other way.
The catch is the Foreshore Building Line. It controls how close to the water you can build, and on these blocks it often sits well up the slope, which changes everything about where the house can go. We map it against your title before design starts, because there is no point drawing a plan the line will not allow.
Rock, retaining and marine-grade reality
Building on sandstone that falls to salt water is its own discipline. Expect rock excavation and anchoring, suspended slabs where the ground drops away, substantial retaining, and materials specified to survive a marine environment for decades. None of that is optional and none of it is cheap. It is simply what a Point Piper waterfront build is.
The reason to know all of this on day one is simple. On a site at this level the engineering is a large, real number, and it needs to sit in the budget from the start, not appear as a shock at excavation. We would rather walk you through the honest figure early than win the job on a soft one and argue about it at slab stage.
How we handle a build at this level
Discretion and control matter here as much as craftsmanship. We keep the process tight: heritage and foreshore check, engineering read on the rock and the fall, a design drawn for the block and the water, and a fixed price you can hold us to. Licence HBL 487805C. The scope on contract day is the scope at handover.
Send us the address and we will tell you what the site allows, what the engineering will carry, and whether the vision you have works within the heritage and foreshore controls. If something in the brief will not clear Council, you will hear it from us early, in plain terms.
Custom home builder in Point Piper — key facts
- Suburb
- Point Piper, NSW 2027
- Council / LGA
- Woollahra Municipal Council (Woollahra)
- Primary zoning
- R2 Low
- Typical lot size
- 600–2,500m²
- Soil class
- M
- Median house price
- $15M–$100M+
- Home era
- 1880s–1940s heritage mansions
- Typical price range
- $450,000 – $1,200,000+
- Typical timeline
- 12–20 months design to handover
- Approval pathway
- CDC fast-track (15 business days) or DA (40–90 days)
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How It Works
From First Call to Final Key
Free initial consultation — we discuss your Point Piper build, your brief, your budget, and your block. Point Piper blocks are typically 600–2,500m² with R2 Low zoning.
⏱Design phase covers layout, orientation, and aesthetics for your Point Piper site. We work through room sizes, ceiling heights, storage, and natural light until the plan fits how your family actually lives.
⏱Construction-grade drawings, not concept sketches. Class M engineered slab and footings, structural frame computations, BASIX 2025 compliance, stormwater connection design, contour survey, and detailed sections through every junction.
⏱We lodge and manage your approval — CDC for eligible designs (10–15 business days) or DA through Woollahra Municipal Council if the design sits outside complying development thresholds. CC issued before construction starts.
⏱Build sequence on your Point Piper block: site set-up, slab pour and cure, frame stand and tie-down, roof and lock-up, internal fit-out (plaster, paint, joinery, tiles), kitchen and bathroom installation, final services connection, external works (driveway, fencing, landscaping). Each stage signed off before the next.
⏱Final inspection, Occupation Certificate, 6-year structural warranty, keys, and maintenance guide. Your new home near Wolseley Road (Australia's most expensive street).
⏱Our Team
Oliver Alameri
Founder / Director / Builder · MPropDev · PhD Student
Ahmad Alameri
Accounts Manager
Claire Wendell
Project Manager
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