
Licensed Custom Home Builder Rose Bay — Design & Construct
NSW licensed builder (Oliver Alameri) delivering fixed-price custom homes across Rose Bay 2029. Engineered slab for Class M soil, BASIX 2025, 6-year structural warranty.
Building Custom Homes in Rose Bay
A custom home in Rose Bay is a premium harbourside build where heritage and deep sandstone fall both set the terms. This harbour-beach village runs Federation mansions and inter-war stock on 300 to 1,500m2 blocks with substantial fall to the harbour, and Conservation Areas cover most streets. At a $4.5M to $15M market the harbour outlook carries the premium, but on a contributory property the honest scope leans to restoration.
This is sandstone-dominant ground, so the substructure is engineered and deep rock is priced honestly from the start, and a level-changing design captures the harbour outlook on the steeper lots. On an eligible lot the design has to answer a premium heritage streetscape in scale and materials. The harbour beach, the ferry wharf and the sea-plane base define one of Sydney's most prestigious addresses.
What I would check first on your Rose Bay block: the heritage status, the rock and substructure on the harbour fall, and the streetscape controls. Those decide the job.
We build these fixed-price, licence HBL 487805C. Send me the address and I will tell you honestly whether it is a new build or a restoration.
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 Rose Bay from $450K
- Designed for your 300–1,500m² block
- Woollahra Municipal Council DA and CDC approvals managed
- Rose Bay 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 (4 km, ferry to Circular Quay) station

Reviewed by Oliver Alameri
Licensed Builder (NSW 487805C) · Master of Property Development · PhD Student · Building across Western Sydney since 2010
Premium, and heritage-bound
This harbour-beach village runs Federation mansions and inter-war stock on 300 to 1,500m2 blocks with substantial fall to the harbour.
Conservation Areas cover most streets, so on a contributory property the honest scope leans to restoration, at a $4.5M to $15M market.
Deep rock, harbour fall
This is sandstone-dominant ground, so the substructure is engineered and deep rock priced honestly from the start.
A level-changing design captures the harbour outlook, and on an eligible lot it answers a premium heritage streetscape.
Custom home builder in Rose Bay — key facts
- Suburb
- Rose Bay, NSW 2029
- Council / LGA
- Woollahra Municipal Council (Woollahra)
- Primary zoning
- R2 Low
- Typical lot size
- 300–1,500m²
- Soil class
- M
- Median house price
- $4.5M–$15M
- Home era
- 1900s–1940s + apartments
- 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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Quality Promise
Buildana's Rose Bay custom homes: designed from scratch for your block, engineered to compliance, priced before we break ground.
How It Works
From First Call to Final Key
We start at the kerb. Before a single sketch, we stand on your Rose Bay block and work out what the land wants — sun path, slope, views, neighbours, the R2 Low envelope we've got to design inside. That walk determines almost every decision that follows.
⏱Design happens in layers. First the plan — where the kitchen is, how the bedrooms stack, what the morning routine looks like. Then the envelope — roof pitch, eave depth, window sizes matched to the Rose Bay climate. Then the finishes. Nothing gets drawn without a reason you can point to.
⏱Documentation is the unglamorous part, but it's where most projects go wrong. Engineering for Class M soil, BASIX 2025, Woollahra Municipal Council drawings, hydraulics, stormwater. We stage it so the certifier approves the first time — not the fourth.
⏱Then we build. Programme in hand, trades booked, material orders placed weeks before they're needed so nothing waits on delivery. Weekly update, monthly milestone walk, defects fixed as we go rather than collected at the end.
⏱Our Team
Oliver Alameri
Founder / Director / Builder · MPropDev · PhD Student
Ahmad Alameri
Accounts Manager
Claire Wendell
Project Manager
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Last updated: 1 July 2025
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