Who We Are

Emerald Developments is an award-winning, family-owned building company specialising in new and custom residential homes across South-East Queensland and the Wide Bay–Burnett region. Proudly listed in Australian Construction Data’s Top 100 Builders in Queensland, we know what it means to build a home; whether it’s your first, your forever, or an investment. We lead with expertise, clear communication, and heart.

Our reputation is built on transparency, exceptional craftsmanship, a down-to-earth team, and the trusted suppliers and trades who back us. To us, building a home is more than floor plans and finishes; it’s about giving you the clarity and freedom to design the lifestyle you want.

This exciting journey of turning an empty block of land into a home you can be proud of begins with our expert professional team. They’ll be there to guide you every step of the way. We collectively aim for 100% client satisfaction through the entire design and building process; from the moment you reach out to us to begin your journey, right through to handover day!

With a passion for creating incredible customer experiences and a dedication to quality work, you can trust us to bring your home vision to life. It’s all up to you. Design your lifestyle with us today!

Why choose Emerald Developments?

Emerald Developments builds outstanding homes with a modern approach. Our devoted team works directly with clients to bring their vision to life. We aim for complete transparency, from pricing, site costs and information, so there are no unexpected surprises. You can trust us to ensure your most important investment is built right.

No matter where you see your future lifestyle taking you, we have a plan for you. Whether you want a house by the sea or a home with an expansive backyard, we can make it happen. Our custom design & custom Build process is efficient and easy — we handle all the complex details so you don’t have to.

Our home designs include one storey, two storey, acreage, house and land, and custom. We offer four inclusion packages — Quartz, Sapphire, Ruby and Diamond — which can be further tailored to your desires.

More than anything, we specialise in homes built around the way you live. Whether it’s a knockdown and rebuild, renovation or property development, you’ll find our expertise is second to none.

Explore our home designs today.

Mission, vision & core values

At Emerald Developments, we understand the value of dealing with real people you can trust. It’s our mission to provide a memorable customer experience from beginning to end, where you can depend on us to receive the best service throughout the design and construction of your beloved home.

Our vision is to create a quality product you can love for years to come. Our core values of real people, trust, customer experience, dependability and quality guide everything we do.

Our Happy Homeowners Speak Out

Building my home with Emerald has been a stress free, effortless process from start to finish. From Cheryl the lovely sales lady, to the wonderful office staff and owners Matt and Lia, I’ve felt at ease throughout the whole process. Would highly recommend Emerald Developments to anyone wishing to build a lovely, modern home, fantastic local company!

Hayley

Emerald Developments have been such a joy to work with. From the moment we stepped into their display home, we’ve been very impressed with their exceptional customer focus and high quality of work. Our build has progressed so quickly and smoothly. The team have kept us up to date with their weekly construction updates and photos, which makes it feel so exciting as first home owners to see it really coming together! Emerald really practices what they preach and we would recommend them to anyone over a bigger builder. Building our first home through Emerald currently. Process thus far has been fantastic, all the ladies in the office I’ve dealt with have been nothing but helpful. We have Matt as our supervisor and he’s been fantastic, has a good eye for quality. The build itself is progressing quickly and as a Tradie I’m impressed with the fit and finish. The frame is straight and square, and studs are planed/ packed so all the Gyprock looks fantastic including the ceiling. Certainly leagues above the volume builders in quality.

Alex and Jenna

Myself and my partner have had an awesome experience building our first home through emerald. From start to finish the communication and attention to detail have been flawless. From getting updates weekly through emails with photos attached and phone calls to make life easier have been awesome. To the team at emerald that have been there every step to help us understand everything, being our first home myself and my partner being absolutely clueless and them helping us understand everything has made it an easy process for us. To Matt and Lia the owners for being very professional and honest through out the build has built a good trust between myself and my partner. If you’re looking to build a home with ease and an excellent finished product I would highly recommend you build through emerald developments. On behalf of myself and my partner, we would like to extend our thanks and gratitude for the team at Emerald Developments. We are nearing the end of our build journey, and the support we have received week in and week out has been nothing short of amazing. Emerald Developments keeps you extremely included in your build process and it has helped us receiving weekly updates of our build every week. Matt and Lia have been two of the easiest and understanding people whose communication has been of such high standards. Both Matt and Lia have shown continuous support to ensure we reach our desired results. Once again, we would like to say a massive thank you to the team and want to encourage anyone who is looking at building their home, to go through Emerald! – this was the best thing we ever did.

Brooke and Kyle

12 months ago construction started on our new home and 6 months later we had handover of our new home. From the start, the sales team were gracious in answering our never ending questions and visits to the beautiful display home while we made our decision on the best design for our family. Once the build started, we loved the weekly construction updates that included progress photos and what was on the agenda for the upcoming weeks. Open communication with the team meant the whole experience ran smoothly and we were never unsure of how the build was coming along. We thank Matt, Lia and the whole team at Emerald, who were committed to making the build process as seamless as possible and delivered a gorgeous home for our family. This is the first time I’ve built a new home and I could not be happier. From the very start of the process talking to the sales team to start the building journey it has been such a pleasure. The team are friendly, welcoming, helpful and knowledgeable and made the whole building process wonderful. From great communication with any unforeseen changes, to weekly general updates with pictures to keep us in the loop of how the build was progressing. Their attention to detail has been great with them fixing any minor imperfections spotted in the final walkthrough quickly, handing over an amazing new family home. I can not recommend emerald developments enough and if the day comes that I am in ever building another home I will be choosing them again.

Anita and Sion

Building with Emerald has been an absolute dream! Our journey started with the ever helpful and friendly Cheryl in sales. We have received clear and transparent updates from the construction team the whole way through. The construction itself has been methodical and expeditious. We couldn’t be happier with the hard work and kindness that the whole Emerald team have put in and we are very much looking forward to making the house our home. It has been lovely building our first home with Emerald. Matt, Lia and the team have been extremely transparent and professional throughout our build. We have been completely satisfied with the quality of work completed and look forward to moving into our new home.

Belinda and Lachlan

I thoroughly recommend Emerald Developments to anyone who is wanting to build a custom home. Their communication, professionalism and overall friendly, transparent attitude made me feel at ease throughout my build. My son works in the construction industry and came to all of my inspections and confirmed the quality was of high standard and no corners were cut. I would build with them again in a heartbeat.

Jo

Like their communication. The weekly update is a really good thing. The staffs are very professional, and we always received reply on time.

Shaw and Xue

We recently purchased our home through Emerald Developments and the entire process was seamless. We couldn’t be happier with our new home and are so grateful to Matt and Lia for making the daunting task of downsizing our home as stress-free as possible. We are very happy with the workmanship and house layout and have received so many compliments about our new house from our family & friends. We couldn’t recommend them highly enough. We are especially appreciative of the amazing after service we have received from Matt & Lia who are always prompt at getting back to us with any queries we may have. Thank you so much Emerald Developments for making our dream turn to a reality.

Gaetano

During our first meeting with Emerald Developments at their display home, everything was so smooth and easy. What we liked most during this process was that Cheryl navigated with us the suitable choices to meet our wishlist but still within our budget range. Another key factor was that with Emerald Developments, we were allowed to modify the layout plan according to how we would like it to be and if our ideas have constraints, they will give us the ideal solution. During the pre-construction stage, Jade continuously update us on each & every status of our document applications & approvals and ensure that everything is on track. There are bits of marginal concerns along the way but what we like most is the open communication and the readiness of Matt & Lia to listen to our concerns & point of view and offer the best option to resolve the issues. When we reached the construction stage, (ours started ahead of schedule!) the consistent weekly construction update gave us the insights on which stage are we heading on. Having a distant location from the site, what we can only do is to drive pass the location during weekends and the Construction Team lead by Matt and later Craig never fails to impressed us by how fast the construction is and the quality of work is undeniably impressive. With the weekly acceleration on the progress of the construction, in our hearts, we feel that Emerald Developments can deliver our finished home just in time before our rental lapse and they did it! During the handover, we are over the moon to see how outstanding the workmanship was executed to our newly build home! They delivered on time with a remarkable quality. We highly recommend building with Emerald Developments as their consistent open communication, high attention to details, short construction timeline with the commitment to handover exceptional homes are the attributes of a builder which new homeowners are looking for!

Laila and Elvin