The brief
Send a renovation brief
This is not a contact form. It asks what the work is, whether you can authorise it, when you want it and what you have set aside — and it tells you honestly if those answers do not add up, before anyone drives across Auckland to look at your house.
$163,752
Average declared value of an Auckland dwelling alteration consent in the year to May 2026. If your budget is a long way from the kind of work you are describing, the form will say so as you fill it in rather than after a site visit. What that figure does and does not mean.
Stats NZ — Building consents issued — Auckland local boards, May 2026 release · May 2026
The brief
Tell us about the job
What happens after you send it
- It gets read by a person. Not scored by a bot and dropped into a CRM sequence.
- You get an honest read in writing on whether the scope and the budget match, and what would have to change if they do not.
- If the job needs a Licensed Building Practitioner — and most structural or weathertightness work does — you are told that, and why it changes the price.
- If it is not a job for this partner, you are told that and pointed somewhere useful. A referral costs nothing; a wasted site visit costs both of us.
- Then it stops. One conversation about one job. No list.
Why it asks about the job first
Three answers determine whether a renovation enquiry can go anywhere at all: can you authorise the work, is the property in Auckland, and is the budget in the same territory as the scope. A form that collects your email first and discovers the third answer on a site visit has wasted a week of your time and a builder’s afternoon.
So the order is deliberate: property, scope, timing, budget, then contact details — asked last and once. If the form thinks the numbers do not work it says so on the page, and you can still send it.
Photography commissioned — plate reserved · July 2026
Before you send
Two things worth reading first
How to compare three renovation quotes
Three quotes are only useful if they cover the same work. Usually they do not.
What the cost data actually supports
Consent declared values, cost indexes, and the renovation figure New Zealand does not publish.
Do I need a consent?
Building Act thresholds and the Schedule 1 exemptions, plus restricted building work.
Questions people actually ask
Why does the form ask about the job before it asks who I am?
Because the answers decide whether anyone can help you. If you are a tenant, the work needs the owner’s authorisation and no quote is valid without it. If the property is outside Auckland, this is the wrong site. If the budget and the scope are a long way apart, that is worth saying before a site visit rather than after one. Asking for an email first and finding out afterwards wastes your afternoon, not just ours.
Will I get a price back?
You will get an honest read on whether your scope and your budget match, and what would have to change if they do not. A firm price for renovation work cannot be given without someone seeing the building — the things that move a renovation budget most are behind the linings.
Who receives it?
An Auckland trade partner, who is being confirmed. Until they are named on this site, no LBP number, guarantee, insurance cover or association membership is claimed here. If the work turns out not to be theirs, you will be told that plainly. The full commercial position.
What happens to my details?
They are used for one conversation about one job. No mailing list, no newsletter, no resale to a lead broker. The brief carries a score computed in your own browser, which is there so the person reading it can see how firm the job is — not to filter you out.