Who is building, and who is slipping.
Every licensed builder in Queensland, tracked month by month — volume, market share, price position and where it is all moving.
8,693 builders, measured — not listed.
A directory tells you who exists. This tells you who is winning work. Every builder carries a real three-year growth rate, a volatility reading, a market-share trend and a price position — computed from their actual lodged jobs, not from claims.
What "gaining share" actually measures
Share is a builder's slice of the work lodged in their own region, compared against the window before. Gaining share means they took more of their local market — which can happen even while their raw job count falls, if the whole region fell further.
That is the point: raw volume tells you about the market, share tells you about the builder. 3,650 gaining against 2,853 losing is a market redistributing, not growing.
Licensed builders by region
Brisbane and the Gold Coast hold four in ten of every tracked builder in the state.
What this means
Builder count is not the same as opportunity. Brisbane has the most builders and the most competition; regions like Cairns and Toowoomba have a few hundred each, which means a smaller field but a thinner pipeline behind it.
Read this against approvals growth in Area Explorer — the Gold Coast carries 1,319 builders against approvals up 73% on the year, which is where the work is.
What your rivals are actually doing.
Tracked profiles with real scrape history — pricing, display homes, listings and hiring, captured over time rather than looked at once.
Open Competitors →The 450 companies putting land on the market.
Developer profiles and the Tier 1–3 construction-tier database — two related views, kept separate because they answer different questions.
Open Developers & Tiers →The conditions everyone is building into.
The same signal chain that drives Development Potential, read for the building industry: what it costs to borrow, what is being approved, and whether the sector itself is expanding or contracting.
Still contracting, but far less badly
The Ai Group construction index. Above zero the sector is expanding, below it is shrinking. Only two real readings are published in this feed, so only two are shown.
What this means
The index jumped 36.6 points in a month — a large move — but from −43.5 to −6.9, so conditions are still contracting, just much closer to neutral.
At −6.9 the sector is shrinking even while approvals rise. Approvals are a pipeline measure and this is a conditions measure: builders can be winning approvals and still finding margins, labour and finance hard.
The source publishes the current reading and the month's change, not a back series, so this chart shows two points rather than a trend line invented to look like one.
The pipeline behind the work
Every home councils approved, month by month — the supply of work reaching builders over the next one to two years.
What this means
Approvals near 18,700 a month, trending up over three years. The January dips each year are the industry shutdown, not demand collapsing.
Sources: QBCC licence register and lodged jobs · ABS building approvals · Ai Group Australian Industry Index. Builder figures as at 21 Sep 2026.
Sources & Scraper.
Every feed, when it last ran, and whether it succeeded. Signed in as you and no one else.
A directory lists builders. This one measures them.