Construction finance · Brisbane
Construction finance in Brisbane.
Aurelius Private are private lending brokers based on the Gold Coast, and we arrange construction finance for Brisbane builders and developers. We are the broker, not the lender, so your build goes to whichever private lender on our panel fits it best.
Brisbane is an hour up the M1, and a construction deal runs on valuations, QS inspections and draws that happen on site whoever arranges the money, so being just south of the city changes nothing about the pace.
Loan size
To $30M
Settlement
In days
LVR
To ~80% TDC
Term
12–24 months
Indicative only. As brokers we place your deal with the right private lender; final terms are set by that lender.
Building into the Olympic decade
Brisbane is building harder than it has in a generation. The city is adding roughly a thousand new residents a week, and it is carrying a construction pipeline anchored by the 2032 Olympics: Cross River Rail opening this year, the $3.8 billion Victoria Park stadium under way, plus Queen's Wharf, the Gabba precinct and Brisbane Arena. Tens of thousands of construction jobs are being created around that work.
All that headline activity pulls labour and materials toward the marquee jobs, and lender attention with them. It leaves the everyday builder, the townhouse developer in Chermside or the infill site in Annerley, competing for a bank's shrinking construction appetite, and rising build costs have made the majors more cautious, not less. A lot of these smaller Brisbane projects are getting funded and finished on private construction finance instead.
Construction finance that keeps the site moving
Facilities draw down in stages, slab, frame, lock-up, fixing and completion, with a quantity surveyor signing off each claim and the lender paying it within a few business days. Trades stay on site, the program holds, and interest only runs on what you have actually drawn.
Lenders set the loan against the finished value (GRV) and the total development cost (TDC), commonly up to about 70% of GRV or 80% of TDC. We arrange facilities from single dwellings up to small unit and townhouse projects and commercial builds to $30 million, and we can structure a Brisbane spec build without the pre-sales a bank would insist on.
Working with Brisbane clients from the Gold Coast
We are an hour south, on the Gold Coast, and arrange construction finance for Brisbane projects from the inner-city renewal precincts out to the northern and western growth suburbs. The valuer and quantity surveyor do the on-site work; we run the lender and the paperwork.
“Construction is where speed matters most. A bank can take weeks to sign off a draw; the private lenders we use verify and pay in days, which is often the difference between staying on site and the job stalling. Send me the plans and the build contract and I'll tell you quickly who can fund it and on what terms.”
Founder and Managing Director, Aurelius Private
Common questions
Do you have a Brisbane office?
Can you fund a Brisbane spec build with no pre-sales?
How fast can a Brisbane construction facility settle?
Building in Brisbane?
Send us the project. We will tell you what a private lender will fund and on what terms, usually the same day.