How Gardner Vaughan is creating trust as a builder developer in South East Queensland: Five minutes with Gardner Vaughan Group Director Sam Gardner

Gardner Vaughan Group have been at the forefront of apartment development in South East Queensland since it was founded in 1989.

In the last 35 years, the company has grown from a building and design company to a fully-fledged builder-developer.

They're currently selling four projects across both Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, while they have future projects coming up in Redcliffe and Nundah.

With everything going on at Gardner Vaughan at the moment, we recently caught up with Gardner Vaughan Director Sam Gardner to talk about what they're up to.

Gardner Vaughan has moved from around 20 to 50 apartments per development to around 90 to 120 per stage.

"A lot of that comes down to the control of having input into every single facet of development," Gardner says, adding that they brought development in house about a decade ago.

"We know that being a builder developer in Queensland at the moment gives us an advantage. It's an interesting environment that we find ourselves in, but it's an environment conducive to builder developers."

Gardner says it's important to build a level of trust with buyers in the off the plan market.

"One of the biggest hesitations of our buyers buying off the plan is that trust, and one of the ways you can improve this trust is by showing a track record and your experience, but it's really taking the buyers and everyone else involved through the process of showing them what we're thinking, showing them how these developments have been designed, showing them how we've had the end user in mind." 

Gardner Vaughan has recently released the final stage of their Chermside apartment development, Estilo on the Park, on the doorstep of Seventh Brigade Park. They're also parkside in Stones Corner where they are developing Stonebrook, 90 apartments on Hanlon Park, voted Australia's best park in 2023.

A further two of GVG's current projects are up on the Sunshine Coast. Zinc in Bokarina has almost completed construction and has just one apartment left to sell, while Bask, a few doors down, will start construction once Zinc has completed.

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