Interstate Builders Licences
QBCC Queensland · NSW Fair Trading

Take the next step in your career .

We handle your builders licence application from start to finish. Evidence packs, referee statements, every supporting document, and deliver it complete, checked and ready to go. You stay on site, we do the paperwork.

Free 10-minute eligibility call No fee until we confirm you qualify
On a single house $60k–$80k

The builder’s margin on a typical $400,000 residential build. Without a licence, that goes to whoever signs the contract instead of you.

Every job, every year 15–20%

Standard gross margin for a residential builder. Subcontracting means handing that percentage over on every project you touch.

Without a licence 97%

Success rate in first attempt applications of our clients.

Your time ∼1 hr

Roughly what the whole application costs you personally. We assemble it, check it, and get it to the finish line.

Why it’s worth doing

The licence isn’t paperwork. It’s the ceiling on what you can earn.

Three things change the day your number issues.

Contract direct, not through someone else

No licence means another business holds the client, sets the price and takes the builder’s margin. A licence lets you sign the contract yourself and keep that margin on every job you run.

Applies in QLD & NSW
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Unlicensed contracting is an offence

Queensland requires a licence above $3,300 of building work and New South Wales above $5,000 — thresholds far lower than most tradies assume. Beyond the penalty, unlicensed work can leave you unable to recover money a client owes you.

Penalties set by each regulator

You can advertise and tender

Licence numbers have to appear on your advertising and contracts, and both regulators publish a public register. Builders, developers and councils check it before they engage anybody.

Public licence register
No fee until you qualify
Fixed amount, quoted upfront
Full application complete
Both states, every class
Australian owned
How it works

One call in. A finished application out.

Five steps. You’re involved in the first two.

01

Free eligibility call

we identify what your experience is and provide the licence that would set you up for success.

10 minutes · no cost
02

Send what you’ve got

One email. Your quals, a rough job list, a few referee names. No forms, no formatting.

About an hour of your time
03

We build the evidence

Your job history, structured against the regulator’s own schedule. We draft the referee statements and chase them.

Handled for you
04

Checked and finished

Every form and attachment ordered the way an assessor expects, reviewed against their own checklist.

Ready in about 4 weeks

Licence granted

Your number issues and you can contract in your own name. We diarise your renewal so you don’t lose it.

Over to you
Mutual recognition $990

Licensed in one state? The second one is faster.

If you already hold a current licence in Queensland or New South Wales, mutual recognition can get you the equivalent across the border without repeating your qualification and experience assessment from scratch. It’s the quickest licence you’ll ever get — and most builders don’t realise they’re entitled to it.

Check if you qualify
You hold NSW general building contractor
You can apply for QBCC builder — low rise
What our clients say

Builders who stopped subcontracting.

4.9
★★★★★

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★★★★★

“I’d started the QBCC form twice and given up twice. First call, they told me I needed medium rise, not low rise — which I’d have got wrong on my own and paid for twice.”

DM
Daniel M. Builder — medium rise · Gold Coast
★★★★★

“Fifteen years on the tools and no certificate to show for it. They arranged the recognition of prior learning and had the whole file finished in five weeks. I barely lifted a finger.”

SK
Sione K. Trade contractor · Logan
★★★★★

“We moved the business from Sydney to Brisbane. Mutual recognition meant I kept working through the whole thing instead of starting again from zero.”

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Rachel T. General building · Newcastle

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You'll come off the call knowing exactly what to do to take your career to the next level.No cost no obligation..

No obligation No fee until we confirm you qualify QLD & NSW