Custom Homes · Summer Hill NSW
Custom home builder in Summer Hill, built properly.
Knockdown rebuilds and luxury new homes for Summer Hill blocks where the land is now worth far more than the house standing on it. Designed for your block, engineered for your soil, quoted with an itemised proposal, and one builder overseeing your project from pre-construction through to handover.
487370C
Local knowledge
Why Summer Hill is a conservation suburb first.
Strava Group is a custom home builder working across Summer Hill and the surrounding suburbs. Summer Hill is one of the inner west’s best preserved Victorian and Federation villages, and much of it sits inside heritage conservation areas that exist to keep it that way.
So we are straight about it: on most Summer Hill streets, demolishing a contributory home is not supported, and the right project is a quality renovation or extension, which we build with the care those homes deserve. Where a block falls outside the protections, or carries a building with no heritage value, a new custom home can be open to you. Custom builds we take on around Summer Hill include:
- Knockdown rebuilds on established blocks
- Single and two storey custom designs
- Sloping and tighter sites done properly
- Duplexes and dual occupancy where zoning allows
- Homes designed for light, outlook and the yard
- New homes on vacant or subdivided land
Not sure whether your Summer Hill house wants a rebuild or a renovation? We build both, so the advice is honest. Sometimes the right answer is a home extension or a second storey, and we will tell you which one your block and budget actually want.
Summer Hill kept its village because it kept its streets. We work with the conservation controls, not around them, and you get a straight answer on your block before any design money is spent.
A note from Stav
We built our name on extensions and second storeys. A custom home is different, and I treat it differently.
On every custom home you deal with me directly. I know the job in detail, I answer the phone, and I will still be standing behind the house years after handover. If that is the kind of builder you want on your new home, we should talk.
Stav TobiaDirector, Strava Group · NSW Builder’s Licence 487370C
Start here
Tell us about your Summer Hill block and your brief.
No sales pitch, no obligation. Here is exactly what happens when you enquire:
One at a time, takes about two minutes, so the first conversation is about your project rather than the basics.
Knockdown rebuilds
Knockdown rebuild in Summer Hill.
Same street, same neighbours, same school catchment, new house. Here is what a Summer Hill knockdown rebuild actually involves.
When rebuilding beats renovating
Where the existing structure is sound and suits the design, renovating or adding a storey can make better financial sense. Where the structure, layout or site constraints work against the brief, a knockdown rebuild may provide better value. We look at your house and tell you which one it actually wants.
The conservation areas come first
Much of Summer Hill sits within heritage conservation areas where demolition of contributory homes is generally not supported, and Inner West Council requires consent before protected trees are removed. We check the planning layers on your block first, and where a rebuild is not open we tell you what a renovation or extension could achieve instead.
The approval pathway
Blocks outside the conservation areas that meet the relevant standards can suit a Complying Development Certificate through a registered certifier. Within the conservation areas, work goes through a DA with Inner West Council. Demolition has its own approval where it is open at all. We identify the realistic pathway early.
One contract, start to finish
Demolition, services disconnection and reconnection, and the new build run under one contract with one builder responsible, so nothing falls between contractors. You will need to move out from demolition to handover, and we raise that cost in the first conversation, not after you are committed.
A knockdown rebuild is still a custom home, and it gets the full Strava standard. Years of opening up older Sydney homes has shown us exactly how houses fail, and we build new ones to outlast those failures: footings engineered from your geotech report, frames built straight with proper bracing and clean load paths, waterproofing run as a documented hold point with a membrane system backed by a 15 year manufacturer warranty instead of the standard 7, and everything recorded before it is covered, including a 3D virtual model of the house captured before the gyprock goes on and handed to you at completion. What gets covered at construction still matters ten years later.
Honest numbers
How a Summer Hill custom home is priced.
Custom homes are quoted per project, because the design, the site and the specification drive the cost. What we promise is how the number is built.
| Item | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Your build proposal | Itemised line by line |
| Inclusions and exclusions | Listed openly |
| Preliminaries | Shown separately |
| Allowances | Clearly identified |
Two identical floor plans can cost very different amounts on different Summer Hill blocks: slope, soil, access, trees, demolition on a knockdown rebuild, and the specification you choose all move the number. Anyone who quotes a custom home off a phone call is guessing, and the guess always grows.
So we do it the slow, honest way: we walk your block, we talk through the brief and the budget, and the proposal you receive is itemised line by line: what is included, what is excluded, and what the preliminaries are. No buried allowances. Where an item cannot reasonably be finalised before contract, it is identified clearly rather than hidden inside the total.
We use a fixed price (lump sum) building contract, agreed before signing.
Good to know
Summer Hill custom home questions.
We had Strava Group complete major renovation works on our property and were blown away with the quality. The attention to detail and overall finish were amazing.
Great communication, honest work, easy to work with, highly recommend to work with for any new build/renovations. If you are looking to get work done without worrying about shortcuts Strava Group is builder to use.
I highly recommend Strava Group to everyone great workmanship, reliable service, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.
I couldn't be happier with the work from Strava Group. From the beginning, Stav and the team was friendly, honest, and super easy to deal with.
We engaged Strava Group for a home extension and renovation. We are incredibly happy with the service and the results we achieved. From day one Stav and team where always willing to help with any issues we had and we loved that the main focus was as quality and longevity. Highly recommended
Had a great experience with Strava Group. The team was easy to deal with, super professional, and kept me in the loop the whole way through. They really listened to what I wanted and made the whole process feel smooth and stress-free.
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Where we build
Custom homes across Sydney.
Suburb by suburb, with local knowledge on the housing stock, the council and what your street realistically allows.
Inner West
The Hills District
Ryde, Parramatta & Carlingford
Hornsby Shire & Upper North
Inner West
Build your Summer Hill home once, and build it right.
Ready to talk about your block?
Tell us about your land or your knockdown rebuild and what you want to build. We respond within 24 to 48 business hours with honest feasibility and real numbers, no cost, no obligation.
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