About TAG Homes
TAG Homes is a boutique construction-led custom home builder based in Unanderra, servicing Wollongong, the Illawarra, and the NSW South Coast. TAG stands for Taylor And Grant, the two builders who founded the business in 2020. What started as a two-person operation now runs as a team of seven staff, one apprentice, and a network of around thirty-five trusted trade contractors.
Since our first handover, we have completed fourteen custom homes and duplexes across the region and delivered over twenty percent year-on-year growth. In 2024 we won the HIA NSW Region Start-up Business Award, and we were a finalist for the 2024 HIA NSW Region Emerging Builder award. TAG Homes operates under NSW Builder's Licence 369859C.
In 2026 TAG Homes won the Medium Density Projects, Dual Occupancy category at the Master Builders NSW Southern Regions Excellence in Building Awards. Our Towradgi dual occupancy then carried us to the state stage as a finalist in the 2026 Master Builders NSW Excellence in Housing Awards. For a young company, backing up our 2024 HIA NSW Region Start-up Business Award with recognition from Master Builders NSW means a lot. These awards are judged by industry peers on build quality, so they are the closest thing our trade has to an independent report card. We would rather show you the homes themselves though. Have a look through the portfolio, then call Grant on 0423 409 212 to talk about your block.
We are a construction-led builder with our drafting team, so you can come to us with finished plans or start from a blank page. Clients come to us with development application approved or complying development certificate approved plans, or with plans in progress alongside their own architect or draftsperson. We collaborate actively during the final design stages and coordinate the consultants a build needs, including structural engineers, hydraulic engineers, and the energy-rating and sustainability assessors your approval requires. Bring your own architect's plans and we quote the construction, or take our design and construct pathway and our drafting team handles the drawings too. Our job is to deliver your plans to the highest standard on a fixed-price contract.
We take on a deliberately limited number of builds each year so every client gets the full attention of our team from first phone call through to handover. Grant and Taylor are personally involved on every build. The same trades that delivered the last TAG home will deliver yours. That consistency is what holds build quality where it should be.
Credentials
TAG Homes Pty Ltd is run by its two directors, Grant Kerrigan and Taylor Melbin, who founded the company in late 2020 and are personally involved on every build. Here is what sits behind the name, with the public records you can check yourself.
NSW Builder's Licence 369859C. Every home we build is built under this licence, issued by NSW Fair Trading. You can check it yourself on the NSW Government licence register by searching the licence number 369859C: Check licence 369859C on the NSW Government licence register
Memberships. TAG Homes is a member of HIA and Master Builders NSW.
Track record. Fourteen homes completed since 2020, a five-star Google rating, and seven award results since 2023 listed in full on our Awards page.
Custom Homes
Every TAG custom home is delivered to plans designed specifically for your block, your lifestyle, and your budget. We work alongside local architects and draftspeople across the Illawarra and South Coast, bringing construction thinking into the design conversation so the brief stays buildable and the budget stays honest. From quote through to handover, you deal with the same team.
Duplex and Dual Occupancy
TAG builds creative duplexes and dual occupancy homes for clients looking to make the most of their land. Whether the goal is selling one side to fund the build, holding both for rental income, or housing extended family in two connected homes, we take the project from plans to handover, working from your architect's plans or designing the duplex with our drafting team. Duplex work suits the Illawarra well, and a number of our completed projects have set valuation or sales records for their suburb. The Oak Flats duplex, a finalist in the 2024 HIA NSW Region Townhouse and Villa of the Year awards, is one of the builds that shaped how we approach knockdown-rebuilds across the Illawarra.
Knockdown Rebuilds
A knockdown rebuild often delivers better value than renovating an ageing home, particularly when the existing structure has hidden issues or when the layout cannot be reworked into what the family needs now. TAG manages the full construction process from demolition through to handover, with fixed-price contracts and clear transparency on every provisional sum and inclusion. If you are weighing up a renovation against a knockdown rebuild, give Grant a call and we will walk through the numbers honestly.
Joint Venture Projects
Joint ventures are a structured collaboration for landowners who want a new home on their block but would prefer not to fund the full construction cost. The landowner contributes the block, TAG contributes construction expertise and finance, and the completed development is shared between both parties according to the agreement set at the outset. For the right block this can mean ending up with a brand-new home on land you already own at significantly reduced net cost. Every joint venture is discussed in detail, modelled transparently, and legally documented before any commitment is made.
To talk through a joint venture on your block, call Grant on 0423 409 212.
