Start a Franchise

Join a family, build a business and grow your community. Hotondo Homes has spent 30 years giving local builders the ability to be part of a Top 20 Building Company. With all the support you need to be successful in your local area, Hotondo Homes has made significant investment and has ensured over the years that it continues to deliver enhancements and successes in the areas of design development, reporting, sales, marketing, training, software and automation, building and supplier agreements, IT development, financial assistance and business planning. We want the best for our franchisees, every decision we make is with their success in mind. Their success is our success… so making our franchisees successful and profitable is our goal.

About Us

Why join the Hotondo Homes family?

You need to see to believe the support that our network of franchisees receives. For the past 25 years, we have been delivering unrivalled support and success in the areas of marketing, sales, building, design and finance. You may be in business for yourself, but you will never be by yourself with a team of more than 30 Support Office staff available to help you every step of the way.

The Five Pillars of Hotondo Homes

Setting up your own website and social media platforms can be a costly and time consuming exercise, but our marketing team will look after that for you. Our national marketing program was designed to ensure your business receives maximum exposure. With a long-term, data driven marketing strategy in place, our team will take care of an array of functions including but not limited to:

National media coverage and advertisements on television, radio and digital
A strong and significant social media presence
An interactive and ever-evolving website
An easy-to-use email marketing portal to communicate with your database
Professionally printed collateral
Complete campaign and promotion packages

We are proud to provide each of our franchisees with their own dedicated Business Development Manager (BDM). They will act as a pivotal point of contact for each team member and provide one-on-one support in the areas of:

Competitive analysis
Display home opportunities
Recruitment of new staff
Business systems and processes
Performance reviews and action plans
Regular visits to review activities, opportunities and direction
Sales process coaching and training
Developer relationships and introductions

We are proud to have more than 90 flexible floor plans and a large variety of facades for your clients to choose from. The benefit of offering such a wide array of standard home designs lies in its appeal, as well as the ease and speed of building. Our design team can deliver CAD files to you at any given time. We are also proud to offer our network:

Assistance in selecting a block and floor plan for your display home
Multiple facades for our designs
Working drawings for all our designs
Home design marketing brochures
Designs with multiple sizes and variations to provide diversity
Ongoing updating of plans to comply with National Construction Code (NCC) requirements

You will have access to nationally recognised business partners. The relationships with our suppliers will save you time in quoting and mean you can be confident in estimating because you have access to accurate pricing. Our builders also have access to:

Price guides
Benchmarking
Workflow pre-site
Construction schedules

With access to structured financial integration systems, you will receive support with:

Profitability analysis by job
Job Margin benchmarking
Productivity indicators ($ per day)
Profitability forecasting by job
Job Cost analysis

Join today!

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The franchise more builders trust

Our builders are our greatest asset and our greatest advocates. They understand that being a Hotondo Homes franchise is about much more than administrative support – it’s about being able to tap into a community of knowledgeable franchise builders. We encourage you to view our builders’ testimonials in order to understand the breadth of support offered to our franchisees – everything from assistance with marketing to ongoing training and development, design support and regular assessments that keep your business in top condition.

Caroline & Trent Allen Hotondo Homes Inverloch & Leongatha Joined 1998

Focusing on succession planning, growing the business, the value of training, personal development, and more family time.

Adam Sturt Hotondo Southcoast, Nowra Joined 2013

Focusing on client relationships, how you are part of a bigger team and how to manage a business.

Darren & Vesna Pollock Darvale Homes, Melton Joined 2001

Focusing on buying power, value of home design support, processes and systems, support office staff, marketing assistance and the value of a growing brand.