Whole house calculator

What a whole-house fit-out costs landed, against the showroom. The calculator is being built; here is the model it runs on, with October 2026 rates (RBA exchange rate of 16 October 2026).

Get a landed price How it works

Working out the landed price.

A $60,000 factory order landed in Brisbane at October 2026 rates, middle estimate. Every line to your site is counted, including the inspection and what you pay Elje.

What we priced

A four-bedroom house: kitchen, laundry, wardrobes, vanities, stone, tiles, tapware and sanitary ware, internal doors and lighting, from three or four factories consolidated in Foshan.

Landed in Brisbane, line by line

Estimate. Shipped on its own unless it is the whole house.

Line	Low	Middle	High
Factory price, paid by you to the factory	$60,000	$60,000	$60,000
Factory to port, export clearance and origin handling	$288	$432	$576
Sea freight, own 20 ft container	$3,174	$3,526	$3,879
Marine insurance, all risks, on CIF plus 10 percent	$209	$352	$567
Duty, with a ChAFTA certificate of origin	$0	$0	$0
Terminal handling, terminal access charge, truck booking and empty return	$654	$841	$1,028
Biosecurity (DAFF) import declaration charge	$71	$71	$71
Customs broker and the ABF import processing charge	$302	$427	$552
Delivery from the port to your site	$300	$750	$1,200
Pre-shipment inspection, 4 factories, at cost	$1,382	$1,583	$1,785
GST, at the border and on Australian charges	$6,638	$6,798	$6,966
Elje Project Plan	$990	$990	$990
Elje Assured, 2 percent of the order, minimum $600	$1,200	$1,200	$1,200
Landed to your site, inc GST	$75,209	$76,971	$78,814

By city, middle and range

The same goods from local suppliers come to roughly $75,000 to $175,000, supply only.

City	Landed	Range
Brisbane	about $76,971	$75,209 to $78,814
Gold Coast	about $78,786	$77,079 to $80,574
Sunshine Coast	about $78,786	$77,079 to $80,574
Sydney	about $76,989	$75,255 to $78,803
Melbourne	about $77,003	$75,274 to $78,813
Canberra	about $79,381	$77,070 to $81,773
Adelaide	about $76,749	$74,992 to $78,586
Perth	about $76,860	$75,148 to $78,652

What the calculator will ask

Bedrooms and bathrooms, the finish level, which categories you include, and whether it fits a 20 ft or needs a 40 ft container.

Questions

Why is the range so wide?

Because published shared-container rates from South China vary about fourfold this month, and factory prices vary with the finish. The range uses the low and the high of every input at once. Your own plans narrow it to firm quotes.

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