Mal
We recently finished building our house in Riverhead. Our builder was Golden Construction and I would not hesitate to use them again or recommend them to friends and fmily. However, I am not sure f they would build in Central Auckland as most of their sites are in Rodney. Out of curiosity, where are you building?
Our contract did not have a sunset clause or a penalty clause. Though a builder would give a “tenative completion date”, I don’t think they would commit to a date on contract as there are so many variables such as weather, etc. But we had the last 5% payable on receiving CCC, which we did just last week. This should be standard I think.
Good luck in your hunt for a good builder, which I think is the key to a good, stress free build. Let me know if you want my builders contact and you can ask them if they can help.