Liquidators reveal Hampton Home Builders’ debt after court-ordered closure

The nature of the debt owed to creditors by a Qld building company ordered into liquidation by the Federal Court has been revealed in new documents lodged with ASIC by administrators.

Gympie's Hampton Home Builders (directors Karen Robinson and John David pictured), owed dozens of employees hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid superannuation at the time of its court-ordered winding up, liquidation documents reveal.

Embattled Gympie construction company Hampton Home Builders owed dozens of employees hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid superannuation at the time of its court-ordered winding up, liquidation documents reveal.

Initial documents lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission by KordaMentha administrator David Johnstone show the company was carrying a debt of $302,560.31 at the time of its liquidation.

It lists 57 employees, including company director Karen Bazzan, as the creditors for this debt.

Amounts owed ranged from $38,945.76 to Ms Bazzan, right down to $150.48.

Of the 57 employees, 10 were owed more than $10,000.

Records show the company had $7261.04 in assets at the time it was wound up by the federal court, following an application from the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation in May 2024.

It was wound up following a hearing on July 17.

Gympie's Hampton Home Builders (directors Karen Robinson and John David pictured), a company with $19 million of work on its books since opening six years ago, is at the centre of a federal court fight with the Australian Taxation Office which is seeking to have the company wound up and placed into the hands of liquidators.

Ms Bazzan declined to comment on the record about the liquidation report.

Mr Johnstone and KordaMentha have been contacted for comment.

The company’s documents say it is owed $54,016.90 awarded to it by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal following a domestic building dispute with Southside couple David and Samantha Fensham-Elms.

Mr Fensham-Elms said on Friday he had applied to reopen the ruling, and requested a stay on the payment, as part of ongoing matters between himself and Hampton Home builders.

The QCAT judgement, attached with the documents lodged with ASIC, was handed down in March 2024 by member Marcus Katter.

ASIC and the Australian Taxation Office are listed as creditors too, although no specific amount is listed as owed to the ATO.

ASIC is owed $697.

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Liquidation documents show 57 employees were owed more than $300,000 in superannuation at the time it was wound up by the federal court, following an application from the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation.

Hampton Home Builders was started in October 2018 by Ms Bazzan, who is listed under her maiden name of Robinson on ASIC documents alongside fellow director John David.

The company’s licence was cancelled by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission in September 2023 after it was unable to meet its financial requirements.

QBCC online licence records show Hampton Home Builders worked on 84 jobs between 2018 and 2023, worth a combined total of more than $19.4 million.

In the 2023-2024 financial year, the QBCC approved six claims worth a total of $777,129.56 under the statutory insurance scheme, the licence records show.

The QBCC has issued five directions to rectify work in 2024.

Eight claims totalling more than $929,000 have been approved under the statutory insurance scheme, the records show.

The company has received four infringement notices, including two $3096 penalties in 2024 for failing to comply with a direction to rectify or remedy a building work that is defective or incomplete.

In July 2024 it was handed a total of 18 demerit points for these failures, and a failure to pay an appropriate insurance premium as a licenced contractor.

Licensees who accumulate 30 demerit points across a three-year period face an industry ban of three years.

Originally published as Liquidators reveal Hampton Home Builders’ debt after court-ordered closure