-Finding a block

After walking through our first set of display homes, we were stunned. They were all so beautifully done and spacious. After renovating, the thought of being able to choose everything the way that we wanted and to start with a blank canvas, we decided that building was for us!

Now we just had to find some land. I thought this would be the easy part, hmm. With the large first home builders grant, everything had been snapped up. We started looking at one part of town that was just too hilly. Our site costs would have been huge. We then started looking at the Valley Estate, which is a new estate but the only blocks available backed on to the railway which we didn't want. We went for a drive up there one night and noticed that one of the blocks didn't have a Sold sticker on it. We called the real estate who said that there was a hold on it that finished tomorrow. If they didn't get the deposit tomorrow, then it would be back on the market. We crossed our fingers all night, called them the next day, paid a deposit and there you go!

The block is 758m2 with an 18m front and looks onto a reserve which is nice as there will never be anything built there. At this time it was just dirt, and is being worked on at the moment. Hopefully the contruction will be finished by the end of Feb and settlement is set for April. Whoo hoo!!

Our dirt: