Hey Guys,

Anyone seen this:
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-u ... -110686173

Looks like Moorebank gets a new unit block just up the road from us.
Whilst not in Georges Fair, this will impact heavily on the area.

That's the units that are going a couple of doors up from the estate entrance (next to the vacant block beside the sales office)
They went through council etc about 7-8months ago I think.

Got word from the builder today, looking at the end of June for our PCI

Great news

These rains never stops

Wish it would go away.. hard to peak in the windows when the entire yard is a slush pit!

Blue sky shining over George's fair ATM.

How many weeks to go , when you reach lock-up stage ?

How long is a piece of string? Depends on your house and your builder. Are you getting tiles, carpet and/or other additional extras which all take time?

Infocus is right. Could be 2-3 months or longer. Depends on the fitout level of your home, how much you are getting the builder to do versus how much you are doing afterwards.

I see.
our build are pretty straight forward, not much extra. ground floor no tiles/carpet, only upstair carpet.
2 bathrooms fully tiles. thats all.
I did rang SS on wednesday, he told me after lock-up, it will be about 8-9weeks to go. Really wish can move in on September

We had lock up on the Friday before the long weekend.. if it's still 2-3 months away, then we are going to be getting very close to our contracted completion date.

Anyone recently bought a block recently that registers roughly in October november

Hi Wayne, my wife and I just purchased in speare street

Hi Wayne,

Hubby and I have bought in Blamire Close. Looking for some neighbours in the street. What street are you on?

We bought in maddecks ave and r prob building with wisdom. Anyone got some advice or experiences, good or bad. I'm a bit worried about bore and land reports coming back more expensive. Does wisdom have any negotiating room with anything

We are building with Wisd0m too. So far we have found them pretty good. If you haven't spoken to George at Minto yet, he is great. Very knowledgeable about GF. We had our tender presentation a few weeks ago. We did find out that we had to upgrade our slab to a H2 slab which cost an extra couple of thousand cause of the report for their expected ground conditions, which is subject to their borehole report. I guess we wont know on the bore and land reports until it registers on they can actually get on it.

Yeah we did deal with George, he was great and has helped alot. We r building the new Columbus with a few alterations and r really happy with the end result exept for the tiny alfresco but it's to expensive to make it bigger so we will just put a pergola on it when we can afford it. Haven't signed the tender yet but will prob do it tomorrow. They were Definately the cheapest for what we wanted

Hi everyone,

It's been months that my husband and I have been reading this forum and we find it very helpful.

We exchanged our contract last May 2012 on Lot 4369 on Speare St. We will be building with WH Columbus 24 (modified) and just accepted the tender today. WH is flexible in terms of modifying the plan (e.g. WIP to make a mini* butler’s pantry, lounge converted to a home theatre – thus increasing the overall size of the house) but of course it costs us more but we are really happy with the outcome and the most important thing is this falls within our budget.

We are a bit excited now (yes! a bit as we are not planning to sign the contract yet). We will be signing it after 1st of Oct 2012 to get the $15K FHOG.

I have questions though, we have some site costs that were included in the tender, are these normal? Our land as I can say is flat (around 400mm cut/fill). Any inputs will be appreciated. Thank you.
- Additional excavation including import/export fill allowance $2103
- Provide approx 340mm stepdown to garage (ceiling increase and tiled brick to garage internal access) $2690
- Provide transitional deepened edge beams to side of dwelling including zero lot line $3,150

Cheers!

Hi Isabell3

We also purchased on Speare street just down the road on the opposite side lot 4338, We have similar quotation through EB with drop edge beams, wet walls and cut and fill, Our garage needed to be dropped 500mm, The quote wasn't to bad for site costs but i can't remember of the top of my head what they were, i am wondering if this street will be on a slope heading towards brick makers. I think the builders are not sure and put these quotes in place just in case to cover themselves.

Is your tender a fixed price tender?