Bought a block of land in Croydon North, Vic. The block is battleaxe with size 2525m. It cost me $320k.. which is not expensive for a block that is quite close to everything including railway. ::hyst:: The real cost will come when start building thou, since the block is on a nice slope where no volu...

My advice to you is that make sure you have more than enough for your budget in first place, ie:a comfortable zone of 5%~10% for the price you going to pay for the house + land as you can always assume something will pop up here and there where you will need the extra money for it. And you better th...

It may seems to be a small change, but then it is already 3-4weeks after contract. If they are quick on things, they might have the plans ready.So adding things like bathroom niches would not be something as easy as it seems.

There are a lot of slope builders in your area. I have been doing some research on slope builders. It all comes back to budget when building on slope block. What's your budget and size of house you have in mind?

I guess the noise and hard to construct next to apartments. Privacy is probably one of the issue with this block too. Unless the block can be developed to something like next door for investment, I would say no to live on a block surrounded by apartments. ::surprise::

Good idea! Thou I'm still struggling with the design of the house currently. At least I got the land and limited the type of house I can build. Starting the real building part is still miles away.

I was in a real rush to get things settle and end up went through a broker which is very good. He find me a good deal with Homeside and end up only used 4 days to get pre-approval + 14 days for the settlement. I would definitely go thru them again next time for my construction loan.

I have a block in Bacchus Marsh that has a 3m rise over 30m - the slope doesn't look as bad as it is. We are building on stilts so the front of the house will be near ground level and the rear will be close to 3m above the ground. We're still waiting for plans to be finalised so aren't certain of s...

I would like to know if others have similar kind of block and would like to share some experience as to builders available for this kind of block. ::hyst:: I have a 600m2 block in Melbourne. 6m fall throughout towards the street. 3.5m fall within the building envelope. I approached many of the big ...

Yes but many of them refer to sloping block buildng specialists. Several of those threads do have posts from people why have massive amounts of fall across their blocks - try digging a little deeper (it shouldn't take you long). This thread has posts from a few people who have massive amounts of fa...

Just type in "sloping block" into the search box in the top left hand corner of the page and you find a multitude of threads discussing building on sloping blocks. :) Thanks. May be I should have explained a bit more. I have done quite a bit of research on this topic actually and have rea...

I have recently purchased a block of land in Melbourne with has a huge slope across the whole block. I presume the slope across the building envelope will end up with 4m+ fall at least. I would like to know if others have similar kind of block and would like to share some experience as to builders a...