Aurora Estate - Alex Avenue - Schofields

RJR · Jun 04, 2015 1:48 pm

Hi Frank - sorry, we're not banking with NAB. But hope the issue is resolved soon!

Venkat · Jun 04, 2015 3:37 pm

Hi all,

we are in lot 106 and our land has settled today.
I spoke to Jacob last week and he said most of the council approvals have come through and would be sending us copy of approved DA this week.

raising whirlwinds · Jun 04, 2015 3:52 pm

Congratulations Venkat! That's great news.

So good to hear about the council approvals too.
Looks like we're finally getting somewhere.

By the way.... I drove through the estate yesterday. The fence is falling down in places and its conveniently open across the second road. I think it may have had a little help from someone, but if anyone wants to have a look, this weekend is probably a good time.
Donna

cyron5761 · Jun 04, 2015 4:47 pm

Thanks Donna and RJR for your quick response.

Settlement is still booked for Tuesday at 3pm, but hasn't been confirmed by NAB yet.
If I would have known that they are such trouble makers, then I would have gone with another lender.
Well, we will see how it goes tomorrow. Perhaps the worst case is that we need to request an extension of time for settlement, although, that is the last thing I wanna do.

It is great to see that the first people already settled on the land, which confirms that there is nothing wrong with the developer.

Frank

cyron5761 · Jun 05, 2015 11:42 pm

Hello folks,

Well, our bank has confirmed today that they are able to do an exception for the land contract and they are happy to provide the funds so we can settle on Tuesday. Finally...

However, the next big issue appears to be with the progress payment schedule. MAB says that Rawson's schedule is not according to HIA variation instructions agreement and therefore need to be adjusted. Reason wasn't very happy with this request and stated that they ate not going to alter the standard schedule.

That appears another senseless discussion / negotiation. Will let you know how we go...

Frank

building_at_scofy · Jun 06, 2015 8:13 am

Hi Frank
We had the same issue about progress payments with cba, but Rawson did alter them as they were too top heavy. Speak to Jacob, but they didn't alter them exactly as what the banks normally expect however it was accepted by cba.
Mridu

RJR · Jun 06, 2015 8:21 am

That's great news Venkat. Thanks for sharing.

And thanks for the tip Donna. We might check it out this weekend.

We settled yesterday. I did not hear from my solicitor or the bank. But I checked our bank account this morning and the debt is there, so I assume everything went ok.

Hope all goes well next week for everyone!

wans · Jun 06, 2015 2:34 pm

Hello all

Good to finally have some good news! It's been so long, we bought the first release.

Regards
Stephen

aalad · Jun 08, 2015 8:30 am

Dealing with ANZ has been pleasant experience so far.

Looking forward for the land settlement on Tuesday at 3pm.

Construction loan setup in progress.

Also received construction certificate from council.

I wonder what is the next step?
Any ideas?

raising whirlwinds · Jun 11, 2015 12:33 pm

Our settlement went through without any issues on Tuesday afternoon and we have now received our construction certificate too. Hooray! How did everyone else go?

Also, I also had an interesting conversation with a work colleague this morning. We work in the construction industry - though not in residential, however he felt that because Rawson have control of the whole estate and thus the whole estate is a construction site that for Work, Health, Safety reasons the fences may not go down until stage 1 is completed. He said he has even seem some that are so tightly padlocked its impossible to even squeeze through the fence at all. Hopefully this is not the case, but I had been wondering whether it would happen that way..... Time will tell I guess.

Donna

building_at_scofy · Jun 11, 2015 2:28 pm

Hi Donna,

We also had our settlement on Tuesday afternoon and council approvals yesterday. Really excited for the construction to begin now.

But I have asked Lynn and she mentioned construction will begin in July/August. I don't understand why so late?

Mridu.

aalad · Jun 11, 2015 5:26 pm

All went well for the land settlement.

Construction loan in last stage. Bank has asked for a letter to confirm that new lot number is same property with old lot number.

The request is with our solicitors.

-Anushka

Chalasani · Jun 12, 2015 12:41 pm

Hi Everyone,

I am glad I found this Forum, thanks to Mridu

So excited to see you all here .
We bought ours in Stage 2 lot 71(new Lot 223 galaxy St). we had ours settled this week and have also got DA approvals.

-SC

cyron5761 · Jun 12, 2015 2:21 pm

Hi guys,

Our Settlement was successful this Tuesday and received DA today as well.

Very good. Now we just need to get our unconditional approval for our construction loan and sort out the progress payment issue with Bank and Rawson.

Hi SC,
We are lot 73, we are "almost" neighbours.

Frank

raising whirlwinds · Jun 12, 2015 2:33 pm

Hi All,

Good news Mridu, Anishka and Frank, congratulations!

Welcome SC, lovely to have you join us. We will be in Eclipse St.

A bit of an update on the fences. They are still up though you can get through at the moment. I checked out another Rawson site on my way home from work yesterday and they had 1 fence up around about 15 houses they are building together. There was a street running down the middle but you definitely couldn't get into the street, so not sure what will happen with our much bigger estate.

Donna

raising whirlwinds · Jun 12, 2015 2:34 pm

Hi All,

Good news Mridu, Anushka and Frank, congratulations!

Welcome SC, lovely to have you join us. We will be in Eclipse St.

A bit of an update on the fences. They are still up though you can get through at the moment. I checked out another Rawson site on my way home from work yesterday and they had 1 fence up around about 15 houses they are building together. There was a street running down the middle but you definitely couldn't get into the street, so not sure what will happen with our much bigger estate.

Donna

First-timers · Jun 14, 2015 9:27 pm

Hi everyone,

We just started looking for a new home a couple of weeks ago and stumbled across Aurora estate, we just happened to visit the site this past weekend whilst the gate was down and liked what we saw. As such we have just put our deposit down on one of the last lots (one of the corner blocks) this Saturday and we super excited !!! - Our only concerns with the site was potential flooding so it was good to see your post Donna that all held up well in the last lot of storms and your banks have approved.

Just a couple of quick questions - is there any single stories on the estate or are all the homes double?
Does anyone know what is planned for the otherside of daylight street? are those houses that are currently there going to remain or is it also going to be built out?

Hope everyone's build goes smoothly and looking forward to running into you all on the street!

raising whirlwinds · Jun 14, 2015 10:36 pm

Hi First-Timers,

Welcome to the forum and congratulations!

We are actually in a single, there are a few scattered around the estate but most of the houses are double storey.

I can't remember which street is daylight (the maps we have all show street one, street two etc!) but if it's the long street facing the houses that have fences you can see through into backyards I don't think there are plans for them to be demolished, the street that they front is a well established area. Maybe a new fence will be put up by Rawson? The green colourbond fence that runs around the houses that back onto Apollo St is brand new, only put up recently, so I'm assuming by Rawson.

We have a copy somewhere of a plan for the whole of the Alex Ave precinct, I think it came from Rawson from memory but might have been from the land sales centre or another builder. If you don't have one it would be good to ask around and see if you can get one to get a feel for the development of the area. If I could figure out had to add photos to the forum I could post a picture of it but I haven't worked out how to do that.

Is your lot registered or do you still have to wait for that?

Donna

aalad · Jun 15, 2015 6:17 am

Welcome SC and First-timers.

This is awesome.We already have our online community before even we move in.

Donna,thanks for updates on the fences.

Have a great week ahead.

Cheers
Anushka

Chalasani · Jun 15, 2015 12:09 pm

Hi
Thankyou all for your warm Welcome, Very trilled to find you all here

so glad to see you all reaching out to each other , I am excited to be part of this community and look forward to seeing you all in the neighbourhood.

Frank good to know you are my neighbour, always wondered who bought 73 as my enquiry started with that lot

- sneha