Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Site Cost Craigieburn VIC Highlands Estate The Bridges 3Jan 15, 2021 10:29 pm Ozshaz Abhi33424 Hi Everyone, Can you please suggest what could be the worst case scenario for the site cost, if I go with variable. As of now henley provided me a fixed site cost of A$31K with the distance of 7.5m to the garage from the footpath. I believe this is too much. We are reducing the house by 1.55m and also will be left with only 3m of space for the backyard. Boutique homes and GJ garden have provided me with the site cost of A$26K approximately with footpath to garage distance of 5.5m. We liked the henley house design and have decided to go with it. But I am not sure weather I should go with fixed site cost and compromise house size and land size or go with variable. I have added the image of the lot as well. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Seems like you have an easement at the back of the land ? How much is it ? Normally I have seen 2/3m easement and if you are left with only 3m backyard then I think you would be restricted with what you can do with backyard. The easement is 2m In Qld it is a requirement that a builder must have a cost breakdown, for building a home to the same specification, with the same inclusions and the same finish. So ask… 1 1768 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37085 Thanks for the insight! My plot is a new development so hopefully I won't have too much problem during build as everyone should be roughly building together. I also… 2 3353 |