First steps for a newbie

Brushy93 · Feb 02, 2020 1:22 pm

Hi everybody, new to this forum so still finding my feet.

My partner and I have made the decision we would like to build our forever family home. We are currently living in Rochedale South Brisbane. We own the house we are in now, we brought as a renovation project, but we have just welcomed a baby boy to the family and as the family grows we will need a bigger family home to settle.

We have been looking at the options of house and land packages, buying land with a house on already and demolishing and starting again.
But we are pretty rookie in terms of where to start and what to do, so I’m just looking for some Advice.

Many thanks

alymei · Feb 02, 2020 1:29 pm

We've built a couple of times. Each time found land first, pd the deposit, then found a house that worked on the land. We then got finance for house and land at the same time.

You dont need to go thru a developer or builder to do house and land.

Go check out some display villages and land - and have fun!

luxbuild · Feb 02, 2020 7:46 pm

If the house you are in is ok, I would wait.. for two reasons..

1) since you've just had a baby, the time you would like to spend choosing a builder/design/internal selections/DAs then demolition/moving house etc will probably be spent with the baby or sleeping.

2) I think its best to have young kids in a house you aren't too precious about, if they draw on the wall or stain the carpet, it's less of a problem if you are going to demolish later.

So my suggestion is wait, save up some money if possible, take your time looking at display homes etc.