Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 81Nov 06, 2013 9:37 pm Hello everyone. I have been following your posts for a while and we finally placed a deposit on our block last weekend. We are in 3c on Bluestone Dr so we are still outside the dreaded fence and a few months of registration but we have the ball rolling now. thanks for all the tips and advice so far Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 83Nov 07, 2013 3:32 pm Thank you we are very excited. After a year of looking I think we will be going with Wisdom. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 84Nov 07, 2013 7:38 pm Hi twhjc Good luck with Wisdom. They started building my friend's place after a year. :s However, some staff members have been replaced and things seemed to move much more quickly after that! They have some very nice homes to choose from though. Hurry up land!! Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 85Nov 08, 2013 10:00 pm Hello everyone. Have just joined tonight and have been reading your blog for a while. It is very exciting times. We have also bought in Mulgoa Rise in 3D on Darug Ave. We received our letter from the solicitor informing us that the developer has submitted the documents for land registration. We are still in the planning stage with the house. Recently the company submitted our plans to developer for approval. They were rejected because we had more than 60% brick on the frontage. The building company knew this and we had mentioned the requirement to them but they missed it when developing the plans. Anyway my point is make sure your building company meets this requirement for the developer. They are serious about the conditions. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 86Nov 08, 2013 10:25 pm Thanks Sunrise1. We are finalising all of ours ready to submit to the developer. I spoke to Jeff today and he said 3D is still around 2 weeks out from being registered. Stupid council was STILL holding things up. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 88Nov 09, 2013 7:02 am Welcome Sunrise!!! Who are you building with?? Another 2 weeks! Fingers crossed its quicker than that. We have signed our contracts and everything with Masterton and now they are waiting for the land to be registered. I was hoping for this week. Oh well... They seem to be inconsistent with how strict they are with the facades. Our initial idea got knocked back so we rejigged it and added some stack stone which was costly but then looking at some if the houses popping up I think that got through and what I wanted didn't?!?! Nothing we can really do about it though. I am happy with what we have decided on. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 89Nov 09, 2013 7:52 am Question: did anyone have trouble with their bank undervaluing their land? Ours came in $30k short as the valuer said they could only use comparable sales that have settled. The sales they used were from stages 1 and 2 and we are in 3c. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 90Nov 09, 2013 8:18 am We didn't have any problems with the land value. I am hoping our on completion value will be in line with the contract as I have heard of a number of valuers saying that the houses are over capitalised and putting a lower value in them. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 91Nov 09, 2013 10:43 am Kjhosko. We are building an Eden Brae and already had rendering around the verandah portion of the house. But now we have had to render the side over the garage due to developer. We had picked blue steel flash as our brick so a little annoyed we had to vary. Lucky We have a fixed price contract wit EB and as they didn't note it on the contract we don't have to pay. Although I am sure we are somewhere else. We noticed that some builds gave got away without the cascade compliance too. A few houses down in Ewan James. I think the houses may have already been approved by developer so if you went with their house as it was at sale you had already complied with the requirements. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 92Nov 09, 2013 11:20 pm Been thinking about the overcapitilising in. Isn't it ridiculous how adding a few extra powerpoints, changing a few doors and the pantry or whatever adds a few $$ but doesn't add to the value. so annoying! Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 93Nov 10, 2013 9:55 am twhjc2014 Question: did anyone have trouble with their bank undervaluing their land? Ours came in $30k short as the valuer said they could only use comparable sales that have settled. The sales they used were from stages 1 and 2 and we are in 3c. Yes we had the same problem. Our bank valued it $29K under the sale price. We saw the report and they compared our block to some gnarly one that is next to the M4 barrier. So we argued, got a valuation from another bank and the same thing happened. They were comparing blocks to Caddens and Jordan Springs. Not particularly happy with the valuation processes. What size block is yours? I'm wondering if this is a trend with certain block sizes? Or maybe just certain valuers - nevertheless - I would prefer MR to other new estates in the area. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 94Nov 10, 2013 10:48 am My block is 600m. The valuer didn't use comparable sales from Caddens or JS (Jeff said they might) but they did use comparable sales from stages 1 & 2. If only I could get my block for those prices! I'm not really too concerned at this stage because hopefully by the time we go to get the 'on completion' valuation a few more stages will be registered and settled....fingers crossed. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 95Nov 10, 2013 1:34 pm twhjc2014 My block is 600m. The valuer didn't use comparable sales from Caddens or JS (Jeff said they might) but they did use comparable sales from stages 1 & 2. If only I could get my block for those prices! I'm not really too concerned at this stage because hopefully by the time we go to get the 'on completion' valuation a few more stages will be registered and settled....fingers crossed. Mine is 600 as well... Might be something to do with the size? Not sure. Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 96Nov 11, 2013 2:08 pm Hi all! I have just joined but have been reading blogs on here for a while. We are building on Ewan James, brick stage complete. Exciting times ahead for everyone (and hopefully not too stressful) I think the most stressful part for us is dealing with the bank...Grrr! We are building with White Design & Construction and i would highly recommend. They are a smaller builder but the inclusions are great (6x6 porcelain floor tiles, floor to ceiling bathroom tiles, polyurathene kitchen, feature cornice, large entry door, caesar stone bench tops in all areas, feature internal doors, 2.7m ceilings... just to name a few) and we were able to design our own plans at no extra cost. We originally signed up with McDonald Jones and although the sales guy (Brett) was super helpful our site costs blew out (after we signed up) and the upgrades were super expensive. Our friends were building with White Design so we forfeited our deposit and switched...So far so good! The staff are very helpful and are great with responding to emails (anytime of the day). The only thing i would say is to get an architect to do up your plans...Our draftsman (working with the builder) was a bit hopeless...We got the plans right eventually but it took a while and he didn't have a very good eye for detail. I guess there are pros and cons with all builders but with the smaller builders (well ours anyway) they are very flexible and allow changes throughout the build. I guess the cons are they aren't as organised with colour selections (lucky we knew people building with them so they guided us through), but in saying that we got to pick from a huge selection and could buy our own if the selection wasn't available (for example we didn't like any of their shower heads and we also purchased our own 3 way filter kitchen tap for them to install and they credit back). Looking forward to seeing the next stage of Mulgoa Rise build up! Dee Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 97Nov 11, 2013 2:11 pm I forgot to add that i noticed a few of you mentioned about the cost of land being more expensive than in the first sections...That could also be because of the site costs factored in...Not sure how flat the new section is compared to Ewan James? When we purchased our block we thought we had a bargain then realised that our garage had to be lowered because of the council driveway gradient rules and even though the block had been benched it still required a lot of cut and fill (all adding to our site costs...Which in turn brought the sale price down) Re: Anyone building in Mulgoa Rise? 100Nov 16, 2013 3:57 pm We paid our initial deposit with Wisdom this week and our now turning our attention to pool and landscaping quotes. Happy to share when we get them back. Like a few other people on here we are looking at 6x3 size Wish you all the best. Once you signed the contract, they will find millions excuses to charge you. And have seen their sites unfinished for a long time. 4 24712 As title suggests, looking at using the interlocking Pentablock stacked stone products to replace failing timber retaining… 0 17784 I am building in claymore NSW and this is shown in the building envelope plan. … 0 9961 |