Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 17, 2015 9:03 am Hi there, first home buyer here Just after people's opinions on a few housing groups. My partner and I spoke to Aussie Living yesterday, chose a house we liked and land. But I'm looking around to find the best company. What are your opinions on Aveling homes, Impression, or Wow! Homes? Have any of you built through any of these? Were you happy with them? Also, probably a very stupid question, but as I said, first home buyer so I know little to nothing about this.. But how does Keystart work? I know it depends on our combined income, which we are eligible for, but is it only subject to certain home groups? Or can I go Keystart regardless of which company I decide to go through? Any other information would be mighty helpful Thank you Re: First Home Byer 2Mar 17, 2015 11:02 am There are good things and bad things with key start as we looked into it when we first started. Good you only pay $50 a week while building and no fee for having a small deposit (we paid a $12k fee for only having a 5% deposit through our bank). Bad points are if you want to change to a normal bank later there is a leaving fee from key start, the interest rates are higher than a banks, by only paying $50 a week you still get charge the full interest rate so you mortgage ends up being more than you houe and land package and key start require you to have painting, blinds and flooring done through your builder (banks just need quotes for these items). So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27716 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16276 11 41642 |