Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 26, 2016 11:26 pm Hi there! What a great forum! My partner and I are building our first home in Catalina with HomegroupWa! We are very early on in the process as we are having our finance finalised this week. Building contracts have been signed so we are just playing the first of the waiting games now! Looking forward to posting the progress and continuing to follow other builds! Lauren xx Re: 1st home - hgwa catalina estate 3Jan 27, 2016 1:33 am Will be great to hear from you!!! Ultimate Homes PERTH '13 Dec Council App '14 Jun Slab '15 Jun Lockup Dec PCI '16 Jan Feb PCI 9 wks ago - still NOT in viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80759 Re: 1st home - hgwa catalina estate 6Jan 28, 2016 11:39 am Thanks! Very excited to get building! Our block is what they call a 'squatter" block. It was all that was available and wothin our price range in catalina! My partner has his heart set on building in corimbia in landsdale but that land was so overpriced and just not worth it. Alkimos was wa too far for the both of us so we comprised on catalina! Love the area though! We first had meeting with homebuyers but decided to look elsewhere when our sales rep just gave us a design that would fit on our block, not aith any of our wants and needs. We met our hgwa sales rep and explained our block and asked what he had. Literaly pulled our his 'little black book' and showed us his own design as hgwa doesnt have designs to cater for these blocks. At first look, it had 3/4 of what we wanted with just a few changes we wanted to make. Within 3 weeks we have our building contracts ready to go so now juat waiting for our finance. Small hiccup with the contracts and total misunderstanding between everyone involved with what we needed in the beginning, however it was a blessing in disguise as our rep was able to cost our house at a particular design, then credit back to us the things our house didnt have. Meaning, every little detail i wanted in the house i get yay! It is small compared to a lot of other plans i have seen on here but for being our first home, we wanted to stick to the basics and make the most of all the areas! How long between signing building contracts and prestart meeting did people experience? Will try to upload photos of our plans. Re: 1st home - hgwa catalina estate 12Apr 14, 2016 7:52 pm spuddles76 Where did the house design go?? I'd like to see the floor plan too! What does a squatters block mean? Still new to this Hi there, We’ve recently had plans approved to add a 1st storey addition to our existing house for a growing family in Sydney. With the current cost of building… 0 4296 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 16275 |