Browse Forums Building A New House Re: M&K - Lauren Steadman Homes in Amberton Estate, Eglinton 14May 11, 2016 7:37 pm Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: M&K - Lauren Steadman Homes in Amberton Estate, Eglinton 15May 12, 2016 12:52 am ZoePerth Must be a new company or is it an offshoot of another? New offshoot of the Steadman Building Group (Signature Custom Homes), they're a boutique builder still, not a large volume builder like Dales/HomeGroupWA etc. AFAIK they only started building homes under this brand late last year, so their first homes are being handed over now. Wellard2ndTimers What's making you move North? Truthfully, my wife! She wants to be closer to the beach, and not any further south than we are now, so we started looking north instead. Re: M&K - Lauren Steadman Homes in Amberton Estate, Eglinton 16May 17, 2016 5:10 pm Got a call from the builder today... He gave me a verbal indication of the price over the phone with the changes I requested. They're still $10k more expensive than DAH for a similar level of inclusions, but I suppose it isn't all about price... Or thats what I keep telling myself :/ All good, we'll get a formal quote to sign off on next week and give them some cash to lock it all in and start the admin process. We put our current house on the market today which will help us to get our deposit for the house (or save for a few more months if we don't sell immediately), so the builder suggested signing up and getting admin out of the way and that way we've got a firm price etc, we can then get through all the admin stuff and then the moment we've got our house sold and finance sorted we can go to site straight away. Seemed like a good idea to me, so thats what we'll do next week when my wife returns from work! Re: M&K - Lauren Steadman Homes in Amberton Estate, Eglinton 18May 17, 2016 10:14 pm I feel like I already have! But you make a valid point. I say they're $10k more expensive, but I think we've got better quality 'builders range' stuff being used (appliances, tapware etc) which is where the difference is. In reality I suppose its closer. But honestly I don't care too much about the oven. Maybe K does. Lets assume she does. Their pricing on upgrades was much better in general though. Hobless showers was less than half the price DAH quoted me for example. Our rep knew from the start budget was a thing we'd have to stick to and he was competing against HGWA and DAH, so he's been good with inclusions etc. As I mentioned before, at our pricing meeting I was surprised at a lot of the things we managed to fit into our budget! I think the initial price of the house might have had more margin than DAH and they've been good on the upgrades, whereas the initial DAH margin was lower and the money is made on the upgrades. Re: M&K - Lauren Steadman Homes in Amberton Estate, Eglinton 19May 17, 2016 10:58 pm Exactly right, you've gotta consider everything that's included and consider like with like. Sounds like you've done a heap of homework. Are they both offering flooring and window treatments, air con etc? Or will you do that afterwards? Re: M&K - Lauren Steadman Homes in Amberton Estate, Eglinton 20May 17, 2016 11:20 pm I have spreadsheets with every little inclusion and columns to match them all up, I've been driving K nuts hahaha. I've gone off to find what type of tapware and basins are in the range and things like that (which much easier with DAH and their prestart showroom), so I think we've got a good handle on it. Hopefully. All of those things we're getting done by the builder. DAH weren't offering window treatments, whereas Lauren Steadman are doing horizontal blinds for us. Carpets, tiles, air con and painting was all included from both builders. We were going to do paint/windows afterwards (hadn't decided on floors at that stage) but it was a promo that Lauren Steadman are running and taking them out made no difference, so we figured we'd leave them all in... Plus its far less hassle. We also got K's mother to paint our current home when we moved in, as it was her gift to us, but after going through and patching the walls and repainting sections in the last few weeks I wasn't too keen to do an entire house so I would have got a pro in for that anyway I think. Plus the finish should be far better than what I can achieve! Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74701 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 105551 |