I have been following along on this forum since I joined back in February and now it has come time where myself and my partner are commencing the process of building our first home. We are going to take advantage of the increased FHOB grant for regional Victoria. This forum has been very helpful in helping us prepare for this journey. Very excited about the process.
We have on hold a block of land in new estate in Ballarat and will sign the land contracts in the first week in July 2017 so we don't have to pay stamp duty. Our block is 544 m2 16 wide x 34 length. We have to have the house set back 4 m as per estate covenants. We have been allowed access to the site to undertake a soil test. The land is likely to be registered in late July/August 2017. So hoping to actually start building in October.
We are looked at a lot of builders when deciding to pick one and decided to settle on a local Ballarat builder who has been very flexible at allowing us to alter one of there existing plans.
This is the new plan and the one currently being built. Starts about Page 8 of the thread. The rest of the pages prior are old plans and the journey about that.
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Sarah