Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 06, 2018 7:49 pm A bit of history, about 2 years ago, we considered a knock down and rebuild. We sat down with a Clarendon consultant and got some ideas about pricing and alternations. Unfortunately, an unforeseeable event occurred and we stopped the whole idea. Fast forwarding time, we still like the same house design and spoke to a Clarendon consultant, we were told that they wouldn't build on our site due to being on a busy road and near a bus stop. I am thinking maybe they have changed their approach to building from 2 years ago. I was a surprised by this. New houses do go up on our street and in front of bus stops as well. I suppose I have to see if other project builders would build on our site. On price comparison of project homes, they seem to vary quite a lot between builders for what may seem similar in size and layout. For example, the listed price for a particular 38 squares house by Clarendon is from $306K, but a 40 square house from Metricon has a listed price of $527K. Whilst the Metricon house is bigger and different designs may vary in prices, but $221K seems quite a significant difference. Do different builders vary a lot in what's included in their listed price? Or is Metricon generally more costly to build with? I had originally thought whatever the listed price is, then double it as a guide for a complete knock down and rebuild (including landscaping and driveway etc), but using this formula, doubling the Metricon listed price seems excessive (or certainly beyond my budget!). How can I make a comparison between builders on costs? I just want a ballpark figure. How do I get an idea of the cost in building a custom or architectural house? Thanks. Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 2Jan 06, 2018 8:48 pm My experience is you won’t get a good estimate of min cost prior committing. Expect to add extra 40% of the listed house price most builders advertise. Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 3Jan 07, 2018 8:53 pm Cheeky A bit of history, about 2 years ago, we considered a knock down and rebuild. We sat down with a Clarendon consultant and got some ideas about pricing and alternations. Unfortunately, an unforeseeable event occurred and we stopped the whole idea. Fast forwarding time, we still like the same house design and spoke to a Clarendon consultant, we were told that they wouldn't build on our site due to being on a busy road and near a bus stop. I am thinking maybe they have changed their approach to building from 2 years ago. I was a surprised by this. New houses do go up on our street and in front of bus stops as well. I suppose I have to see if other project builders would build on our site. On price comparison of project homes, they seem to vary quite a lot between builders for what may seem similar in size and layout. For example, the listed price for a particular 38 squares house by Clarendon is from $306K, but a 40 square house from Metricon has a listed price of $527K. Whilst the Metricon house is bigger and different designs may vary in prices, but $221K seems quite a significant difference. Do different builders vary a lot in what's included in their listed price? Or is Metricon generally more costly to build with? I had originally thought whatever the listed price is, then double it as a guide for a complete knock down and rebuild (including landscaping and driveway etc), but using this formula, doubling the Metricon listed price seems excessive (or certainly beyond my budget!). How can I make a comparison between builders on costs? I just want a ballpark figure. How do I get an idea of the cost in building a custom or architectural house? Thanks. God I hate using this website. I typed out a long reply to you and it refreshed the page losing everything. 😡😡😡😡 So sorry I can’t be arsed typing it out again. Summary of that is. Can’t see why they wouldn’t build on your block as they factor into your tender the cost of traffic management, council or other notifications for the bus stop blah blah. A sloping block is the biggest killer for potential builds with a large number of spec builders. . You have to do your homework on any builder you want to build with. They all offer varying packages and inclusions. Example Clarendon don’t include driveways in the initial cost of the build unless you ask them to do it for you. Rawson Homes do offer a driveway as part of the total cost. Some builders don’t include flooring, some do so do your homework. $306 for the Clarendon would be very basic home. We have gone to tender on a 36 square home and we are looking at around $507 without landscaping etc. Have a look at the building with Clarendon and building with Metricon on here to get an idea of Clarendon/Metricon. Otherwise visit a display centre if you can and ask as many questions as you can. Only way to get a more accurate costing is to do the tender process which usually means paying some money to get site surveys etc. Cheers Simon Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 4Jan 07, 2018 9:43 pm Same cheeky ,, my initial reply was longer and more detail lol Best keep it short and more Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 6Mar 09, 2018 9:50 am Here are my Comments on New House Consultants and building costs Get your own Complete Design, Engineering, 3D Model, quants, costing simulations and copyright Use these to check and compare 3 builders quotes Keep your posts brief, photos,plans, data & Info also helps others... thanks for sharing hth Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 7Mar 09, 2018 10:05 am homeone Hi salfield, I just stumbled across your post. Sincere apologies for your inconvenience. If you (or another member) can provide any information about this bug, I'll have our programmer look into this. G’day. For me it doesn’t matter what you are doing, whether just browsing or the most annoying part is when replying to someone, the page refreshes after a certain time. I looked for a setting to turn off auto page refresh but couldn’t find anything. 🍺 Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 8Mar 09, 2018 10:07 am Thank you greatly for your feedback. It certainly shouldn't be refreshing. I'll get back to you as soon as I have our programmer look into the potential 'refresh' issue, ASAP. Cheers, Jason Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 9Mar 09, 2018 10:24 am homeone Thank you greatly for your feedback. It certainly shouldn't be refreshing. I'll get back to you as soon as I have our programmer look into the potential 'refresh' issue, ASAP. Cheers, Jason Pleasure mate. 🍺 I guess I should add in case it matters. Happens on all my iOS devices ie iPad and iPhone. Not sure about the MacBook [/quote] Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 10Mar 09, 2018 10:27 am Salfield homeone Thank you greatly for your feedback. It certainly shouldn't be refreshing. I'll get back to you as soon as I have our programmer look into the potential 'refresh' issue, ASAP. Cheers, Jason Pleasure mate. 🍺 I guess I should add in case it matters. Happens on all my iOS devices ie iPad and iPhone. Not sure about the MacBook Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 11Mar 09, 2018 10:44 am I think doubling the base price is overboard, unless you want a very very high spec home. I would think that price with Clarendon doesn’t include basic site costs and other add-ons, but the Metricon is a turn key price. Yes, inclusions vary greatly and it can be confusing. Tenders in the scheme of things aren’t that expensive though, might be worth getting 2 to compare. We originally thought Wisdom’s prices were expensive, until we looked more in to the inclusions, then they ended up being a bit cheaper than some of the others, and with a good reputation for build quality. Our base price was $389 (for a standard complete home), we ended up just over $500 not including landscaping, window coverings etc. Given our price is from 18 months ago, the same house now would cost ~30k more, then once adding the cost of landscaping and knock down you’d be close to $600k. Could’ve easily spent another $50k on upgrades though! Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Questions re knock down rebuild in Sydney 12Mar 10, 2018 6:14 am We did a KDR (Melbourne) in 2016 base price was 290K at the time and optioned it up to display home specs at another $100K and had site costs of $60K - (sloping block) total cost was $447K for a 41.6 sq 2 storey. When you add demolition cost, driveway & path, shutters/blinds & landscaping we didn’t get much change from $600K. Our build thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82369&p=1525857&hilit=fairhaven#p1525857 I'm on that journey. I had to demolish a single story brick veneer on concrete raft slab about 220 sq meters for about $19k. They took forever to get a permit and I… 2 2026 5 7107 if the original house is in good condition most of what you listed could be added in stages without the need for KDR and costs and disruption of having to live elsewhere… 1 14218 |