Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Boutique Homes 1233May 28, 2015 11:50 am Update on our progress. Our land was delayed again and is now due to title in Sep this year. After originally being told it would title in Jan then March and June. Boutique wanted to charge us an extra 10K for our house stating the price would go up by that much by the time they could commence construction of there was no further delays. As you can imagine we said no. This all happened at the start of March we had been ignored and our calls and emails not answered by anyone except our fantastic pre start consultant who has been fantastic through this whole process. Our whole point was it would be cheaper for us to cancel and then resign up then pay the 10K. Yesterday we had a meeting with Boutique at the Docklands. They apologised for the lack of communication from anyone. Said they had let us down and could understand why we where now feeling apprehensive moving forward due to lack of communication from anyone. They have now said we can resign a new PWC with the house price adjusted to today's current price for the house and would honour everything else in our PWC and the pricing for that. Meaning we are up for an extra $5800 but that would hold the price for 6 months after our land titles. So approx March next year. They are going to contact the developer again asking for engineering report for site costs to confirm that amount is still 10k and no more. Has anyone dealt with significant changes to their fixed site costs? Re: Boutique Homes 1234May 29, 2015 5:07 pm Hi baneshouse. I was very particular about the wording in the pwc regarding the fixed costs. Boutique actually changed the wording in our contract to remove any changeable costs to the fixed site costs. My argument was that they sold us as a 'fixed' cost. As far as I was concerned, fixed costs are fixed assuming the works don't change. I even quoted our sales guy to get them to change it. My thoughts would be, same house, no structural changes, it is their risk for under / over quoting. That said, if you add a pool, or change your block of land, the fixed costs can change as the brief changes. You are spending a lot of money, if they sell you a fixed cost item, you should not accept any changes, like I said before, it is boutiques risk of under quoting. That said, if the block of land changes, I would think the whole contract would need to be renegotiated.... Re: Boutique Homes 1235Jun 02, 2015 12:46 pm Hi again everyone, We settled on our block of land in March; unfortunately at the time, we didn't have an HIA contract ready. Now it's June and we have a contract signed, however as you know, our bank undervalued our house. We've shopped around and have now been told by another broker that no other lender will re-finance the mortgage on our land until we've had at least 6 months re-payment history. So our choices are currently: 1. Take Westpacs undervaluation 2. Wait another 4 months until we have 6 month history, then we can shop around Has anyone ever heard of this before? My other broker has never heard this before. Re: Boutique Homes 1236Jun 03, 2015 9:15 am Hi everyone, finally after all the struggle with the loan (almost lost our land) our house construction is starting today. We are so excited!!! Can you guys please suggest a good inspection company? Thanks. @JP79: Our land+house was undervalued by both CBA & Westpac but we then approached ANZ with a pre-valuation which ANZ was happy about & got the loan done. Never heard of this before. Re: Boutique Homes 1237Jun 03, 2015 10:11 am Congrats sanjay Best on we found out was DARBECCA PTY LTD ( Darren love , & brett)call the following number if u wish 0419 224 440 They are very good and very proffessional and found a lot during inspection which we don't think of. Some Minor which can be ignored but some major and needed to be fixed. Re: Boutique Homes 1238Jun 03, 2015 10:19 am sanjaybasavaraj Hi everyone, finally after all the struggle with the loan (almost lost our land) our house construction is starting today. We are so excited!!! Can you guys please suggest a good inspection company? Thanks. @JP79: Our land+house was undervalued by both CBA & Westpac but we then approached ANZ with a pre-valuation which ANZ was happy about & got the loan done. Never heard of this before. Thanks Sanjay, Did you already have a loan on your land only and then added the construction later? Apparently our issue is because we already have a land loan and now (less than 6 months later) we're trying to find a different lender to re-finance our land loan and add the construction. Re: Boutique Homes 1239Jun 03, 2015 3:49 pm Congrats sanjaybasavaraj on the start, watching the house go up is very exciting! Jp79, I'd look into the 'mid tier' banks as they are more flexible with finance etc and would be more likely to want your business. ( bank of Melbourne, CUA, Bendigo bank, etc...). I think the 6 month statement is a laziness part of the banks as it is hard for the big banks to do all your paperwork registering and then transferred in 6 months. A friend of ours just sold their house after refinancing 2 months prior. Their settlements was delayed almost 2 weeks because the paperwork hadn't been finalised from the original transaction. They ended up getting the bank manager involved and it was sorted. Did you have any luck with resolve, surely boutiques own finance coy won't under value their builds.....? Re: Boutique Homes 1240Jun 03, 2015 6:35 pm Hi Szep, It was the broker at Resolve that has told us about the 6 month issue. He hasn't bothered to get other valuations for this reason. Back to shopping around. 10 16054 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 77778 |