Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 7Mar 12, 2016 9:30 am We Probably spent 5-6 weekends looking at display homes etc but OH is not as interested, so we settled quite quickly on a fairly affordable design that gave us a lot of rooms for the size. Then we walked into the Simonds Palisade display home in Digger's Rest and just loved the 12 ft high ceilings so changed companies. I have found the forum so helpful in reading what other people have done and that's been so helpful. I can't wait to read soem Jubliee build forums - please start one!! Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 8Mar 17, 2016 9:10 pm Allui and Omoha (and any other jubilee-ers) As you'll be building before me I'd love to read about your plans - house type etc. Hope you start blogs too! Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 9May 02, 2016 11:51 am Hi so good to hear of other Jubileer's My fiancé and I purchased a small block of land last year feb and it was scheduled to title in Feb 2016 however we got delayed to June/July. We often go and check out how everything is coming along, we are very excited to build. We haven't chosen our builder yet we are stuck between Mimosa, Simonds and Metricon. Please give us some feedback on the companies if you have any ! Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 10May 05, 2016 10:32 pm Hi there. Given it is now May hopefully your title comes through soon! We are not titling until December 16 (though I suspect we'll be late too), so you must have been one of the first purchasers! From what I've read I'd say base your decision on the design you love and the best deal you can get with special offers. We went with Simonds simply because we fell in love with the 12 ft high ceilings on dislay at Digger's Rest but prior to that I'd chosen a design with Dennis Family Homes. Everyone likes different things and there are plenty of designs. See what extras they will throw in for you. We got a free dishwasher added from Simonds (we already have one but I wasn't going to say no!) and Chris Boucher didn't charge us to move internal walls around. But I am sure any of the builders have their good points. Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 11Jun 25, 2016 6:49 pm Hi guys, another jubilee builder. Just bought a land there and hopefully will get titled by the mid of next year. Haven't decided on builder yet, just looking around. Just curious about the site cost there as this would be a big concern for me. Hoping if anyone can shed some light on this who ever got their title settled there ??? Cheers. Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 12Jul 05, 2016 1:41 pm Hi guys, been ages since we've posted. lots of highs and lows over the last few months. good news is that we've titled and are a couple of weeks away from our building commencement date. We just happened to get our site costs back today. It came to about 14k. We built in a 15k site works budget with our builder at pre-work so we're happy it came under. This was one of our biggest concerns as well as there is a LOT of rock around the area. Some of the boulders sitting there are huge!! Went past last weekend, exciting to see the display homes go up! Cannot wait to get started, the rental is feeling claustrophobic! Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 14Aug 16, 2016 1:04 pm This thread seems dead now but a quick update from us!
Slab went down late last week. Frames were delivered yesterday, so they'll be putting it up this week! Boutique Homes have been pretty good although some of the contract work prior to the pour didn't meet Boutique or our building inspector's standards. Was all sorted out in the end. Glad we invested in independant assessments considering the potential for issues around our area due to the soil type. Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 15Aug 19, 2016 6:00 pm Thats a great news. Hopefully, it wont take long to reach lockdown stage. Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 16Sep 01, 2016 6:07 pm Frustrating news today. We're at the point where the roof is about to go up and the builder has told us that there's no power on site in order to complete the next stage. This is a surprise to us as they've completed the frame etc to this point. The meter box has also been installed onsite so we're left wondering. So we do some calling around to powercor and establish that the whole estate is currently unpowered!! All the work on the houses and display homes have been running on generator power to this point! Called to confirm with Jubilee and the response is - "i'm just in the dark as you" I ask, is there an estimated time as to when this will be resolved? "no, but i'd imagine it'd be soon". No commitment of when things are going to happen. In summary: - So the builder is saying that we'll incur generator hire fees in order to proceed - to the tune of approx. $600-700 per week - The estate has no bloody idea when the power is getting switched on for us to proceed with out build - We're stuck making repayments like chumps when likely no work will be done while it's sorted. What a kick in the guts. Really frustrated with the lack of transparency, particularly from Jubilee and after they've taken our money. It's not just this recent event; we bought on the sole premise we'd title in 6 months - 18 months later (we were going to buy in Harpley but the next stage to buy at the time was 12 months away), continual misdirection on when we'd be titling, false information relating to the fact that the developer would pay the $900 Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) when in fact, WE do - then when we contacted them to respond to the fact we had to pay out of pocket? Nothing. No response received. Cannot help but feel frustrated and fooled. Shame on us. Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 17Sep 01, 2016 6:34 pm I have been lurking for ages here. Had to create an account to ask, what's the CLI? This is the first time me or my hubby have heard of it. We bought along what they'll call anniversary parade. Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 18Sep 01, 2016 6:40 pm braxton I have been lurking for ages here. Had to create an account to ask, what's the CLI? This is the first time me or my hubby have heard of it. We bought along what they'll call anniversary parade. its a contribution made to the community, in our case wyndham, in growth areas that goes to building infrastructure Re: Anyone building at Jubilee Estate? 20Sep 01, 2016 6:53 pm braxton So it's not just Jubilee residents then. That's right. Although, which was part of my original issue, there are some estates that pay the contribution on the resident's behalf. Others you pay out of pocket. I know Harpley, Upper Point Cook and Cornerstone are the same as us. I'm certain there are more. Wish you all the best. Once you signed the contract, they will find millions excuses to charge you. And have seen their sites unfinished for a long time. 4 25374 As title suggests, looking at using the interlocking Pentablock stacked stone products to replace failing timber retaining… 0 18347 |