Not silly at all! We found this information out the hard way by going through it!!
From registration to settlement was 10 working day for us.

We stopped asking the office as we could figure out more information ourselves.

The lack of transparency is what drove us to snoop around websites. We found information on the progress here: https://www.spear.land.vic.gov.au/spear/. You can see the progress of…

Went past last weekend and some of the display homes have opened already. I hope they try to funnel people into parking at the parking lots, the on street parking…

Ours was H2 - 14500 in site costs. Spoke to our next door neighbour, same soil rating but they got hit with 19k+

Upon speaking to my site super this seems to be a common occurance out west. Sobering.

NP Ashrita. Hope it was helpful.
Did you end up purchasing?
Build is still stop and start. Various issues power relateed. Weather has not helped at all. We've had a self-imposed hiatus…

Informed by my builder yesterday that power is up and running. Power was only connected on the 10th of this month to the estate, almost a month after it was…

As of the past Saturday, the power still hadn't been connected up.
All the trades we saw on site were using generator power. The majority of the other private builds (that…

Almost a week and a half and still no response from Jubilee or the developer around concerns raised relating to power in the estate and potential costs incurred with my…

Looks like it's floating in the middle of nowhere if your measurements are right! Having not seen your plans and going by your concerns, I'd agree.
In my brother's build, this…

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…

its a contribution made to the community, in our case wyndham, in growth areas that goes to building infrastructure

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…

We budgeted for re-inspections as a recommendation from a friend who had also recently built (not with Boutique and didn't use Darbecca)
Our SS was on side with findings from Darbecca,…

Yes, it was with Darbecca.
Note that 3 times includes the original inspection and 2 reinspections. We paid $200 per reinspection. We had budgeted for reinspections so weren't too taken aback…

We haven't reached that stage yet but our slab report (via Darbecca) was 21 pages long with a fair number of defects. The SS and Darbecca seemed to work it…

For our estate. They started works in September 2015, we titled June 2016.
We are Stage 1 so were keeping a very close eye on it.

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…

May help people when budgeting for site works etc. Our lot came back as a H2 (Highly Reactive on the higher end).

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…

Definately agree with a lot of what you say, particularly re: experience with handover to Pre-Start from sales and can definately relate to your frustration regarding questions.
We do eventually get…

General question for those of you still going through PWC or Pre-Start.
This is a question/rant.
Have any of you found that the level of engagement or communication from your consultants has…

We looked at Westbrook as well but agree that I think Jubilee will work out to be great.
How did you find the experience with Simonds? Did you look around a…

Hi Valerie! Good to come across another Jubilee builder! I hope all dates work out for you.
For us, honestly, we've been pretty frustrated with waiting for our land and…

Hi Omaha. We're building there too. We're in Stage 1. From accounts, it sounds like we're going to title in about late March or into early April.
Which stage are you…

+1
I would also suggest checking out the range in Derrimut. We have order non-standard tiles in our Living/Dining/Kitchen area and in the Ensuite. We were extremely set on floorboards after…

We're going to be building within the Jubilee Estate.

Definately all great points as to why we've heavily considered Harpley too. We haven't completely omitted the estate but have decided to do our own research on the area. But…

Hi everyone. This question is out of curiosity.
My partner and I have been looking at Harpley very very closely and have been extremely keen on building. We first went to…