Site has started.... finally!

From someone that has just been through this...don't stop and accept on value on the property. We were undervalued heaps and ended up shopping around and got our 100% valuation…

Yeah it definitely is a different facade and I'm sure it will not look anything like ours but it more the fact Burbank specifically said no one was building it.…

Went past Somerfield yesterday and realised that two doors down from our block someone is building the same house! This was quite a shock due to the fact that Burbank…

Thanks everyone for all your helpful tips.
I'm happy to report we received 100% valuation on our construction and land which means we save 11k LMI...thanks to BOQ (bank of Queensland)…

Hey guys,
Just looking for some advice or previous knowledge on the subject of receiving a poor valuation from the bank.
This is our situation; we are building a property within an…

Thanks for the replys guys,
Well at the moment our broker is going to oranise our finance to include mortgage insurance (which we didn't want to have to do) and then…

Which banks are you guys going with? Ours was valued at significantly less! Our broker has been arguing with the 'valuer' but he won't move…

Valuations
Hi All,
How much did the bank value your land/build at?
Our broker is concerned it is a little low
Alex and Lauren

Getting really frustrated with builder atm, we asked clarification on items almost 1 month ago which were holding us up and only got a response back today. Being an internal…

Sound great,
Count us in...Alex & Lauren

Are yet to recieve the cotracted date,
But thats what we were told to expect (worst case), think 6months got mentioned for us which is probably realistic if everything goes our…

Well Jen, we were told it' will be approx 26-28 weeks from site start. And by factoring in rain and chrissy holidays we are expecting March finish. Obviously the double…

Went past Somerfield on Saturday arvo for a look, wow simmonds is fast!
Sherro must be pretty happy seeing frame up and windows in already, congrats!!
We got to put our…

Were ready to start the build process ASAP but i've got the feeling this time next year is a more realistic timeframe for our 2 storey build! Have to factor…

Congrats to all my future neighbours, has been a long wait but i guess it makes it all that sweeter
We are all…

this is for stages 15, 16 and 28

Haven't heard anything, no emails from developer and nothing from our conveyancers etc. Would have thought we would hear something by now or over the next couple of days if…

is it not odd that lot within such close proximity to each other are different in classification!
So far i've heard of people having Class 'P' 'M' and 'S' all in…

Got soil test results back for our block on stage 15, class 'S' which I thought was suprising after hearing others getting more reactive soil tests back!
Any $ savings are…

Welcome Rahul,
Your a close neighbour to me I'm in Lot 1519, Cant wait to start the build process and hopefully start meeting…

Welcome to the Stage 15 waiting room Dan.
Good to here from others who will be living in Dahlia Crescent and how thier getting on, everyone seems really nice so i'm…

just got one of those dreaded emails from Somerfield...
Stage 15 titles are now not anticipated till late Late May which will be exactly 6months after…

Congrats to Stage 14a's,
Has anyone heard anything on 15? Would have thought developers would give us an update on title date if we are really going to have it by…

Well I am now living in Newcastle for work, so am only getting bits and pieces of whats going on and don't have a copy of my paperwork up here.…

We spoke to Somerfield yesterday and were told it would still be the end of April for settle of stage 15. However we received letters from the conveyancer with council…

stage 15 has also suffered an extensive delay we were originally told we would have titles around Dec 2011 but being xmas and all i had a fair idea that…

Being in the construction game myself I was pretty sure this would happen for all stages looking at being released around the december mark, and acounted for a late release…

Thats a good point Milesy,
I was thinking the same thing when I was around the area last time. They will be fixing church rd eventually so they may link it…

Hi Stage16,
Why do you think stage 15 will be "a very long delay"??
I was there over the weekend and am quite happy with the progress so far and think a…