house building
 

We are wanting to but acearge land and build a house on it. Has anyone done this? Are there any hidden costs? Any advice would be good.

Re: house building
 

We are in the initial stages of acreage building. Not much to report yet but feel free to subscribe to this thread -

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=492152

Poster "Wol" has built on acreage in NSW, do a search on threads started by him to find the details.

Buzzy

Re: house building
 

Did It a while ago :)

No hidden costs really as long as you take driveway, landscaping and stuff like that into consideration. But I guess it also depends on the builder.

Re: house building
 

Just done it, and just about to do it again.

Acreage wise.

If you buy the land, very often you will be responsible for:

electricity from street to within say 6m of house.
water tanks pump etc for the home, unless you are on town water
bio-cycle for waste, dependant on state

all up, will add about 30-40k to house price.

Acreage, usually you get as Merlin said, driveway, landscaping, alfresco concrete, etc etc done at your expense.

Allow for sheds, cos you will need 1 perhaps 2 but deffo 1

Ste

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We've done it too.

Also allow for fencing if you have animals.

We needed ride-on mowers, chain saw and large whipper snipper, plus trailer to take rubbish to tip.

Possible delays in getting phone line.

Deliveries of anything cost more if you live up a high enough hill.