New house build
Aug 1st 2010 | 2:47 pm
#16
Victorian Evangelist
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 7,704
From: Melbourne, by the beach, living the dream.
Re: New house build
If you are going steel frame make it Bluescope Lysaght. There are other systems on the market, but the chap who erected our frame for us has been putting up steel framed houses of all flavours for over 20 years and he reckoned it was the only good system.
BB
Aug 1st 2010 | 9:54 pm
#17
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 530
From: North Wales > Manly, Brisbane > Gympie!
Re: New house build
Now we're in the position to buy a house, we're also considering building (well getting people to build for us!).
We know absolutely nothing about how to do this at the moment, so wondered if there's any tips?
Is it normally more expensive to buy land and then build, rather than buy a 'second hand' house, as my hubby calls it
?
And is it as simple as finding a block of land for sale (ie on realestate.com.au) that seems about the right size, and buying it, then finding a house builder? Is there anything to consider about buying a block? We'd be buying in inner-ish Brisbane, definitely not in one of those new developments with land/house packages.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
We know absolutely nothing about how to do this at the moment, so wondered if there's any tips?
Is it normally more expensive to buy land and then build, rather than buy a 'second hand' house, as my hubby calls it
?And is it as simple as finding a block of land for sale (ie on realestate.com.au) that seems about the right size, and buying it, then finding a house builder? Is there anything to consider about buying a block? We'd be buying in inner-ish Brisbane, definitely not in one of those new developments with land/house packages.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
How are you? We built last year so if you've got any questions just PM me!
Jo
