After being in NZ for 3 years this coming August and 4 rental homes later, we are going to fulfill our dream of building our own house. We are officially land owners….. Our section has a view of the harbour. Just can't wait to have a home to call our own. We've now signed off the final plans for building consent and if everything goes to plan the build should start mid June (heres hoping for a good winter).

We could only have dreamed about doing this in the UK and we are so excited. The builders asked us what our wish-list was and we have managed to include all these into our home…

We still have our house in the UK which we are letting and will use some of the rent to offset the mortgage here until we sell it….whenever the housing market picks up in the UK

Our time here has had its ups and downs but this is where we want to be. We both miss our family and friends and hope to visit the UK in the not too distant future.

Fantastic, nothing like building your own place, myself ans others have done the same thing

Was a thread running a while ago

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ighlight=house

worth a read

Cheers
Alan

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the link....just been having a read and picked up some useful tips

We are using G.J Gardners too and so far they have been so accommodating.

Good on you guys,

Hi Nukiwi,

Lovely to hear from you. That's fantastic news. View of the harbour as well eh? Some pictures would be great further down the line, so we can all be envious of your new pad.

Hi BevK,

How are things going with you? I've attached a few pics to start off with and will take more as we go through the build

Cool Bananas! Looks good.

I wish we were in a position to build our own home. I have BIG plans in my head . I even have the builder on standby . Him & me are just waiting for the lottery win but it seems to be eluding me

WOW Elaine! I am so pleased to hear you are both finally doing this. Congratulations!

How the heck are you?

Hi Michelle,

Thanks, yeah we've had enough of renting now..its time to get on the property ladder whilst interest rates are low We are both very excited and can't wait to have our own place!

We are good thanks, Living down in Pukekohe at the moment How are things with you? Are you still in the same house?

Good stuff! We're going back to the Shore soon, we spend most of our time down there so it was a decision we all made Can't wait to see pics of your build

We have just had word from our solicitor that we have today completed on our section, so we now own a little bit of NZ

We had our consultation with the builder's colour consultant and after rethinking a couple of our choices, we are very happy with our decisions. Plans have been in with Council a couple of weeks now so we are just awaiting building and resource consents. Hopefully the build will start in about 4 wks

Just waiting for the cost of the upgrades to come through too as it seems we can't stop spending money.....oh well we've got 30 yrs to pay it back

Congratulations Exciting days ahead .

Will look forward to seeing the pics of the new build.

Thanks BEVS, it is very exciting and I'll make sure I keep the pics coming of the build

Congrats! how exciting! Lovely section you have there. Can't imagine how it must feel to own a piece of New Zealand I hope we get to do that someday soon Best of luck with the build!

Thank you so much. We never thought we'd get an opportunity to build our own home, so don't give up on your dreams