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Building Your New Home

Building your new home comes with lots of decisions. Some of these are easy and some are so challenging your question if you really are up to doing this.

Heres my top 5 tips that might help in this huge task:

1. Real Estate Agent. Get a valuation done on your home. Finding out its true value also if the renovations that you are planning will actually make your home more saleable or if it would be better to sell and move on.

2. Contact Council. Find out any limitations on your land. Whether you can build or not. Also height restrictions. Find out any fees.

3. Carefully chose a builder. You might need to interview a few but make sure that whoever you chose is fully qualified and registered. Get an approximate quote on building per square metre

4. Budget. Work out a rough budget will help you know if it is truly worth building or not.

5. Bank. After you have your budget now it is time to find out if you can get the money. Remember to be exact bring along the real estate agents details from the valuation also coucil and builders details. These can help your bank know you are serious and that you are aware of the true market.

Be open to change but once you make your plans try to stick to them as close as possible this way you dont spend extra when you dont have to. Easier to rub out a line on a plan than remove wall in a building.

Finding The Perfect Builder

There is no such thing as perfect but often you can find the right builder for the job.

Be sure to communicate with your builder before contracts are signed what you require.

Be realistic.

Be prepared and know what you want. There is nothing harder for a builder than a client that doesn't know what they want.

Be sure to be clear on when payments are due and at what stage you require them to be ready.

Make sure you think long and hard about the pros and cons of each builder before you sign contracts. It is very hard to get out of a contract after it is signed so be careful.

Happy Building