The Dirt - We Bought It

Ok, so we bought some dirt last week! Having looked around at many of the available lots of land in our area we finally came to a decision. We are on a budget so we had to way up:

1. Location
2. Cost of the land vs size
3. Site costs
4. Size of the house to be built on the land

Location was tricky, as there is loads of developments in our area. However, in the end it was easy, close to the boys school and ten minutes walk from the beach.

We decided to buy a slightly smaller block in the location we wanted, this saved us some dollars.

An easy decision was to find a flat block. We were looking at some slanted blocks that would have seen our site costs sky rocket 200-300%. We figured every dollar saved removing the dirt we just bought would come in handy towards our build. Not to mention having to use a custom builder on some of the slanty lots, that was not an option for us (from the investigating we did the custom builders were approximately $4k per sqm dearer).

With the smaller block and the low site cost savings we could afford a double storey! Building a double storey home would give us more backyard space than if we bought a larger block with a single storey home, so we were very happy with this.