Some background on our search

December 2006 - Welcome to our first blog posting. This entry will provide you with some background reagrding our search for some land - after all, we need somehwere to build our house!

The search for land concentrated on the Geelong area - we already live near Geelong, and we like the lifestyle. We did the usual thing - scoured the online ads, drove around the new estates, looked in the papers.

www.realestate.com.au
www.realestateview.com.au
www.domain.com.au

We had a number of things we were looking for - a block big enough to put a good sized shed on it (to store a car or two), a block big enough for a decent sized house, and somewhere where it wasn't going to take too much longer to get into Geelong.

Early on, we decided that we liked one of the Metricon Homes (the Jardine), so the block had to be able to accomodate the house.

We had a couple of false starts. One block we found in Drysdale was the right size, and already had a shed on it, but it was too steep. Metricon use a slab construction, and the cut would be too severe.

The next block we found (in Leopold) was almost flat, but was a little small, and we were advised that there was a lot of fill on the block, and that the site costs would be much higher as a result. We thought land would be the easy part!

We did find one - quite by accident really. Check the next posting to find out more!