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Builder confirms 9-10 months and that we could shave maybe 8 weeks off that if we start now, but can't go very far without the new title. Apparently they do mostly holiday homes and retirement houses in the country so they don't get many FHBs, so their business has been slow and steady as...

Plumbers are so hard to get I hassled one and have him booked in for Jan 19th :D A third plumber moved to this area a few months back and is being worked off his feet now but has really reduced the wait times for plumbing. He's cheaper than the others too. Those things still cost a fortune and...

Houses in *this* town start at $130k for a mouldy hovel, around $200k you start to get something good, $250k+ you get into the really nice stuff or new houses. $400k gets you something lovely. Much more expensive than building. The house I'm going to look at on Friday has been on the market...

I'll go with 9-12 months range then which is going to tip the balance in favour of buying even further - we'll have enough from selling this house to not only put down 40% but come close to offsetting the other 60% too. The idea is just to split/leverage what we had in this house into two new...

How long does it realistically take to build a house? 6 months? 9 months? We need to sell our house to build, and during the building period we either need to rent or buy, there are too many of us to go sponge off relatives or something. Rent for that period - 4br houses here are around...