Hi guys,
Back to ask another question ..hope you don't mind!
We are concluding negotiations with a project builder for a house that will be our home. Their price for a standard spec 2 storey is $1,200. However the price we have been quoted now is $1,485 per square metre or about $72,500. From that I could take away about $25,000 in provisional sums leaving $47,000. It's hard to see how this price change can be justified.
The house is about 250 square metres with a double garage. We have not had prestart so have made no changes to standard electrical spec or anything like that. The price does not include air con, any landscaping, floor coverings, internal wall paint etc - standard project builder exclusions.
The only things we have changed from basic builder spec is that we have a rear lot (the extra cost of which is in the provisional sums above), we increased the length of one kitchen bench by about 2 metres, put in overhead kitchen cabinets and a caeserstone benchtop. We inreased the downstairs ceiling height from 28 to 31 courses and made the sliding doors in the dining area taller to match.
I can't help but feel that maybe we are being ripped off as we are relatively recent immigrants and don't have a network here to gather information.
Are we paranoid?
Would love any input or comments. Thanks everyone for your time
Maggie
Back to ask another question ..hope you don't mind!
We are concluding negotiations with a project builder for a house that will be our home. Their price for a standard spec 2 storey is $1,200. However the price we have been quoted now is $1,485 per square metre or about $72,500. From that I could take away about $25,000 in provisional sums leaving $47,000. It's hard to see how this price change can be justified.
The house is about 250 square metres with a double garage. We have not had prestart so have made no changes to standard electrical spec or anything like that. The price does not include air con, any landscaping, floor coverings, internal wall paint etc - standard project builder exclusions.
The only things we have changed from basic builder spec is that we have a rear lot (the extra cost of which is in the provisional sums above), we increased the length of one kitchen bench by about 2 metres, put in overhead kitchen cabinets and a caeserstone benchtop. We inreased the downstairs ceiling height from 28 to 31 courses and made the sliding doors in the dining area taller to match.
I can't help but feel that maybe we are being ripped off as we are relatively recent immigrants and don't have a network here to gather information.
Are we paranoid?
Would love any input or comments. Thanks everyone for your time
Maggie
