The chosen one!

What a week deciding which blocks we wanted in our top 8, whether our chosen house would fit, how big a block if we want and how much did we want to spend.
We were fortunate that our conveyancer was very familiar with our estate and offered much insight into what we needed to look for in a block. This was incredibly useful info because land plans are not my area of expertise. I also found out over the week through various conversations with people at land sales office what blocks were likely to be gone before we got to our #8 choice.


So after a week of chats with the bank and conveyancer, we nutted out our top 8!


Mum, Dad and I headed to our Saturday morning appointment filled with excitement and a little fear. Were we crazy for deciding on all of this in such a short time. Had we considered alternatives etc.


We were thrilled in the end to get our 3rd choice block........ 497m2 of land that was reasonably flat, on our first choice street across the road rom a waterway that would never be built on. Excited is an understatement.


This choice of block also meant we had chosen our house because being only 15m wide we could not go with the Coral Home we had in mind. An Eden Brae Hawthorne 31 it was. Due to special condition by the CDC we were able to fit a larger home on a smaller block as long as it was between 450-499 m2.
We signed some paperwork, received a goody bag from the estate and paid a deposit on the land.


Next we headed to Eden Brae and paid a deposit for our dream home. We were now locked in!

 This is the outside of the display home

 1564 - our little piece of heaven

This is as close as we can get to the land at the moment as it has yet to be subdivided.

Where it all began...

In March 2014 my parents and I made the big decision to sell our family home and upsize to a larger home. We have been living harmoniously now for several years but with my son almost 16 the need for more space was paramount.




Over one weekend Mum and I looked at some display homes and the decision was made to try and get some land and build. Now..... to get land, as it seemed every estate in our south western Sydney area seemed to have none and the display home people treated us very differently when it came to the question of "where is your land?" and we responded with "we don't have land yet". We were tossing up by the end of the weekend between building an Eden Brae Home or a Coral Home as they were the two that had designs that met our list of wants......


4 bedrooms
3 living areas
Open plan kitchen
Ducted Air
Main bedroom at front and remaining bedrooms at back






We found the estate we wanted and now it just came to the crunch of when there would be a land release and whether we would be lucky enough to get some. We registered with three local estates that all had land releases pending and waited. Mum and I had planned a weekend away and had dad on standby for what to do should a land release occur. Needless to say that filled me with panic because at almost 80 years of age, speed was not Dad's forte.




I must have had an inkling that a release was near ( I certainly had no actual idea) as on Friday night after work I slept with my hair in a ponytail and set the alarm to wake up earlier than I normally would on my day off.
7.54am I received a text message from our #1 choice of estates saying that the allocation of priority numbers would commence at 8am......... I leapt out of bed, threw on the nearest pair of shorts and a t-shirt and ran out the door...... no hair brushing or teeth cleaning, just a swift departure from home.


Thankfully for me our land release is only about 10kms from home so I knew I was in with a chance of securing a decent priority number. I walked into the sales office and was given lucky number 8! I was relieved and excited all in one! We now had 8th choice of he 47 blocks available to be selected in our first choice estate. We then looked in our details for our appointment the following Saturday and had a week to choose our top 8 blocks.


It felt like winning the lotto!