The Search

After living in Sydney for the last four years, we have returned to Melbourne and both of us have moved back into our respective parents' homes.  Despite what you might think it hasn't been too bad, and it just feels like we have moved back four years in time. 

Nonetheless, the first order of business upon our return has been to look for a new place.  A cursor search on the Internet and driving by many local suburbs we found many smaller developers which we thought would be a good place to start a conversation. 

We spoke with the likes of Comdain Homes, Folio 3 and Bellemore Homes. As you would expect the sales process always starts off promising, however once we tried to follow up with each of these companies they continually failed to deliver simple things on time, if at all.  

In fact Folio 3 started to help us form our concept for a multi dwelling development to visual with a floor and site plan the possibilities of what could be developed.  After the initial conversation they never responded or took action to contact us for the second appointment.  We found this surprisingly bizarre considering we assured them that we were serious and also that if a multi dwelling was not possible that we would be still interested in their standard housing developments.

While, Metricon asked us for our certificate of title, I guess as a proof of ownership, and promised they would then view the land to inspect it to ensure that it would be possible to build on.  However, on two attempts with sales people in their the Caulfield display home and once with those in Keyborough, we got no response at all.

For whatever the reason it seems as though this industry does not need to chase or pursue sales.

We had come to the conclusion that we would not find a sales person that we would like or a display home and floor plan that we would love.  However, the Metricon homes in the Signature range were pretty amazing, modern and chic all of the displays were not the package that you would typically pay for.  Most of those homes on display had additional specifications and were mostly over the magically $1million mark; excluding landscaping.

And so the search continues...