By Gordon Lee
If you haven’t already then at some point in your life, you will find yourself trying to get onto the property ladder and you will find it a very frustrating thing indeed. When we were young, we dreamed about owning our own home someday and having a nice garden around it with maybe a white picket fence. We get our notions of what a perfect home would look like from movies but the wonderful thing is that your dreams can be achievable if you just know who to talk to when it comes to finding a house and land. Figuring out the location where you want to start your family can be very difficult as well because you’re obviously going to be looking for somewhere that is close to your job but is also near good schools and good shopping facilities as well. Many people spend years looking for the perfect property and they still don’t find it even after all of their efforts.
This is why house and land packages are becoming incredibly popular because someone else does all of the hard work for you when it comes to finding a suitable property and the land that surrounds it. In Australia, land is at a premium and there is less and less of it to go around every year that goes by. There are homes being built everywhere and the price of these homes rises year after year. It can be incredibly difficult to get yourself onto the property ladder and so anything that makes your search a little easier is to be embraced. The following are just some of the benefits of land and house packages.
* You get to decide – Many homes are built without any input from the future buyer and this can be incredibly frustrating when you can’t have the home of your dreams. The beauty about house and land packages is that you can pick the plot of land that you would like your home to be built on and then you can discuss with your builder about the finished home design that can come close to your dream property. The builder will try to work with you as much as possible to build a home that meets your requirement.
* There are tax benefits – You only need to pay stamp duty on land if there is no house on it and so this allows you to save yourself some money that you might be able to spend on the structure of your house to meet your individual needs. These days in government also offers additional funds in the form of a scheme that provides you with a sizeable amount of money to build your new home.
You also need to take into consideration that your new home will need less maintenance than if you bought a home that had already been lived in before. A house and land package is a fantastic investment for your future and for your family’s future.
