This blog/website will follow our new house build on the new Banksia Grove Estate, just north of Perth, Western Australia. Only 5 minutes drive from where we bought our first Australian house in the next suburb, Carramar.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

On the move!

We have our settlement date - Monday 14th December!
We already have the keys to our rental, and starting to move stuff over during the coming weeks before settlement.

If anyone wants our new address, you know how to contact us...!! :o)

Next post will be after settlement, so 'til next time....

Monday, November 2, 2009

Offer accepted!

We accepted on our house over the weekend (Saturday 31st Oct), and all the formal documents have been signed. WOOHOO!

Managed to get our asking price, which is a huge bonus. Luckily for us, interest rates here in WA are on the rise again, and so too are house prices. We think that this, together with another announced reduction in the "First Home Buyers Grant" allowance has sort of forced people into buying. But hey, we're not complaining! And the people buying were the first group through on our first home open 3 weeks ago!!

So we now have an "Under Offer" sticker on our sale board, and the word is that the buyers wish to be in on the weekend of 12/13th December, the week before Rach and "The Holster" fly back to the UK for 6 weeks over Xmas and New Year. So we're looking for a local rental for the next 8/9 months or so until our new house is ready to move in to.

Land titles aren't released 'til February 2010, so we can't start the build process until at very least then.

We'll keep you posted....!!