Choosing a block

After a few visits to some display homes in Oran Park my wife and I had fallen in love with the idea of building a brand new home, we really liked a Beechwood homes design so we set about looking for a block.

We had narrowed our search area to either Caddens, Mulgoa Rise or Oran Park, however after seeing the prices of the different estates we felt that Oran Park was much better value.

At the time the only blocks available at Oran Park were those that were being sold privately on realestate.com.au and were not really what we were after as based on the house design we liked we needed a minimum 540m2 block.

We had not registered for the land release emails from Oran Park but by chance I looked online and saw that stage 5B had just been released and there was one block in particular that we were interested in.

It was block 5209, a bit of a compromise and not what we were initially after being a corner block but being both bigger than what we needed at 660m2 and cheaper to boot we decided to go and have a look at it. With the block being surrounded on three sides by retaining walls and being up against a main road we were expecting it to be overlooked, have drainage issues or have a large slope but to our surprise on inspection it was none of those, it was flat as a tack, had a great outlook, was higher than both the main road and the block behind,  as well as having uninterrupted solar access from the north which would be in the back corner of the block which was probably the most important thing to me being as I wanted to build this house to be as energy efficient as possible.

The only problem was that the block was not going to suit the house design we liked, so we went back to Beechwood and they showed us another slightly larger design that would suit the mandatory garage position and solar access for the living areas.

With that sorted we put our deposit down and the block was ours :)