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I've been looking quite a lot at renovation costs, including attempting to benchmark what you 'should' be spending on various aspects of the renovation. This has led me to such numbers as 2% house value on the kitchen & 1.5% on the bathroom. Now here's my connundrum, probably best...

This is probably a silly question but anyway.... I am looking at a house currently which has an unapproved granny flat downstairs. I don't want a granny flat so not bothered it's not approved, I'm happy to re-purpose the rooms as long as the rooms themselves are compliant / approved. From...

In my search for a new PPOR I've come across a house which has an inground pool which has been filled with something (has a tarp on it so not sure what exactly). While I'm not necessarily looking for a house with a pool I know my 4yo would be an extremely happy little man if one came along with...

I'm trying to get my head around planning regulations and am stuck figuring out what they mean by this: Example: An RFB has ground floor units. The RFBs within the Substantial precinct are required to provide 16m2 courtyards on the ground floor. The balcony requirements for Substantial would...

http://http://www.domain.com.au/ore/Public/Gallery/Photo.aspx?adid=2011669387&st=1 Saw this bathroom design the other day & thought it was quite clever for a small space. On the other hand will be extremely surprised if ther achieve the asking price for these townhouses!

Can anyone can help with how difficult, read expensive I suppose, it would be to remove an attached garage from a relatively modern house? I estimate it's a late 80s / early 90s build, the garage is attached at the back of the house - the WIR / ensuite of the main bedroom backs on to it...

A friend of a friend needs an independent property valuation to assist with separation of assets. She's struggling to find one who will service Liverpool area, can anyone help with contacts / recommendations. It's the family home. TIA

Current PPOR, which I'm having painted in a few weeks. I'm trying to decide if I should keep the current colour scheme, see below, which I quite like, or change. One alternative I thought of is a slightly darker / more mushroomy main colour with a fairly dark steel blue, maybe something like...

A friend of mine, who's currently renting, has realised their fridge is leaking and has damaged the bamboo flooring. They've also been given grief (by the builder, who I think came to look at the damage) for using a steam mop on the bamboo flooring but they were not given any specific...

Question 1: Scenario is that the development will commence in one tax year - buy land, pre-dev costs, hopefully subdivision costs but the build would not be competed till mid way through the following financial year. Will probably hold 1, sell 1. Can someone explain how claiming costs would...

Increasing income - what can you do? A few weeks ago, there was a comment on SS (which for the life of me I can't find now, hence the new thread) which talked about not only decreasing costs but also putting effort into increasing your income. It is very obvious of course but had quite an...

Apologies in advance for the 'dumb' questions. Situation: development size block DA / CC approved in 2008, appear to be current, though would obviously check Total cost estimate on DA is $313K Questions: 1) If they're selling the block with DA / CC I can assume the plans would come with the...

This drives me nuts, surely it increases admin but does it really provide a benefit to the agent? I'm assuming it's to get people to talk to them or fall in love with the property before they've seen the location or some other such reason but do they really think it's going to make a...

I'm tentatively dipping my toe into developing & doing some feasibility on a block of land. I've briefly spoken to a town planner & am getting the contract of sale, I've exhausted my limited knowledge &, as this is my first development, plan on engaging a project manager, have a formal...

Hi all I just want to check I understand how this works (I guess it may be different from council to council), Newcastle if that is relevant. Contemplating a small (200sqm) block and putting 2 terrace style townhouses on it. This would be my first development. The FSR for the block is .75...

I've seen some talk about options but haven't got around to researching / figuring out how it works. I saw this so wondered if someone can explain: http://www.domain.com.au/property/for-sale/terrace/nsw/birmingham-gardens/?adid=2011285501&sp=8

Has me thinking that some (haha, probably 1 initially) development sized blocks might be a smart move. Guessing people are down sizing into units & thinking villas might be a good middle ground. Thoughts?

Just wondering if those who are into development have done any formal education in building / construction or if you employ appropriately qualified or a bit of both?

I'm very new to this & would love some feedback if people are so inclined :) I received my house valuation back today, it was slightly higher than I expected (yay!) so I have $50K to play with. Refinancing, I have been quoted 4.94% IO with 100% offset, no LMI as it will be 80% LVR. Immediate...

Hi all I looked at a house today on a ~640 sqm block. At the moment it has a house set quite forward and within about 2m of one boundary on the long narrow block. There's a large garage behind. The block slopes up from the street. I looked at with the thought that a) it was cheap for...