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Been talking to the council. They say $10,000 in council and lands title fees and open space fees and surveyor costs and fee fees. They gave me the number of some surveyors in Adelaide that also have offices out this way. Add $3000 if you need to move a septic tank that is over the proposed...

Well, that explains everything out here then :) I'm buying a subdivisible block in SA at the moment, just not Adelaide, obviously. Anyone recommend any good surveyors, and preferably not ones based in the southern burbs? I can't for the life of me remember who I used last time. The block is a...

Just saying, if you buy a big block of land for say $40k and subdivide it into 4 smaller blocks and sell them for $15k each (as per Gladstone), you're either making an enormous loss or it does cost substantially less than $20k per block to subdivide. At least in Gladstone, anyway. I was looking...

Honestly, I don't know that much about Gladstone, the ad for that subdivision just happened to be on the same board as the ad for the house we're trying to buy. It is just north of Clare. It has a traffic light so it MUST be a big town! People often do water from tanks not mains connection...

Houses here tend to be either transportables that come in on a truck or absolutely huge sprawling single-storey brick places, nothing in between. I guess it isn't worth cutting corners building a small house if you can get a big, cheap block of land. The problem is more the length of time...

Ok, you made me look at council fees and charges for the area I want to buy in. I assume there's extra fees for titles lodgement etc and you still need the surveyor and probably an SA water connection, but check this list out: Lodgement Fees for all Development Applications 33.75 Minimum...

I was thinking it would be about the same to subdivide as the purchase costs for a house ... which for the one I'm under contract for, is about $4000. Adelaide councils must be raking in the dosh down there. Don't you guys pay $1000s a year in council rates while we pay $500 a year up here...

$20k seems excessive ... why would you subdivide when the costs are more than the value of the land you're dividing? You can get an entire HOUSE for $20k ... Anyone got a cost breakdown on that?