Background beind where we stand today

We're currently reasonably advanced in to the building process with Alkira Homes.  We've kept detailed notes on our full process up until this point with the intention at some point to get it all down in a blog.... unfortunately, getting it started took longer than we hoped... anyway, better late than never! 

The intention of this blog is to set out our thoughts and expectations about building a home with a project builder, and provide information on what actually happened in the hope it'll help people looking to either build a new home with a project build, or more specifically, build with Alkira homes.

We started thinking about building a new home in Sydney's Northern Beaches area back in June 2013.  In August 2013 we identified some land (an old knock down house in Seaforth) and had by this stage done a lot of researching on the various project builders by visiting on several occasions the Kellyville display village, speaking with various builders and searching the internet.

We chose Alkira Homes for a variety of reasons, but mainly it was down to:

1. the floorplan layout of their Elyse 15 home which suited our land dimensions and key design aspects very well
2. the flexibility offered by Alkira on changing certain features of the floorplan
3. the indications provided on the time it would take to build the home
4. price
5. strength of online reviews and comments on forums

We selected the Elyse 15 and on 24th August 2013 we paid $1,000 to kick off the formal tender process.