01 May 2009

Inspiration in a Package

House and land packages are nothing new in the Perth building industry. For many years first homebuyers have understood the benefits of sourcing a house and land from the same place, simplifying the financial structure of the purchase and saving on time and money.

One of Perth’s leading builders of luxury homes has taken this idea on board with an eye to a completely different market, those savvy and discerning purchasers of premium two storey houses who would not normally consider a “package”.

David Hochwald-Jones, General Manager of Residential Attitudes, explains.

“When people come to Residential Attitudes they know that our design ability is second to none, and that our building quality is a benchmark in the industry. What they might not realize is that we have a wide range of contacts in the land sales, development and real estate industries. Our consultants, supervisors, and managers know the suburbs in which we build intimately, and this puts us in an excellent position to help our clientele source land”.

Residential Attitudes has also noticed that many of their clients are “time poor”. Mr. Hochwald-Jones goes on to say “The design and building process can seem an involved one, and clients with busy family and work environments sometimes find it a blessing when someone else has done the leg work of finding the right piece of land on which to realize the dream. Given that we know the block already we can also offer significant time savings in the designing of a house that suits the client’s needs.”

In fact, the Red Box and narrow lot house plans from Residential Attitudes take this idea to another level, offering as they do the design flair and quality of construction and specification for which Residential Attitudes is known in a compact form perfectly suited to the blocks available. The savings in time and money are considerable.

 “With a Red Box home, or one of our narrow lot houses such as the Mayfair, we can have the best in contemporary design available almost at once at a surprisingly affordable price” says David.”For instance, we have blocks available through local agents in Mt Pleasant which perfectly suit our Mayfair design for a total price of about $1.2 million, with city views. Another of our narrow lot homes, the Soho, would see a total home price of about $1.1 million. In Princeton, we have a large lot opposite a park, only minutes from the city, on which we’re ready to go with a Red Box Andromeda home for an investment of about $900,000. These are beautiful 2 storey homes, basically ready to start, and offer huge advantages when compared with established homes.”

David Hochwald-Jones and his team realize that much of their business will still involve designing luxury homes for clients who come with their own block and dreams, but with packages available in suburbs like Mt Pleasant, Ardross, Applecross , Princeton, Churchlands, Sorrento, Wembley, and many others, the idea is proving popular.

Residential Attitudes can be contacted on 1800331388, or by visiting residentialattitudes.com.au