House first or land first?

It's easy to fall for a display home, then go looking for a block. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the design is too wide for the blocks in the area you want.

The order that works: your budget first, then the area, then the home. Your budget sets the total. The area sets the land price and the block sizes on offer. Then you choose a home that fits the block and the budget, and it's still designed around you. We guide you through each step.

Before land or a house, know what you can comfortably commit to. We send your details to our licensed broker partner, who looks at what a lender might offer. Then we help you look at your savings and work out the weekly repayments you're willing to pay to own your own home. Everything else follows from that number.

A titled block has been registered by the government as its own piece of land, with its own title, so it can settle as soon as your loan is ready. An untitled block is bought while the developer is still finishing that stage. Settlement waits for the title, and the contract has an end date, called a sunset clause. If the title isn't issued by then, the contract can end.

The block decides more than people expect. Its width decides which designs fit. Its zoning code (R-Code or R-MD code) sets how far the house sits from the boundaries. Its slope affects siteworks. And the estate's design rules set how the front must look. We get all of this for every block we show you.

If you need something fixed, like four bedrooms, a theatre and a double garage on one level, you already know how wide a block that home needs, and we can search with that in mind. If you love one design, we can find estates with blocks that suit it. The trick: decide the home's width and depth first, and let the block decide the rest.

A house and land package does this for you: a design already matched to a block, priced for that block and estate. That's handy if it's a block you'd have picked anyway. If not, we can match a design to the block you prefer.

• Budget: your details go to our licensed broker partner, and we help you work out the weekly repayments you're willing to pay.
• Area: two or three areas that fit, with their block widths and whether land is titled.
• Home: the designs that fit those blocks, then a visit to a display home.
• Secure it: we price a design on your block, siteworks included. You sign the Preliminary Plans Agreement and pay a deposit to secure your home, and the building contract follows about 2 weeks later.

Leave your details with your budget and the areas you like, and we'll show you what fits now. That way you get the land and the home you want, without compromise.