Client Own Land

Make sure your finances are in order. Obtain a pre-approval of your loan requirements before going on with the next step. If you haven’t yet settled on your block of land, speak with your broker/ lender about SPLIT LAND and CONSTRUCTION LOANS. This will ensure you have the funds to settle on the land and later receive the funds to start construction.

Sign a Sales Advice on the house design & inclusions you choose and pay a non-refundable deposit of $ 1,000. This deposit will allow you to receive a sketch of your preferred design plotted within the lot parameters and a Quotation Tender

Your Quotation Tender will be presented to you in person. You will have 7 days to accept this tender. Upon acceptance, a further non-refundable deposit of $2,500 is required to be paid and the Tender price will hold firm for a period of 30 days. Our staff at the CSB Homes administration office will then contact you to book a contract signing appointment. This appointment should be made for a day within 14 days from your Quotation Tender date.

At this appointment, you will be required to enter into our Preliminary Agreement and pay a deposit towards early works (i.e. non-building works required to achieve Development Approval). The deposit amount under the Preliminary Agreement is calculated as 5% of your total Tender price less the $3,500 already paid in steps 3 and 4 above. You will also sign your building contract documents, which will detail all of the terms and conditions related to the building works that CSB will carry out once you have Development Approval and construction is ready to commence.

Five business days after signing your Building Contract, the cooling off period under your building contract expires. At this point, the preliminary agreement and building contract are binding, and you can now move forward with our process to developing your plans.

You will be invited to meet our in-house designer for a one-hour design consultation. During this meeting you will discuss your design and any further amendments or variations you may be considering to the layout. You should take advantage of our designer’s expertise and ask for advice as to any further changes, including any upgrades that you may be thinking of. If your the land is registered, a contour survey will be ordered to assist with developing your plans.

Our designer will incorporate all the changes requested from this design consultation into the sketch and present it to you for the final layout approval. Once the floor plan has been approved, an Elevation Sketch is prepared and this is also presented to you for your approval.

Attend a PART A Colour Selection appointment with our colour consultant. This is where you will be able to choose the external colours of your new home: bricks, gutter, downpipes, roof tiles, windows, garage door, main entrance door etc. from our extensive range.

At this point, we have obtained all the information we need for our designer to complete full scale architectural plans. Once complete, we engage the services of our external consultants; Engineer, energy assessors, Sydney Water, Council and certifiers to prepare other documents required for Development approval.

Once Development Approval has been obtained, a certificate of Home Warranty Insurance is obtained, and your Building Contract kicks in. Following receipt of a Letter of Commencement from your bank, construction works are commenced