Update from Woodlea

We received June 2016 construction update from Woodlea and so happy to hear that our land titling is now expected to be a month earlier than the original plan, from March 2017 to February 2017. Great job Woodlea! When other developers are behind schedule, you are smashing it!

Stage 14 - Expected titles February 2017

Stage 14 is located south of stage 13 and adjacent to the Deanside Wetlands conservation area. Construction has just commenced with stripping and bulk earthworks underway.

The construction of our sports facilities are also well underway and expected to be completed even before we start building early next year.

Active Open Space 

Civil earthworks are progressing in stage 1 of the Active Open Space sports facility comprising 1 AFL Oval, adventure playground, youth space, pavilion and car parking with completion anticipated in the 1st quarter of 2017. Construction of Stage 2 of the Active Open Space, comprising a second AFL oval and 10 tennis courts will soon commence with expected completion in the 4th quarter of 2017.

Image from Woodlea Update

Woodlea is also set to release Stage 20 with 40 lots this weekend and based on the latest price list, land with similar size as our Haven has already increased by $11,300. We're anticipating more price increases as Woodlea delivers more of the planned facility next year, cheers to our investment! 

We love Woodlea!

Yes, we do! Last month, Woodlea gave us another reason to be excited about our new home and community. All land purchasers were invited to a VIP Twilight Event where they launched the opening of the display village, the first park and playground and the cafe. 

The event was well organised and no budget was spared with the free food and drinks. They served tables of bagels, doughnuts and sweets and lollies. Guests can also line up on the food trucks scattered everywhere serving tacos, burgers, pizza and crepes. There's no reason to be thirsty with the bottled water they provide upon entry and the hot and cold drinks bar around.

Woodlea also made sure that everyone will find the entertainment they dig with the many activities around for the young and old alike. There were ferris wheel and octopus rides and street entertainers everywhere for the young ones and of course, the playground and park itself.

 Live music and then a cooking demonstration with Good Chef, Bad Chef host Adrian Richardson were held inside the Woodlea tent.   

The highlight of the night was the spectacular fireworks. No words can describe and no picture can capture the magic that the fireworks brought to the event!

It was a night to be remembered and Woodlea didn't fail to impress and excite the new community. 

We love Woodlea! Yes, we do!

Our Woodlea Land

Our land is in Woodlea, a new development in sleepy leafy Rockbank that claims to be the fastest selling community in Australia and we heard that they really sell lots like hotcakes!

We are in Stage 14 and the street name sounds pretty posh, Gilderton Esplanade. The Esplanade is a long road that snakes through the Deanside Wetlands and Reserve and this is what we really love about the land. The lots in the block were our land was would all have big yards and we would all be facing a reserve!

At this stage,everything is still in the drawing plan and we're hoping that the wetland and reserve will be developed and maintained the way we imagined it.

Our Australian Dream

We moved to Australia five years ago and just like any migrant here, it's been our dream to have our very own home sweet home. Fulfilling our dream has not been an easy job for us considering the rising property prices, the changes in the government grant and the fact that, Elmer and I needed to take turns in studying and working part-time as we plan our career changes to secure more stable jobs in the health industry.

We persevered and worked hard to keep on saving for our ultimate dream and so five years later, the dream is slowly becoming a reality. We can almost touch it and feel it and very soon we will be able to actually see it!

I really wasn't keen on owning a new house. I prefer to buy an old established one with a big yard and a nice garden and there wasn't a day that passed that I did not check domain.com.au for new properties on market. I religiously kept a shortlist of properties that I was interested and on days that Elmer and I are not busy, I would request him to drive me around to check out the properties which are usually in Delahey, Burnside, Burnside Heights and Caroline Springs. There were a few that we liked but not enough to make us fall in love.

Elmer was more interested in a new property being the picky and meticulous person that he is. We visited Atherstone, Modeina, Aspire and Infinity but we always find something that we did not like about them. 

And then, we decided to visit Woodlea and we were hooked!  On the day we went, there were a few lots that were available which was a big surprise as we heard how hard it was to register and purchase a land from them. It was not just any land, it was a land that ticked all our checklist : good sized, in front of a park or reserve and facing east. I really have a feeling that we were meant to have this land, we were there at the right place, at the right time with this land waiting for us!

There's just one hurdle that we needed to go through before we finalised our purchase, the land has a big frontage that tapers off at the rear and we needed to make sure that the house that we want, Amberley 27, will sit properly in the land. 

As they say, if something is right, everything will fall in place. After a couple of emails and meetings, Carlisle Homes confirmed to us that Amberley 27 just fits perfectly. It was literally a "just" fit mainly because Woodlea allows the porch to sit half a meter on the front setback. With a big relief, we paid the full down payment and so here we are and moving on with our dream!