Decision from buying an existing home to building in 1 weekend.

I have to say I'm still pretty amazed at how our dream of a home together is turning out...

We both always knew at some point in 2011 that we would start looking to buy our own place. I had been "ogling" houses on domain.com.au for sometime before the announcement by the NSW government about withdrawing stamp duty concessions for existing homes. A slight sense of panic definitely set in when that was announced.

Like many other first-home buyers, we started looking at a budget and setting out criteria for our new home. After several weekends of hunting, we finally found a townhouse we both loved in Toongabbie and decided to make an offer. It was definitely disappointing when that fell through. With the benefit of hindsight, Lady Luck was certainly smiling on us!

We started thinking about buying new homes and scoured for new developments within the 35km radius of Sydney CBD we knew we wanted. The Georges Fair development in Moorebank ticked all the boxes for us. From there on, to cut a long story short, we went, we saw, we "conquered".

More of my random thoughts to come...