Welcome

Hi, Welcome to our blog! We have created this blog to capture the process of building our new home in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

We are a family of four, a mum, a dad and two daughters.

We arrived in Brisbane in October 2010, coinciding with the catastrophic 2010-2011 Queensland floods that left many Queenslanders homeless and 3/4 of the state declared a disaster zone.

We decided to rent first in order to get a feel for the various suburbs before buying a property.

We did a fair amount of travelling to and from work in our home town of Albany, Auckland, New Zealand. Hence, the first ‘must have’ for our new home was that it needed to be close to the CBD (<8km).

The other ‘must haves’ included:

• Land Size >700sqm
• Family-friendly Suburb
• Good Primary & Secondary Public School Zones
• Close Proximity to Private Schools
• Development Potential (Renovate or Rebuild)
• Good Street, Over Capitalizing should not be a consideration
• Nowhere near any horse stables, equestrian centres, etc
  (long story…involving multiple snakes and an eastern brown snake in our rental property back yard…8km from the CBD?!)