Practical advice for buying vacant land and building in the Illawarra
Two documents — sometimes more — control most of what you can build on any piece of Australian residential land, and most buyers never read either. They're not secret. They sit on the council website,...
6 May 2026Somewhere on most Australian residential lots, somebody else has a right to do something on your land. The water authority might need to access a sewer pipe that runs under your back yard. Your neighb...
16 April 2026When a developer creates new lots, they can also attach a single legal document that quietly tells you what you can and can't build, what materials you must use, what you must maintain, and what you m...
14 April 2026The address on the contract is not the legal description. The legal description of any Australian lot is a "lot on plan" — for example, "Lot 12 in Deposited Plan 1234567." That plan is a survey-accura...
12 April 2026This may be the single most misunderstood phrase in Australian vacant-land marketing. "DA approved" can mean almost anything — from "the council is willing in principle" through to "we have a register...
10 April 2026Most Australian property buyers never give a thought to what kind of title they're getting. They assume "owned" means owned, and for the overwhelming majority of residential land in Australia, they're...
8 April 2026Two premium vacant blocks available now at 6 Emperor Court, Berkeley.
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