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Yes Stockland and Berstan Homes have teamed up again with their yearly affordable home and land packages. Every year Berstan and Stockland put together a small group the very affordable value packages throughout the Stockland estates.  These great packages are designed and price pointed at first home buyers, retirees, downsizers and investors. The locations this year are Mernda Villages in Mernda and Eucalypt in Wollert. The packages offer a turnkey solution with prices starting at $320k. The packages are available
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Berstan Homes are offering a couple of their display homes for sale with a rent back opportunity.  The display homes have been built to exacting standards by Berstan Homes and are an outstanding investment with great rental guarantees. The Display homes come fully equipped with the best features available and plenty of upgrades.
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I was with some clients last week and they were discussing how one of their parents had just purchased a home in a retirement village. The costs were ridiculously high for the property they purchased. The cost was $700,000 for a 10 square home with a carport for one vehicle with management fees every week on top of the $700,000. The rip off doesn't end there, the monthly fees like body corporate fees in a normal strata title unit, the
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Hazelcroft estate is a boutique estate situated within easy walking distance to one of the best Victorian schools Ivanhoe Grammar. The estate offers large open space areas and a central park with very child friendly play equipment.  The central park also offers full BBQ facilities with the appropriate seating and shade. AV Jennings as a premier property developer in Victoria since 1932, and started by Albert Victor Jennings. Albert Victor Jennings was 35 when he started the company and built
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Land sales are destined to be completed by November 2016 with demand exceeding supply. This outstandingly popular estate by Stockland is typical of the community styled living environments created by Australia’s number one property developer.  Berstan Homes are a proud builder partner with Stockland and are actively building numerous homes around their Victorian estates. Berstan Homes currently have 35 homes under construction in these estates and have a similar number of homes pre sold for a build start in the next
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Looking for a wow factor well have a good hard look at Bamboo flooring!There are so many different amazing styles and colours to choose from with matt finishes to high gloss. There are also matt finished planks with stressed areas making them not only able to create interest but practical for a growing family environment. We have experienced high demand for this product lately and I feel as our clients see the sustainable and environmental benefits of this product we
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It’s interesting how many comments I get from our clients regarding the selection process of most builders. Most complain about how many different centres they had to visit during their selection.  Some of our client’s friends said it became very annoying the amount of travelling it took and all the time going to different locations. At Berstan Homes you will not experience the same problems as mentioned above as we have our selection onsite alongside our display homes. Making the
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank the team at Freedom furniture for the supply of their wares to our recent display village.  The staff where very helpful as they always are and it was a pleasure dealing with them.
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I keep hearing the same comments time and time again about cheap priced volume builders. My house has this problem and that, they never return my calls, etc, I reply you get what you pay for. Buying a home is the same as buying any other product. You cannot expect a cheap volume builder to give you a quality product for such a low price and the sheer volume of product they produce. If you ask a tradesman who the
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Oaks Day is synonymous with the ladies - both on and off the track. The (2500m) $1 million crown Victoria Oaks is the ultimate test for three year old fillies in the Spring carnival. 'Ladies Day' as it is affectionately known is a day for high fashion culminating in the most prestigious of the various Fashions on the Field competitions held throughout the Spring Racing Carnival. The only one of the four major Melbourne Cup Carnival meetings to be held
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