Home Designs Melbourne

Your conveyancer will provide you with a letter of settlement which is your responsibility to provide to SOHO Living, along with your formal finance approval from your bank or broker.

The site survey and soil test are necessary steps that are needed to build your new home. The soil test involves an SOHO Living engineer drilling into the soil to establish the type of soil we will be building on. We need this information in order to engineer the correct slab to support your home’s structure, and to establish which type of concrete is required for the job. The site survey of the land allows us to outline the precise levels of the lot, and locate its exact boundaries through the use of boundary pegs.

You can contact your New Home Consultant with any questions or concerns. Once you have settled on your land, a building coordinator will be allocated to you, who will answer any questions from the settlement throughout construction.

SOHO Living is responsible for lodging your building permit per the HIA Contract. A building permit authorises the construction of a building or structure, as long as it complies with various building regulations. This includes things like the siting of dwellings, protection of adjoining properties during construction, structural adequacy, light, ventilation and drainage.

The First Home Buyers grant is accessed through and administered by the relevant Government Authority. You can find out more about the First Home Buyers grant and what you need to do to apply by visiting the State Revenue Office’s website.  Please note that if you intend on applying for the First Home Buyers Grant or any other Government Grant, SOHO Living has no control or influence over the application process and we can’t promise that you will qualify for the Grant, nor are we liable for your application.

As part of your build, SOHO Living will provide you with physical connections to water, stormwater, sewer, gas and electricity. We will also set up an electricity account, as electricity is needed on site to construct your home. This electricity account will be the responsibility of SOHO Living until settlement, when we will transfer the account to you. After settlement is complete, you are welcome to maintain this account or arrange electricity with another provider. Please note that it will be your responsibility to pay any consumer account opening fees, rates or consumption on the water and gas accounts during the construction phase.

Yes, SOHO Living will only supply you with the physical provision for phone and internet (if applicable). That doesn’t include consumer account opening or connection fees.

A copy of your building permit and stamped approved plans will be included in the finance pack you receive prior to construction commencing. Please note that your lender will require a copy of these documents in order to release your progress payments.

The HIA Contract requires you to submit your formal finance and settlement letters within 45 days of settlement on your land. You can provide them to us as a written confirmation from the Lending Body that your mortgage documents have been signed, or in the form of a current bank statement in the owner’s name. We can’t proceed with construction unless these documents have been received, so it’s best to provide them as soon as possible.

Our expert interior designers have carefully assembled our colour schemes to ensure the colours used in each scheme compliment each other perfectly. Because of our commitment to maintaining consistency of quality and value across all of our builds, we are not able to make changes to the colour schemes on offer.

SOHO Living are committed to maintaining consistency in the quality and value of all of our builds. As a result, we’re not able to accommodate requests to make changes to the colour schemes we offer.

Unfortunately SOHO Living are not able to accommodate these sorts of requests. We’re obliged to construct your home in line with the Building Permit approved plans, and to maintain a certain quality of work for liability reasons. Any additional works, or the inclusion of items you’d like to feature in your home, can be carried out after settlement.

Yes, all clients have access at each build stage with their designated site supervisor. All site visits outside each stage should be pre-arranged with your site supervisor.

Yes, SOHO Living will cover the insurance throughout the construction period. However, it is the responsibility of the homeowner to have home and contents insurance post-handover.