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Hello! My name is Sonia and me and my family are about to start a new building project. We only moved to Melbourne a little over two years ago from a smallish city town in northern New South Wales and have come to see Melbourne as our new home. When we first moved here we decided to rent until we felt ready to make a big decision like building or buying a solid base in Melbourne and we only just made that decision mid 2010 but now that we have we've gotten the ball rolling by buying a block of land. Buying land is incredibly stressful especially in the West where land prices have sky rocketed (ours was a ridiculous 315k!) and availability has been limited due to the state government wanting to stop the rapid rate of urban sprawl for the next 20-30 years so it can keep up with infrastructure. We called every real estate agent within the locality and enquired about upcoming land releases to no avail, we even decided to look at 20 or so built houses in our time as it seemed much easier in the long run but we found nothing that felt like 'home'. Eventually we went back to the Taylors Hill land sales office and found that three blocks had come on the market and we quickly made our decision that night and went back the next day to put a deposit down which was very lucky as three couples were waiting around us for our decision incase we didn't want it! It's also one of the very last 'big' blocks of land available for sale at  670 m², I probably don't have to mention that we felt very lucky to have finally acquired our own land! I hope you'll say tuned as we continue with the process of choosing a builder!