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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Home Design Examples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Thank you for visiting our Home Design Examples page. Please select the home design below which is most suitable to your project and view or save the example PDF provided. Single Storey Home Design &#8211; Click Here Double Storey Home Design &#8211; Click Here Unit Development Home Design &#8211; Click Here]]></description>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;">Thank you for visiting our Home Design Examples page. Please select the home design below which is most suitable to your project and view or save the example PDF provided.</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 16px;">Single Storey Home Design &#8211; <a title="Single Storey House Plan Example" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sample-single-storey.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here</a></strong></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Double Storey Home Design &#8211; <a title="Double Storey House Plan Example" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Sample-double-storey.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here</a></strong></p>
<p style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Unit Development Home Design &#8211; <a title="Unit Development House Plan Example" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sample-unit-development.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here</a></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Keep your ears open &#8211; if you hear that a friend, family member, work mate or<br />
anyone for that matter is thinking of building a home be the 1st to call or email<br />
BBP and if that person/s you referred has not called us already and<br />
starts building with our best building price you will get $1.00 OFF Your<br />
next 500 litres of Fuel.</p>
<p>Refer 10 and get 10 fuel cards &#8211; no limits apply.</p>
<p>1st person to refer the home buyer to BBP gets the card.</p>
<p>Duration of Promotion : 15th of May 2011 &#8211; Until further notice.</p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Choosing the Right Builders for Property Developments and Unit Developments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in using property as an investment device, there are many benefits, provided that you go about things in the right way. When you work to choose the right builders for your property developments and unit developments, you’ll be ensuring that you’re satisfied with the final result. Basically, you want to make sure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re interested in using property as an investment device, there are many benefits, provided that you go about things in the right way. When you work to choose the right builders for your property developments and unit developments, you’ll be ensuring that you’re satisfied with the final result.</p>
<p>Basically, you want to make sure that in the end, <img style="float: right; margin: 10px;" title="property-development" src="http://betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/property-development1.jpg" alt="Property Development" width="300" height="250" /> the property fits the exact specifications that were agreed upon before the building process even started. However, be careful not to do things in a haphazard way, because the last thing you want to do is fall into the endless trap of coughing up more money than necessary during the building process. After all, <strong>property development</strong> is all about saving money so that you’ll see a lasting return on investment, and there’s no need to get off to a bad start by not taking the time to select proven <a title="Building Brokers" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building brokers</a> who’ll help you every step of the way.</p>
<h2>Rely on Proven Expertise When Selecting Builders for Your Unit Developments and Property Developments</h2>
<p>When you choose to use BBP for your <em>property development</em> needs, you can use their expertise to your advantage.  Trying to navigate the tricky world of drawing up building plans and finding the best builders for your project can seem impossible if you try to do it without help. Of course, ideally, you’ll be able to get builders to bid on your project in such a way that the price is something you can afford, without you having to compromise on any part of the building process. This is easier said than done though, because even if you’ve recruited builders before, it can be very difficult to get a competitive price for your project, simply because you don’t have the same level of access on your own without the help of <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building brokers</a>.</p>
<h2>Builders Can Turn Your Plans and Dimensions For Unit Developments and Property Developments Into Reality</h2>
<p>If you want the maximum return on your investment, your efforts should begin long before construction gets underway. If you’re dealing with a unit development, use BBP to draw custom design plans to your exact dimensions. This will ensure that you use the space available to you in a smart way. Although pre-designed plans may look good on the surface, there’s a good chance that if you use them, you’ll be throwing valuable square metres and ultimately reduce your return on investment. That’s why before you even begin to evaluate builders, you should let BBP help you design plans for your unit developments and <a title="Choosing the Right Builders for Property Developments and Unit Developments " href="http://wp.me/p16J9f-az">property developments</a>.</p>
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		<title>Building Brokers Advantage for Home Buyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying a home is an exciting and monumental event for any Australian family. Building brokers can help you end up with a home that you can be proud of for years to come. Relying Upon Building Brokers To Help You Create Home Plans One of the most anticipated parts of planning a home purchase is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buying a home is an exciting and monumental event for any Australian family. <a title="Building Brokers Advantage for Home Buyers" href="http://wp.me/p16J9f-at">Building brokers</a> can help you end up with a home that you can be proud of for years to come.</p>
<h2>Relying Upon Building Brokers To Help You Create Home Plans</h2>
<p>One of the most anticipated parts of planning <img style="float: right; margin: 10px;" title="home-buyer" src="http://betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Home-Buyer.jpg" alt="Home Buyer" width="300" height="250" /> a home purchase is surely the act of drawing up plans. Although this is just the beginning part of your home purchasing journey, it is one that allows you to have complete control over the dimensions and amenities of your new home. In order to ensure a cost-effective and pleasant experience for you and your family, consider using a <strong>building broker</strong>. They can help you with the process from start to finish, allowing you to benefit from their industry-specific expertise during the process of drawing up your building plans all the way through until the day when your chosen builders take responsibility for turning those building plans into reality. Keep in mind that if you rely upon your building broker to draw up your plans, you should insist on keeping the copyright ownership. This will give you the freedom to shop for other builders outside of the ones suggested to you on behalf of your building broker.</p>
<h2>Using a Building Broker Can Help You Save Money Building a Home</h2>
<p>Like most potential home buyers, saving money is probably one of your top priorities. Fortunately, <em>building brokers</em> can help you get what you want at a price you can afford. They can help you in several ways. First, since <a title="Building Brokers" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building brokers</a> are experts in their industry, they&#8217;re able to urge the builders to bid low on your building project. Think about what might happen if you tried to submit your building plans without help from a building broker. The builders would probably immediately recognize your inexperience, and use it to their advantage, forcing you to pay a higher price than what&#8217;s reasonable to get your project completed.</p>
<p>Since you own the copyright of your building plans, you don&#8217;t have to have your needs handled by a salesperson. Instead, your <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building brokers</a> can deal directly with the upper management members at your chosen building company. This helps you get the building process underway sooner, at a price you can afford. Building brokers act as a bridge between your builder and yourself, expediting the process and helping you every step of the way so that you can move into your new home and start enjoying it sooner.</p>
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		<title>Building Brokers: Custom Built Homes for Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Builders enjoy bidding on custom built home projects because they know that these can be profitable business ventures. But what do you do if the bids you’re receiving are a lot higher than you initially planned? Do you choose the lowest bid to save money, or do you decide to pay more than you planned [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Builders enjoy bidding on custom built home projects because they know that these can be profitable business ventures. But what do you do if the bids you’re receiving are a lot higher than you initially planned? Do you choose the lowest bid to save money, or do you decide to pay more than you planned in order to use a builder you know and trust?</p>
<p>With <a title="Building Brokers: Custom Built Homes for Less" href="http://wp.me/p16J9f-am">building brokers</a> you don’t have to settle for the lowest bid, or feel strapped for cash by taking on a bid you know you can’t really afford. A <strong>building broker</strong> isn’t a builder, but rather a network that negotiates with reputable builders to get you a lower price without sacrificing the quality of work.</p>
<h2>How Building Brokers Work</h2>
<p>The <a title="Building Brokers" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building brokers</a> work for you, not the builders. <img style="float: right; margin: 10px;" title="custom-built-home" src="http://betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Custom-Built-Home.jpg" alt="Custom Built Home" width="300" height="231" /> You can start by obtaining your own estimates for building your custom home.  You can choose to get as little as two estimates or as many as ten. You then submit your custom home job to the brokerage and they work to negotiate the lowest price they can get for the job. Before you even tell the brokerage the lowest price you received from builders, the brokerage will inform you of the lowest price they received. If you did manage to get a lower price than the brokerage, they’ll work to get you a price lower than your lowest bid.</p>
<p><em>Building brokers</em> can manage to negotiate low prices because they work with such a large client base. Builders know that they can’t reach as many potential customers as the broker does, so they agree to negotiate in order to have access to a large client list.</p>
<h2>How a Broker Can Save You Money</h2>
<p>The majority of home buyers can’t afford to pay cash for a custom built home. So buyers rely on a bank to provide a loan to pay the builder for the home. This means that you want the lowest price possible for your property. By using building brokers, you can save thousands and end up having a lower mortgage. When you can borrow a lower amount, you automatically save thousands more by not having to pay interest on a larger amount. While it’s possible to shop builders and get a lower amount than the initial bid, most buyers aren’t able to negotiate the way a <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building broker</a> does. By using a broker, you get assurance that the price you’re paying for a custom built home is the lowest price possible.</p>
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		<title>Guide to Property Development – The Copyright Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you’re ready to find a piece of land and research builders who can help you build your dream home. But is it really as simple as just looking for a prime piece of land, drawing up some plans, and then waiting for the builder to tell you it’s ready for you to move into? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you’re ready to find a piece of land and research <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">builders</a> who can help you build your dream home. But is it really as simple as just looking for a prime piece of land, drawing up some plans, and then waiting for the builder to tell you it’s ready for you to move into?</p>
<p>There are a number of things that affect how quickly your home is built and the overall cost of the building process. Before choosing a builder for your <strong>property development</strong>, you need to understand how the building process works and what you need to watch out for when creating a contract.<img style="float: right; margin: 10px;" title="Property Development" src="http://betterbuildingprices.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/property-development.jpg" alt="Property Development" width="300" height="231" /></p>
<h2>Builders Want to Control the Process</h2>
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<p>While you may have some ideas for your <a title="House Designs" href="http://betterbuildingprices.com.au/house-designs">home plans</a>, builders do prefer if you choose to use their standard plans or if you provide ideas to add on to their standard plans. The reason they prefer to lock you into a standard plan contract is because they know you have to work with them if you really love that particular home plan. When a builder creates <a title="Guide to Property Development – The Copyright Secrets" href="http://wp.me/p16J9f-9E">property development</a> plans, they automatically own the rights to that plan. No other builder can copy the plan exactly, and even you as the buyer cannot take the ideas and have another builder copy them and build your house.</p>
<p>If the builder’s salesperson does their job right, they’ll have you loving one of the standard plans so much that you can’t imagine having a home that looks any different. Now the builder controls the process because you are determined to have this particular home style, and you’re at the mercy of the builder’s pricing policies. There’s no room left to shop around because no one else can build you that exact home.</p>
<h2>Own Your Designs</h2>
<p>You may think that just because you thought up a design for your property, and paid a fee to have the builder draw up the plans, means you can then turn around and shop those plans to any builder in the search for the best price and completion date. Unless you specifically state that you own the rights to your designs, a builder can add your designs to a <em>property development</em> plan and claim copyright. To avoid this, always declare copyright, and have the builder agree, before having anyone draw up your custom designs. When you own the rights to your designs, you are free to shop around for <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">builders</a> and negotiate pricing to get the house and the deal you want.</p>
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		<title>Property Investment Tips – Shop Builders Pricing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in a property investment as a means to build capital? Investing in Australian property is one way to start building a nest egg for the future, but do you feel confident that your new property is a cost-effective investment? The point of having an investment property is so that you can have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you interested in a <strong>property investment</strong> as a means to build capital? Investing in Australian property is one way to start building a nest egg for the future, but do you feel confident that your new property is a cost-effective investment? The point of having an investment property is so that you can have a substantial future return on your initial investment. If you choose to go with the first builder you speak with, you may not be getting the best price. It’s best to use a builders negotiation service to help you get the best building pricing.</p>
<h2>Property Investment Tips</h2>
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In order to build a home that will offer you a decent future return, you need to come up with a functional design. Remember that you’ll be selling the home in the future, so you don’t want the home design to be so unique to you that it’s not appealing to future buyers. In order to shop builders for the best prices, you should work with a <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building broker</a> to help you draw up plans for your property investment.</p>
<p>If you work directly with a builder to draw up plans, they will own the copyright of your ideas. This leaves you unable to shop other builders with your same ideas, because the former builder now owns the copyright of those ideas. With a broker network, you could still own the copyright of your ideas and can shop around with different builders.</p>
<p>Once you have <a title="House Designs" href="http://betterbuildingprices.com.au/house-designs">home design</a> plans that you own, shop around with a few builders to find out the overall cost of building a home on the property. When doing the research yourself, you may have to deal with a builder’s salesperson, although it’s easier to negotiate directly with the builder. Once you have a few bids for building, you can ask the broker network that helped you draw up your plans what the lowest building price is through them.</p>
<h2>Relying Solely on a Builder Brokerage</h2>
<p>One of the easiest ways to manage your <a title="Property Investment Tips – Shop Builders Pricing" href="http://wp.me/p16J9f-9y">property investment</a> is to deal solely with a <a title="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/" href="http://www.betterbuildingprices.com.au/">building broker</a>. You can submit your plans to the brokerage, and it will help you find the lowest builders price. The brokerage has more clout than the average home investor, so they can use the ability to negotiate to get you drastically reduced pricing. While there is plenty of <em>property investment tips</em> available from real estate agents and brokers, if you don’t get a good building price, you may never get a stellar return on your investment.</p>
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