Thurgoona is where most of Albury's new housing has gone for the last decade, and it is about fifteen minutes from our office. If you are looking at a block here, the questions worth asking are not really about us. They are about which release the block sits in, what the covenant says, and how the land lies.
Not all Thurgoona blocks are the same block
The releases have come out over many years and they are not consistent, which is the single most useful thing to know before you start comparing.
Older parts of Thurgoona have generous, flat, conventional lots — the kind almost any design sits on comfortably. Newer stages include narrower frontages, battle-axe handles, corner lots with two street setbacks, and blocks cut into the rises. Each of those changes which designs are realistic, and some of them change it a lot.
Before you get attached to a floorplan, send us the lot number. We can usually tell you within a day whether a design fits, and if it does not, which two or three do.
Covenants, and why they matter more here than you would expect
Thurgoona estate covenants commonly set a minimum floor area, restrict facade materials, require fencing to a particular standard, and put a deadline on when you must start and finish building.
That last one is the one that bites. People buy land, take a year deciding on a design, and then discover the clock started at settlement. We read the covenant as part of the first conversation rather than after the plans are drawn, and we will tell you plainly if the timeline is tight.
Because covenants differ between stages, the answer your neighbour got is not necessarily your answer. Bring the document with the lot number.
What site costs usually turn on in Thurgoona
Two things, mostly: the fall across the building envelope, and the soil classification.
Neither is a reason to avoid a block — they are the two items that decide whether your site cost is modest or significant, and both are established by survey and soil test before your price is fixed. On the newer stages cut into the rises, fall is usually the larger of the two; see sloping block builds for what that means in practice.
We will give you a view on which way a block is likely to go before you buy it. That is information most buyers only get after settlement, and it is the difference between a bargain block and an expensive one. The full breakdown of what makes up a price is in what it costs to build.
Designs that suit Thurgoona lots
Standard estate frontages here suit the Evolve range. The Beau 27 sits on 25 by 15 metres, the Jackson 30 on 27 by 15, and the Camila 31 on 30 by 16 where the lot is wider.
For the narrower stages, the Bella 23 works on an 11-metre frontage without losing the butler's pantry, and the Dani 22 gets four bedrooms onto 22 by 13.
Deeper lots open up the Elevate range. And on a battle-axe or an awkward corner, a custom design is often the honest answer rather than forcing a plan that was drawn for a different shape.
Buying land and building together
A good proportion of what we do in Thurgoona is house and land packages — one contract for the block and the home, with the site costs for that specific lot assessed before you sign. If you already have a block here, send us the address instead.
Our office and Home Selection Studio are fifteen minutes away in Albury, and our three display homes are about twenty minutes across the river — close enough to see the finish level before you commit to anything.
