Aston

Obviously whenever given a price, it's best to at least look around and see if you're getting an okay deal.  The prices I'd been given for Highlands were all over the place - a similarly sized block could seemingly vary anywhere between $180k and $235k!  I didn't understand why, so kept digging.

During my digging, I came across the Aston estate.  I'd seen the stage 3 release, but then one day happened to visit the site while I was at work.  What's this, a stage 4 release open soon (18th Feb).  But this is strange - there's a complete list of prices.  And these ones appear more reasonably priced.

I called the rep, and found out what was going on - to say it was a bit of an "oh crap" moment on their end would be an amusing understatement.  The short version was he wasn't aware they had been published, and had to then chase up getting them removed from being publicly listed :D

Being me, I of course copied all this info down before it disappeared, so I was looking at info a bit more like this:

Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 410	333m²	14m	$184,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 411	313m²	12.5m	$175,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 412	313m²	12.5m	$175,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 413	350m²	14m	$185,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 414	350m²	14m	$185,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 415	350m²	14m	$185,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 416	313m²	12.5m	$175,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 417	313m²	12.5m	$175,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 418	350m²	14m	$175,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 419	400m²	16m	$165,000
Release Stage 4 Round 1		Lot 420	350m²	14m	$169,000

Much more reasonable prices to work with.  But more importantly, prices I could go back to Highlands and talk about with.