Complicated
Avril Lavigne said it best with her lyrics “Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?” Because that sure is what the seller has
gone and done here. On offer effectively is over 900m2 of mostly flat LMR2/3 land across two lots in a premium location owned by a church.
There’s actually a third lot involved that the church is looking to retain. That is complication number one. The site has vegetation
protection over it (complication number 2). The church wants the buyer to manage and pay for demolition of the existing house, tree removal,
and installation of services (complication number 3). And finally, because they haven’t made things complicated enough already, the church
would like the buyer to build a new refectory (house) for them (complication number 4). Whilst we haven’t painted a very Rosie picture, we
see a silver lining here, in that the buyer pool will quickly become whittled down because of these requirements, potentially allowing us to
buy for less. We can possibly also work things in our favour with regards to construction of the new house. We can’t really provide a price here other than to say we’d likely want to be about to $2.1m for our two lots less any expenditure, but exactly what gets paid
will come down to how the whole deal gets structured.
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