Starting from scratch

If you’ve outgrown your home but you love the location, the kids are settled at the local school and you have family and friends living nearby, you won’t want to move. You could renovate or extend your home, or you could knock it down and build a new one.

“When you like the area you live in, a knockdown-rebuild is a path to a better house in the community that you have come to know and love. It presents the opportunity to upgrade your lifestyle, use the equity in your existing home, and have a blank canvas to build your dream home,” says Craig Moore, general manager of Rawson Homes. “The result is a new, modern home, built on your own land and designed to suit your needs, now and well into the future — a house that will help you live better.”

Demolishing a run-down or impractical home and building a new one in its stead is also a great way to get the home you want in the location you want. There are many inner-city locations, well-established suburbs and beachfront areas where the hope of finding vacant land to build on is nothing but a pipe dream, so the only solution is