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Custom home building is costly. In fact, the cost per square metre for a custom home design is typically four times that of a standard home design.

But that doesn’t mean you have to settle for an off the shelf, cookie-cutter home design when what you really want is something that uniquely fits with how you want to live. It all depends on the home builder you choose and how willing they are to work with you to give you exactly what you want.

At ANSA Homes, we are a boutique home builder who truly believes that you should get the new home that is just the way you like it. Our approach enables new home buyers to access the best parts (and cost efficiencies) of the project builder methodology while also customising their new home.

Custom building is all about design flexibility and defining and delivering a precise, tailor-made living solution for each customer. And that’s what ANSA Homes provides – minus the costs typically associated with custom building.

ANSA Homes’ unique approach to custom home design

Most new home designs are similar in terms of what they include. What differentiates builders is how willing and able they are to reconfigure their standard designs to give customers exactly what they want – and how they price such design changes.

For example, a home buyer may come to ANSA Homes with a certain home design in mind, perhaps the double storey Brooklyn 32, the single storey Arlo 25, or one of our award-winning house and granny flat designs. They like the design, but want to tweak it in places. They may want to:

• move the bedrooms around;
• add another ensuite or two (!);
• enlarge the living area;
• move some walls to fit in more storage space; or
• address something specific to their lifestyle or block of land.

To deliver what the client truly wants, our design team will take their chosen design, modify it, and provide an accurate cost estimate of the new base design. It’s worth noting that, generally speaking, moving things around on your floor plan won’t change the cost as much as you might think, provided the total footprint of the house doesn’t change or the complexity become an issue.

If you already have floor plan ideas that you want to use, our sales and design teams will listen and learn from you what you want to achieve with your new home, and determine what is our best fit from a standard design perspective and how we can then customise it to make it perfect for you and your family.

“Moving things around on your floor plan won’t change the cost as much as you may think, provided the total footprint doesn’t change.”

That may even involve taking half of one of our standard home designs, and half of another, and combining them to give you the custom home design you truly want. And the best part is you’ll enjoy economies of scale and efficiencies that you wouldn’t be able to access through a purely custom home builder.

“While ANSA Homes isn’t a custom builder, we can still offer design flexibility for your new home.”

The ANSA Homes team has extensive experience in working with home buyers to help them build their new home just the way they like it. Sometimes it’s changing the size of a bedroom or two. Sometimes it’s adapting a design to create a multi-generational living space. And other times it’s creating additional storage space, a media room, an outdoor kitchen, a prayer room, or a third garage.

Essentially, anything is possible and can be incorporated cost-effectively (compared to hiring your own architect) using one of our existing designs as the starting point.

If you’re considering a knock down rebuild, or have land and are searching for a builder who can work with you to bring to life the home you are picturing in your head, get in touch with our friendly team to discuss how we can design your home just the way you like it. Call us on 1300 757 810 and let’s get started.

It’s been a crazy year that none of us will soon forget. But as 2020 has worn on and we all settled into the new normal, we hope that everyone has found reasons to celebrate.

As we look ahead to 2021, all of us at ANSA Homes are grateful for the resounding support we have received from home buyers. And we were happy to see all the people who visited our display homes in 2021!

The COVID pandemic has had a major impact on the residential building market this year and we’ve risen to the occasion. To offset the effects of the pandemic, we offered virtual tours of our display homes and a price freeze on knock down rebuild projects.

We didn’t allow the pandemic to slow down our product development, nor stop us from acknowledging changing market needs with trends such as the changing face of Aussie suburbia and the introduction of our new green homes division.

The icing on the cake for us was being named a finalist in the Master Builders Association of NSW’s Excellence in Housing Awards 2020 for our two-storey Sierra design.

2020 ANSA Homes’ highlight reel

Here are our other highlights for the year, which we have shared through our regular news updates over the last 12 months.

What’s coming in 2021

The COVID pandemic’s effect will still be felt in 2021 with the changing needs of homeowners and more people choosing the ‘burbs over the inner city. Knock down rebuild projects will continue to grow in popularity as:

• land is more expensive;
• new blocks are smaller; and
• people are more connected to their communities and less inclined to move.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. And here’s to a fantastic 2021! We have a great year in store – and we look forward to seeing you in the new year.

When shopping around for a builder to build your new home, among many other things you’ll compare inclusions packages that each builder offers.

As a home buyer, you will study inclusions packages and promotions, pouring over even the smallest of details. You will compare inclusions packages to measure up which package offers the most value where you most want it.

The problem is it can be hard to directly compare inclusions packages from different builders when the products and brands included can differ so much. It’s no surprise that home buyers seek support when assessing inclusions packages.

ANSA Homes’ approach to inclusions

At ANSA Homes, we showcase the value to you of the items we include. But we’re not really talking about the monetary value here. Rather, we emphasise the intrinsic and practical value of having these specific, very carefully chosen upgraded items in your new home.

Because it’s one thing to have a great new home, but it’s a whole other thing to have a great new home filled witha suite of items that truly make your new home feel just the way you like it.

Inside the ANSA Homes Pinnacle Plus Inclusions Promotion

The ANSA Homes Pinnacle Plus inclusions Promotion is a top-tier inclusions promotion. It contains many of the well-known high-end quality brand additions that can truly make your new home come to life just the way you want it to.

Across all parts of your new home, the ANSA Homes Pinnacle Inclusions Package delivers value through quality features, quality finishes, and quality brands as standard. In addition to this, with the ANSA Homes Pinnacle Plus inclusions Promotion, we offer customers a variety of high-end brands for both appliances and room features as a little extra luxury. These brands align with our promise of certainty for your build as they all stand for quality and luxury, helping you to have your new home, just the way you like it.

Here are just some of the key features, by room, that are included in our Pinnacle Plus inclusions Promotion.

These are just some of the key features included in the ANSA Homes Pinnacle Plus inclusions Promotion. Don’t just build your new home – fill it with the premium brands that you and it deserve, with the Pinnacle Inclusions package and the Pinnacle Plus Promotion by ANSA Homes.

Find out more about ANSA Homes’ Pinnacle Plus Inclusions package now or contact a team member to find out how you can start your home building journey today.

ANSA Homes’ Sierra display home at Marsden Park has been named a finalist in the display home category of the Master Builders Association of NSW’s Excellence in Housing Awards 2020.

The annual awards celebrate excellence in construction, innovation and quality in the building and construction industry in NSW. The Housing Awards showcases the very best in residential construction.

The event attracts a broad cross section of the residential building sector, including project home builders, contract builders, apartment constructors and contractors specialising in additions, alterations and renovations.

The Sierra is a four bedroom, three bathroom double-storey luxury family home. It is one of three ANSA Homes display homes at Homeworld Elara Marsden Park in Sydney’s north west.

Luxurious and spacious Sierra

The spacious Sierra provides generous living areas over two floors and plenty of features, such as a grand fireplace in the main living area and a mud room opposite the internal garage door.

The large open plan living/dining/kitchen area is one of the Sierra’s most popular features. The kitchen includes a marble island bench, large butler’s pantry and servery-style windows that open-up to an alfresco area on two sides.

“The Sierra is designed to allow plenty of natural light [and] is best suited to a larger block.”

Downstairs includes a study and a media room, which could also be used as two ‘working from home’ zones to fit some of the post-COVID changes many families are now experiencing.

As well as the spacious master bedroom and three bedrooms upstairs, the Sierra design also incorporates an additional TV room or living area – depending on your family’s requirements.

The Sierra is designed to allow plenty of natural light – but also to balance the need to be cool in summer and warm in winter.

While the supply of land for housing in Greater Sydney is decreasing and lot sizes in general have been reducing in size for more than a decade, the suburbs themselves are currently on the cusp of revitalisation. It’s one of the many unexpected consequences of the COVID pandemic. We are seeing it in 2020, and we will continue to see it in our post-COVID world.

In a recent article in The Australian, demographer Bernard Salt noted that COVID is giving home owners more time to spend in their homes and their local communities.

“The great work-from-home social experiment is jolting into life the suburbs surrounding our biggest cities,” Salt writes. “And in the process, it is snatching time back from the commuting monster, returning it to those in Australia’s suburban heartland.”

Many experts are predicting that there will be a fundamental shift in the number of people working from home in the future even as we emerge from the pandemic. As a result, home owners are rethinking what they actually need in their home, and looking at ways to reimagine their existing home so it better suits how they now want to use it.

Knock down and rebuilds on the rise

Knock down rebuild projects have become increasingly popular since the early 2000s, following rapid increases in land prices alongside decreasing lot sizes in major cities.

With home owners spending more time at home, many are now reassessing their homes and what they want from it. For example, they’re realising that their homes are not well-equipped for working from home, especially if multiple family members are working from home. They’re realising that they want a dedicated home office room in their home, as well as other special use areas, such as a permanent home gym.

At ANSA Homes, in recent months we’ve seen an increase in inquiries from home owners in established suburbs across Greater Sydney looking to knock down their existing home and start afresh with a new design. They are telling us that they know, love, and want to stay in their local community, but their existing home no longer suits how they are now living. That’s why the idea of knocking down their existing home and building a new one on the same piece of land is so appealing.

“Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many home owners were seeing the idea of knocking down an existing home and rebuilding as an attractive option,” says ANSA Homes Founder and Managing Director Mark Maloney. “With the growing shortage of land in the capital cities, more people are opting to stay where they are. They are choosing to knock down and rebuild, replacing their tired old house with a great new home.

Knock down and rebuild versus renovation

Before choosing between a knock down and rebuild and a renovation, it’s important to understand the key differences between the two. The main difference comes down to predictability around total cost.

Renovation costs are difficult to predict, so builders need to build a contingency into the quote to cover unexpected expenses that may arise. This is partly because every renovation is a bespoke project that is time-consuming and labour intensive. 

In some cases, repairing major structural damage, sourcing the right kinds of materials, or modernising an old house to bring it up to date in terms of energy efficiency and overall quality has the potential to be very costly and time-consuming.

In contrast, brand new homes can be built quickly, using proven systems that maximise efficiency and save time. As a result, our customers are favouring knock down rebuilds over renovations to create the home they want to live in in 2021 and beyond.

When you build with ANSA Homes, we don’t just build your new home, we build your new home just the way you like it. To explore your knock down and rebuild options with ANSA Homes, contact our team on 1300 757 810. 

All home builders in NSW must meet Building Sustainability Index (BASIX) requirements for new homes. Most builders choose not to go above and beyond the BASIX mandatory minimums, but ANSA Homes does because we are not just another home builder. Rather, at ANSA Homes we are driven to deliver certainty by designing and building new homes just the way our customers like them.

Through our experience and expertise in green home building, we know that many homebuyers today want to build sustainable features into their new home. The rising interest in sustainable home building is two-pronged. We have found that increasingly new home buyers are looking for effective ways to reduce their long-term impact on the environment, while also seeking innovative ways to add long-term value to their new home.

Offering the Bristile Solar roofing system

ANSA Homes is one of very few builders in NSW that offers a full photovoltaic (P.V.) solar roofing and energy management system as part of our Pinnacle Inclusions package.

The innovative Bristile system doesn’t just enable you to meet BASIX requirements around renewable energy; it goes further by enabling you to tap into a rich source of solar power to offset the cost of powering your new home.

Considered one of the best solar roofing and energy management solutions for residential building, the Bristile Photovoltaic (P.V.) Solar energy system combines the latest in clean energy, solar and battery technology (battery only included with our Green Plus package), complete with a stylish and durable roof tile range.

There are four key components to the truly innovative smart energy saving solution that the Bristile Solar roofing and energy management system offers.

Solar cells

Making the most of clean energy sources, our Pinnacle Inclusions package includes as standard the quality, high performing Bristile solar panels system that captures the natural energy from the sun. Traditional mounted solar panels are offered as standard, however stylish integrated tiles that seamlessly match your chosen roofing tiles are also available as a further upgrade, should you so wish.

The inverter

Turning the captured clean energy into useable power, the inverter converts and delivers AC power to your power points, powering your various household devices without using power from the electricity grid.

Battery power storage (in the Green Plus package)

Harnessing and storing your clean energy for when you most need it, the battery power storage unit enables you to store and use generated power for your home, rather than sending it back to the grid. The battery power storage system is available as part of the ANSA Homes Green Plus package.

Smartphone monitoring and communication

Giving you greater energy management control, and the cherry on top for the Bristile Photovoltaic (P.V.) Solar roofing and energy management system, is a smartphone app. The Bristile app enables you to remotely view the amount of power generated by the system.

Future thinking with ANSA’s inclusions

The Bristile Solar roofing system available to all ANSA Homes customers through our Pinnacle Inclusions package comes with an extensive roof panel warranty that includes a 25-year performance warranty as well as a 12-year product warranty.

And with a 10-year inverter warranty as well, not only will you be adding additional, immediate value to your new home by enhancing its green credentials, but you’ll also be reducing the cost of living in your new home for years to come.

When you build with ANSA, we don’t just build your new home, we build your new home just the way you like it.

Download our Pinnacle Inclusions booklet now to see all that’s included in our luxury as standard Inclusions. Or speak with our team now to discuss our Green Plus package by calling 1300 757 810 or visiting one of our display home locations.