We recently had an offer on a block of land and were going to build a new house- I actualley found it quite stressful because everything was costing more and more tha we had first anticipated. In the end the site works on our block was going to blow out to $45,000 which for our house and land package put us over the amount we could borrow, therefor we didnt get finance, didn't build the house. At the end of the day I was soooooooooo glad it all fell through, I just didnt feel comfortable with how the prices of everything just kept going up and up.

Now we are going to buy establised, we are just about to do an offer an acceptance in the next few weeks, and I feel so much happier with it all, we know exactly what we are up for- and where we stand.