Pre-Purchase Design Review
Feel confident when you bid or make an offer that the property will actually meet your needs.
We will explore the home’s future renovation potential and walk you through the steps to help you decide whether it’s the right fit for your next chapter.
$1,499 +GST
(+ $599 for each additional property)
This package includes a minimum of 6 hours of professional time.
You receive a questionnaire to help your Architect GP understand your needs and wants, and to help you visualise what a successful outcomes looks like for you.
Your Architect GP gets to work researching the property’s planning context, and provides copies of the report to you.
Your Architect GP meets you at the address for a 60-minute workshop ready with analysis of the existing floorplan for discussion. No messing about, we want to hit the ground running!
We can move to a local cafe to workshop together how the property might be renovated and re-imagined as your home. Could it be staged? It is low-intervention or high intervention?
Discussion of budgetary costs.
Following the workshop your feedback is integrated and you will receive a revised and annotated floor plan. WOW!
Architects are held to the highest standards of any design professional in Australia. A signed agreement protects your consumer rights and is applicable to all workshops. You can view the Agreement template here.
“I can’t thank you enough for the advice you’ve given me which in the long term has saved me a lot of money and potential headaches and stress. Many thanks.”
Russell, Collingwood
Your questions, answered.
If not, please visit our FAQs page or get in touch.
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Are you house hunting? Or tossing up whether you should renovate or move?
Maybe you’ve found a few homes or a few plans you like, and you’re trying to figure out which one best suits your needs? That means working out which options will offer the best thermal and energy performance and year-round comfort, as well as the kind of lifestyle you want to enjoy.
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Our Architect GPs are really good at matching your needs to a particular house design or actual home. This stuff is our superpower. We spend years formally studying space and its future potential. We love working with existing houses because they have character, charm and are part of a neighbourhood.
We can help you determine how an existing home can be adapted for 21st century expectations and your particular circumstances - to extend its life and customise it for your family. That’s better for the environment and your own well-being.
We look at a home through a range of criteria including layout, orientation, planning context, environmental performance, and potential for improvement. We share that knowledge directly with you to empower your decision making.
If you need a technical “bricks, drainage, termites and roof” type of inspection, to see if a house is in good shape or whether it requires expensive rectification or maintenance, you’ll need a specialist building inspector, and we can refer you to trusted experts from our network.
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In short, you want to know what you don’t know. Whether a house that you think looks good will actually work for your family now, and in the future.
We get it. Buying or building a home is a huge decision - probably the most expensive financial outlay you’ll ever make - so it makes good financial sense to seek expert help before you take the leap.
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A pre-workshop Questionnaire to understand your goals and criteria.
A 60-minute workshop at the property (and/or local cafe), where you’ll get:
The undivided attention of your Architect GP
A workshop agenda to structure the discussion and enable you to prepare, so you get the most out of it
A prepared Architect GP who has read your questionnaire, done desktop research of up to three property addresses and is ready to work. The fewer properties on your list; the more detailed the discussion can be
You provide printed copies of floor plans and other information that you have on hand
Custom templates for each property for objective and sensitive analysis
Tim Tams, brought by your Architect GP, to keep our brains alert!
Architectural sketches developed with you to illustrate existing design strengths and constraints, opportunities for “quick wins” and/or strategies for future design improvements (we show and listen, we never just tell!)
Discussions of your budget and the impact that might have on your decision making
The reassurance that comes from knowing that your decisions are based on real data and knowledge, having explored various scenarios and future potential for improvements
A verbal summary of the key outcomes of the discussion and possible next steps
After the workshop, your Architect GP will create a summary Report for each property using the NOISE framework (Needs, Opportunities, Improvements, Strengths, Exceptions)
The value is you can get a glimpse of what a real future could be like in that property and the ability to make objective comparisons across your nominated options.
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$1,499 +GST
(+ $680 for each additional property)
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You can book additional consultations with your dedicated Architect GP anytime via the Architect On-Call booking window.