Melbourne Apartment House
The driving principle of subdivision is simple: take a parcel of land and make more parcels as a result. While you can find laws, rules and processes to adhere to, the subdivision and progression of land in established settings offers excellent and rewarding opportunities, usually within the reach from the average property investor. Our Apartment House design solution is a new way to approach a vintage problem.
Builder Melbourne
A number of our projects involve subdivision in a form or any other, ranging from dual occupancy (where a new dwelling is developed behind a preexisting one) to multi-level apartments. Due to lack of land in well-serviced, high-amenity locations, the whole process of subdivision can also be generating innovative design responses on increasingly difficult sites.
Inside the look for infill land there has been ever smaller allotments being carved out, using land that was, until recently, considered marginal. This can be everything from a few disused car spaces to some small backyard fronting a laneway. Employing clever planning and design activates such sites and increases housing supply in places where people wish to live. The Apartment House design solution might be suitable for the next development.
Architect Melbourne
Subdivision also responds towards the diverse housing requirements and demands of changing family structures. Driven by a growing a preference towards proximity to transport and amenities over larger allotments or yards, it is clear that there is a growing demand for a new typology of housing. Looking for a house that is “not-quite-apartment” and “not-quite-townhouse”, buyers are increasingly trying to find some thing similar to an “apartment house”.
Combining the space and layout of a townhouse with convenience of apartment living, the “apartment house” utilises clever and efficient design features to produce a low-maintenance and affordable housing alternative for buyers. Utilising balconies as private open space and incorporating clever design features, land only has to be sufficient for that building footprint (and, if required, airport parking).
Weaving between the low-availability of vacant land in well-serviced areas and growing buyer interest in smaller, better-designed and more affordable housing, subdivision should be seriously considered by entrepreneurial real estate investors.
Before starting, our Property Development Assessment service will help you identify a site’s development opportunities, and also the combined knowledge and experience of our multi-disciplinary team will direct you from the planning, design and make processes, towards better and ultimately more profitable outcomes.