Category: Investment

  • Triplex Development – Zoning, updated

    In my last post I introduced zoning and how to calculate the allowed housing density depending on the R codes. Well, that didn’t provide the whole picture, the minimum land is a little less than 10,000 divided by the R code I am located in Western Australia where the planning of land use is governed…

  • Triplex Development – Zoning

    In the last post I introduced my planned triplex development, I skipped over something, why specifically a triplex development? This comes down to zoning, zoning is one part of the general council’s land use Planning Scheme, in simple terms, zoning determines the minimum land size a dwelling must reside on. My land is zoned R20/R40,…

  • Triplex Development – Introduction

    A few years ago together with the misses, we bought an old house sitting on a decent parcel of land, enough to build three houses when the time came. You can further read about the purchase on our joint blog. Well the time has now come to start developing, as a first time developer and…

  • Calculate Stamp Duty with Excel

    A quick post of how to calculate the Stamp Duty of a property with Excel, in my example I am using the Western Australia Residential Rate Dutiable value. Download the Excel WorkBook. Update, next day This also works for Individual income tax rates;