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AUTUMN 2016
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SUMMER 2020/21 arcadiacommunity.com.au
Making a bid for better
children’s cancer treatment
My Room Children’s Cancer Charity is set for a major financial boost after the third annual Home
for a Cure charity auction, held at Arcadia in November, ended with a winning bid of $695,000.
Following fierce bidding from five attendees beginning at Satterley’s Chief Executive, Nigel Satterley AM, said it was
$601,000, the hammer came down with the price $75,000 once again a great pleasure to contribute to the Home for a
over the home’s reserve. And when all was said and done it Cure auction.
was Indra Gurung and Tejendra Khadka who had secured the
“This is the third time Satterley has joined with My Room
four-bedroom Simonds home.
and Nine for Home for a Cure, and we couldn’t be prouder.
The pair, who currently live in Mount Waverley, had been Once again, we’ve witnessed the good that comes from
searching for their first home for two months before a community of tradespeople, retailers, developers and
discovering the spacious Aspire 174 set on a 465-square builders working as one to help others.
metre block in Officer.
“We’re thrilled for Indra and Tejendra and hope they love
“The first time we saw the home fell in love with it,” Indra living in Arcadia as much as our other residents. It’s a strong
said after the auction. community with a wonderful story behind it and this adds
another fascinating chapter.”
“I couldn’t sleep for the next few nights. I was just so worried
someone would beat us at the auction.” My Room’s Chairman, Maurizio Marcocci, said he was thrilled
with the result.
The home came with an extraordinary combination of
extras, among them $40,000 worth of Adriatic furniture, “Although we’ve been involved in charity auctions for some
$25,000 of electronic goods from JB HiFi, outdoor furniture time now, the sense of gratitude and excitement never dims.
and a play set from Bunnings, bedding from A.H. Beard, This is a result we simply couldn’t consider without the
homewares from Salt&Pepper, soft furnishings from Harvey incredible generosity of partners such as Satterley, Simonds
Norman, a 12-month premium digital subscription to The and Nine.
Age, as well as a 12-month subscription to Stan.
“This is a very significant sum and will help us in so many
The Home for a Cure auction was the centrepiece of a vital ways. It will assist families directly and it will also have
fundraising effort that also included a telethon hosted by a dramatic effect on the kind of research and trials that lead
Channel 9, raising a total of $2,347,653 following the auction to better treatments, and hopefully one day even cures, for
result. The proceeds will go towards support for families with childhood cancers.”
a child undergoing cancer treatment, medical equipment
and clinical care, in addition to research and clinical trials.
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Update from our Development Manager
Hello everyone and thanks for taking the time to read our summer
newsletter. In this edition, we’ll update you on how the project is
coming along, provide some news and information about what’s
happening in and around the community and you’ll hear from our
General Manager on the state of the market. Julian Hill, Senior
Development Manager
Stage updates
We’ve made good progress on Stages
despite the obvious challenges of
the last several months. Stage 20
titled in June and Stage 29 titled
in August 2020. The noise wall in
Neighbourhood 3 has also now been
completed.
Construction on Stages 21 and 22
has been completed and compliance
testing is underway. Stage 21 will
likely be lodged at the Titles Office in
January and Stage 22 will follow.
Parks, playgrounds and
waterways
Works on the Neighbourhood 3
park have commenced, and we’re
forecasting that it will be complete
and ready for residents to use in May
The centrepiece of our Neighbourhood 3 park will be a 25-tonne climbable dragon
2021.
Regular readers will know the park Unfortunately the landscaping works Officer South Road/Princes Freeway
has been affectionately dubbed on the Officer South Road seasonal interchange are well underway.
“Dragon Park” because of the gigantic waterway have been delayed until There’s a traffic diversion now in
climbable sculpture that will become further notice. We’re currently working place until the end of 2021. Satterley
the centrepiece of the playground. with Melbourne Water to try and will be delivering the project and
That dragon will be designed by resolve the issue causing the hold up construction works will commence in
Agency of Sculpture and will end up as quickly as possible. early 2021.
weighing around 25 tonnes (about the
same weight as a large truck). It will Roadworks
require two kilometres of welding and
150 hours of plasma cutting. Service relocation works for the
Officer South Road upgrade and the
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A note from our General Manager
This year marked Satterley’s 40th anniversary. For four decades, Satterley has prided itself on
building strong and harmonious communities.
While for obvious reasons we couldn’t quite celebrate as we were hoping to in 2020, we still took
enormous satisfaction in the community spirit that marked Australia’s response to the pandemic.
COVID-19 has affected communities and businesses, which of course means it has affected economies.
Many commentators early in the year predicted that property prices would fall dramatically as the full
effects of the health response kicked in, but we are glad to see that simply hasn’t happened.
In Melbourne, there was a slight dip in median house prices for the September quarter, but this was during
a period when nobody was allowed to physically inspect homes. If you compare current house prices in
Melbourne to this time last year, they are in fact 7.4 percent higher (Real Estate Institute of Victoria October
2020), showing that growth has been steady.
And thanks to the way Australians have handled the crisis – and the position we’re now in compared with many other parts of
the world – we are hoping to see that market resilience continue into 2021. That should be significantly assisted by the recent
government announcements that stamp duty will be reduced by as much as 50 percent for newly built or off-the-plan homes
valued at up to $1 million until 30 June 2021, and also that the HomeBuilder grant will be extended to offer $15,000 for new
build contracts signed between the 1st of January and the 31st of March 2021.
Speaking of next year, I’d like to wish you and your family a happy new year and a wonderful Christmas period. Thank you so
much for your kindness, your patience and your resolve in 2020.
Jack Hoffmann, General Manager, Victoria and Queensland
Virtually Together keeps
community spirit alive
Sometimes “staying apart to stay together” during 2020
was easier said than done. While we were sad that we didn’t
have as many in-person community events this year as
we’d have liked, we were delighted to see that our Virtually
Together program kept the community spirit alive.
In addition to teddy bear hunts, footpath chalk art, stay-at-
home movie nights, kindness cards and Spoonvilles, two
of the big highlights of the program were the kite flying
extravaganza and our Virtual Halloween celebration.
Thanks for the virtual love Arcadia…
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How Jess and Josh made
their property dream come
true during lockdown
As Victorians breathe a sigh of relief and enter summer with significantly eased restrictions, it’s easy to
look back on our winter (and spring) lockdown as a time when everyone put their lives on hold.
That wasn’t the case for everybody, however. In fact, some
people soldiered on under these difficult circumstances and
turned their dream of home ownership into a reality. We
spoke with two of them.
Josh and Jess have known they wanted to build their own
home for a long while. In fact, for years they’ve known
exactly which one: the four-bedroom, two-storey Ashbury
30 by Henley. Only in 2020, though, did they narrow down
their search for the ideal block of land to build on. And, just
as they settled on Arcadia as their preferred community,
COVID-19 struck.
They had had the opportunity to visit the Satterley estate
before the restrictions tightened, but by the time they were
ready to buy, in-person meetings were off the cards.
“We had been lucky to visit both Arcadia and Henley prior to
were asked to spend a lot of time inside and separate from
the lockdown effects, however our entire process of purchase
friends and family.
and settlement so far has been remote,” Josh explains.
“Having been unable to spend time away from the home
“Lorraine Hibl, [Satterley’s Sales Professional for Arcadia] was
– aside from work – has certainly made us value the
incredibly helpful in providing us with any information we
importance of a family home that suits our lifestyle. The
needed and getting back to us very quickly.”
house we are in currently is quite small and definitely does
Josh tells us that he would have preferred to buy under not afford much space. The lockdown has also made us
more conventional conditions but says he and Jess never value the need for another workspace.”
wavered in their belief that now was the time to purchase
“Overall, though, a home we can raise our family in and
land for their home. The size of the Arcadia block they were
establish as our own has always been our dream and if
able to secure, as well as the quality of the community, only
anything COVID-19 has just made this more evident.”
bolstered their confidence.
Josh and Jess’s land will title in 2021, which means they have
“The uncertainty of everything [was] unsettling, however we
a little while to wait before stepping into their new home for
had been saving for a house for a few years, and we had a
the first time. But Josh says their experience with the display
certain date in mind for when we were looking to purchase.
home before the lockdown has given them something
The economic impact that COVID-19 has had has not
exciting to look forward to.
slowed our plan down.”
“The first time we walked in, it just felt like home. It’s the
What did change, however, was the way Josh and Jess
perfect size, not too big for the block we wanted and not too
thought about a home during a period when all Victorians
small for a growing family.”
Happy
New Year!
Wishing you all a very happy
holiday period and a safe,
healthy and enjoyable 2021.
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