Hi guys, thanks for all of your replies. To answer some of your questions, he has been upfront about the fact that they get paid by the developer. As a company they bought a number of town house style properties all in a row. The place recommended to us is a four bedroom, double storey with 2 and 1/2 baths, double garage, with a alfresco area at the rear in Meridan plains,which is near a lot of recently built our being built infrastructure like the sunshine coast uni hospital. I have looked in the area on realestate.com and there are a few existing places in the same estate for sale, some bigger and more expensive, some similar size, as in 4 beds etc, but they have a largeish back yard, some smaller and a bit cheaper. So i think his pricing is Ok? My main concern is a four bed will be marketed at a family, but they will have no back yard for the kids. Then again people want ease of living without having to do much work in the garden, so I’m not sure?
He was recommended to us via our superannuation guy, (who has looked after us for years), who is affiliated with the same larger company. They are both basically sub contrator types for want of a better term. The main reason I’m fairly confident that he will try to give us something decent is we are still fairly young and he knows that we may well buy more off him down the track if we decide to buy this one and it goes well and our super guy knows that he will lose our buisness if we get ripped off.
It’s a huge decision so in just trying to get as much info as i can before we decide to go ahead or not.

Thanks again,
Scott