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You may be looking to purchase a new home and land package, or buying an established new home off the lot. Regardless, you are searching to buy a home for you and your partner, currently family and potential family in the not too distant future, right? If so, you may want to consider the type of home you purchase initially that will best suit your expected family size. You don’t want to be making family decisions down the track, solely based off the size of your current home at the time. You’ll be asking yourself, how many kids can we have? Is the house suitable for the amount of kids we want? Is the neighborhood suitable to raise kids? Etc., Etc., Etc., Here’s a few tips for you to consider when buying your new home to ensure there is room to grow with the growth of your kids and family size.

Plan Ahead

If you are in the midst of discussing family size with your partner, you must have some general idea of how many kids you plan on having. Sure, your original ideas will change based on the path that life decides to take you. You may receive job promotions, move overseas or come into some poor health (let’s hope not), regardless of the scenarios, you’ll have a general indication of eventual family size. So you can plan around that.

Buy a Home to Accommodate Your Expected Family Size

This could be a little more expensive initially. However if you plan on having a certain number of kids, you should buy a home to accommodate all at once. This may be a little extreme if you plan on having 10 kids and only have 1 at the moment. Based on a more respectable scenario, if you plan on having only a couple kids, buy a home with 4 bedrooms opposed to 2. This way your family will grow into the home.

Use Spare Rooms for Other Purposes

With the unused spare rooms you currently have, you can utilise these for additional guest rooms, living rooms or play rooms. You can get the most out of the free space initially, then once more kids come along, you can simply create a room to accommodate them.

Buy in a Suitable Area

If you are buying a home in a selected neighborhood, do your research to discover if there are respected schools, parks and other suitable facilities that will be required with the growth of your family. It would be pointless to buy a home in a residential area that doesn’t have any nearby schools or shopping centres. These will be used constantly once your family grows and the closer these resources are, the more convenient it will be in the future.

Planning ahead to buy a home to accommodate for your non-existent family isn’t easy. You can only plan to the best of your ability and follow these tips to buy a home that will be house your intended household. When choosing off house plans, do the best you can to select a plan that will best suit your expected family size.

Written by Keith Hensley