Estate Living Magazine Retirement Living - Issue 40 April 2019 | Page 30

P R O P E R T Y & I N V E S T M E N T EARLY BIRDS A residential estate is a strange thing. First it’s a piece of land, then a plan and marketing concept, then a construction site, then a bunch of empty buildings. But, at some almost mystical stage, that construction site becomes houses, those houses become homes, and those homes form a community. But what an adventure to be the first to move into an empty estate! Or the first to put your name on a nebulous list, committing to buying into not even a concept – a dream. Family Radford, open pla