{"id":74610,"date":"2021-03-24T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=74610"},"modified":"2021-03-24T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T10:17:05","slug":"building-big-in-golden-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/living\/building-big-in-golden-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"Building big in Golden Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Metricon marks more than 10k homes completed in regional Victoria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MORE than ten-thousand regional Victorian families now call a Metricon home their own, with company reaching the milestone of new builds earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Metricon, we have a proud 45-year history of designing and building innovative, quality homes for every type of home buyer and budget,\u201d said Metricon\u2019s general manager for regional housing Phil Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to designing contemporary homes that continually evolve to meet Australia\u2019s changing lifestyle demands, and we are delighted that more than 10,000 regional Victorian families have now experienced this difference,\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74613\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74613\" src=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/03\/Santorini-31-Yale-KitLiving-Ballarat-vic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santorini 31 features a spacious open plan kitchen area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since establishing in regional Victoria in 2004, Metricon has not only built new homes for thousands of families at different stages of life and their home ownership journey but has also created jobs for hundreds of local workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe directly employ more than 290 local team members throughout the regions, together with in excess of 1600 local trades, who are all committed to producing quality homes,\u201d Mr Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy having a local team, we are able to offer a far more personal experience for our customers. We pride ourselves on the fact that we are providing local customer service at every turn to ensure our customers have a great home building experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metricon\u2019s regional Victorian business is on track to hand over several hundred more homes this year, with the regional market continuing to boom, especially on the back of the Federal Government\u2019s HomeBuilder scheme and city-dwellers desire for a tree or sea change post-lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegional housing is really thriving in 2021,\u201d Mr Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffordability is a key a factor, but lifestyle also plays an important role with more people keen to avoid the hustle and bustle of the city, have more land to enjoy with their family and to experience the sense of community that regional living can foster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have more than 90 display homes spanning across Victoria, with 35 of these located in regional areas, as well as three regional offices and Studio M selection centres to make it even easier for those who live regionally to build a home that they will love to live in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to be a part of the regional Victorian community and to support the towns that have shown us so much support since 2004.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>-SPONSORED CONTENT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metricon marks more than 10k homes completed in regional Victoria MORE than ten-thousand regional Victorian families now call a Metricon home their own, with company reaching the milestone of new builds earlier this month. \u201cAt Metricon, we have a proud 45-year history of designing and building innovative, quality homes for every type of home buyer [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/living\/building-big-in-golden-plains\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":74611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-74610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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