4 | Yaruum House and Land play home in the Vintage Golf Course Community. The Vintage is a Greg Norman designed golf course and residential subdivision located in the lower Hunter Valley and is amongst the region’s wine growing and tourism area. Stephen seized that chance, and he now estimates that designs in the Vintage Collection make up roughly 25 per cent of the company’s workload. “They are mainly up-market homes,” he says of the Vintage Collection, which is comprised of architecturally designed homes that maintain the high standard of the Vintage Golf Course Community. “They provide the best of outdoor and indoor living, and our high quality inclusions and finishes create the perfect lifestyle home.” Vintage Collection Homes – like all of Yarrum’s homes – are provided in a turn-key package, and come complete with air conditioning, floor coverings, landscaping, screening fences and a driveway. And though they were designed to incorporate the guidelines of the Vintage Community, they can be modified and built on any client’s block to the same exacting standards. GIVING CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT Before founding Yarrum House and Land, Stephen was the Chief Executive Officer of one of Australia’s largest home builders and residential developers. These days, he combines the experience and skills he earned in that role with the personalised customer service that goes with being a smaller company. “We don’t take a factory approach,” he explains. “We’re not just churning out homes that
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