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Developer Villawood Properties 500^th lot sale at its Alamora community in Tarneit marks a key benchmark in the project’s rapid growth and a milestone in Melbourne’s fastest-growing greenfields corridor.

The 500^th buyers, Rini Roy and Deepankar Das, took advantage of a $20K savings offered by Villawood to Care Workers that underscores the community-focussed nature of Alamora.

Rini, a teacher at nearby Karwan Primary School, said the Care Worker Support Program was part of a community imperative that drew many people to Villawood and Alamora.

“I think it’s good to be giving back to them, they realise how hard it is,” Rini says.

“Many care workers don’t get paid a lot, so taking some of the price off the land is very helpful – especially for care worker parents having kids.”

Rini and Deepankar have bought a 392sqm lot in Alamora’s stage 14, which is set to title in Q2 next year. They are upsizing from a townhouse nearby, where they have lived for the past year, and are looking forward to a larger home where they hope to raise a family.

For Rini, the proximity to her workplace is a godsend. When she first started work in the area, at Truganina P9 College, she travelled from Vermont in Melbourne’s east – a trip that took 90 minutes one-way on a good run.

Deepankar, a completions engineer with the Metro Tunnel, says his work run from Alamora will take 35 to 45 minutes, depending on which site’s he’s working.

Both say Alamora’s planned Residents Club, playgrounds, parks and retail, together with nearby primary and high schools, railway station and sports stadium made their new home choice easy.

“The Residents Club was definitely one reason why we were looking for a community like Alamora,” says Rini.

“But Villawood is also big on owner-occupiers and less renters in its communities. This means you know who you’re dealing with when you build your own family home. It also protects the value of your property.”

Deepankar said the popularity of Villawood’s Alamora, and ongoing strong growth in the Tarneit corridor, was a good omen for the couple’s financial future.

“The area is growing so quickly,” he says. “Alamora is good value, especially compared to where I lived in Melbourne earlier. It’s hard to get in there now but more people are coming in here and prices will grow, our property’s value will go up.”

The 2000-lot Alamora is located on the southern side of Sayers Road’s western reaches. It was launched in February 2021 with more than a dozen car-park campers, anxious to secure their dream blocks, on the scene days before sales opened.

That initial rush saw hundreds of potential buyers almost overwhelm sales staff in a powerful surge of pent-up demand, with more than 30 lots sold immediately. It set a blistering pace that continued for months, leading the growth in Tarneit, heartbeat of the surging western growth growing corridor.

And no wonder, with high-end features including an $8 million luxury residents club, diverse housing choice, broad open space and parks, dynamic public art, premium landscaping and the West’s largest display village.

Other attributes at Alamora include its proximity to Melbourne, multiple planned retail, community, sporting, education and recreation facilities, and proximity to the rugged beauty of the Werribee River.

All this has been backed by Villawood’s runs on the board with seven other Wyndham projects under its belt – 4000 families, 10,000 people, already installed. Alamora is Villawood’s fifth project on Sayers Road, making it the clear developer of choice within the corridor

Moreover, as sister project to the UDIA national masterplan award-winning Alamanda at nearby Point Cook, Alamora has quickly proved itself a sales sensation. Five hundred purchases in two years is a clear success in anyone’s book.