The ballot

Our homes are sold through a simple balloting process that gives everyone a fair chance of becoming a Nightingale owner. Read on to find out how to enter the ballot and why your chances are better than you may think.

Anyone can enter an open ballot. There is no wait list to enter a ballot.

After announcing a new project and holding two information sessions, Nightingale will make an information package (PDF) available that contains all the details of the project, including floorplans and pricing of each apartment. From this point onwards, our digital ballot is open for entries and you’ll have two weeks to complete the ballot form indicating which apartments you are interested in purchasing. It doesn’t matter when you submit your ballot, as long as you do so before the closing date.

Pre-allocation

Up to 20% of apartments will be pre-allocated to community housing providers (CHP). All residents allocated via a CHP stream will have access to support services and will be Nightingale Housing values-aligned.

Committing to purchase

Entering the ballot is a commitment to buy an apartment, if offered. While it’s free to enter the ballot, it’s important that you only enter if you are in a position to purchase a Nightingale home. In other words, only ballot for an apartment if you are committed to purchasing it. Should you be successful in a ballot but decline the apartment you are offered, you will be excluded from future Nightingale ballots.

On ballot day

After the draw, we contact all balloters and let them know whether they have been successful or unsuccessful. It’s important to keep an eye on your phone on ballot day, so that we can confirm the ballot result with you. We ask that you assign a proxy to accept on your behalf if you can’t take our call. Successful balloters must verbally accept their allocated apartment, after which we send them our commitment agreement.

Formalising the commitment

Successful balloters have five business days to complete and return our commitment agreement form and pay the $10,000 commitment fee. More about this process here.

Unsuccessful ballots

If you’re not allocated an apartment during the ballot, you’ll be added to a 'the bench'. Sometimes people have to pull out due to unanticipated circumstances, and apartments become available.

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Nightingale Housing is located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders both past and present, and recognise and respect their abiding connection to this land, its waterways and community. We also acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country on which we meet and work throughout Australia.

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Nightingale Housing is located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders both past and present, and recognise and respect their abiding connection to this land, its waterways and community. We also acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country on which we meet and work throughout Australia.