To Jacob Holmes, that’s nothing compared to buying a home.

The South Dragons star this week bought his first Melbourne property, confirming plans to remain in the city for years to come.

The move has proved a fortuitous shift for the 24-year-old forward, who’s having the time of his life in his new home town.

“I’m really enjoying my time at the Dragons and, coupled with my work at Cowan Design, Melbourne has become a place that we’ll look to stay for a lot longer than we previously thought,” Holmes said.

“We always knew it was going to be a long-term move but we didn’t realise it was going to be this good and this advantageous.

“Melbourne’s become a bit of a home away from home for us, Adelaide will always be home with our family and friends, but Melbourne’s definitely our second home now.”

The home-buying process can be a tough ride and it’s one Holmes is glad has come to an end.

“I think it’s even worse than lining up at the free-throw line to win a game, standing there at an auction and trying to buy a house,” he said.

In addition to his house-hunting escapades, Holmes is now in the final stages of preparation for the Australian national selection camp in June.

“It’s going to be great, I’ve put a huge amount of training into the camps and I guess one thing you want to know when you’re going into camps is that you’re 100 per cent prepared and you’ve given your all before it and that’s definitely going to be the case with this camp,” he said.

“I think I will have been training for 12 or 13 weeks before it starts so it’s a lot of pre-pre-season, as I like to call it, that Joe (Ingles) and I have been doing before the camps but we’ll put our best foot forward and see where we go and try to make that first China tour.

“I feel really confident in the way I am with my body and the way my game is progressing.

“It’s been a good time not to play ABA and just focus on my own game and work on some deficiencies I may have had in certain areas and work on things I was already good at to make them better, so I’m pretty confident going into the camp, but that doesn’t mean that I’ll make it or not make it, it just depends what they want.

Whether he makes the cut or not, Holmes can at least console himself in the knowledge he now owns his very own piece of Melbourne.

“(Our house) is very cute, it’s called The Violet Cottage – I’ll see if I can change it to Jacob’s Cottage but apparently it’s stuck for life.”