2/30 Willis Street, Balwyn North VIC 3104

This elegant and luxurious spacious New York style penthouse is one of two unique apartments on a large 1160 sqm block (approx.) situated in one of the best streets in the established and leafy suburb of Balwyn North. Towering high above the neighbouring houses its panoramic views look north beyond the Yarra River to the Kinglake and the Great Dividing Range.

Located in the much coveted Balwyn High School zone and positioned near Boroondara Park Primary School, both within walking distance. As many as 14 private schools are within a 6km radius.

This home provides generous accommodation for a family with school age children, as well as professionals or empty nesters who love a 'lock and leave' lifestyle.

Surrounded by four shopping villages offering shops, grocery, banks, supermarkets, restaurants and cafes all within a 1km radius - The Village Balwyn North, Boroondara Shopping Strip, Greythorn Shopping Centre, Belmore Heights Shopping Strip

A minute's walk to tram and bus public transport and a 15km easy 20 minute's drive into the CDB.

Ascend past landscaped gardens to the main door and up the stairs of the grand entrance area to enter the home. Walk into a spacious entrance foyer and an open-plan living dining space filled with light that lends an ambience of harmony and tranquility that is very unique. Its double brick construction, high ceilings and expansive north and east facing windows distinguishes it as a quality build. The family room has gleaming quality parquetry. All bedrooms have ample built-in robes and the master bedroom with a walk-through robe to the ensuite. Cook up a storm in the quality built and equipped Siematic kitchen, granite benches, AEG appliances, Smeg and Miele cooktops. The main bathroom is practically laid out with separate toilet, powder room and shower/spa-bath areas. A Kohler 18 jet two-person spa bath set in granite surrounds shares space with a roomy shower area. The glass brick windows let in secluded light. An L-shaped front balcony and a rounded back balcony allows for an outside place to sit or display your potted plants. There is the added joy of having a big landscaped garden without the work as it is a shared garden maintained by the body corporate. Comfort is offered by central heating in the cool of winter with in-wall ducts and air-conditioning in the heat of summer from ceiling ducts. Security cameras fitted and monitored either by remote or by a security service keeps an eye on the home in times of absence from the property.

You can own a very affordable house with the convenience of an apartment. It's generous 260sqm with 4 kingsize bedrooms is very spacious for inner suburb living.

The magnificient views cannot be built out due to location on high end of street. It is located in a safe and quiet suburb with a lovely park down the road and walks alongside the river Yarra.

Internal features at a glance:

1. Double-brick walls, high ceilings and expansive windows
2. Open plan dining and formal lounge
3. Open plan family-TV room with quality parquetry floor adjoins dining room that can be screened off with sturdy quality timber 'shoji' screen
4. Central heating and cooling
5. Art deco timber built-in book case in family-TV room and matching buffet table along dining room wall and another quality screen and display shelf in entrance foyer
6. Quality wall paper with exquisite subtle designs that lend sophistication and ambience to the airy light-filled open-plan space
7. Siematic kitchen cabinetry throughout - granite benchtop, doors in thermo formed (vacuum wrapped) vinyl in gloss finish is very durable and easy to clean, sophisticate patterned door design, fully extended drawers, pull out pantry for easy reach, appliance cabinet with foldaway doors
8. European appliances - Smeg gas cooktop with central fish burner and wok burner, Qasair custom commercial rangehood, 2 x AEG Combi (combined microwave ovens), Miele deep fryer, Franke sink with insinkerator, Miele dishwasher
9. Laundry - ample storage space, drip-dry hanging space, granite benchtop
10. Appliances - ASKO dryer and Miele washing machine
11. Laundry opens to semi-circular balcony space for breakfast