Rowville, VIC 3178

Nice, beautiful place can’t believe houses, very expensive is it toorak or Rowville ?

Spacious and younger homes complimented by plentiful amenities making Rowville a desirable suburb, especially for families looking to upsize. Four primary schools and two secondary colleges serve the suburb of Rowville and Monash University is only a short drive away. Residents are spoilt for choice with three shopping precincts in the west, north and south, plus corner milk bar stores still operating. The largest shopping precinct is Stud Park, followed by Wellington Village and Rowville Lakes shopping centres. For those wanting more variety, a quick drive reaches the newly renovated Westfield Knox and The Glen shopping centre. Rowville has modern amenities, ample parkland and lakes and sports clubs that offer football, cricket, soccer, basketball, netball and athletics. There's also a Little Athletics, Racing and Bowls Club, and Golfers can have a game at Kingston Links or Tirhatuan Park Golf Clubs. With a friendly suburban feel, this is a wonderful place to live!

Rowville is such a stress free suburb, easy access in and out of the city, lots of public transport around, friendly people, great food and business areas. It has all you could possibly want!

Steve Mac | House and Land Expert

Rowville Primary School has been fantastic for our family. Lots of friendships made with mostly lovely people. Great parks (now enclosed dog off leash parks as well) local shopping centre Wellington Village very good. Stud park shopping centre a little larger and good for local shopping. Biggest centre near would be Knox and Waverley Gardens. Disappointing we still don’t have tram or train stations but of course buses are around and very helpful. Good location to go to the beach 40 min drive approx. Dandenong Ranges 15 min drive to the entrance. CBD 50 min approx drive. Very friendly people, safe and attractive area to live. Highly recommended.

I moved from FTG to Rowville and absolutely love it. I would say it is definitely one of the nicest suburbs in knox. Great parks, clean, safe. A lot of first home buyer couples have also purchase in the area. There is also mass development with townhouses and apartments going up across from Stud Park, which attract young couples and first home buyers. So many great cafes, Stud Park has everything you need also. The common theme of limited public transport is true, but that doesn’t bother me at all. FTG and Boronia station attract strange people and I’d prefer to live in a nicer suburb without a station than with a station and a mix of unique characters.

Rowville used to be a great area, but as of recent I’ve only heard of crime that’s been happening. Break ins, theft, car theft and fires, vandalism, hit and runs, the list is truly endless. Property prices are outrageously high for what they are, you’d think we were in Toorak! Any young person wanting to access the market isn’t gonna find decently prices property in this area.

Access to adequate public transport is abysmal, with only bus services available. Nearest train stations include Glen Waverley, however it is not easy to get to, especially in traffic. Stud Road and Wellington Road have faults in this area with traffic at a standstill regularly. Burnouts are common, and I’ve almost had someone spin their car straight into mine before, and they just laughed it off. Cars are a necessity in the area, due to this severe lack of accessible public transportation, and this takes up space on the extremely narrow streets available to us, that obviously weren’t thought out in original planning.

Secondary Schools are mediocre, with Rowville Secondary having a bad reputation. Wheelers Hill Secondary is close but traffic makes the relatively short distance a disaster. Would not recommend Wheelers regardless as I went there and I have to say they cared more about socks and televisions than they did about supporting their students and providing quality education. Probably doesn’t even matter, because they’ve said multiple times that Rowville is out of range anyway. Good thing that, as they don’t have sufficient facilities for the amount of students they do have let alone any more. Primary schools are okay, with a multitude of options in the area.

On top of roads having high traffic, they desperately needed resurfacing, which has just recently been done after several years. Could still be better though with uneven surfaces throughout the suburb. Some residential streets have poor visibility, especially at round-a-bouts, where hedges and bushes are over grown and impairs vision of oncoming traffic. Council needs to stop planting trees close to the roads, because whilst they might be fine now, in years to come when they are grown, they will tear up the roads and footpath and make it dangerous for people to walk or drive within the community.

Stud Park and Wellington Village are close, and quite accessible, as is Rowville Lakes, however rent prices appear to be astronomically high at Stud Park. With all the shops closing down, I can imagine soon all that will be left will be supermarkets and high rise apartment blocks. Knox is in the same boat, so soon we’ll have limited access to any close shopping facility.

Retirement facilities in the area are quite good, with many options available both in, and just outside the suburb. So I guess my one recommendation would be for retirees to move here.

Rowville has some nice houses, but is now unaffordable for the average buyer.
Noble Park North is a safe, family friendly suburb with M1 and M3 freeways, Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre and excellent schools. Ignore the "Noble Park" part of the title, this area is going to boom once people realise the potential. Excellent public transport. If you are looking at Rowville as an option, the smart & savvy buyer should strongly consider looking next door!

My parents moved to Rowville when I was 8. Now as an adult I decided to buy in it as well. I feel pretty safe here and there’s a lot of sports for the kids. Good suburb to live in. However public transport falls short with a lot of people either driving up to Huntingdale or FTG station to get into the the city.

I live in Rowville and I love it. It is so close to supermarkets and a short drive to Eastlink, Westfield Knox and has so many parks which is important as I have a puppy who just loves to run around.

There's many restaurants and cafes and all have their own perks and great menus.

The only downside is there is no train station, however there are plenty of buses that run through the area which will get you to one in no time.