ChrisA1

It depends which part of Highett you are intending of living in. It has many nice areas - but if your looking to buy, I would recommend buying underneath the Nepean Highway line (beachside of Nepean Highway), preferably around the Bay Road area which is close to Sandringham College and the Sandringham College Junior Campus. Its the area which borders on the Sandringham suburb boundary edge.

Close to shops including Coles, Woolies and Aldies and other shops and not forgetting Southland, easy access into the Melbourne CBD and close to the beaches along Beach Road - only about 5 minute drive, this place has everything, including a reasonable price tag - Still!

If you can get into one of the quieter streets around the Sandringham Junior College Area its excellent. It would be better if it had more parks and I feel council should look to buyout land in areas where there isn't residential development and implement a green strategy ie, for example on Advantage Road.

So its excellent - just more parks would be nice and it would be a great area. The prices for homes seem reasonable, especially compared to Sandringham and Hampton so its an option for families looking for something cheaper but still getting the 'Bayside Lifestyle'. Highly recommended Suburb for mine and it should be much higher up the suburb ratings than it is in my opinion. A secret that probably will get out as people are priced out of much more expensive suburbs like Sandringham, Hampton and Black Rock etc.

Well I have just come across Ashwood and I think its one of the great potential/emerging suburbs in the SE of Melbourne. The suburbs like Glen Waverley and Mount Waverley in one side of it have gone through the roof price wise, the other side of Warrigal Road you have Ashburton and also Glen Iris. Malvern East along Warrigal Road and The Boulevard where the Golf Course is about 5 minutes drive up Warrigal Road from High Street in Ashwood. The location of Ashwood is fantastic.

Ashwood has a Woolies on the corner of High Street and Warrigal Road as the main shopping precinct, but this is where I reckon Ashwood has big potential, you have the Ashwood shopping strip along Warrigal Road and then you have the Ashburton shopping strip just 5 minutes away, and if you need to get to a bigger shopping centre, you can go about 7 or 8 minutes up Warrigal road to Chadstone or go 10 minutes east to The Glen and the restaurants along Kingsway in Glen Waverley.

From a distance point of view Ashwood is approximately 14kms from the Melbourne CBD. So getting into town is easy, you can pick anyway from the Monash Freeway or the down Burwood Highway heading into town, if you want you can go down High Street and follow it all the way down through St Kilda Road. Its just easy to get into town. There are train stations in the area as well in Ashburton and again down near Holmesglen TAFE. There are nice schools in the area as well.

I have been looking at property prices in the area and you can get property for decent prices (for now anyway) and usually the blocks are pretty big too, I've seen blocks around 800sqm. Ashwood finally passed the $1 million median price range for houses according a recent stat I saw.

Overall it seems to be a suburb that would attract younger families looking to buy an older home or probably looking to build a dream home with close access to just about everything. Overall I reckon it would be a good place to live.