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Balwyn

"Great suburb, riding on the boom of Canterbury"

Proximity to some of Melbourne's best schools, great restaurants on Whitehorse Rd (Love Colombos) and property prices proven over many years.

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Kew

"One of the best in Melbourne, great schools, transport and huge resale values."

Until recently Kew was underrated against some other high profile luxury suburbs in Melbourne like Toorak and Canterbury but it has now reached an average price far in excess of $1 million for a home.

I put this down to proximity to the city (trams/buses run in all directions and the Eastern Freeway is minutes away), private schools and shopping/restaurant options provided around Kew Junction.

I wish I could afford it!

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Toorak

"Toorak, Melbournes most exclusive suburb."

Toorak is home to Melbourne's most expensive real estate, home to more Ferraris and billionaires than any other suburb in Victoria. (and possibly Australia).

I have visited Toorak hundreds of times and the thing that stands out are the incredible homes. Some of the more notable streets include St Georges Road (check out the $20 million French mansion), Irving Road (home to trucking magnate Lindsay Fox), Albany Road (Billionaire John Gandel has arguable Australia's priciest home >$50 million - the one with the huge fence) and Hopetoun Road (amazing Italianite villas).

Toorak Village and Chapel Street provide some great local shopping, enjoy a coffee around Carters Avenue, visit Watergrille (on Chapel opposite the Como) or stay at the Hotel Como where many celebrities stay to avoid the Melbourne CBD hotels. A favourite of mine is the Jam Factory, read a book at Borders Book's megastore followed by a movie in the up market Gold Class Cinemas.

Toorak is certainly not the place to live if you want space. If you have money and want large blocks of land move to Templestowe. Toorak definitely feels very packed together and can get quite congested.

What Toorak does provide is status. With average house prices exceeding $3 million, Toorak is a symbol that shows you have made it. As an investment it would be hard to beat. Small suburb, no more land and plenty wanting to move in. Definitely recommended!

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ispca

Thanks for the review....

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Southbank Prm

"Southbank Promenade, sophisticated restaurants and shopping. Best view of Melbourne!"

Southbank Promenade at Southbank overlooks the Yarra River with an amazing view of the Melbourne city skyline. It starts at Flinders St near the Art Centre and continues all the way down to Crown Casino.

There is an amazing mix of restaurants (my favourite is Red Emperor for Chinese food) and cool bars. For those that like pubs there is an Irish Pub (P.J Obrien's) on the lower level which is fun.

Other visible landmarks in the area include the Langham Hotel (previously the Sheraton) and the 90 storey Eureka Tower.

If you lucky enough to afford an apartment in the area you have a great lifestyle!

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advisor2008
advisor2008

Hi melbournefan,
Looks like a fantastic metropolitan location ~*~ what awesome skylines!

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Yarra Prm

"Yarra Promenade, home of Crown Casino."

Yarra Promenade at Southbank overlooks the Yarra River with an amazing view of the Melbourne city skyline.

Most of the activity revolves around the spectacular restaurants of Crown Casino, including Rockpool, Guillaume, Silks and Nobu. Crown has become the restaurant mecca of Melbourne.

Every hour past 6pm you can see the fireballs erupting from the granite towers that live Yarra Promenade. They really are spectacular and worth the wait.

Not really a place to live in though, you can stay at Crown Towers but definitely one you will want to see as a tourist to Melbourne

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advisor2008
advisor2008

Hi melbournefan,
Just curious -- what’s the cost of living in your part of the globe? How much is the petrol there?

melbournefan
melbournefan

Cost of living is getting high, average house prices would be about $400,000 with most people living on quarter acre blocks in the suburbs .The closer you get to the city the prices skyrocket. Homes within a few kilometres of the city exceed $1 million. Apartment living in Melbourne is starting to take off but you can get some smaller ones around $300-$500k. (unlike New York or other international cities city living is only a recent development here). You can pay up to $10 million for penthouses in the 90 storey Eureka Tower.

Melbourne is a hidden gem though, featured in a few films lately - Nicholas Cage is here now filming. Ghostrider was filmed here.

Petrol is getting very high, we pay about $1.70 per litre (not sure what that converts to gallon).

advisor2008
advisor2008

Thanks for the fellow-up information.

Your pictures reminded me of how much I miss city living as I currently live in a very rural part of the USA!

The housing market here in the US is suffering double-digit declines in many markets and the economist claim it’s the worst housing slump since the Great Depression, it’s not expected to get better anytime soon…

Gas here on average is over 4.00 per gallon & seems to go up daily along with food costs.

Indeed ~*~ we all have to take one day at a time!!!

http://www.streetadvisor.com/address/united_states/maryland/sharptown/elzey_brown_loop_road/overview/default.aspx

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Melbourne (CBD)

"Melbourne, a major city you can still afford to live in!"

Compared to some of the larger cities around the world like New York or London, Melbourne has only recently discovered inner city living. Because of this, it is actually affordable to rent in Melbourne's CBD.

The thing you immediately notice when living in Melbourne is the atmosphere and that's due to the vast amount of people you see every day. Once the daily commuters go home you do notice a large proportion of young professionals as well as retirees who have sold up from the suburbs to move to where the action in.

And by action I mean the best restaurants down the many laneways, great cafes and bars around every corner and nightlife from Latrobe St to Crown Casino. You can catch a movie at the new Melbourne Central cinemas or work out at Fitness First located throughout the city.

Daily grocery shopping has improved significantly also. A few years ago you had just a single Coles Express on Elizabeth St to shop at but now we have all of the majors including a few like Safeway and BiLo at the Queen Victoria site (Russell St and Lonsdale). Homeware stores have also popped up (Harvey Norman etc) so you dont need to leave the CBD for all your furnishing needs.

Obviously noise and traffic are an issue with inner city living. We have quite a few nightclubs open til 7am near us (citysquare area) and more want to open so I hope the Melbourne City Council do their job and protect residents going forward.

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francinemelbour

I agree, I was born in Melbourne Australia and I really love this place. There are also good quality house for sale here which we can really afford.

dahlis

I was brought up in a beautiful 9 bedroom house in Beverly Hills. CA. I have visited Australia 4 times since 1996. Melbourne is an amazing, unique city - thriving in food and caring people. Sydney, however also amazing and potentially slightly more pleasant to look at - is a much more entitled area. The culture and people are 10x more sexist, racist and snotty than the rest of Australia. All over, I must say, Sydney and Melbourne are amazing places to travel, I would however avoid Sydney if you are not looking at being treated racist and/or being judged by your monetary income or colour, I would be put off of Sydney by how many people are similar to this woman. Life is not about who is upper class but more about who is a good person and unfortunately Sydney seems to be full of bid headed people. Melbourne all the way. -

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abellindren

Nice place to visit after pressure of work, and their beauty of nature with jolly people and their market is fabulous. If you planning to buy outfit for function or casual work-out you definitely will love it if you buy and wear that.

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Crest Avenue

"Great access to Deepdene Park"

Across the road from the park, Crest Avenue, is a very steep street, tree lined with zero traffic issues. Very quiet and leafy. A mix of older 70's style homes, good size blocks, none with fences with a new home being build mid-way down the street. Beautiful white mansion on the corner of Oakdale. Further up toward Balwyn Road the homes start to get a little bigger. Great spot for kids with the tram close buy.

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Peverill St

"Older style street, lots of units."

Peverill St, Balwyn is a quiet street surprisingly given location to busy Burke Road. No Sanding signs limit the volume of cars parked. Houses include quite a few units and older style 50's and 60's era homes.

There is no right hand turning onto Burke Road so you must turn left at the end which is not easy given the amount of traffic.

Great access to shops down at Camberwell Junction, schools are very close and the tram is at the end of the street.

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Deepdene Rd

"Beatiful street, mansions and older homes."

Deepdene Road, Balwyn is a cut through between Mont Albert Road and Whitehorse Road, has a number of newer mansions on the street. Lots of traffic up towards the OLGC School (Whitehorse Road end) which cause havoc and on Sundays when church is on. Turning right onto Whitehorse Road can be a struggle.

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eastofcity

This review is spot-on, nice street that is used as a cut-through.

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Angle Rd

"Nice tree lined street"

Angle Road is a typical Canterbury street. Not too many cars parked during the day. 1 average home that is run down and dilapidated but could be developed. Number of older homes, a few Edwardians and a nice quiet street during the day with number 12 being a very nice mansion on the corner.

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Royal Crescent

"Edwardian homes abound"

Royal Crescent is home to a number of beautiful Edwardian homes, two blocks from the Camberwell Junction / Burke Road shops. Its a no through road with the train line crossing at the end of the street (covered by trees, no visible trains). During the day there are lots of cars parked in the street which given its proximity to transport is to be expected. One side of the road is 2 hour parking which limits traffic.

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Craig Avenue

"Small thoroughfare - cars during the day."

Craig Avenue can best be described a small thoroughfare connecting Prospect Hill Road with Royal Crescent. The street is dominated by a large white mansion on the corner of Prospect Hill that runs the length of Craig Avenue. During the day expect lots of cars parked either side of the road, being a convenient park for those wanting to take trams to work.

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Tallis Close

"Nice quiet street walking distance to Burke Road Shopping centre"

Tallis Close is a small developed street. All of the houses share the same design with red brick Victorian style, garage, no fencing and a single way no through road. Two huge palm trees guard the entry to this convenient location. I would suggest this is highly popular with retirees.

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Camberwell Gve

"Home of the new Coles Supermarket"

This isnt really a street to live on, rather its a cut through the car park out the back of the Burke Road shopping strip. The new Coles Supermarket is being built and should be completed in early 2008 and will change the face of Burke Road. The number 1 supermarket in Australia (by profitability) is the Safeway supermarket on the opposite side of Burke Road, so the new Coles will shake up the local traders. Hopefully keeping both honest on food prices which are amongst the highest in Australia.

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Cathedral Place

"Pretty street - but the noisy bells!"

Cathedral Lane is home to St Patricks Cathedral after all which means it's a busy street on weekends with weddings, tourists and Sunday mass. On weekdays it receives a fair amount of traffic using it as a cut through from Lansdowne St to Macarthur St. It is walking distance to the beautiful Fitzroy Gardens. The Park Hyatt hotel backs onto this street. Warning - on Sundays the bells ring out for what seems like hours, so you won't have much luck sleeping in!

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Parlington Street

"Nice street used as a cut through"

Parlington St in Canterbury has some very nice homes on it and a great park on the corner of Torrington St. The trees form a nice canopy which enhance the beautiful vibe of the location. Homes would be from $700k up to $3 million. Quite a few homes have been renovated recently to take advantage of booming home prices. Only negative is the amount of traffic that cut through from Mont Albert Road to Canterbury Road, though speedhumps have been added to cut down speeds.

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Mont Albert Road

"One of Melbourne's most beautiful albeit busy streets"

Mont Albert road in Canterbury (the stretch from Burke Road to Balwyn Road) is one of the prettiest streets around. Huge trees on both sides of the road form a canopy that covers the entire road which makes for a beautiful setting. Homes in the street range from older early 1900's to more modern French designs. This is in part due to the recent increase in house prices which has seen many being renovated to their former glory. Camberwell Grammar schools is halfway down, and a new school Edminston has just opened. Given the schools, it is very busy around 3-4pm.

In the mornings traffic can be banked all the way up as people try and get onto Burke Road and head to the city.

A beautiful street with homes starting around $2 million, up to about $10 million (White mansion on the Frognall Estate) would be worth more!

All in all, a top street but the traffic would drive me crazy!

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Lygon St

"Little Italy in Melbourne"

I love Lygon St. It is so close to the city, within walking distance and has some real character. There are lots of Italian restaurants ranging from Pizza houses like Totos and Pappa Ginos to the more upmarket Brunettis. They also have a great selection of Thai restaurants like Lemongrass which are at the end closer to the city. Lygon can get very busy at times and parking is not that great but it all adds to the excitement of the area. A block away you have some very nice apartments ranging from older Victorian style to more modern (built early 2000's) designs. My wife had our babyat the Royal Womens hospital which is only a block away and having spent a week in the area would love to live here.

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Bass Road

"Luxury homes on a dirt road!"

Bass Road has some of the most beautiful homes in Portsea. Average price would be in the $1-3 million mark. The only problem is the road is not sealed, its a very dusty track best navigated by 4wd's. If you have a beautiful car it will always get dirty and you need to be careful if cars are coming the other way, strictly one lane. I would love to live in one of the houses but definitely the lack of a sealed road would be a turnoff when paying these prices.

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