Recent content by tremolo

How close to the maximum security prison were you thinking?

Petty theft & domestic violence are unfortunately rife everywhere...if you're making decisions based on one day's worth of random observations you're probably not doing it right. I worked and lived in Bulimba (blue ribbon suburb) & used to see that sort of thing all the time. I was walking...

Realestate.com.au have a tool which provides some insight on 'visits/property' which should help you glean some relative demand http://www.realestate.com.au/neighbourhoods/craigieburn-3064-vic

It's a patchy area. I can't think of any suburb that would have a wider spread of housing/prices/residents. Manly is mostly reasonably high SES - and higher prices. Wynnum is patchier. Go down one street & it'll be fairly average postwar houses / working class. Go 200m up the road and it'll be...

I think the only scenario where older houses are more desirable is in an blue chip suburb full of character houses - Camp Hill, Bulimba, Ashgrove, etc. And even then, the only time an old home will outpace a modern one is if it's a beautifully renovated, modernised one (i.e. when it's had $300k...

Only around the school - 95% of it comes in off Wynnum Rd & leaves via Wynnum Rd as they use the little turnaround dropoff zone thing. Very little actually travels down the street (I have a property there and was worried about the same thing - went down & sat outside my block a few days a week...

Keep in mind old houses require a lot more maintenance (money) than new - and you won't always know what costs you're up for until you start doing the work. And these costs more often than not don't add value. Factor this in and the cost difference between old & new is narrowed. Adding a few...

Fixed for accuracy :)

I suspect the data you are looking at is for the "Wynnum QPS Division" Which is a big area, covering multiple suburbs. There have been no murders in Wynnum or Manly this year, but there was one in Tingalpa. Which was handled by the Wynnum QPS Division. If we look at assaults in Wynnum & Manly...

You are more likely to be sexually assaulted in Chelmer/Graceville than Wynnum Manly. ;) Any details of where the data is from? I'm not aware of a murder in Wynnum or Manly this year...nor can I find any details of one.

Of course they are, it's an average middle class suburb. Lived in the area for 7 years and never had an issue with anything, ever. Not even a loud party. I think on about 3 occasions we had a couple of drunk blokes walking home from the pub up our street who were talking quite loudly. If you...

My take (as a Bayside local) Manly: the 'blue riband' suburb. Plenty of very nice $1m+++ houses with views of the bay, and most other houses are well kept and relatively high value. You've got the marina, farmers markets, cafes, etc all along the water. Plenty of Range Rovers parked around the...

Go for a drive around there: just about every second house in Wynnum/Manly has either a DA notice out front or is covered in scaffolding. Lot of development going on.

Looking to pick up a newer property to live in for a few years (before potentially selling/renting), and purely from a lifestyle perspective it makes sense for us. Anyone have any thoughts on Mount Cotton from an investment POV? Plenty of new builds out there on 800m2+ for anywhere from 450k...

A few suburbs I'm looking at have gone mental. Cannon Hill, Camp Hill, etc. A post war splitter which would have been asking mid 600s in August are all asking mid-high 700s all of a sudden...they all seem to be getting over asking price too. I'm not sure if this is just some pent up demand...