HI guys,
I would like to know if my girlfriend and I would like to buy either freestanding house or townhouse/villa with torrens title around Ryde area. We want to use this as PPOR and further down the track (after 4 - 5 years), we will rent it out. We have a budget around 700k - 850k (including the purchasing costs) and we are looking to the area close to public transport since she will still be in uni for another 2 - 3 years. Around 1 hour commuter time is reasonable for her. The reason we choose Ryde because we think we still can get decent 2 - 3 bedroom house within our budget, close to Top Ryde shopping centre, public transport is okay (have few buses run to city through Victoria Road), safe environment (from what we've heard from our friend who lives there), and many home owner occupiers live there.
We started to look around on last Saturday and went to inspection to area around Buffalo Road. It's a quiet and nice place but the home is quite old and we are actually looking for modern house and/or already renovated house without any hassle to renovate it again. Few painting jobs would be okay for me, but not major ones (e.g. changing the bathroom, etc). That's why we are looking for an established townhouse/villa as well since they are quite new and do not require major renovations.
I would like to have your opinion on this. Do you happen to know any good streets and bad streets that we want to avoid ? Do you have any recommendation ?
Thank you.
I would like to know if my girlfriend and I would like to buy either freestanding house or townhouse/villa with torrens title around Ryde area. We want to use this as PPOR and further down the track (after 4 - 5 years), we will rent it out. We have a budget around 700k - 850k (including the purchasing costs) and we are looking to the area close to public transport since she will still be in uni for another 2 - 3 years. Around 1 hour commuter time is reasonable for her. The reason we choose Ryde because we think we still can get decent 2 - 3 bedroom house within our budget, close to Top Ryde shopping centre, public transport is okay (have few buses run to city through Victoria Road), safe environment (from what we've heard from our friend who lives there), and many home owner occupiers live there.
We started to look around on last Saturday and went to inspection to area around Buffalo Road. It's a quiet and nice place but the home is quite old and we are actually looking for modern house and/or already renovated house without any hassle to renovate it again. Few painting jobs would be okay for me, but not major ones (e.g. changing the bathroom, etc). That's why we are looking for an established townhouse/villa as well since they are quite new and do not require major renovations.
I would like to have your opinion on this. Do you happen to know any good streets and bad streets that we want to avoid ? Do you have any recommendation ?
Thank you.