Street Talk

If you’d like to learn more about a local Melbourne or Victorian suburb, our Street Talk suburb snapshots explore the schools, parks, restaurants, cafes, general entertainment options and liveability options available in various areas.

Finding Great Buys in Altona

By Cate Bakos on 25 Mar 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

With a budget of only $300,000, it was my goal to find a good investment property within 13km of the city. I was also looking for something on a serviced rail line, near a vibrant cafe strip. You could say I had my work cut out for me. My clients were particularly keen to see if I could come up with something seaside... and that I did ...

Marvellous Opportunities in Maribyrnong

By Cate Bakos on 18 Mar 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

I met two wonderful clients at a home show last year. They had been dreaming of investing in property, but for various reasons hadn’t made the firm decision to commit to a strategy. Perhaps they hadn’t devised a strategy, or perhaps the idea of risk scared them ...

Why Buying in Northcote Makes Perfect Sense

By Cate Bakos on 11 Mar 2014 1 Comment

I recently had the pleasure of helping a lovely couple buy a house that could be best described as their dream home. They’d carefully worked through their own checklist, their favourite parts of the city and budget constraints before coming up with Northcote as their target suburb. Some may ask “why Northcote?” but to me ...

Footscray Gentrification Causes Bidding Frenzy

By Cate Bakos on 4 Mar 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

When I first inspected 1/1 Queen Street in Footscray four weeks ago, I was impressed with the light filled interior, the generously sized courtyard and the options the dated townhouse offered its next owner. I thought the property might have been worth around $530,000 ...

Auction Showdown in Magical Murrumbeena

By Cate Bakos on 25 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

On Saturday I attended an auction with a lovely client who has been looking for a home with his wife for three months, which is not a short space of time in this current property market. However, when we consider that the Christmas and January shut-down dominated much of this period ...

Fitzroy North as Good as its Neighbour

By Cate Bakos on 18 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

This Saturday just gone was an interesting one for me. I was engaged to bid on behalf of clients on a three story, three bedroom street frontage property in Fitzroy North. The vendors had already purchased and their desired settlement was particularly tight ...