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.

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 ...

Great Rental Yields and Strong Demand in Kensington!

By Cate Bakos on 11 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

Last Saturday, I bid at my first auction for 2014. As the day got closer, the temperature forecast got higher. I was relieved that the auction was scheduled for 10.30am, and equally relieved that my clients didn’t expect I’d be wearing a dark pinstriped suit for the event! “…unlike the south east and the inner ...