atlantatoaus

Hi

We were looking at property prices in Australia.Sydney to us seems very un affordable ,Melbourne a little better. We may be able to afford a house in Melb but never in Sydney Pardon my ignorance but do ppl always look at buying houses? Dont ppl look at buying town homes and flats,apartments etc???

regards
Priya

jad n rich

Prices in many parts of Aus now mean people have had to start looking away from the traditional house. We know people in sydney who live in an apartment they have bought and they are in their 50's, and a 30 year old who bought a house outright in brisbane, the rent from that pays his rent on a half share tiny flat in inner sydney.

Other option is to buy a cheaper house in the outer suburbs, but traffic from these places is almost as bad as commuting in a car if you were in the UK, awful in sydney, melboure was shocking last december when we went down and brisbane is getting fairly conjested now too, I'd imagine most other cities the same then.

As aussies love houses the idea to keep costs down is tiny pieces of land not great in a climate where having your windows open is ideal, the lack of privacy is astounding, we had 1300 block and looked at houses on 300!! you can hear everything especially with the lightweight sheet or single brick construction. Total nightmare and honest real estate agents will tell you hard to sell.

4 bedroooms 2 bathrooms, 2 garage, as new as possible on a big piece of land is the aussie ideal property, the less popular 3 bed one bath no car accom will reduce house price significantly.

eatstatic

What????!!!

I was told I could buy a detached 4 bed house with heated pool for 100K Australian. Are you just a pom hating Aussie trying to keep us from the promised land?

Billabong

Show me the person that told you that and I'd call him a liar

JackTheLad

Town houses are definitely becoming more popular as they try to cram more people into the same space. Lots of areas are being rezoned to allow higher density housing, and the blocks of land are getting smaller and smaller.

Apartment living is very popular if you want the city life and live in the cbd, or nearby. It depends what lifestyle you are after. City living isn't for everyone.

Cheers,
JTL

Megalania

Easy Peasy:



4 WATERLOO STREET, BURREN JUNCTION: $100,000 - $110,000

gedge

Relax, you can buy the dream.
4bed house under $100k
still leaves 10k for the pool!
Mind you, you'll have to live out back of Burranurrabun.

jad n rich

No, I think thats the UK now

Welcome back I thought you were banned !! the place has been rather quiet without you.

astonished

"less than 1hrs drive from Narrabri." ROTFLMAO! Position Position Position

Megalania

Conveniently located away from Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Tamworth:



Burren Junction

Stormz

Jesus, that brings a new meaning to `middle of nowhere`.

MrsDagboy

Conveniently located away from everywhere! .

Actually I would have thought that being more than an hours drive from Narrabri would be preferrable .

Megalania

Another somewhere:

MrsDagboy

Wonder if there are any apartments in Burren Junction or Burranurrabun?

Megalania

Burranurrabun is always everything anyone can imagine.