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Jul 18th 2007, 3:29 am

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Hi, I am looking for an apartment/house with budget of $A300-600K. Does anyone know which suburbs in Melbourne that is safe, good amenities and has high Chinese population? Thank you!

Jul 18th 2007, 3:40 am

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Hi, I am looking for an apartment/house with budget of $A300-600K. Does anyone know which suburbs in Melbourne that is safe, good amenities and has high Chinese population? Thank you!

Doncaster-Templestowe - but you'll need ten times the money.

Jul 18th 2007, 3:46 am

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Re: Melbourne

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Hi, I am looking for an apartment/house with budget of $A300-600K. Does anyone know which suburbs in Melbourne that is safe, good amenities and has high Chinese population? Thank you!

Boxhill very popular with chinese community.

Jul 18th 2007, 8:40 am

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Re: Melbourne

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Doncaster-Templestowe - but you'll need ten times the money.

$3-6 million for an apartment in Doncaster? Are you sure?

Jul 18th 2007, 2:48 pm

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Re: Melbourne

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...=465914&page=2check the files attached to this post as well.

might be useful.

btw 300k till 600k is pretty broad.

Jul 18th 2007, 3:48 pm

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$3-6 million for an apartment in Doncaster? Are you sure?

Sorry - for a house.

Jul 18th 2007, 4:00 pm

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Sorry - for a house.

OK, I rephrase the question: $3-6 million for a house in Doncaster? Are you sure?

A quick search on realestate.com.au for 5-bedroom or larger gives me $759,000 as the most expensive at the moment.

Templestowe has some mansions for sale but I think the OP is probably looking for an average kinda house/apartment

Jul 18th 2007, 4:03 pm

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OK, I rephrase the question: $3-6 million for a house in Doncaster? Are you sure?

Hmmm....I'd forgotten that there were sub-sections of this/these suburbs....the houses I knew were going for 1.2 mill in 1991....

Jul 18th 2007, 8:00 pm

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Hmmm....I'd forgotten that there were sub-sections of this/these suburbs....the houses I knew were going for 1.2 mill in 1991....

Do you want to buy my car? It's a VW Passat Tdi. You can have it for $4 million.

Jul 18th 2007, 8:25 pm

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Do you want to buy my car? It's a VW Passat Tdi. You can have it for $4 million.

haha!!!!

Jul 18th 2007, 8:27 pm

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Re: Melbourne

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Hi, I am looking for an apartment/house with budget of $A300-600K. Does anyone know which suburbs in Melbourne that is safe, good amenities and has high Chinese population? Thank you!

Dont know about the chinese population bit but for house searching i'm using www.realestateview.com.au i think its a really good site - and 9 times outta 10 the more expensive the house - better the area!! (or more desirable- can be too VERY different things!) Good Luck

Jul 18th 2007, 8:58 pm

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Re: Melbourne

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Hi, I am looking for an apartment/house with budget of $A300-600K. Does anyone know which suburbs in Melbourne that is safe, good amenities and has high Chinese population? Thank you!

Areas as others have discussed but also

Glen Waverley
North Balwyn
Chadstone (students attending TAFE)
Keep transport links (public and private vehicle) in mind.

All areas are relatively safe with good amenities and easily accessible to good yum cha.

Jul 18th 2007, 9:07 pm

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Do you want to buy my car? It's a VW Passat Tdi. You can have it for $4 million.

LOL - I didnt say that I could AFFORD those houses

Jul 19th 2007, 2:15 am

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Re: Melbourne

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Hi, I am looking for an apartment/house with budget of $A300-600K. Does anyone know which suburbs in Melbourne that is safe, good amenities and has high Chinese population? Thank you!

Springvale and Box Hill are the 2 largest Chinese community suburbs in Melbourne. Springvale has a bad reputation, but seems ok to me. Box Hill is a pretty good location. I don't think you'd have too much trouble in either of these areas in your price range.

There are other factors to look at when settling, the foremost being where you are likely to be working.

Jul 19th 2007, 3:46 am

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Re: Melbourne

Thank you all. I looked up realestate.com.au and find that both Box Hill and Templestowe are pretty affordable. And 15km to the city is alright. One more question: How's the property market doing in Melbourne compared to Sydney? I know that the prices in Syd have come down a bit