Situated in the City of Whitehorse and in the City of Monash in Melbourne’s Eastern Suburbs is the district of Burwood. Real estate agents experience a steady demand for properties in the area which is located just 12km from Melbourne’s CBD and nestled between the surrounding suburbs of Ashwood & Box Hill.
Burwood is well connected to the heart of the city by the Vermont South tram line and Glen Iris train station while buses link the area to nearby universities and shopping facilities.
There are a number of parks and sports facilities dotted around the area including Wattle Park (including a public golf course) and Gardiners Creek Reserve. This suburb is ideal for families as there are a host of primary and secondary schools nearby while Deakin University has a campus at Burwood. Contact Cooper Newman, your Burwood Real Estate Agent on 9510 6203 for more information on Burwood Real Estate Agent.
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Balnarring -3926
Stay far from the maddening crowd. Balnarring, 2km inland from a clean, crescent-shaped sandy beach fronting Westernport Bay, is a great place to relax on the Mornington Peninsula – away from the throng of holiday-makers who crowd the Port Phillip Bay side.
The Morning Peninsula is Victoria’s most accessible regional leisure and beach peninsula just 75 minutes by car from the city via Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Moorooduc Highway. Balnarring is located near Merricks at the junction of Frankston-Flinders Road and Balnarring Road and is midway between Hastings and Flinders (12km away). Dromana is 17 km away; Frankston is 30km.
The recently opened EastLink has greatly extended Balnarring’s accessibility and appeal to Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. A regular bus service between Frankston and Flinders stops at Balnarring.
Balnarring’s 2,400 permanent residents reside almost exclusively in houses spread across 100hectres of residential-zoned land – an average of just 24 persons per hectare. The median house price in Balnarring is $385,000 – on par with the region. Residents are typically families with school-age children making home loan repayments of between $700 and $800 a month.
Balnarring’s primary school is located in Civic Court behind the main Balnarring shopping centre at the six-way road junction at the centre of the town.
The Balnarring Picnic Racing Race Club holds six picnic race meetings a year at Emu Bay Racecourse. Races are held on the third Saturday of the month with the feature Balnarring Cup run on Australia Day. The racecourse is also the venue for the Emu Plains Market which is held during the summer months.
One popular attraction of Balnarring is the Balbirooroo Wetlands with boardwalks around its lagoon which is frequently ringed by Ibis. The wetlands are behind the school and shops.
Brighton -3186
Brighton is a long narrow suburb of 8,2KM2 with a north-south orientation running parallel with Port Phillip Bay and bounded by the Bay, Nepean Highway to the east, South Road, Glenhuntly Road to the north with a western cut-out that is annexed to Elwood. Adjoining suburbs are Elwood, Elsternwick, Gardenvale, Brighton East and Hampton.
Brighton’s allotments are typically bigger than normal. The resident population of 20, 650 live in a modest density of 2,500 per KM2. Two-thirds of Brighton’s dwellings are freestanding homes with a current median price of $1.35 million, a 110% premium over surrounding suburbs. Units sell at an average of $560,000 – a 60% over the average median price of the region.
Besides the excellent private schools that dot this and neighbouring suburbs, Brighton has excellent beachside facilities, grand shopping experiences in Church Street (sometimes described as the southern counterpart of Toorak), a local twin-screen cinema, and some distinctive street layouts (some are crescent shape while others are set on the diagonal. Residents like the perceived aura about their Brighton lifestyle.
And the lifestyle is appealing. The shopping is good. Access to the city is excellent – the 13KM takes about 30 minutes using Barkly Street or St.Kilda Road. The suburb is well serviced by trains and buses. Trams from Glenhuntly Road pass the northern boundary travel to the city via Brighton Road.
Two primary schools servicing the local area are Elsternwick Primary and the Star of the Sea Catholic College. Private schools, however, dominate the scene. Brighton Grammar, Firbank Grammar, St. Leonards College, Hailbury College’s Castlefield Campus, Xavier College are either located within or close to the suburb borders. Brighton has double the State average ratio of primary students at private school compared with State primary enrolments. At secondary level however, this ratio difference becomes threefold.
Which brings us to the beach … and what a beach! There’s beach boxes for hire (if you can get one), plus walks and rides along the Elwood-Brighton mixed bike trail. The Middle Brighton pier and rock wall shelters yachts and pleasure craft ready for the next sailing, skiing or fishing sojourn on Port Phillip. Yes, the lifestyle!
Mornington Peninsula
Mornington Peninsula has been a favourite holiday destination with Melbourne residents for more than a century. The peninsula starts at Mornington – an easy 65 minute drive south from Melbourne CBD using freeways and bypasses around many of its tourist hotspots. Mornington Peninsula runs about 40 KM south-east before turning a further 20KM north-west towards Point Nepean – a shape reminiscent of the map of Italy.
Mornington Peninsula partly surrounds Port Phillip Bay. Westernport Bay marks its eastern boundary and Bass Strait the southern. Its topography and land shape use has been moulded by past volcanic activity, rock deformation and erosion. A large lava flow extended from the 300 metre peak at Arthur’s Seat south-west through Red Hill and from Merricks to past Flinders nearly to Cape Schanck. That hard rock created the extensive elevated undulating fertile land supports the many farms, more than 60 vineyards, 14 golf courses and magnificent stands of bushland. Sandstone, which makes up much of the remaining elevated areas, erodes readily and helps to refresh the many sandy beaches around the peninsula.
Much of the Mornington Peninsula is either a national or state park, or protected by heritage, environmental significance or significant landscape overlaps thus protection the character of the region for future generations.
Road access to the Morning Peninsula is via the Frankston Freeway, Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Moorooduc Road. Trains run to Frankston and Hastings on Westernport; bus services extends across and down both sides of the peninsula.
Main towns of Mornington Peninsula are Mornington, Mt. Martha, Safety Beach, Dromana, Rosebud, Rye, Blairgowrie, Sorrento and Portsea travelling away from Melbourne around Port Philip Bay. Towns facing Westernport Bay are Hastings, Balnarring, Flinders and Cape Schanck. Inland towns include Red Hill, Main Ridge and Boneo.
Sandy beaches are to be found along the protected waters of Port Philip Bay. The sandy beaches on the eastern side are equally good but give way to rocky coastline the further south you go.
Tourism flourishes throughout this region with strong demand for holiday lettings especially in long weekends and peak public holiday seasons. Accommodation consisted of motels, holiday home lettings and caravan parks along foreshore areas.
Holiday seasons see visitor numbers doubling the 125,000 people who permanently live on the peninsula – mainly around the Port Philip Bay side. Towns closer to Westernport Bay are generally much quieter. Food services cater for the peaks. Rosebud and Sorrento are the major centres for shopping although all towns cover basic needs.
There are a number of primary schools scattered around the peninsula and fewer secondary colleges which involve a drive or a schools bus.
The attractions of Mornington Peninsula are many and varied. The include swimming, surfing, sailing, golf, scuba diving on shipwrecks – or just sunbaking and playing on the beach. Don’t forget to visit Point Nepean, Mornington Peninsula National Park and the colourful Red Hill Markets where you can sample and buy some of the wonderful wine, cheese, organic fruit, vegetables and meat, olives and other produce and handcrafts of the region.
If you wish to add an extra dimension to your holiday or take an alternative route back to Melbourne, catch the Sorrento to Point Lonsdale car ferry and explore the Bellarine Peninsula.
Beaumaris -3193
22 KM south-east of Melbourne nestled south of Nepean Highway between Mentone, Cheltenham and Black Rock lies the suburb of Beaumaris. Its 17,500 people live in a quiet, moderately low-density residential area, one that is increasingly subject to urban renewal.
Its proximity to an incredible shopping centre (Southland), many great sand-belt golf courses, secluded beaches, numerous aquatic sports on Port Philip Bay, and the dining-out experiences at historic Ricketts Point make Beaumaris suburb that is a keenly sought by the more financially secure home-buyer. The median house price is currently $870,000 – 40% above the district average. Unit prices are 60% higher at $500,000. Most dwellings in the suburbs are houses. Of those residents who have borrowed to buy their home, over 25% repay more than $1,500 a month.
The main road access to the city is via Nepean Highway although Beach Road offers a more leisurely journey. Buses which criss-cross Beaumaris deliver their passengers to two local railway stations – Cheltenham and Mentone.
Beaumaris has two State schools, a Catholic primary school and Sandringham College’s Senior Beaumaris Campus in Reserve Road and Mentone Girls Secondary College nearby.
Everyday shopping can be found at the Concourse Shopping Centre and at Seaview shopping centre. Southland is the place to go for everything else.
Join prestigious Royal Melbourne Golf Club for the challenge, competition and for good friends that your fitness regime can bring – or simply take a walk along the cliff-top and beach. Love the water? The Ricketts Point peninsula offers safe mooring for yachts and water-sport power boats, some fine fishing around its 115 Hectare Marine Sanctuary plus secluded fine-sand beaches complete with a local life-saving club.
Black Rock -3193
Black Rock is a pocket-sized 3.7KM2 beachside suburb wedged between Sandringham, Cheltenham and Beaumaris and overlooking Port Phillip Bay. Its 5,800 residents live in comfortable homes most being constructed on medium-sized allotments post WW2. The median price of houses is currently $900,000 nearly 50% higher than the area average. Units, at $500,000, command a 30% premium.
The Nepean Highway provides good access to the city in 40 minutes, some 21KM away. Buses service the suburb’s perimeter.
Two primary schools are located within the suburb boundaries – Black Rock Primary School and St. Joseph’s School and a pre-school centre in Bluff Road.
A conservation and recreational reserve stretching a kilometre south from Half Moon Bay to the Life Saving Club has preserved many of the original indigenous plants. Red Bluff offers an interesting cliff-top walk with views back to Melbourne and popular beaches on either side. A rock breakwater and the sunken warship HMAS Cerberus, provide storm protection for moored yachts of members of Black Rock Yacht Club.
The Sandringham Public Golf course offers most of the healthy benefits of neighbouring Royal Melbourne Golf Club, with fees that most people can afford.
The Black Rock Clock Tower at the intersection of Beach Road and Balcombe Road is a local landmark.