Where to Buy

Welcome to Where to Buy. Share the suburbs and regions you're looking at, and how you're researching them. Good posts here: shortlists with your reasons, data sources, zoning and overlays...

Hannah B. · 3 Sep

Elizabeth and Salisbury have the yield, the south has the beaches and the owner occupiers. Which way would you go for a first investment?

Ben C. · 2 Oct · 2 replies · Last reply 3 Oct

A new station has been announced about a kilometre from a suburb we like. Do you buy on the announcement, at funding, or once it's built?

Olivia N. · 28 Sep · 5 replies · Last reply 30 Sep

Prices have run hard, but rents and stock are still tight. Is anyone still buying in the middle ring, or has the easy growth gone?

Daniel K. · 24 Sep · 4 replies · Last reply 26 Sep

Similar prices: a new townhouse like these, or a 1970s two bedroom unit in a small block with more land per unit. Growth or yield, which would you take?

James O. · 20 Sep · 4 replies · Last reply 21 Sep

Nearly bought in a flood overlay last year without realising. In Victoria I now start here: planning.vic.gov.au A free property report there shows the zone and every overlay. What do you use in other...

Mei L. · 16 Sep · 5 replies · Last reply 17 Sep · planning.vic.gov.au

Budget around 600k for a house on its own land. I spent last weekend driving all three. Photos from Ballarat below. Geelong has the jobs and the train, Ballarat has the price point, Bendigo has the...

Tom W. · 11 Sep · 7 replies · Last reply 13 Sep