Bentleigh East
Moving from a Melbourne unit to a house gets six times harder in a generation
Melbourne house prices may have softened, but the price gap between buying a unit and a house has more than doubled in a decade, making it even hard for upsizers.
- Alexandra Middleton
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Family buys Pascoe Vale South house for $1.665m. It last sold for $320,000
The price for the four-bedroom property increased more than five times in less than 20 years, records show, as more than half a dozen buyers vied for the keys.
- Alexandra Middleton
First home buyers outbid investors, nabbing $1.931m Fitzroy North terrace
A parent bidding on behalf of a first home buyer couple outbid three other buyers, including an investor, during a competitive auction.
- Alexandra Middleton
Man charged with murder and attempted murder after fight at Bentleigh East home
A man is dead and a woman is fighting for life in hospital after an altercation in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
- Melissa Meehan and Ashleigh McMillan
- Opinion
- Life in the ’burbs
My big hug of a suburb never wants for anything. Who cares if it’s boring and bland?
My suburb’s secret sauce is its solidity. What the younger me saw as boring and bland, I now recognise as reassuring, comfortable and privileged.
- Jacquie Byron
Comedian Rhys Nicholson’s ‘maximalist’ home sells for $842,500 after auction
The Coburg home passed in for $810,000, but soon sold to the highest bidders in post-auction negotiations.
- Jim Malo
Scenes of joy as family secure $1,585,000 Bentleigh East home at auction
The successful buyer couldn’t contain his joy. David Rizkalla dropped the cool, disinterested auction persona the moment the hammer fell and he bought the house.
- Jim Malo
The Melbourne suburbs where home sellers have the best auction success
A select few suburbs in Melbourne recorded clearance rates approaching 90 per cent over 2023, much higher than their neighbours.
- Jim Malo
Upsizers snap up Glen Waverley five-bedder for $3.15 million, the middle of its price range
Melbourne’s clearance rate remains soft as higher interest rates lower buying capacity, affecting it more than other cities, AMP chief economist Dr Shane Oliver says.
- Carmen Forward
Modest house in sought-after school zone soars past $1.8m in hot auction
Five bidders fought it out in an hour-long auction for the 1950s classic brick home in Bentleigh East, which is set on a spacious block of land and ripe for redevelopment.
- Jean Bell
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