154 capital city suburbs with a median house value under $300,000

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   Jason December 5, 2011 at 3:09 pm #

   Tim,

   I’d recommend you consider thinking about the focus of what you are writing.
   This story is titled “154 capital city suburbs with a median house value under $300,000″

   Yet, you include many suburbs that are nowhere near Australian capital cities.
   For example, Gorokan, Mannering Park and Wyongah are a part of the Central Coast.

   Mannering Park is a small township located on an isolated peninsular on the southern shores of Australia’s largest and most picturesque salt water lake, Lake Macquarie.
   Mannering Park is in the northern area of Wyong Shire but being on Lake Macquarie it is bounded by the Lake Macquarie City Council . (Mannering Park Community Website, http://manneringpark.nsw.au/)

   I haven’t bothered to look into some of the other suburbs which appear on your list (over 50km from the GPO of their respective capital cities) as I’m sure they would be a similar situation.

   I did appreciate paragraphs 3 & 4 which discussed the reasons why these suburbs are under $300k, but found your full list of suburbs uneccessarily padded out.

   Cheers,

   Jason

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     Tim Lawless December 5, 2011 at 4:13 pm #

     Thanks Jason, we always stick to standardised boundaries for our analysis and reporting. The suburbs are all within capital city Statistical Divisions. The statistical division is widely regarded as the accepted ‘norm’ for a capital city boundary description. You can view the Australian Standard Geographical Classifications at the ABS web site for more detail.

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       N.C. January 11, 2012 at 1:13 pm #

       This just goes to show why you can’t always trust the ‘data’.

       Anyone looking to buy in Sydney would do well to avoid Mannering Park – about a two hour train ride away, and nowhere near the train line.

       You’d do better to look there if you’re working in Newcastle – it’s only about a half-hours drive.
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   Philip Ragan December 12, 2011 at 12:49 pm #

   Nice article Tim, always interesting to see such analysis, which act as food for thought, though I doubt many of us are prepared to move to Adelaide fringes just to get a cheap home!

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     Tim Lawless December 12, 2011 at 3:15 pm #

     Thanks Philip – very true there needs to be a few reasons to buy rather than just being cheap!

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   Philip Ragan December 12, 2011 at 3:17 pm #

   I’ve added a link to your article on my Propell blog. Cheers Phil

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   narelle routley February 23, 2012 at 11:38 pm #

   Hi i am from hillman and we are on the lower end of the market . I ask the question Why? We are close to all facilities the rail station, the shopping centre, tafe and murdoch, doctors, kwinana freeway, hospital, beaches, every facility is within distance of the residents. We have our own primary school, homes are established on larger blocks of land, and some homes may be older but they are built to last. Although we are in the vincinity of businesses on dixon road this is a plus as far as having access to business and trade when needed. We have parklands and are close to the natural reserve for walks of coolongup lake. We have lots of open spaces and greenery and we also have laneways where you can access other areas of hillman by walking. Our crime rate is very low and we are like a village where our suburb is seperate from others, we have a majority of people and neighbours who are responsible and respectful of each other. The truth is that hillman does not get the recognition it deserves . Hillman had a stigma in the very early days when it was first populated this is not the hillman of today so who determines a area particularly when it seems to me that the information that is either told by word or advertising is not correct and it continues to hold back a good area to reside in and also lowers the value of that area.

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     Tim Lawless February 24, 2012 at 9:01 am #

     It’s an interesting question Narelle, and I agree with your assessment of Hillman. In fact I think most of the suburbs around Rockingham provide a decent value propostion for prospective buyers seeking an affordable detached home within commuting distance to Perth and close to the coast. There are other local suburbs of Rockingham with similarly affordable prices (Cooloongup for example also shows a median house price under $300k). It takes some time for outlying suburbs to gather momentum, however affordability and accessibility are going to remain high on the agenda of prospective home buyers for the foreseeable future – I wouldn’t be surprised to see areas like Hillman benefit from that demand over time.

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