Five Perth Properties Under $750K

Out on the west coast, things are looking a little sunnier as the market returns to strength. Here, five properties that you can buy for under $750,000.

19A Lichfield Street, Victoria Park WA

Offered to the market for the very first time is this original tuck-pointed character home, built around the 1920’s.

The completely renovated, 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 2-car parking home is nestled away in a quiet section of Victoria Park, but remains within walking distance of local cafes, restaurants and shopping.

Inside sees period features, a lofty sense of space provided by the high ceilings and renovated mod-cons.

The bedrooms all have built-in robes, while a spacious verandah and a low-maintenance garden round out the offering in a stylish manner.

The listing is with EMG property solutions, $745,000; emgx.com.au

41A Edward Street, Bedford WA

Located in one of the most sought-after streets in Bedford comes this spacious 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 2-car parking home.

Inside the 205sqm of living space, the home features a theatre room, study nook, large open plan kitchen, dining and living area that flows out to the gabled patio area.

The large master bedroom suite includes a walk-in robe while the three secondary bedroom is complete with built-in-robes.

The home has easy access to public transport and is close to the Galleria shopping precinct, Beaufort street café strip, Chisholm College and Perth CBD.

While yes, technically the asking is $770,00, it’s too good a property to pass upon.

8A Warren Road, Yokine WA

Found in an enviable Yokine location comes this 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 2-car abode.

With stylish contemporary features and high-quality finishes throughout, the home offers an easy-care lifestyle.

Inside, the home boasts a stunning open plan living, dining and kitchen, the latter of which offers stone benchtops, mirrored splashbacks, built-in-pantry, electric cooktop and plenty of cupboard and benchtop space.

Elsewhere the home’s king-sized master retreat holds a beautiful ensuite complete with his and hers walk-in robes.

Further, the home sees two additional bedrooms – both with built-in robes – a second family bathroom, separate study/office and laundry areas.

The home is nearby to Yokine primary and Carmel, bus stops, Terry Tyzack Aquatic Centre and more.

The listing is with Acton Mount Lawley, offers between $719,000 – $769,000; acton.com.au

89B Guildford Road, Mount Lawley, WA

Well below the threshold, this modern spec townhouse arrives with 4-bedrooms, 3-bathrooms and a 2-car parking.

The kitchen is replete with stone benchtops and modern amenities while the wide entrance hall and timber floors underfoot add to the spacious contemporary feel of the home.

Inside, three stunning bathrooms arrive with full-height tiling and stone benches while all four bedrooms arrive with built-in robes.

Further mod-cons include a built-in vacuum system, double glazed windows and a laundry with a shoot from upstairs.

The townhouse is located in the Mt Lawley high school zone and is nearby to Mt Lawley train station and river.

The list is with NTY property group Maylands, from $649,000; ntypropertygroup.com

37 Leonard Street, Victoria Park, WA

Presenting Monogram, Victoria Park, a limited collection of ten, centrally located townhouses.

The area of Victoria Park is a diverse cultural hub nearby to Crown Perth and Optus Stadium.

On offer is a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom 2-car parking with a number of layouts and three interior schemes with a private alfresco, generous kitchen with island bench configuration and separate laundry.

Engineered stone features prominently in the kitchen alongside Bosch appliances while built-in robes adorn the bedrooms.

The townhouses start from $699,000; mongramvicpark.com.au

A historic Barbados estate with a 300-year-old villa and 11 acres overlooking the Caribbean Sea is now for sale with a guide price of $22.5 million.

The seller is Kit Braden, chairman of the U.K. branch of French beauty empire L’Occitane Group, whose family has spent every winter for the last 13 years at the island property, known as Fustic Estate.

“It’s very much a family house,” Braden said. “We love having a lot of people there. It’s a collection point to keep everyone together.”

The main villa dates to 1712, though it’s been reimagined and expanded substantially over the years.

It spans 13,000 square feet and features seven en suite bedrooms across three wings, as well as expansive verandas, stone courtyards and rows of louvered doors in gay Caribbean pastels.

In the 1970s, when the home was owned by Charles Graves—brother of British poet Robert Graves—it was reimagined by stage designer Oliver Messel, one of the foremost theater designers of the last century. Messel expanded the home, added a lagoon pool with a natural waterfall and other theatrical features, according to Braden.

“The whole place is a little bit magical,” he said.

The home sits about 350 feet above the water, and surrounded by lush gardens that slope towards the water.

“We look down through our garden—which is about 12 acres of tropical gardens and palm trees and wonderful old mahogany trees—onto the Caribbean,” Braden said.

He and his wife first saw the property on New Year’s Eve 2013, during a quick trip from where they were staying in Grenada.

The couple spent an hour walking the perimeter, some of it still untouched jungle, in the pouring rain.

“By the time we got back, I had fallen in love with it,” Braden said.

His wife, however, wasn’t so sure. But in Braden’s telling, a second visit in sunnier weather with two of their children brought her around.

“She had to be talked into that it was a jolly good idea; now she absolutely loves it,” he said.

When they bought the property, the edge that runs along the waterfront was a jungle, so they cleared the ridge and transformed it into gardens.

They also bought an additional sea-level parcel with two beach cottages, giving the property direct access to the water and the town below via a five-minute walk.

The property also has a 15-person staff, a reflecting pond, an outdoor pavilion suitable for yoga and a commercial grade kitchen that can serve more than 100 guests, according to a brochure from Knight Frank, which posted the listing in March. They did not provide further comment.

For Braden, the property is special because of its natural beauty, its proximity to the town of Saint Lucy and its history—which dates way way back to when the island of Barbados was first formed via tectonic activity.

“It was basically tectonic plates that collided about a million years ago so the seabed is the top of the hill,” Braden said. “We’re on coral rock.”

As a result, Fustic Estate includes an extensive network of caves that were likely used by the Arawaks, a Venezuelan fishing tribe that followed the fish to these islands about a thousand years ago.

“If the fish were good they’d camp here,” Braden said. “There’s evidence that they stayed there in those caves, they lived there in good winters.”

Now it’s someone else’s turn to live on the land shared by Arawaks, the plantation owners of 1712, Charles Graves and the Braden brood.

Five Perth Properties Under $750K

What a quarter-million dollars gets you in the western capital.

Kit Braden, an executive at French beauty empire L’Occitane, has spent every winter for the past 13 years at the stone vacation home.