Camberwell real estate

Camberwell is one of 26 Principal Activity Centres in the Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy.

The character of the suburb has grown from its years as a ‘Dry’ suburb – not a shortage of rain but an absence of hotels or pubs selling alcohol!

The people and the homes they live in are best described with words such as consistency, modesty, taste, comfort and security.

In the 1920s home designs moved away from the historical days of early settlement of the 1880s. Instead they found many ways of representing ‘modernity’ - as art deco used to be called.

In the oldest part of the suburb – the Prospect Hill area - you can find homes from the ‘Boom’ period of the 1890s as well as Victorian, Edwardian and ‘Art deco’ residences – with 21st Century homes nearby.

All the homes built on top of the hill have views of the city skyline.

You are never far from a train station around here – this suburb has 4 of them! Camberwell station is the main one and a major attraction on the retail precinct of Burke Road - which leads to the market and supermarket on Camberwell Junction – where three tram routes converge.

There is almost no industrial land in Camberwell, and commercial uses are concentrated near the Burke Road precinct, which has long been one of the busiest in suburban Melbourne.

House prices in Boroondara are well-above the metropolitan median and those in the Prospect Hill precinct are several times the Boroondara median.

Fine educational facilities are all around and so easily reached by public transport. Two of the more famous are Camberwell Grammar School on Mont Albert Road and Siena College on Riversdale Road.

Christopher Russell Real Estate agents with current properties in Camberwell are Angela Plesnicar.