Buyer’s Agent Ashburton, 3147.

Ask someone to name a Melbourne suburb and Ashwood probably won’t come up — it’s the kind of place people discover by accident while searching for something else, usually because they’ve been priced out of Glen Waverley or Chadstone and Ashwood turns up nearby, cheaper, and oddly overlooked.

That accidental discovery is becoming something of a pattern, and it’s slowly changing what Ashwood actually is.

The suburb’s bones are almost entirely 1960s and ’70s: modest brick and weatherboard homes on decent blocks, built for a very different Melbourne than the one that now surrounds them.

Deakin University’s Burwood campus sits right on the doorstep, which means every family home for sale is quietly also being sized up by an investor thinking purely about student and staff rental yield — two very different valuations of the exact same property, decided by two very different kinds of buyers.

Then there’s the school zone question, which trips up more people than it should.

Ashwood shares boundaries with some genuinely sought-after catchments, but “genuinely sought-after” and “actually inside the line” are not the same thing, and the difference between them is a street, sometimes less — invisible on an inspection, decisive on a school application.

A word from Mark Ribarsky, founder of Wise Real Estate Advice (est. 2014).

Mark is a fully licensed real estate agent and our lead buyer’s agent. With experience as a selling agent, property developer, and owner of Property Managers Melb, he brings a well-rounded perspective and deep industry knowledge.

About Ashburton 

Ashburton is thought to be named after the ship Lord Ashburton which arrived in Australia from Great Britain in 1850. Another view is that the suburb is an offshoot of Ashburton Terrace in Cork, Ireland, the birthplace of local politician and ex-councillor Dillon.

Ashburton is a south-eastern suburb located 12km away from Melbourne’s CBD and wedged between Black Rock and Mentone.

It offers the most beautiful and quaint period homes whilst merging considerately with luxurious modern homes. It is a perfect blend of community & lifestyle and enables professionals’ brilliant access to the city and surrounds at the same time.

The predominant age group in Ashburton is 40-49 years. Households in Ashburton are primarily couples with children, allowing them to enjoy the 6 parks covering nearly 8.1% of the total area.

Ashburton has an active strip shopping centre along High Street, two train stations and contains a branch of the Boroondara Library, helping to achieve a median home price increase of 6.06%.

Distance to Melbourne: 10km East Of Melbourne.

Public Transport: Trains  & Buses.

Number Of Schools: 4

Access to Free Ways: Monash Freeway.

Surrounding suburbs: Malvern East, Chadstone, Burwood, Camberwell, Glen Iris and Ashwood. Ashburton is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. 

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