Buyer’s Agent Maidstone, 3012.

The “In-Between” Suburb Buyers Are Catching Onto

Maidstone sits quietly between Maribyrnong and Footscray, close enough to Highpoint Shopping Centre and the café strips of both neighbours to borrow their lifestyle, without carrying quite the same price tag.

For buyers priced out of the suburbs either side, that gap is the whole appeal — but it’s closing fast as more people work out the same thing.

Add Medway Golf Club’s green fairways along one edge of the suburb, and it’s easy to see why interest here has picked up.

A Suburb Built in Layers

Walk a few streets in Maidstone and you’ll pass 1950s weatherboards, brick post-war homes, newer infill townhouses, and the occasional apartment block, often within sight of each other.

That variety makes comparing properties harder than it looks — a renovated weatherboard and a new townhouse two doors down aren’t really the same purchase, even if the price guide suggests they are.

What Buyers Want to Know

Most people looking in Maidstone are asking the same practical questions: is the house structurally sound under a recent cosmetic renovation, is the asking price realistic for the street or inflated by a single stand-out sale nearby, and is now the right time to buy given the tram depot works and ongoing redevelopment of old industrial sites nearby? With homes here typically taking around six weeks to sell, buyers also have a little more room to negotiate than in some of the faster-moving suburbs nearby.

Getting the Right Advice

A buyer’s advocate who follows Maidstone closely can separate the streets still offering genuine value from those already catching up to their neighbours, and make sure you’re not paying Maribyrnong or Footscray prices for a Maidstone address.

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 Maidstone

Maidstone is a suburb of Melbourne that was established in 1858, which was named after a town of Maidstone in Kent, England.

Maidstone located in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, just 8 km from Melbourne’s CBD. The local government area for this suburb is the City of Maribyrnong. The 2011 census indicated that Maidstone had a population of 7,750.

Over recent years, Maidstone has turned into a new housing estates that has hundreds and thousands of houses and townhouses, some for investment purposes. It has become gold mine for many investors, because of being in a close proximity of Melbourne’s CBD, and the availability of good public transport.

Distance to Melbourne: 8 km West of Melbourne.

Public Transport: Trams, Trains & Buses.

Number Of Schools: 3

Access to Free Ways: Ballarat Road

Surrounding suburbs: Braybrook, Maribyrnong, Footscray, Avondale Heights, West Footscray. Maidstone is located in the South Western Suburbs of Melbourne. 

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