Some homes are close to schools. This one shares a fence with two of them.
Adam Road Primary is over the back. Newton Moore Senior is right there beside it. Which means the great morning ritual, the shoes, the keys, the reversing out of the driveway at 8:22am with someone still eating toast, that all becomes a walk. No roads to cross. No school run. And when your eldest finishes Year 6, they don't go anywhere. They just walk to the other one.
Twelve years of school. Same house. Same fence.
Inside, it's 1979 brick and tile from the era when they built things properly and then didn't think about them again for fifty years, but someone's clearly loved it since. Ornate ceiling roses and decorative cornicing run through the living areas, which is not something you find in a house at this price.
Four proper bedrooms, all with built-in robes and ceiling fans, not three bedrooms and a cupboard with ambition. A separate lounge big enough to be a genuine theatre room, or the room the kids vanish into when you'd like five minutes. Then open-plan kitchen, living and dining for everything else, with a breakfast bar, deep benchtops and storage that doesn't require a strategy.
One bathroom, but here's the part that matters: the toilet is separate. Anyone who's raised four kids in a one-bathroom house knows that's not a small detail. It's the difference between a queue and a crisis.
Out the back is where it stops being a starter home. A big gabled alfresco, tiled, easily seats eight. Beyond that, lawn real lawn, green and established, with room for the trampoline, the swing set and whatever else ends up living out there permanently. Then a powered Colorbond shed with a roller door, and drive-through gates from the carport so the boat, the trailer or the caravan can go straight round the side.
And with 684sqm to play with, there's scope to look at a granny flat down the track, subject to council approval. For the teenager who won't leave, or the parent who shouldn't have to. Buyers to make their own enquiries.
Split-system aircon. Spacious laundry with its own door to the patio. Nothing broken, nothing pretending.
The rest of the week is just as easy. Parks Centre has your Coles and Kmart, so the weekly shop is a five-minute exercise rather than an expedition. The South West Sports Centre is close enough that swimming lessons, netball and basketball all happen without a logistics meeting. And the Bunbury Turf Club is right there for the days you'd rather be watching horses than doing any of the above.
It's a straightforward family home in a suburb people keep trying to get into, with a block and a shed that most new builds simply can't offer.
Outgoings:
Council Rates: approx. $2,930.76 p/a
Water Rates: approx. $1,346.38 p/a