Hello guys! Welcome back to Kate's Kitchen :)
In today's video I'm going to show you some apartments in St Kilda and Port Melbourne, pricing around AUD 500,000
We were looking for 2 bedroom, minimum 1 bathroom & 1 car park apartments
Let's start with St Kilda!
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb of Melbourne which is most popular during summer months thanks to the beach
A lot of events and festivals have been held here
It has a great mixture of cultures and cuisines
Many would say it has a colorful past and present, to me it's a vibrant part of Melbourne that I love
especially the heritage architecture of terrace houses which now valued millions of dollars
The 1st place we're looking at today is in St Kilda East
It's a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom & 1 car park apartment
Pricing from $470 to $515,000
It has 2 floors, so downstairs is the bedroom & bathroom
There are a couple of skylights in the bedroom, makes it less stuffy but there's no space for a desk
Storage is not bad, laundry has a sink and a really nice color
Here's a small balcony and I guess this is a store room
Let's check out upstairs!
There's living area, kitchen and a small balcony
It has all of the appliances that we need
Whether we are willing to pay that much money for a 1-bedroom 1-bathroom apartment or not, we're not sure
Here's the space for microwave
Oh I love this rail, it's a really good solution for storage
The balcony weirdly has the glass - I think it has something to do with safety or privacy regulations
but what's the point of having a balcony with no view
Location-wise it's perfect, it's near Albert park, 5 minutes to the beach if you take a tram, it's near my workplace
But I think we'll pass on this one because it's not the value for money that we were looking for
The second place we are looking at today is in St Kilda East (also)
The price is $500,000 with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom & 1 car park
It's a front ground unit of a boutique six-apartment building
It's very very cute, the old owner just renovated it
and because it's an older apartment, there's a lot of space in the bedrooms
There's also huge storage and there's a little bit of gardens because it's the front unit
and when you look out the windows, it's just beautiful and so pleasant to look at
Here's the storage, you can easily put a desk in either bedrooms
I love the kitchen because it's looking out to the gardens as well
Here's the bathroom, it's quite basic but it has everything we need
The only problem with this apartment is that it has no cooling or heating but it's under our budget so it's worth considering
The next place is quite interesting
It's on Queens Road, kind of in the middle of Albert Park and Fawkner Park, pricing at around $520,000
It's a 2-bedroom 1-bathroom & 1-car park apartment
It was built in a kind of art deco style with a lot of windows a lot of natural lights
and looking over a leafy garden
It surely is full of characters however it's right next to a very big busy road so it's quite noisy
and because the apartment is very old now all of the glass windows are very thin and not sound-proof
Some of them even have cracks
I guess that if we buy this apartment, there will be a lot of maintenance work to do
Here's the second bedroom,
You can see that the closet is very very old
Let's check out the kitchen
this is the the space for the fridge
the bathroom
I mean you can easily see its age
Next I'm gonna show you a couple of apartments in Port Melbourne
We actually didn't intend to inspect them, we only stumbled upon them while we were looking for place for lunch
These 2 are on Bay St, which is a very busy street with a lot of restaurants and cafes
The 1st one has the little bit of stairs to go up to the gate and have a beautiful big courtyard
It's a two bedroom two bathroom and one car park apartment, pricing at $650,000
The design is actually not bad
The master bedroom and ensuite looks really really cute
and has a lot of space
There's a little bit of balcony as well
The 2nd bathroom has a huge laundry and a bathtub
The 2nd apartment is on a quite high floor and is in a different building looking over the courtyard
It's also 2-bedroom but only 1 bathroom apartment
The master bedroom actually has a little bit space for study which is really cute
Both bedrooms have natural lights which I love
I actually can't remember the price of this apartment I think it was about $610 to 620,000
Location wise I think Bay Street is a great place to live
It has a lot of restaurants and cafes
It's only 5-minute-walk to the beach and there's a lot of things to do here
Public transportation is all close-by
Even though we are renting in Docklands at the moment, we often go to Port Melbourne to watch the sunset
or maybe just have a coffee or tea, get some pastries from Bella Cosi
and sit on the beach and look at the Spirit of Tassie