What to see this weekend: The best properties on the market in Melbourne right now

Domain’s expert pick of the top properties up for sale in Melbourne and across Victoria this week.

11 Parkside Street, Sorrento

$3.5 million
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

Summer in Sorrento doesn’t get any better than an immaculate, high-spec modern home that integrates luxury and an easy-living coastal vibe. This new house, for permanent or holiday use, has a low profile, wrapped in warm timbers and facing an expansive lawn and shimmering tiled pool alongside a rammed-earth wall. The work of Wolveridge Architects and Smith Builders, it uses quality timbers in pergolas, decks, flooring and built-in furniture. For inclusions, tick off security gates, alarm, butler’s pantry and European appliances.

Private sale
Agent: Peninsula Sotheby’s, Rob Curtain 0418 310 870

34 Park Road, Mount Waverley

Photo: Marshall White

$1.8 million-$1.98 million
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4 car Spaces

The bushland of Damper Creek Reserve makes a serene backdrop, past the private rear garden with infinity-edge pool, at this distinctive c1960s residence. The house retains its mid-century glazed facade, while a living-room extension adds timberclad contemporary style. There’s a gym and cellar at lower-ground level, bedrooms and study areas on the top level and between them, light-filled living areas in an L shape, wrapping a bluestone terrace, plus home office and kitchen with limestone benches and butler’s pantry.

Agent: Marshall White, Ash Howarth 0415 756 764
Auction: 1.30pm, February 24

2/23 Coate Avenue, Alphington

Photo: NicoleSchuch

$640,000-$690,000
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 car space

This neat, compact villa is within a low-profile 1990s development in a no-through road, handy to the train, local shops, parkland and the Yarra, and set to benefit from the Chandler Highway upgrade. The unit has a fresh contemporary renovation, a private deck, facing west, and a garage (with storage above) used by the vendor as a photographic studio.

Auction: 11am, February 3
Agent: Nelson Alexander, Tom Alexiadis 0417 030 452

7 Summoner Street, Blairgowrie

Photo: Kay & Burton

$1 million-$1.1 million
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

Nestled among the treetops, this double-storey property is a perfect city escape, with polished timber floors and high ceilings throughout the top-level living, dining and kitchen area, and bifold doors that open to an outdoor entertaining deck. At ground level, two bedrooms and another separate family zone unfurl to a wraparound deck. This breezy home is a short trip to the ocean and bay beaches and a two-minute drive to Blairgowrie shopping village.

Private Sale
Agent: Kay & Burton, Lorna Duffy 0403 269 034

11 Cottesloe Drive, Barwon Heads

Photo: Guy Le Page

$875,000-$945,000
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

The Cottesloe Beach Shack is the quintessential little peninsula holiday cottage (with a bonus en-suited bungalow), built about 1963 and renovated last year with vibrant vintage flair. It works as a charming sea-change home, an alluring weekender, and is popular as a rental property. “It returns over $50,000 being rented out for two-thirds of the year,” the agent says. The property features timber floors, Ecoply panelling, Ilve cooker and established gardens on 585 square metres.

Private sale
Agent: RT Edgar, Andy Ingham 0406 619 645

Two of a Kind: Regional Retreats

1B Rest Drive, Flinders

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$1.925 million
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

The hard work is done and the street name hints at a relaxing rural-edge lifestyle to be enjoyed at Tilbooroo, a Hamptons-style family home that has been completely overhauled, from its return verandah to its parquet-floored sun room and airy, cathedral-ceilinged living zone. Stroll to the beach or into town for brunch at Pier Provedore.

Private sale
Agent: Kay & Burton Flinders, Tom Barr Smith 0438 368 020

56 Schreenans Road, Bonshaw

Photo: Biggin & Scott

$1.15 million-$1.25 million
5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4 car spaces

This bespoke two-storey manor, built c1999 of Tasmanian sandstone, sits on 5.6 hectares 10 minutes from Ballarat. The lovingly maintained property includes orchards, flowering garden beds seen through picture windows, heritage shearing shed kitted out for parties and events, a separate office/hobby room, bricked stockyards and a dam.

Private sale 
Agent: Biggin & Scott Ballarat, James Nicol 0499 844 499