You Wish: Balwyn

1 Hertford Crescent, Balwyn
About $5 million

This might not be the only executive Balwyn home with six bedrooms, five bathrooms, heated pool/spa and basement parking for 10 cars, but how many have their own organic food supply?

A bonus wedge of land fanning out behind the landscaped garden of 1 Hertford Crescent, just down the hill from Beckett Park, is a thriving auto-irrigated market garden with everything from kale to olive trees to feed the family.

The rest of the rear garden is an entertainer’s delight with Mediterranean influences, barbecue kitchen, pizza oven under a pergola and landmark date palm.

The outdoors transitions via a covered alfresco area to similarly sophisticated spaces inside for formal and informal living. The builder’s own house, completed four years ago, is replete with luxury finishes and fixtures, from its Miele and Liebherr stone kitchen to a bespoke spine-beam timber staircase and an emphasis on natural light through vast picture windows.

Marshall White’s Ross Stryker will call for bids at 12.30pm on March 4.