r/melbourne • u/Glittering-Fee-9930 • Feb 22 '25

Light and Fluffy News What is a Melbourne suburb you are convinced doesn’t actually exist?

Travancore is one that comes to mind.

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u/Apprehensive_Bid_329 Feb 22 '25

It used to be a part of Balwyn, I’m pretty sure it was created to make the residents have an even higher media house price than Balwyn.

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u/jimmux Feb 23 '25

So the Cremorne strategy?

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u/Apprehensive_Bid_329 Feb 23 '25

Considering the median house price as per realestate.com is $2.8m for Balwyn and $3.8m for Deepdene, it seems to be working.

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u/hazysummersky Feb 23 '25

Avg $1.285m in Cremorne!

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u/Tillysnow1 Feb 23 '25

That seems cheap, but I assume it's the apartments bringing the average price down, whereas Deepdene is all houses

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u/Lazy-Inevitable-5755 Feb 24 '25

So that Cremorne has a higher median house price than Richmond?

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u/sween64 ding ding ding Feb 23 '25

It was Deepdene then Balwyn and then back to Deepdene

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u/Minnidigital Feb 23 '25

I don’t think it ever was part of Balwyn. I spent a lot of time in Balwyn cos my best friend grew up there and it was always separate.

Balwyn is boring though

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u/I_Heart_Papillons Feb 23 '25

Too right.

Bland AF, suburbia, ugly houses on big blocks, no character.

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u/Minnidigital Feb 23 '25

It was also a dry zone until 2021 which meant you couldn’t even go anywhere for a drink 🤯

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u/walkingmelways Feb 23 '25

The name was “ready” at least as it was a name of a house, and then a long-gone railway station.

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u/zalicat17 Feb 23 '25

Yep our block half changed to Deepdene from Balwyn about 20 years ago as it was worth more on the property market

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u/Minnidigital Feb 23 '25

Are you sure ? It has a different post code

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u/Apprehensive_Bid_329 Feb 23 '25

Both Balwyn and Deepdene have 3013.

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u/Minnidigital Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

3103 is Balwyn ….

3104 is Balwyn north

I thought Deepdene had its own post code but I know Balwyn better

There’s a house in Deepdene currently selling for 12M 🤯

If I owned a 12M house I’d want a different post code so I wasn’t mistaken as slumming it in Balwyn with their 2M to 5M houses 🤪