Inner West insights from Red Report

Our expert agents in the inner west have shared their top three trends and predictions for their local market in 2017.

Top three trends

• Over the bridge

Buyers from traditionally popular inner city suburbs like South Yarra and Prahran are heading to the inner west in search of stronger land value.

• Shift to developments

With plenty of competition from owner-occupiers for established homes, investors

are looking towards apartment developments or housing estates.

• Jam-packed OFIs

Open for inspections are seeing plenty of people coming through the doors from

owner-occupiers and investors, driving competition for homes.

Predictions

Still the most affordable pocket within 10km of the CBD, the inner west is seeing huge amounts of development in terms of apartment developments and house and land packages, attracting investors and owner occupiers equally. With many homes in the inner west built during the middle of the last century, investors will continue to preference developments over fixer-uppers so they can lease out immediately.