Buyers Agent PRESTONPreston
The suburb one over from where everyone is looking — which is usually where the best value on the Northside is hiding.
Where the smart money went next.
Preston is the Northside’s proof that value is usually one suburb over from the queue. Preston Market anchors it, High Street’s next act runs through it, and the streets hold exactly the stock families want: Edwardian fronts, solid interwar brick and proper backyards, with two train lines and the 86 tram stitching it to the city.
Buyers stepping up from Northcote and Thornbury discovered all this years ago, and the suburb has been rewarding them since. Our Reservoir purchase sits one suburb north — this corridor is one we work constantly.
How we buy in Preston
Preston’s value spread is wide — pockets nearer the market and the tram behave differently to the suburb’s edges, and campaigns lean on the suburb’s momentum to price ordinary streets like exceptional ones. We keep the two apart: the specific home, priced against sales we’ve actually walked, on the street it actually sits on.
Then we win it the disciplined way — strategy built around the campaign in front of us, your ceiling set beforehand, and a stop that means stop.
Frequently Asked Questions
Relative to its southern neighbours, generally yes — that’s the corridor’s whole story. But “Preston is good value” is a suburb-level claim, and you buy a street. Some pockets have already had their run; others are still catching up. We’ll tell you which is which for the homes on your shortlist.
Family-shaped: Edwardian and interwar houses on real blocks, weatherboards, villa units, and newer townhouses filling in along the corridors. It’s a suburb where land still comes with the house, which is a growing part of why buyers step up to it.
Yes — Preston sits in the middle of a corridor we work end to end, from Thornbury up through Reservoir, where we bought a brand-new home for a young family short on Saturdays. If your brief spans the corridor, so does our search.
Let’s find that street.
Tell us what you’re after, what you’re working with, and the streets you’ve got your eye on — we’ll tell you where that budget really stretches, what’s about to come up, and how we’d go about landing it.