Before I start this week’s blog I will let you know that I live at Westwood Park and therefore may have a biased opinion on the area.
The area I live in at Westwood Park is the perfect place for me to call home. We have fantastic neighbours on both sides. One side we have some empty nesters whose children have flown the coup. They include a water trader & also a business owner, on the other side we have a first home buyer who is rarely home, working away in the mines. Other people in our street include; business owners, ex-business owners, factory managers, factory workers etc.
All in all, our street is a very social one. City slickers rarely understand this – it is important for people who have grown up in country areas to know their neighbours, it provides a safety net. Our street is a congregation of people from all over: Boort, Ouyen, Geelong, Cohuna, Kyabram, as well as New Zealand & Ireland.
Every year we have a street Christmas Party – Santa, otherwise known as Rob my neighbour (safe to say after a bottle of wine) reluctantly arrives to deliver the children their presents. It’s a good opportunity for everyone to have a catch up before the busy Christmas period. It is not unusual in the court to hear the tunes from the street party going until the wee hours of the morning (with the broom becoming the centre piece, substituting as a microphone). I have also come home many a night to the neighbours congregating on a front lawn having a monthly catch up.
With the estate now almost completely full I have had some good sales in the area over my period of time in Real Estate ranging from $300k to $400k. There are also properties in the estate ranging from between $250,000 through to $600,000. The time and effort put into constructing some of the homes and surrounds have been phenomenal. As an investment new properties are always in demand for executive tenants or people in between building their home.
Our neighbours are more like family, they go above and beyond the call of just borrowing a cup of sugar.
“There is no place like home”.
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