Typical inner city suburb of Adelaide, it’s only 33 kms from the CBD. Typical in that it’s got a lot of older homes and beautiful character homes, in particular symmetrical cottages which were built over 100 years ago, some large villas and some bungalows. For those of you that live in Melbourne, Torrensville is like Yarraville in Melbourne. For those of you that live in Sydney, Torrensville is like Newtown. So very cosmopolitan and very close to the city. Torrensville has a primary school, has a high school, excellent access into the city by bus, buses going up an down on Beach Road which is the main arterial road on a regular basis and the beauty of about living in a western suburbs of Adelaide, you are also between the city and sea. So 5 minutes to the city, 10 minutes to the beach, just a prime location.
Why buy in this suburb?
Considering its proximity to the city, it is relatively cheap, only a little bit higher than the current Adelaide median house price and for that you can buy yourself a character home. Next door to the more expensive suburb of Mile End and Mile End can be quite expensive compared to Torrensville, so it will benefit from the ripple effect. Renovation territory absolutely fantastic, but if you are going to renovate you need to buy a character property, character generally means pre-World War II and in Adelaide those styles are called bungalows, cottages and villas.
Development, there are a few opportunities for development. The Council will let you get down to 280 sq.mtrs. per dwelling. But if you are interested in development, I would strongly encourage you to look at the suburb of Thebarton which is right next door to Torrensville. Torrensville very popular with international students, because of its proximity to the city. Three out of the 6 university campuses in Adelaide are in the city on North Terrace which is only 2 or 3 ks from Torrensville. I know that it’s very popular with international students because as I drive along Henley Beach Road, I see Chinese grocers, Chinese restaurants, Indian grocers, Indian restaurants, Thai restaurants, Greek, Italian and international students who like to be able to go and buy and eat the food that they are used to back in their home country, let alone its proximity to their place of study.
Best streets to buy in
The best streets in Torrensville are those that tend to be closest to the city. Danby street, Northcote street, Wainhouse street would be three of the best streets in Torrensville.
Streets to avoid
If you are going to buy in Torrensville, I would avoid Henley Beach Road, South Road, very busy arterial road and also be aware of the flight path. Torrensville is only about 2 kms from the airport and planes do fly directly overhead. So if you want to find out where the flight path is, go to Google maps, find out where the runaways are, elongate the runaway with a pencil and a ruler and provided you are a couple of hundred metres away from the flight path you should be fine.
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