It’s been a while and a hectic beginning to the year and that includes the MA real estate listings that seem to be getting bigger and better every month. Thanks to all who let us know of their local favourites and it’s now time to go over a few recent gems we’ve had the pleasure to post up….

First up, Victoria, where the pendulum of fate swung over two Boyd hones – a magnificent property in Warrandyte (which to our mind looked better than Walsh St and Boyd Barker put together!) which received newspaper raves and was quickly snapped up and another, perhaps lesser, but still enduring home in Ringwood given only the most cursory of nods as to it’s provenance in between the usual, infernal real estate garble about sub-dividing and 5 townhouses. It too has been quickly sold, but it’s destiny as only a memory seems to be a forgone conclusion. On a brighter note we also see an early McGlashan Everist in Beaumaris been given the star treatment in it’s particular sale pitch and from a pure enjoyment perspective are 2 x seventies wonderlands in suburban Donvale. We also have two of very respectfully (hooray!) renovated originals in Newtown, Geelong one of which, in Noble Street, we have been advised from the vendor was saved from the wreaking ball (to make way for 3 townhouses, of course) when purchased some years back and is now selling for over 1 million dollars – my my how the worm turns!

Moving north now and NSW has it’s usual mix of high and lower end Modernist homes, but the highs couldn’t really get much higher. In St Ives we find a tasty slice of Palm Springs transplanted to the leafy suburbs of Sydney, while in Wahroonga we are very proud to say one home that is being sold the right way, courtesy of our friends at Modern House. A 1955 masterpiece with a mystery to boot (the architect is, as yet, unknown) this property is a thoroughly gorgeous sun-filled Mod home set within beautiful mature gardens and is of lovely proportions.

Canberra we suspect is keeping tract after tract of amazing MCM homes from our wandering eye, and this recently listed gem in Deakin is a very essence of what we are all about here – an original, untouched, well-loved architectural wonder. First time on the market and worth every cent – you really don’t find much better in the entire country.

It’s been in Tasmania where we’ve had suburb discovery of the year thus far. Aside from the collection of lovely little houses in Burnie and a magnificently preserved owner-build winner in Devonport, we have found the hitherto unknown suburb of Rosny. Like so much of Hobart, it’s a suburb of exquisite river and harbour views teamed with a gloriously humble Tassie price tag, but more importantly is obviously one of those ‘outer’ suburbs established in the middle of last century, where many of the local houses stand as testament to the Modernist ethos of the day. We’ll be scoping it weekly from now on.

We’ll end the roundup with a call out: Achtung Queenslanders! We just know there is a bunch of great little Mid-Century properties floating about on your local real estate pages – so tell us where exactly! We are looking in some of the usual places – The Gap, Indooroopilly and turning up the bare minimum, so lend us a hand if you can and tell us any you’ve spotted of late.