Elwood. $1575 for a 3 bedroom house. It was advertised on Seek.com.au.

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I'm assuming that's per month :) Cheers!

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Yep, monthly. :)

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a) North Melbourne
b) above $350 a week for a three-bedroom flat. It was $300 two years ago.
c) pretty damn good. I'd prefer north fitzroy or abbotsford, but I it anyway. Hot Poppy saves the day.

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Uh, I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, but that's not quite what I meant for c)....

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No. I found it by looking at realestate.com.au!

Which I am paid to recommend but will not.

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We pay $350 per week for a three-bedroom renovated house in Preston, advertised on either realestate.com.au or domain.com.au. It was the height of the rental-property shortage and it was the one place that wasn't absolutely disgusting and didn't have a squillion people vying for it.

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a) Westgarth (Northcote if you insist)
b) 265pw for a 2bd apartment (but it was about 220 when I moved in)
c) I knew the previous occupant, who had bought a place.

This was also during the Commonwealth Games "what vacancies" crazy period.

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Is there a Melbourne equivalent of allhomes.com.au?

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... wow. That's excellent.

Every time I see something like this I feel a little less like my employer can be saved.

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It's good but also limited to Canberra and the surrounding region... I wish it was Australia wide! the quality would probably lower for it, though.

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Windsor
$1395 pcm
online somehow... through hodges.
You've seen the place.

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footscray $1214 per month - or $400 each with a full stock of housemates. good ol' hard saturday slogging. mostly starting with domain.com.au - good ol' age as well :)

and then you look at the price hikes after the rent went bonkers. when i first moved in, it was $370 each per month - then boom! it's slowed down a lot now, but there's a big price difference in houses that were occupied before the rent went boom, and houses that have been on the market since then

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A) Brunswick
B) well below market average given the size of the house, but about $300 a week
C) Walking down Sydney Rd and looking at the rental properties list in various agencys

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that said I've also browsed property.com.au, realestate.com.au, domain.com.au - but really I've always had more luck going into agencies on the Thursday when they put up the new listings

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Yeah, that was what I figured. Hard to do from China, so I was hoping people would have pointers for managing it on the internet. But I suspect not.

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I've been in the same house for nearly 6 years now, so I'm out of practice and it may have changed more than I realised. But I have helped Neef house hunt not so recently. But in my experience all the internet is really good for is giving you an idea of what is available in the area in the price range. Once you find something you like online, you go through all the pain of calling the agent, waiting on them to call you back, if the bother, trying to make an appointment, having it changed, finding out the perfect house you've just found online is already taken and they haven't updated the listing online yet and so on.

Plus the whole wanting to see a house before I rent it.

Anyway, I'm sure Rabbit knows that on the off chance you guys do leave your Russian angels and come home, even briefly that she (and you) are welcome to stay here short term while you get everything sorted. I say short term because I'd don't think we'd put up with each other for long :) But a month or two is fine.

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realestate.com.au and the internet. Chadstone, 3 bedroom, nice heating, lousy stove, on a busy road but a huge backyard, $340 per week.

Around the corner, 4 bedroom, lousy yard, $400 per week (definitely NOT worth it)

Alas, I don't think you're even allowed to sign the lease without having seen the property.

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Alas, I don't think you're even allowed to sign the lease without having seen the property.

I'm not sure if this is law but I've not encountered a real-estate agent who didn't abide by this.

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Carlton, $400/week for "two bedrooms" (more like one pretty large bedroom and a study you could fit a kid into), found it via realestate.com.au.

Rent has gone up $60/week over the last four years. I suspect if I vacated the next tenant would be paying more like $420-430/week. More if the second bedroom were bigger as it's very close to Melbourne Uni.

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Altona North, 3br flat, decent quality and space with no car parking and limited access but great public transport and shops.

~$950/month, was $690/month or $160/week when I moved in in early 2006, but a new property manager took over at the beginning of last year and noticed that the rent hadn't been changed for a rather long time.

I found it looking at the real estate agent's list of rentals as printed on the handout in their actual office - they did not advertise this property anywhere. I went into the office because of something else they advertised, and looked through the full list while I was there.

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soon you will work for a circus astronaut :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8083336.stm

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Oh god, I know. We got some wanky press release at work about the world's first social poetic space mission.

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a) Coburg North, one block before the zoning changes from mixed use into all industrial, all the time.
b) over $2k a month, but then it is huuuuuuuuge (and not residential *cough*)
c) see, there was this girl ...

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