Drive along Cowpasture Road today and you will pass warehouses, a bus depot and a hardware store, and there is nothing to tell you that light aircraft once took off and landed on this exact patch of ground. Hoxton Park Airport ran here from 1942 until December 2008, when the runway was dug up and […]
Beaumont Hills was carved out of Kellyville in 2002 and formally named by the NSW Geographical Names Board in 2003, which makes it a suburb in its own right for barely over two decades. It is thought to be named after the birthplace of the wife of developer A.V. Jennings, whose company built much of […]
Parklea does not hide what it is. Drive along Sentry Drive and you pass the perimeter fencing of Parklea Correctional Centre, a 1,350-bed facility that has operated on this site since the 1990s. Drive along Sunnyholt Road and, depending on the day of the week, you might pass the tail end of the queue for […]
North Kellyville is what a growth corridor looks like mid-build. Drive its streets and you see the tell: near-identical double-storey facades on curving crescents, front yards still working out whether the turf has taken, and a shopping strip that opened only a few years after the first families moved in. This is a suburb that […]
Smeaton Grange is a suburb almost nobody lives in and almost everybody has bought something from, whether they know it or not. The 2021 Census recorded just 16 residents here, a figure that makes sense once you understand that this is one of the principal industrial and logistics precincts of the Camden LGA, home to […]
Rossmore is what South Western Sydney looked like before the growth corridors arrived, and for now, it still does. This is a semi-rural pocket of acreage properties and market gardens, home to just 2,241 people, where blocks run to one, two or nearly four hectares and a shed on your own land needs a development […]
Hunters Hill is one of Sydney’s oldest and most heritage-rich suburbs, occupying a peninsula between the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers. This guide covers the heritage architecture, property market, transport, schools, and local life in this distinctive North Shore suburb.
Miranda is the Sutherland Shire’s commercial heart — home to Westfield Miranda, Miranda Station on the T4 line, and just a short trip from Cronulla Beach and the Royal National Park. A complete guide to living, property, transport, and what makes the Shire’s main centre tick.
Bondi Junction operates at a pace all its own. Sitting at the meeting point of the Eastern Suburbs’ residential sprawl and the commercial energy that flows out from Sydney’s CBD, it is the suburb that makes everything in the east work. Shopping, transport, services and eating out all converge here in a way that no […]
North Sydney occupies one of the most dramatic positions of any business district in the world. Stand at the northern approach to the Harbour Bridge at Milsons Point, look south across the water, and the full sweep of Sydney’s skyline unfolds before you. Then turn around, and you find another skyline looking straight back. This […]
Picton at a Glance Picton is a heritage town in the Wollondilly Shire, approximately 81 kilometres south-west of Sydney’s CBD. It serves as the administrative centre of Wollondilly Shire Council and functions as the commercial and social hub for a large swathe of rural and semi-rural communities across the southern Sydney fringe. With a population […]
There is a particular quality to Mosman that other harbourside suburbs try to approximate but rarely quite match. It is something about the combination of things: the deep blue of Middle Harbour seen through native bush, the broad quiet streets lined with fig trees and federation homes, the low-key confidence of a suburb that has […]
Penrith at a Glance Penrith sits at the foot of the Blue Mountains on the banks of the Nepean River, roughly 55 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD. It is the commercial, sporting and cultural heart of Greater Western Sydney, a city in its own right within the Penrith City Council local government area. Once […]
Katoomba at a Glance Katoomba is the main town and administrative centre of the City of Blue Mountains, perched on a sandstone escarpment at around 1,000 metres above sea level, approximately 102 kilometres west of Sydney CBD. It is the cultural, commercial and natural gateway to the Blue Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage Area that […]
Cambridge Park is one of the more established residential suburbs in the Penrith area, sitting about 2.5 km east-north-east of the city centre. With a population of nearly 7,000 and a history rooted in one of colonial New South Wales’ notable pastoral grants, it has the settled character of a suburb that has been a […]
Glenmore Park is one of western Sydney’s most substantial residential suburbs, a sprawling masterplanned community of more than 25,000 people on the south-western edge of Penrith that has grown from pastoral land into a fully self-contained urban neighbourhood since its gazetting in 1990. It is a suburb with wide curving streets, modern homes, artificial lakes, […]
Chatswood sits ten kilometres north of the Sydney CBD as the North Shore’s most unambiguously urban suburb. Where much of the Lower North Shore trades on quiet streets and heritage character, Chatswood is a high-rise commercial centre with one of Sydney’s most vibrant Asian food and retail precincts, a major transport interchange, and a density […]
Macquarie Park is one of Sydney’s most significant knowledge and innovation precincts, tucked into the City of Ryde about 12 kilometres north-west of the CBD. It is home to Macquarie University, the headquarters of global hearing technology company Cochlear, the Australian headquarters of Optus, and a dense cluster of technology, health, and research firms that […]
Quick Facts SuburbFairfield Postcode2165 LGAFairfield City Council RegionSouth-West Sydney Train LineT2 Inner West & Leppington Line Distance to CBD~33 km south-west Median House Price~$900,000 Known ForVietnamese, Cambodian and Assyrian communities; authentic South-East Asian food Overview Fairfield sits about 33 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD, straddling the Cumberland Plain between Liverpool and Parramatta. It is […]
Lane Cove sits quietly on a tree-lined peninsula about nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney CBD, tucked between the Lane Cove River to the west and Middle Harbour tributaries to the east. It is one of the Lower North Shore’s most genuinely residential suburbs and not a place people pass through on the way to […]