Mostly infill townhouses and rebuilds on 500-750m² blocks, sitting on coastal sand, with high pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Onkaparinga.
Two or three homes where one 1960s house stood: Torrens-title courtyard homes, hammerhead battle-axe blocks, occasional two-storey townhouse rows.
Fibro and weatherboard shacks, later brick holiday homes, on sandy blocks near the esplanade. Many now knocked down for two-storey rebuilds.
Brown brick veneer, mission-brown aluminium windows, ducted evaporative on the roof, a family room off the kitchen and a pergola out the back. Project homes from the big volume builders.
SA Housing Trust double-brick and cream-brick semis and singles, concrete or timber floors, small windows, hip roofs in tile or iron. Solid and simple.
Triple-fronted cream brick veneer, low hip tiled roof, aluminium or steel windows, concrete slab, carport on the side. The Adelaide suburb standard.
Good bearing, quick drainage, stable slabs (often Class A or S). The risks are excavation collapse, wind-blown sand under the house, salt corrosion, and the coastal erosion or acid-sulfate overlays that come with living near the water.
Beach shacks and Trust homes near the esplanade are being replaced with two-storey rebuilds and townhouse pairs.
Cliff-top streets carry a coastal erosion overlay; the flat streets behind do not. Two very different building conversations a block apart.
House prices in years of wages, decade by decade, what was standing when, and what her block does now.
Likely in the older stock. About 70% of Christies Beach was built between the 1920s and 1980s, the peak asbestos period. Eaves, wet-area sheeting, fences and sheds are the usual places. Test before you drill, sand or demolish.
Coastal sand. Good bearing, quick drainage, stable slabs (often Class A or S). The risks are excavation collapse, wind-blown sand under the house, salt corrosion, and the coastal erosion or acid-sulfate overlays that come with living near the water.
High subdivision pressure: Two or three homes replacing one on many streets. Original houses are becoming the minority and land value drives everything. Typical blocks are 500-750m². Check the zone and minimum site area in the Planning and Design Code for the exact street.
Street-level generalisations from council heritage studies, ABS dwelling-age data, soil classification maps and BuildPilot partner site reports. Every street has exceptions. A soil test, a building inspection and the council's overlay map beat any suburb profile, including this one.
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