Mostly 1960s cream brick veneer on 600-800m² blocks, sitting on limestone and calcrete, with high pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Charles Sturt.
Triple-fronted cream brick veneer, low hip tiled roof, aluminium or steel windows, concrete slab, carport on the side. The Adelaide suburb standard.
Two or three homes where one 1960s house stood: Torrens-title courtyard homes, hammerhead battle-axe blocks, occasional two-storey townhouse rows.
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.
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.
Shallow limestone under a thin sandy or loamy topsoil, common across Adelaide's west and north-west. Stable to build on but expensive to trench; expect rock-breaking for services and pools. Salt damp is common in older stone and brick.
A subdivision hotspot. Italian-built 1960s homes on wide blocks are being replaced with courtyard homes in pairs and threes.
Many of the original 1960s homes were owner-built by migrant families to a standard well above the era. Check the cellar.
House prices in years of wages, decade by decade, what was standing when, and what her block does now.
City of Charles Sturt approvals, fees and timelines.
OpenLand prices, site costs and builders working here.
OpenWhat a knockdown rebuild costs and how long it takes.
OpenWhat each decade of Australian house looked like and hid.
OpenLikely in the older stock. About 70% of Findon 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.
Limestone and calcrete. Shallow limestone under a thin sandy or loamy topsoil, common across Adelaide's west and north-west. Stable to build on but expensive to trench; expect rock-breaking for services and pools. Salt damp is common in older stone and brick.
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 600-800m². 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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