Mostly post-war trust and commission homes on 650-850m² blocks, sitting on reactive clay, with high pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Marion.
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.
Two or three homes where one 1960s house stood: Torrens-title courtyard homes, hammerhead battle-axe blocks, occasional two-storey townhouse rows.
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.
Moderately to highly reactive clay (Class M to H). Seasonal movement causes hairline cracking in brickwork and render. Modern slabs are engineered for it; older strip footings were not. Consistent moisture around the house is the whole game.
Anything flat and over 700m² near Westfield or the train line is a candidate for two or three dwellings.
The old Marion village along the Sturt River has stone cottages and a flood history the rest of the suburb does not share.
House prices in years of wages, decade by decade, what was standing when, and what her block does now.
City of Marion 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 Marion 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.
Reactive clay. Moderately to highly reactive clay (Class M to H). Seasonal movement causes hairline cracking in brickwork and render. Modern slabs are engineered for it; older strip footings were not. Consistent moisture around the house is the whole game.
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 650-850m². 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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