Mostly villas and cottages on 400-700m² blocks, sitting on coastal sand, with medium pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Bluestone or sandstone fronts, brick quoins, slate or corrugated-iron roofs, a bullnose verandah and 3.3m ceilings. Rooms off a central hall.
Californian and Tudor-style bungalows in red brick or freestone, tiled roofs, deep verandahs, leadlight windows. Many on 700-900m² blocks.
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.
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.
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.
Heritage zoning across the old streets; infill along the edges and near the Port.
The foreshore villas were built for sea captains and customs officers. Salt-laden air has been working on them for 130 years.
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 45% of Semaphore 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.
Medium subdivision pressure: A knockdown or a subdivision every few streets. Character is shifting but the original stock still dominates. Typical blocks are 400-700m². 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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