Mostly post-war trust and commission homes on 600-800m² originals, 300-450m² new blocks, sitting on reactive clay, with high pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Playford.
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.
Two-storey or long single-storey on 300-450m², black window frames, Colorbond Monument roofs, solar on most, 6 or 7-star rated. Very few established trees yet.
Two or three homes where one 1960s house stood: Torrens-title courtyard homes, hammerhead battle-axe blocks, occasional two-storey townhouse rows.
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.
Renewal on the Trust streets and new stages in Smithfield Plains. Old and new sit side by side.
The train line and Main North Road split the suburb into three markets with three price points.
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 60% of Smithfield 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 600-800m² originals, 300-450m² new. 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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