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“We’ve been there forever and we’ve extended it a couple of times,” he said. “We’re selling because it was 40 years ago. We’ve got two grown up kids and grandkids, I swim in that house.”
Montgomery’s family found themselves alongside families in similar life stages when they moved in all those years ago; the tight-knit community helped to keep them in the area.
“It’s not one of those places where you see moving trucks every day,” he said. “Where the street is, it used to be a citrus and apple orchard. The guy who was the owner of the orchard lived in the house at the corner of the street, when his 90th birthday came along, we put a great big long table down the street and we threw him a birthday party.
“It’s just that sort of place.”
MJ Docking director Adam Docking had the listing and agreed Vermont South was a close community of residents who typically chose to stick with their home and upgrade – or downgrade – to better suit their needs, rather than move out of the area.
“It’s very common. Vermont South is one of those areas where people start in the area with young kids at the local school …. And they don’t leave the area until the house is too big for them 20 years down the track,” he said.
Nigel Montgomery was sold his house by the father of his current real estate agent, about four decades ago. Credit: Simon Schluter
“What we find quite regularly in these properties, they keep rejuvenating them over the years.”
Docking’s father sold Montgomery his house, and the agent also has a lifetime of ties to the suburb.
“There’s also a family-based community here,” Docking said. “I’ve still got friends who I went to primary school with here. Once you make friends with people at schools or sporting clubs you have them for life.
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“You’ll go for a five-minute walk, but it’ll take half an hour because you’ll run into someone you know and you’ll have a chat. To give you an idea, when my father is sometimes on a tight deadline, he has to time washing his car for when he knows people won’t be walking past.”
Keilor Downs had a similar story but at a more affordable price point, Barry Plant St Albans director John Aaron Nakic said.
“Keilor Downs is more of a family estate. You’ve got to be paying north of $800,000 for something fairly substantial, of decent size. It’s still affordable for what you pay,” he said. “The turnover isn’t huge. It’s not a huge suburb either and it’s pretty tightly held.
“[But there’s] value for money, if you go to Essendon you’re paying $1.2 million to $1.4 million for a townhouse. You can buy a pretty big home for a lot less [in Keilor Downs].”
Nakic said smaller suburbs in the area were often overlooked for more well-known locales.
“There [are] two little suburbs that only the locals know about, and that’s Keilor Downs and Kealba.”
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