SUBURB PROFILE

Ascot Vale

A LITTLE UNDER RATED

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Only 6 km from the CBD, Ascot Vale is well serviced by public transport – a circa 10 minute train ride into the CBD from Ascot Vale station.

It enjoys three tram routes:

  • 57 – along Epsom Rd (West Maribyrnong to Flinders St Station in the CBD)
  • 59 – along Mt Alexander Rd (Airport West to Flinders St Station)
  • 82 – along Maribyrnong Rd (from Moonee Ponds Junction to Footscry Railway Station).

Easy access to Citylink and with it the Melbourne Tullamarine airport.

As a Melbourne buyers agent who specialises in the inner suburbs, generally when I think of an inner city suburb, I immediately connect a “brand” with it. For example, when I think Toorak I think “affluent”, Brunswick “hipsterville”etc.

Ascot Vale I think flies a bit under the radar – in part because it doesn’t have a clear “brand”. While the Royal Showgrounds are within the suburb, I think they are often seen as being in neighbouring Flemington – along with the racecourse.

Bordered on its western side by the Maribyrnong river which offers river trails for walking and cycling, it is well serviced by parks and playgrounds and has a number of sporting clubs, including a golf club and leisure centre.

The suburb offers close proximity to the retail/hospitality precincts in Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Flemington and Highpoint shopping centre.

The housing stock includes a significant amount of Victorian and Edwardian housing, some on a grand scale and on relatively large blocks, and some on tree-lined streets. Also a significant number of Californian bungalows and, like most inner-city Melbourne suburbs, there is increasingly infill townhouses and apartments.

The gentrification of the suburb is evidenced by the changes in its main retail hospitality strip – Union Rd, which now provides well regarded cafes (No. 19 @ 214 in Union Rd is my favourite), restaurants, patisseries, gourmet grocers, wine bars/stores and more.

The elephant in the room with Ascot Vale as a buyers agent is the presence of a significant amount of Housing Commission properties.

All things considered and subject to being in the right type of property and not being in problematic proximity to Housing Commission properties – I think it is a good value inner city option.

Last update: 11 Feb 2023

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