12 / 738 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley WA 6050

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Picture the first Saturday morning after settlement. The unit is vacant, so the keys are yours the day it settles, and there are no painters booked, no flooring to choose, and no colour charts on the bench. The hybrid floors are new, the paint is new, the lighting is new, the blinds and curtains are new, and the bathroom has a new vanity. The kitchen is the original, freshly painted and cooking on gas, which means a real flame under the pan from night one and a kitchen you can live with now and make your own later, on your timetable rather than a seller’s. The bathroom and laundry are otherwise original, and the laundry is the point: it is inside the unit, where many units of this era send you down to a shared laundry room with a coin slot and a queue. Here it is behind your own door.

The unit faces north-east, which in Perth means the morning light comes to you and the harshest afternoon sun does not, and it looks away from Beaufort Street rather than at it, so the traffic belongs to someone else. A split-system reverse-cycle air conditioner takes care of the two weeks a year when Perth tries to test you.

It is on the first floor of a three-storey building of only 21 units, so you are up off the ground without a lift to wait for, and there are 20 neighbours, not 200. A good-sized balcony comes with it, and so does an under-cover car bay for the days you drive rather than walk.

Most days you will walk. The Good Grocer IGA is on the corner of Second Avenue, close enough that running out of milk stops being a problem and becomes a two-minute excuse to stretch your legs. Secondeli is across Beaufort Street for coffee, breakfast, and the shakshuka people drive in for, and Testun Bar is a few doors along for the glass of wine that turns into dinner. Head north and the Inglewood Hotel is the first stop, with Woolworths and Coles at the Inglewood end of the strip for the big shop. Head south and the whole Beaufort Street cafe strip of Mount Lawley unrolls in front of you, past the Astor Theatre and The Elford, all the way to The Queens and The Beaufort in Highgate. You will know every doorway on it within a month.

When you do have somewhere to be, the high-frequency 950 bus runs along Beaufort Street into the city and on to UWA and QEII, every 15 minutes or better from 7am to 7pm on weekdays, which is the difference between checking a timetable and simply walking to the stop. Families and future families should note the unit sits within the Mount Lawley Senior High School local intake area, with the school about 1.1 kilometres away, Mount Lawley Primary School about 400 metres, and Perth College about 300 metres.

Then there is the number that matters more than most buyers realise: 50 square metres of internal floor space. Many lenders set 50 square metres as the smallest unit they will finance, so this one sits on the right side of that line. That may mean a wider choice of lenders for you now, and it means exactly the same wider choice for whoever buys from you later. Buy the unit that is easy to finance today and you own the unit that is easy to sell tomorrow.

Some images have been virtually styled with furniture and decor to show how the unit could be furnished. The property is sold unfurnished, and the furniture, artwork, and accessories shown are not included in the sale or available for inspection.