Highbury Buyer’s Agent

An Agent On Your Side Of The Table

Buying in Highbury nearly always means buying a house. Separate houses made up 97.1% of homes at the 2021 Census, and the average home had 3.5 bedrooms. With only 12.1% of homes rented, most of your competition will be owner-occupiers looking for a long-term family base.

Axiom Realty’s buyer’s agents take instructions from one side only: yours. Our part is to find the right Highbury house, test its price against comparable sales and its rental return, run the negotiation, go through the contract terms together and stay with the purchase to settlement.

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Buying in Highbury

What’s there and what to check

Highbury runs from the River Torrens up toward the hills, with Lower North East Road through the middle and a section of Anstey Hill Recreation Park within the suburb. Highbury Preschool is on Beckman Avenue, and Highbury Primary School, despite the name, sits on Payne Street in neighbouring Hope Valley.

A sloping block deserves a careful look at its retaining walls, its drainage, any cracking in the walls and how the driveway copes in wet weather. Toward the eastern end, the Hills Face Zone restricts what can be built, so look the address up on PlanSA for zoning and any bushfire or hazard overlay before you plan an extension, and get an insurance quote early.

How Our Buyer’s Agents Work in Highbury

Shortlist, assessment and negotiation

Tell us what you need and what you can spend, and we search Highbury and the foothills suburbs beside it. Every house that reaches the shortlist is weighed against what similar homes recently sold for and the rent it should command, and if a Highbury vendor wants more than the evidence supports, you hear from us that it is time to walk away.

After you decide, we put the offer and bargain over price, or bid in your place if the house goes to auction, then check the contract terms and keep things moving until settlement.

For an investor, Highbury offers a thin rental market and family tenants. At 12.1% rented there are few competing listings, and large houses suit long tenancies. The trade-off is the purchase price of a big house, so we compare rents and vacancy for similar homes before estimating yield.

Buying in Highbury From Interstate or Overseas

Remote buying, leasing and nearby suburbs

Living in another state or overseas is no barrier to buying in Highbury. Our agents walk through the shortlisted houses in your place and send a video tour or written notes, so you can decide without the flight.

From the first day of ownership, Axiom’s property managers can find a tenant and run the lease for you; read about Highbury property management. Selling a home before you buy? Speak with our Highbury sales agents.

We act for buyers in Hope Valley, Athelstone, St Agnes, Ridgehaven and Modbury as well.

Suburb breakdown

Highbury at a glance

Rents from Axiom’s local market notes.

Median house rent: $680; per week
Median unit rent: $675; per week
To the GPO: 13.1 km; straight line
Residents: 6,956; approximately
Nearest Axiom listing: 1 km; athelstone
Postcode: 5089; East Adelaide

Around Highbury

Median house rent

< $600
$600–$635
$635–$650
$650–$685
$685+

Axiom Realty near HighburyThe closest Axiom listings

No.	Address	Suburb	Bed · Bath · Car	Price
01	18 Bilney DrAthelstoneFor Sale	Athelstone	4 · 2 · 2	Contact for price
02	Unit 2/27 Kerry StAthelstoneLeased	Athelstone	3 · 1 · 1	$630 /week
03	9 Gum Tree DrHope ValleySold	Hope Valley	4 · 2 · 2	$620,000
04	74A Reids RdDernancourtSold	Dernancourt	3 · 2 · 2	$499,000
05	5B Pantowora DrHope ValleySold	Hope Valley	3 · 2 · 1	$590,000
06	5B Pantowora DrHope ValleyLeased	Hope Valley	3 · 2 · 1	$505 /week

Nothing listed in Highbury itself right now. Join Property Watch to hear first when something comes up.

Common Highbury Buyer’s Agent FAQs

Have a Question?

On sloping land, start with retaining walls, drainage and any sign of movement, then the roof and wet areas. Ask whether additions were approved, and search the address on PlanSA for zoning and overlays, especially close to the Hills Face Zone. Before you sign, we take you through the contract clause by clause.

For a buyer who wants family tenants and long leases, it can be. Rentals were just 12.1% of homes in 2021, and 81.7% of households were families. Large houses cost more to buy, so we test the price against current rents before recommending one.

Mostly by car: 63.3% drove on Census day in 2021. Another 4.8% caught a bus and 1.5% combined a bus with a car, and 10.4% worked from home.

Part of Anstey Hill Recreation Park lies within Highbury, and the trails of Highbury Aqueduct Reserve, open to walkers and cyclists, link to the River Torrens Linear Park, which follows the river along the suburb’s southern edge.

Our fees depend on the level of service you need. We discuss them up front at the first consultation and set them out in writing, with no hidden costs.

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By placing people at the heart of what we do the landlord-tenant relationship becomes a matter of genuine trust and good-will, instead of duties and responsibilities.

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