In Australia, primary schools also have school districts. A primary school tends to give priority to local school-age children, and if they are not filled, they will accept children living elsewhere. But the quota is very limited!
So the registration form will be issued one year in advance. If there are extra places in the next year, students from other districts will be recruited in accordance with the order of this registration form.
Many parents lined up with tents early in the morning, waiting for 48 hours at the school gate! Just to get a numbered registration form so that her daughter can be the first child on the Waiting List.
The parents spent the whole weekend in tents.
What is even more surprising is that there are parents, grandparents and grandparents to line up! In addition to getting their children a registration form, they can sell the extra forms to their friends.
A watch can sell for $400.
For a waiting quota, as for this? These parents are also helpless:
"the school district of a good school is too expensive to buy! We also want our children to go to the best schools, to receive the best education, to give the best friends, so we can only work a little harder, stay up late to fight for a chance for the child! "
Although there are many primary schools in Australia, like most Chinese parents, Australian parents also want to send their children to the best schools, especially the first-rate public schools.
Therefore, whether in China or Australia, parents in order to buy school district housing is to smack the pot to sell iron also at all costs!
This is why Melbourne's school district rooms are so expensive and scramble to buy!
In MacLeod West, 16 kilometers north of Melbourne, house prices have been soaring, up to nine hundred and fifty thousand Australian dollars, because of public high schools such as Charles La Trobe Secondary College and La Trobe.
And a few surrounding areas, such as the adjacent Wastonia house price is only more than 600,000 Australian dollars.
Across the street, school room prices are three hundred thousand more expensive!
Because of its immediate proximity to the University of Melbourne, University High School has the highest profile among overseas home buyers, especially among Chinese. According to Domain, the purchase of housing in this area is also mainly from Chinese buyers!
Not only that, you can see that most of the top 10 residential areas are well known to Chinese.
In particular, Glen Huntly,Boxhill North,Preston is a Chinese community. In order to give their children the best education, Chinese parents are really willing to go out!
Valentik Frank Valentic, head of Advantage Property Consulting, a property consultancy, advises buyers to do more homework before selling to measure whether the property they choose is worth paying a high price. Here are some of his suggestions.
Choose the best campus
Choosing to buy a home in the best public school districts has other benefits than having to pay high private school fees. The real estate in the school district has better appreciation space.
If you choose the right property, the future resale will be able to sell at a good price. Buyers buy properties at a premium of 10 to 20 percent in the school district, and they can still sell at the same premium on the next transfer.
Attention cost
Housing in top school areas is usually expensive. Valentik said some properties in the school district could cost A $ one hundred thousand more than outside the school district. He advises buyers to do due diligence in advance and be cautious if the premium is higher than that.
Because buyers need to borrow money from banks, banks still value their properties by normal standards, so make sure they don't lose their minds and pay too much.
You can't forget the basic problem.
When buyers consider buying a home in a school district, they still have to pay attention to the basic issues of buying a house, including the location, orientation, layout, and so on.
One of the most critical issues is location, such as quiet streets, proximity to shops and transportation hubs, facilities, etc. In school districts, without the necessary living facilities, there is little room for real estate to appreciate in the future.
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Property experts recommend that buyers compare the premium on home purchases in top public school districts to the tuition fees of private schools.
The number of children in the family and the length of time they go to school are also a factor in buying a house.
If property premiums on top campuses range from 10% to 30%, while private school fees are less expensive and families have to pay for that for only a few years, the burden of choosing the latter is likely to be smaller.
If there are only two children in the family, it would be more economical to buy a home in the school district, Valentik said. If there is only one child, consider whether to buy a home outside the school district and send the child to private school.
Confirm that the property is within the school district
It is important to make sure that the property belongs to a school district.
Valentik advises buyers to call the school before buying a home to make sure the property is located within the school district. Because some school districts are strictly divided, students outside the street will not be accepted.
On this website, you can see Melbourne's school district distribution: http://melbourneschoolzones.com
Enter the name of the school you want to know directly on the site, you can see where it is and the area it contains, and then you can screen the building according to the division map.
Avoid peak buying
Many buyers will choose to buy their homes at the end of the year and move in before the start of the new school year.
Valentik pointed out that the end of the year or the beginning of the year is actually the peak of home ownership, if buyers can buy in the middle of the year, the competition will be much less.
Find out what hot school districts are
Melbourne's popular public schools include McKinnon High School (McKinnon Secondary College), Granville High School (Glen Waverley Secondary College), Boven High School (Balwyn High School), doctoral Mountain Secondary School (Box Hill High School) and Parkville (Parkville) University attached Middle School (University High School).
In addition, there are other schools are also gaining popularity. For example, at Northcott High School (Northcote High School), McClaude (Macleod) 's Charles Rajober School (Charles La Trobe College), Wibank College (Viewbank College) and Elwood (Elwood), Voxton (Valkstone), South Yala (South Yarra) and some elementary schools in Fitzroy (Fitzroy), etc.
Melbourne families save tens of thousands of Australian dollars by positioning themselves in an ideal goverment school area, experts say, or otherwise spend on private education.
Dr Andrew Wilson, chief economist in the field, also noted the inextricable relationship between school districts and housing prices, and the resulting investment opportunities.
"what's worth discussing is whether high-quality schools attract buyers to buy homes in a certain area, or are buyers investing in local schools, which in turn creates demand," Wilson said.