HOUSE HUNTING IN PERTH IN 1967 In 1967, Perth rolled out the welcome mat for migrants, thanks to
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- HOUSE HUNTING IN PERTH IN 1967 In 1967, Perth rolled out the welcome mat for migrants, thanks to Perth's Lord Mayor, The Hon. Mr. Veryard, who made sure there were endless opportunities for newcomers. He wanted everyone to feel that moving to WA was not just a good choice, but a brilliant one. Back then, Western Australia had a population of 836,000, with 553,000 living in the Perth metro area. Capital and migration were seen as key to the state’s growth. For just £10 under the Commonwealth Migration Scheme, newcomers could secure their family’s future in a great climate and a classless society. Owning a home wasn’t a luxury in WA; it was just part of everyday life, as advertised by Landall Construction, Perth’s biggest home builder at the time. A true gem via the State Library of WA. House hunting in Perth [motion picture]. Video / Film | State Immigration Dept. W.A. | [1967]. Available at Climate Control Stack (20 degrees) (Call number: J800134 J copy) #perth #perthisok #house #homes #vintage
Looks like they decided on the Wembley Downs/ Floreat area, can only imagine what they paid and what its worth now!
Definitely.l
Imagine what the prices will be in another 50-60 years!
My parents bought their house in city beach in 1980. For 60k...
Cool cars, respect, decently dressed people, manners, decor....cool vibes :) what a time
G'day to you, I came here in '71 from Sydney on a 3 week Holiday ,never went back ,I loved it. Armadale !
Ruff az guts that joint
That's in NSW! via New England Highway!
Sydney is an overcrowded sheet hole
@@xyzxyz4575it's also between Byford and Kelmscott,Perth WA
@@xyzxyz4575 no its not, that’s Armidale not ArmAdale
Charlie Carters!!! I remember putting the pram on the back of the bus, the bus drivers used to help out.
If we could only wind the clock back.
Life was so much more enjoyable, low crime, people had respect & manners.
It’s amazing how the city has spread North & South.
All the Holden cars driving around, such great memories, I was still going to Mt Lawley Highs school. 😂
definitely a better, safer, quieter time.....and I can certainly do without smartphones, internet, etc etc....
Yep. Homogeneous white national societies certainly work(ed) well.
@@NaturaBreeze and without the medical advances too?
@@Salutimondoit's the price you pay
I am blown away by how neat and tidy the gardens are. Where I live no one does any maintenance, the street is full of overgrown trees and vines. What a different time.
Nobody has time to do gardening since both parents work now
When housing is a commodity and values are guaranteed to go up arbitrarily and not due to improvement, why invest in a garden? Landlords don’t care. Renters don’t want to and should not invest in their tyrants’ stock. My area is all owners, if renters move in nearby I won’t blame them at all for letting it go. I’ll sooner offer to mow it for them.
I think the wooden house is more Cottesloe, then Bayswater or Inglewood, then Dianella, and finally perhaps Doubleview. Interesting little film.
Back when one average income could buy a 3 bedroom house with a large backyard within a metro area....
Exactly. The more money thrown into the housing market just results in higher prices. Back then, most women quit work just before they had their first kid and few people owned investment properties.
My father built a new house in 1963 and it was nothing like these. It had modern bathrooms, kitchen, 3 car garage and magnificent view of the river.
If only I could wind the clock back and buy one of these houses :) Couldn't even dream of owning a house in one of these suburbs these days.
My parents bought a house in Balga in 1970, it was $11,000. That might pay for a concrete driveway today.
@@ricbarker4829 mine did for $20,000 in 1971 ...... that's a house and quarter acre in Ardross/ Booragoon...amazing
@@ricbarker4829 $11K in 1970 was $160K today. Pretty expensive driveway.
@@BenStatethat 160K doesn’t even buy you a one bedroom apartment in the ‘burbs today…
@@paulsz6194 Not saying it does but in 1970 it was 3 years of income. Much more than a driveway... that's the point....
In '67 house foundations were transitioning from limestone and jarrah floors to concrete slabs.
My best friend's parents bought a concrete slab home on the corner of Wheatcroft St. & Manning St.
I'm 90% certain the old weatherboard house they saw about 20 seconds in is 15 Bernard St Claremont. There's some info on it on the Claremont Museum site
I recognised some streets I think. Looked like Charles st in North Perth in one section on a wide street driving past houses. But no cars. Then I thought part of Yokine towards Nollamara. It would be good to know.
I've still got my post war 'State Housing Commission' house that I bought in 1979. Solid as a castle. Unfortunately the high density idiocy has ruined the area and I will soon sell up and move out to the hills - unless they ban that too!
I live in the hills (vic). Much nicer than living in the burbs and 360 degree beautiful views
What is the high density idiocy and what does it do to you?
@@Freshbott2 It creates a new standard of small, cramped, cookie-cutter housing that still sells for whatever people can just manage to pay. And it was originally promised to bring about "affordable housing".
@@every1665 TO play devils avocado, not everyone wants a massive house or block. But it is nice to have your own freehold home.
@@every1665 It wasn’t really an answer but I knew it was coming. The reason I ask is because Perth is absolutely devoid of high density options. Naturally the things I don’t personally want for myself constitute idiocy and if even the suggestion exists then I’m somehow being imposed on by people who want to go about their lives. Woe is me.
What really got me was the combo of former commission housing and new high density developments. That would be where exactly? The only parts of Perth with developments that could laughably be described as “dense” are where the former commission housing blocks are the density.
Even considering commission housing, Perths density fell considerably from the 60s on as tram towns were extended by a mix of ugly desolate car burbs.
I’ll agree new peripheral subdivisions are atrocious and don’t serve the genuine wants of any segment of the market but they exist to try satiate a market forbidden to build quote “density” where it’s needed because God forbid humanity have the right. Single use zoning is the icing on the cake. It makes life in them untenable on top of the unaffordability.
Those developments are desolate but they’re not dense. And I’ll be shocked if there’s even one example within a reasonable walk or eyeshot of former commission housing in the entire metropolitan area.
It’s just a woeful opinion about the consequences of what the same woeful opinion has done to our city, but it’s someone else’s fault it course. Please, move to the hills. Perthites deserve a better future than the one you’d wish on them.
No mobile phones or technology , people and family interacted with each other. Give me a time machine.
- he types into the comment section instead of going out and interacting with people
When Perth was a desirable place to live, not now it lost its appeal, speaking for myself only , knowing Perth since 1976
This video clip takes me back. We (Mum, Dad and 3 kids) arrived in Perth from Britain in 1969 - one of the 10 pound Poms! I was 7yo. In 1971 we purchased our first home, in Kelmscott, for $14400.
and now its only worth $50k haha
@@jasonswift7098Try 600k+ Minimum easily
The house they pick at the end is on Marlock Rd in Woodlands. There's no history of number 5 being on the market the last 20 years though
Around that time, many new suburbs were being established further out from the city centre, featuring new concepts like cul-de-sacs, abandoning the grid system of streets for meandering ones with few entrance roads, underground power and modern houses. They were a taxi drivers nightmare, but found favour with many, leaving the inner city areas with their old, then unfasionable houses that were in need of attention in quite a few cases.
Many migrants took advantage of the lower prices and closeness to the city. Over time, attitudes and fashions changed, and the Federation era houses that survived are no longer cheap, quite the opposite. My parents bought one in North Perth in 1967 for $10, 400, without selling their little West Perth house. 1200 square metres of land. big, beautiful looking house and worth millions today, it's now my turn to be its custodian, while Perth continues to build on its reputation as a knock it down town.
Loved Perth when I was living there
Come back x
@@perthisok man I am thinking about coming back to Perth. The beaches, the sand, the blue sky and hot weather
No more Chindians.
Yeah, the Sunday Sesh and Chuckin Boondies.
Strange how they couldn't name drop the suburbs. "Two miles from the beach, and 6 miles from the city".....Hmmmm....
Is it Balga??
@freddykabulaschnitza2475 it looks to be around that area although maybe closer to where Westminster is now, or Tuart Hill
Let's have your conspiracy theory then...give us all a laugh.
There are no suburbs two miles from the beach, yet still only 6 miles from the city. I went to school in Wembley Downs, about two miles or more from the beach, and I lived in Doubleview, at a stretch 2 miles from the beach and neither were remotely 6 miles from the city.
@ExternalInputs are you a geographical scientist or a map making dood.
Note the migrants looked like your family and the family you knew!
@@jogon9649 all migrants look like their own families Bub
Is that Gina Rhinehart's current residence at the 0:20 sec mark -- 150 Victoria Ave, Dalkeith?
Indeed it is
My parents told me they got gastroenteritis when they moved to Perth from UK as there wasn’t any proper drinking water, it had to be boiled at all times. They moved to Shenton Park back in 1968 into a weatherboard and tin roof which apparently was very hot.
Maybe they didn't use soap when digging around their snake maker
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either this has been colorised incorrectly or the Swan River used to be blue!
Wrong.
@@InfinitePlain Wrong what? The Swan isn't blue.
@@BenState 🤡
Kodak's notorious 'Eastman colour'.
What was the price then ?
Unlike today...affordable.
About $15K was the median price in 1967 which is just over three year's salary.
So '67 was the beginning of the end.
Notice something? a high trust MONO society. Funny that.
@@Leosarebetter you could always move back to the UK.
So? What did that house cost???
5 k to 10k
From now on i no longer live in a house, I live in a bungalow by the beach 😂
I hope you have brass fixture and fittings. It will rust.
Wait this sounds like our dream...
white ants in Perth are a nightmare, buy only brick , they even eat out timber door frames
Not a nightmare if you take the proper precautions and its not expensive or time consuming.
@@susanstorer3425 lol just finished a 3 yr court case involving a termite ridden house which a pest company had billed me for 5 yrs stating property was pest free and the roof was eaten out
Sued for $300,000 in legal fees, a new roof and lost rental takings
you were saying???
Buy a house with jarrah framing.
@@jasonmackinnon4552 good luck with that plan
The house I live in was built in 1940s.All jarrah framing. No termite damage at all in that time.
And now officially the most unaffordable city in Aus
Worth about 2.5 to 3 million in Albos Australia circa 2024, who would have thought?
Don't thinks thats Albos fault mate....
@@FrankFranklin_yep those million plus immigrants he has let in and continues to do so at 500,000 a year have absolutely no affect on house prices..
Half a million extra people fighting for homes, hospitals and other services that are already struggling definitely makes a difference
@@foxxster3565they're here to take the jobs the locals don't want to do. I work in a factory. Feel like a foreigner in my own country
@@foxxster3565Have a look at the property price per household income chart. Housing unaffordability began well before the current labor government took power.