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Building in Mentone.
Mentone is a sought-after bayside suburb with a strong café culture, prestigious school options, and beautiful beach access. Its position between Cheltenham and Parkdale makes it one of the bay's most convenient and desirable addresses.
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Custom Luxury Home in Mentone
A bespoke, architect-quality home designed from the ground up to suit your block, your lifestyle, and your vision. Fixed-price certainty, no compromises.
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Keep the block you love in the suburb you love, and replace an aging home with a brand new custom design. The smartest way to stay in your neighbourhood.
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Two dwellings, one site. Maximise your land's potential with a dual occupancy designed for living in, renting out, or selling as separate titles.
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Mentone at a glance
Mentone is a bayside suburb with a genuine village character, a Kingston community built around a lively local strip, a beautiful beach and a strong sense of community identity. Blocks run 500–700 m² and the housing stock includes a mix of period homes, post-war construction and more recent builds, with consistent demand from families wanting the Mentone Beach lifestyle combined with access to Mentone Grammar and the suburb's well-regarded state schools. The Mentone train station and its direct CBD services make this a practical as well as pleasurable place to live.
Distance to CBD
21 km south-east
Local Council
Typical Block Size
Typically 550–750 m²
Home Styles
Californian bungalow, inter-war, contemporary prestige
Heritage Overlays
Limited
Planning & Permits in Mentone
Kingston City Council administers Mentone under the General Residential Zone, with planning pathways that are well-established for single-dwelling replacement builds. The suburb's coastal proximity requires consideration of coastal and flood overlay provisions on some sites, and Varcon's site assessment process identifies these requirements before the brief is finalised. Kingston City Council.
Lifestyle & Community
Mentone's Como Parade shopping and café strip is one of the southern suburbs' most pleasant local village experiences. Mentone Beach and the Mentone Girls' Grammar and Mentone Grammar schools anchor the suburb's family appeal. The bay, the foreshore trail and Mentone Park complete a genuinely liveable amenity package.
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