Cafe culture, village shopping, excellent restaurants, unique homes and stunning water views, all within minutes from Sydney CBD.
Balmain boasts an enviable lifestyle, and an incredibly popular place to live.
As your Balmain Buyers Agent specialist, we will find you your ideal property, and secure it for you for the best price possible.
Contact us or call on 1300 132 970 to start the process.
Named after surgeon William Balmain who was given a grant of 500 acres in 1800. Settlement was sluggish until the introduction of ferries 30 years later.
Reliance on steamers and coastal vessels for travel and trade resulted in the establishment of shipyards. With a growing population came churches, schools, police, a hospital, and a Council formed in 1860 and later amalgamated with Leichhardt and Annandale.
By the 1800's Balmain claimed to be the leading social suburb in Sydney with clubs such as the Balmain Working Men's Institute. Overcrowding, factories built next door to houses and schools, and haphazard inappropriately laid out street design saw an eventual decline.
By the Depression, 38% of residents were out of work, twice the State average. Post W.W.2 saw large scale industry with a coal loader, power station, Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Monsanto and Caltex.
It wasn't until the mid 1960's when much of this industry moved out, that tertiary education people started to be attracted to the architecture, the foreshore and the close proximity to the CBD. Fifty years of gentrification later, Balmain and Birchgrove are considered amongst Sydney most desirable waterfront locations.
Due to its proximity to the city, Balmain is the perfect place for professionals. During the day prams are pushed to lunchtime rendezvous, while come nightfall it’s time for a beer at one of many watering holes. Those whose children have long since grown up and left home take the opportunity to relax with their four-legged fur-babies at one of many cafes and restaurants.
For village lifestyle, quality eating and drinking and a small but well-curated collection of shops, it’s hard to beat Balmain. Add to that beautiful heritage buildings alongside architect-designed multi-level terraces and some truly over-the-top entertainers with water views, and you’ve got something pretty special. Catch a bus or ferry to work, and you’re set.
As your Balmain Buyers Agent specialist, we will find you your ideal property, and secure it for you for the best price possible.
Contact us or call on 1300 132 970 to start the process.
Key Facts
- 6km West of the Sydney CBD
Transport
- Buses – 441, 442, 431, 433, 444, 445
- Ferries – F3 Parramatta River Ferry – Thames St, F4 Darling Harbour Ferry – Darling St
Amenities
- Balmain Library – 370 Darling St, Balmain
- Acting Classes Sydney – 1 Davidson St, Balmain
- The NSW Ballet School – 7 Campbell St, Balmain
- Simmons Point Reserve – Simmons St Balmain East
- The Zig Zag Reserve – Nicholson St, Balmain East
- Rowing New South Wales – 19a/37 Nicholson St, Balmain East
Schools
- Father John Therry School – 2 Eaton St, Balmain
- Balmain Public School – 1 Eaton St, Balmain
- Ku Phoenix Preschool - 36 Evans St, Balmain
- Nicholson St Public School – Nicholson St, Balmain East
