16 Newbay Crescent
Brighton, VIC 3186

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Area figures
- schools in Brighton
- 9
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Area figures
- residents (ABS, June 2024)
- 106,118
- children aged 0–14
- 17,268
- schools
- 30
- parks & libraries
- 52
- kids’ activity providers listed
- 45
Most-listed activities: Tennis, Karate, Swimming
Population figures: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Parks, playgrounds & public spaces
Wilkson Reserve
Middle Cres, Brighton, Victoria, 3186
485 m straight-line distance
CORA Lynn Park
St James Park Dr, Brighton, Victoria, 3186
660 m straight-line distance
Municipal Reserve
Esplanade, Brighton, Victoria, 3186
741 m straight-line distance
Bayside Library Service
Wilson St, Brighton, Victoria, 3186
805 m straight-line distance
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Kids' Activities per Child: Australia's Best- and Thinnest-Covered Council Areas (2026)
Across Australia's big council areas, the AroundSchools directory lists a median of about 10 kids' activity providers for every 10,000 children — but in Melbourne's Wyndham it is 3.9, and in the City…
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Most Livable Suburbs in Victoria for Families (2026)
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Upcoming Events Nearby
Mon, 19 Oct · Brighton
Bayside Art Babies
Up to age 2
Mon, 19 Oct · Brighton
Bayside Art Babies
Up to age 2
Fri, 6 Mar · Sandringham and Highett
Children's yoga - JEM | 7th Mar-2026 to 17th Apr-2027 💛
Ages 3–12
Sat, 1 Aug · Ashwood
Kids & Teens Art Birthday Parties - Glorious Studio | 2-Aug to 31-Dec, 2026
Ages 5–17
Tue, 15 Sept · Blackburn North
Persian Playgroup - Facilitated
Ages 3–6
Tue, 19 May · Nunawading
Junior Warriors - 8 Course Programe - Kung Fu Force AU | 20th May to 30th Dec-2026
Ages 6–13
What's Nearby
Theatre De La DanSe
15 Male St, Brighton
Pass N Play
., Brighton
Bonjour Babies (Elsternwick VIC)
560 Glen Huntly Rd, Elsternwick
SF Ballet
567 Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick
Merryl’s Mosaics & Glass Studio
723 Glenhuntly Road , Caulfield
Jam Studio Music
Suite 2, Level 1, 118 Chapel St, St Kilda
Jem children’s yoga
., Sandringham and Highett
St kilda baseball club
Hockey Dr, , St Kilda
Ladybug Learning
Suite 1, 319A Neerim Road, Carnegie
Nearby Schools

Firbank Grammar School
51 Outer Cr, Brighton VIC 3186 Australia

Brighton Grammar School
90 Outer Crescent, Brighton VIC 3186 Australia
St James Catholic Primary School - Brighton
6 St James Close, Brighton VIC 3186 Australia
Brighton Primary School
Wilson Street , Brighton VIC 3186 Australia

Star of the Sea College
74 - 80 Martin Street, Gardenvale VIC 3186 Australia
Divrei Emineh
453 New Street, Brighton VIC 3186 Australia
Nearby schools do not imply enrolment eligibility. Confirm catchments, year levels and childcare availability directly with the provider.
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Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: House
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: Art Deco Brilliance, Premium Locale
Description: Sold by - Michael Martin (Director RT Edgar) Set on a sun-filled, recently landscaped, low-maintenance allotment, this charming c1930 Art Deco residence has been thoughtfully renovated to deliver refined family living with designer finishes, just moments from the heart of Church Street. Nestled within a tightly held laneway setting close to cafés, leading schools and city-bound transport, it offers effortless appeal for downsizers and young families alike, with seamless indoor-outdoor living across a generous three- to four-bedroom layout. Elegant period features, including ornate ceilings and hardwood timber floors are showcased throughout, with a formal entry hall introducing generous living and dining rooms, one offering flexibility as a potential fourth bedroom. To the rear, expansive open-plan living and dining spaces cater perfectly for year-round enjoyment, featuring a slow-combustion wood fire and French doors opening to a covered alfresco deck and private lush garden. A motorised Vergola adapts to the seasons, while a second north-facing terrace flows directly from the well-appointed kitchen, complete with stone benchtops and stainless-steel appliances. Three bedrooms with built-in robes are complemented by two stylishly updated bathrooms, while additional features include a laundry, split-system air conditioning, ducted heating, irrigation system, water tanks, and secure off-street parking for multiple vehicles behind electric gates, including a single garage. Delivering immediate comfort and lifestyle convenience, this inviting home is ideally located close to Middle Brighton Station, Church Street's shopping and dining, Brighton and Firbank Grammar Schools, Brighton Primary School, and the historic Billilla Estate.
Agent: Michael Martin - mmartin@rtedgar.com.au - 03 9591 0602
Agent: Chelsie Cargill - ccargill@rtedgar.com.au - 03 95910602
Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: House
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: A Haven of Family Luxe in Brighton's Leafy Heart
Description: Sold by - Will Maxted (Director RT Edgar) A celebration of everything Brighton with famous Bay and Church Streets only footsteps away, this Victorian-inspired prize offers outstanding quality, clever versatility, sun throughout the day, and all the space a family could ever need. Loved for its community spirit, leafy Hector Street joins a long-standing Gleditsia in framing a façade that's quick to captivate, with interiors beyond extended to ensure comfort from the very outset. A bay-window front sitting/dining room is the perfect counterpart to an architect-designed rear extension, with evergreen outlooks and a series of skylights bringing calm and airiness to daily life. Without any threshold to interrupt flow, triple-glazed stacker doors streamline from between inside and out, revealing a decked entertainer's area great for a quiet coffee, Sunday barbecue, or evening cocktail before indulging in nearby cuisine and nightlife. Tall Magnolia and Manchurian pear trees deliver complete privacy to a child-friendly backyard, while stone benches and Miele appliances ensure a gourmet kitchen can comfortably cater for any occasion. Both extensive and expansive, accommodation comprises four substantial bedrooms, joined on a light-filled second storey by generous robe storage, an oversized central bathroom with a spa bath, ensuite in a sumptuous main bedroom, and green views to wake up to. An acoustically treated office proves just as ideal for home professionals as school-age children, while a long list of other highlights includes solid timber floors, ducted heating, split-system heating/cooling, heated towel rails, camera/alarm security, surround-sound, stone vanity tops, tank irrigation, garden lighting, a front-room fireplace, garage, and gated driveway parking for two added cars. Only a few doors from William Street Reserve for kids to expend their energy, it's mere footsteps to Brighton Primary, the local library, revered Brighton and Firbank Grammar Schools, trains providing easy city access, and the cafés, restaurants, bars, boutiques, and cinemas spanning North and Middle Brighton, with the foreshore mere moments away.
Agent: Will Maxted - wmaxted@rtedgar.com.au
Agent: Nick O'Neill - nickoneill@rtedgar.com.au - 03 95910602
Brighton, VIC 3186
Land Size: 776 m²
Property Type: House
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: 776sqm RenovatIon or New Home Site Subject to Council Approval (STCA) Opportunity
Description: Iconic in design and timeless in its appeal, this impeccable one-owner Lewis Coote designed home presents buyers with the rare opportunity to procure a pristine & intact mid-century marvel - and one where a practical alfresco-focused floorplan, exquisite original details and family comfort converge in perfect harmony. Lovingly maintained by its vendor since 1969 and now ready for its next lucky custodians, the home on a deep 776sqm (approx) allotment comprises a sunken lounge with courtyard outlooks, a sunny family room and an amazing original kitchen where a built-in table and stunning turquoise tiled splash-back are reminders of a wonderfully retro bygone era. The primary bedroom with ensuite and wardrobes is peacefully positioned at the front of the home while two more are separately zoned and share a family bathroom and separate WC. Outside, there are areas to dine, relax and play - along with side access, shedding and carport parking. Enhanced by floor-to-ceiling glass, exposed brick and warm timber accents, the home also enjoys the comfort of ducted heating and split system heating/cooling. Martin Street shops and Gardenvale station are within easy reach, and this blue-chip Brighton address is just moments to the suburb's beautiful beaches, parks, leading private & public schooling options and both Church & Bay streets for effortless dinners and retail therapy. At a glance · Lewis Coote designed 1969 home, brimming with mid-century appeal. · Alfresco focused living areas, exquisite original details & a premier address. · Sunken lounge, family room and wonderfully retro kitchen. · Peaceful primary bedroom with ensuite and wardrobes. · Deep 776sqm (approx.) allotment. · Ducted heating, split system heating/cooling and carport parking. Property Code: 3371
Agent: Nick Johnstone - nick@nickjohnstone.com.au - 0414 276 871
Agent: Jonty Wells - jonty@nickjohnstone.com.au - 0418 800 093
Agent: Marty Pask - marty@nickjohnstone.com.au
Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: House
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: Single level Edwardian beauty on the village edge
Description: Full of colour and character, this gorgeous four bedroom two bathroom single level Edwardian spills into the most blissful north facing rear garden. Setting the tone with its pale pink façade and turquoise entry door, this heartwarming home enjoys an engaging lounge with fireplace and library, three defined bedrooms with wardrobes including the main with refined ensuite, a desirable fourth bedroom with robes, shelving and fireplace making it multipurpose, a subway tiled bathroom/laundry and an eye catching checkered floor in the open plan family living/dining area with tasteful kitchen featuring an Ilve 900mm stove. Two sets of French doors open to a raised entertaining deck with vine draped pergola, festoon lights and a beautiful lawn beyond with a second alfresco space within the groomed privacy of the rear garden. Charmed with Baltic pine floors, Red pine doors, library ladders, vogue lighting and full height linen sheers that emphasize the 3.3m approx. ceilings, this irresistible abode is complete with zoned ducted heating, refrigerated cooling, split system air conditioning, a storage attic, a garden shed and dual driveway parking. An exciting position, on the edge of the Martin Street Village café scene, dining delights, wine bars and city train, so close to Star of the Sea College, St James Catholic Parish Primary School and Kamesburgh Gardens, while moments to Elsternwick Park, Brighton's elite schools and celebrated beaches. Note: zoned for Elsternwick Primary School and Elwood College.
Agent: Danielle Harvey - danielleharvey@jelliscraig.com.au - 9194 1200
Agent: Allen Sun - AllenSun@jelliscraig.com.au - 03 9194 1200
Brighton, VIC 3186
Land Size: 773 m²
Property Type: House
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: Architectural Family Haven with Exceptional Land and Future Potential
Description: Stylishly architectural and lavishly light-filled, this four bedroom, two bathroom late-20th century home is set to surprise with soaring ground-floor living, dining and meals area wrapping a streamlined euro appliance kitchen, a first-flr lounge flowing to a treetop balcony ...and broad lawned approx 773sqm grounds stretching to the north with hidden depths of potential! Characterised by the best design elements of the time with a soaring cathedral ceiling rising above the principal zone and a mezzanine 'catwalk' leading to the 1st-floor lounge, this innovative home shines with internal bi-folds walling off the home-office, louvre windows to catching the breeze, and artisan-tiled floors alongside plush new carpets. With a stylish bathroom for each bedroom wing, generous robes and secure-understair storage, this centrally-heated home has individual reverse-cycle climate control and airy ceiling fans for almost every room, and brick construction over two levels for extra substance. Oriented for all-day sun and unobscured treetop outlooks, this deep property offers a vine-draped al fresco area, plentiful parking, endless playspace and a deep lawned backyard to extend, add a pool ...or maybe even something new! Just two blocks to Brighton Primary School and a few blocks more to Firbank and Brighton Grammar, this contemporary home enjoys today's most in-demand family location. Just 350m to Bay St's supermarket and cafes, and a little further down the hill to North Brighton station, there's both Church St and the bay within walking distance.
Agent: Belinda Dyer - bdyer@hodges.com.au - 9557 7891
Agent: Chelsea Fode - cfode@hodges.com.au - 9557 7891
Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: Apartment / Unit / Flat
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: ULTRA CHIC SUB PENTHOUSE APARTMENT ABOVE THE CHURCH STREET ACTION
Description: **UNDER CONTRACT** One of only two, this deluxe 2-bedroom plus study, 2-bathroom first floor security apartment is a superbly spacious sub penthouse with a fabulous sense of lifestyle flair. Enjoying internal lift access, this exclusive home showcases an extensive open-plan living and dining domain with an impressive kitchen (plumbed stainless steel fridge/freezer) and full height, double glazed sliding stacker doors to the north facing balcony overlooking the streetscape. 3m approx. ceilings, European Oak floors, slatted timber features Exceptional main suite with separate study/retreat Includes built in wardrobes and gorgeous ensuite with rainfall shower Beautiful 2nd bedroom with sliding wardrobes and lightwell courtyard Elegant main bathroom with spa bath Kitchen with sleek cooking appliances including induction cooktop European style laundry with washer and dryer Ducted heating/air conditioning, ducted vacuum, video interco & under stair storage Lift access to secure undercover parking accessed via rear lane In the most exciting position, a heartbeat to cafes, boutiques, bakeries, restaurants, bars, supermarkets, the cinema and the city train, while minutes to Brighton's elite schools and famous
Agent: Elizabeth Lopez - elizabethlopez@becksmallproperty.com.au - 9592 4300
Agent: Bert Stewart - bertstewart@becksmallproperty.com.au - 9592 4300
Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: House
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: Low-Maintenance Elegance with Substantial Family Space
Description: Refined space and timeless quality are the hallmarks of this superior town residence in the premium Bay Street precinct. With its classical brick and rendered façade, this four bedroom, three bathroom home combines substantial dimensions with low-maintenance elegance, all within a family lifestyle setting surrounded by Bayside's most renowned amenities. Bathed in natural light beneath soaring 3m ceilings, the dual living design caters to every occasion. A formal lounge and dining domain, warmed by a gas log fireplace, provides a superb space for family gatherings, while an informal living zone extends to a columned terrace and north-west courtyard, offering a private sanctuary for al fresco entertaining. Appointed for both scale and style, the granite kitchen features an island bench/casual meals area, Smeg appliances (700mm oven and integrated dishwasher) and custom cabinetry. Satisfying a broad range of family requirements, a ground floor guest bedroom (with built-in robes) is complemented by a granite vanity bathroom. Upstairs, three further robed bedrooms include a private main suite with walk-in dressing area and dual-vanity ensuite. A family-sized spa bathroom with Travertine finishes and a separate WC completes the accommodation, with a chute providing direct access to the large downstairs laundry. With the security and ease of a remote double garage and direct internal access, the home is further distinguished by gleaming parquetry floors, climate control, extensive storage and prestige finishes throughout. Zoned for Brighton Primary and Brighton Secondary, and moments from Brighton Grammar and Firbank, this exceptional residence is within walking distance of Bay and Church Streets' cafes, shops, restaurants, cinemas and stations, with parkland and the beach nearby. For more information about this substantial Brighton town residence please contact Halli Moore at Buxton Brighton on 0403 777 661.
Agent: Halli Moore - hmoore@buxton.com.au - 03 9592 8000
Agent: Michelle Gagêt - mgaget@buxton.com.au - 03 9592 8000
Agent: Owen Bowditch - obowditch@buxton.com.au - 9598 8222
Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: Apartment / Unit / Flat
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: Stylish Bayside Living in the Heart of Brighton
Description: Positioned in the vibrant hub of Bay Street, this immaculate two-bedroom apartment at 127/211 Bay Street offers the ultimate blend of modern comfort, lifestyle convenience, and relaxed bayside living. Perfect for first-home buyers, investors, or downsizers, this light-filled residence features a spacious open-plan living and dining area flowing seamlessly onto a generous private balcony ideal for alfresco dining or quiet relaxation. The sleek designer kitchen is well-appointed with stone benchtops, stainless steel appliances, and ample storage, making it a joy to cook and entertain. Both bedrooms are generously sized with built-in robes. A stylish bathroom, European laundry, split-system heating/cooling, secure basement parking, and a storage cage complete this impressive offering. Set within a secure and well-maintained complex, this prime location puts you just steps from the Beach, cafes, restaurants, Coles, cinema, North Brighton Station, and top local schools. Key features include: * Two spacious bedrooms with BIRs * Contemporary open-plan layout with large entertainer's balcony * Modern kitchen with stone benches and stainless steel appliances * North facing * Split-system heating and cooling * Secure entry, basement car space, and storage cage * Walk to the beach, shops, cafes, train, and schools An unbeatable location with every amenity at your doorstep inspect today and secure a sophisticated slice of Brighton living.
Agent: Helen Yu - apg-sales@mail.inspectrealestate.com.au
Agent: Rong Zhou - apg-sales@mail.inspectrealestate.com.au - 0402428230
Brighton, VIC 3186
Property Type: Apartment / Unit / Flat
Listing Type: Residential
Status: Active
Summary: Sold Off Market
Description: Strategically matched with a qualified buyer from within our extensive Marshall White network, this home was sold prior to hitting the market through a discreet and seamless off-market campaign delivering a premium result and complete confidence for both our vendor and purchaser. To discuss how we can achieve the same outcome for you, please contact the listing agent.
Agent: Tas Bartels - Tas.Bartels@marshallwhite.com.au - 03 9822 9999
Agent: Andy Nasr - andy.nasr@marshallwhite.com.au - 0422 029 324





















