Renovation Budget Planning South-East Melbourne: A Suburb-by-Suburb Guide
Every renovation budget starts the same way. You open a spreadsheet, you type in a number that feels right, and then reality shows up with a crowbar.
South-east Melbourne makes this worse in some very specific ways. Berwick isn’t Brighton. Cranbourne isn’t Caulfield. Yet most renovation guides lump the entire region together and hand you one generic number, as if a 1990s brick veneer in Hampton Park costs the same to renovate as a period home in Bentleigh.