This apartment has a first-floor corner position in circa 1931 Trawalla Court, an elevated art deco building that's a local landmark. It's all class and period grandeur, renovated "to the highest New York apartment standard", according to the agent. Enjoy city views through black-framed windows from the sophisticated, streamlined kitchen. It has adjoining living and dining rooms and a study.

Auction: at 11.30am, on June 3
RT Edgar, Anne Mackie Kinder 0417 034 212

81 Easey Street, Collingwood
$900,000-$950,000
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom

Entry level for your own patch of dirt in city-edge Collingwood - for the increasingly white-collar, young-at-heart brigade - gets you something like this sweet single-fronted Victorian cottage. Its ornate facade and majestic parapet front a plainer interior of two bedrooms, bathroom and open-plan living area that opens to a side deck and bricked courtyard.

Auction on Saturday at 1pmJellis Craig, Michael Amarant 0411 144 569

5 Tennyson Street, Sandringham
$1.9-$2 million
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

Three doors from the beach and five minutes from the station and Sandringham's cafe strip, where Limoncello and Elefant get the agent's nod, this 1990s townhouse has a new kitchen and timber flooring, a north-facing garden, an easily managed site and family-suited accommodation of three living rooms and four bedrooms - the first-floor main bedroom with bay views.

Auction at 11am, on June 3
McGrath, Simone Cumberlidge 0425 777 074

15 Gladstone Avenue, Armadale
$3-$3.3 million
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

Tuckpointed-brick Wattleglen is the Edwardian house every Armadale buyer dreams of: beautifully restored and with a sleek new renovation that surpasses the circa 2017 standard. Aside from proximity to transport and Glenferrie Road shops, the family-friendliness extends to warm, stylish living areas flashing touches of luxury, a classy Miele kitchen, kids' domain upstairs and landscaped garden.

Auction at 12.30pm, on June 3
Marshall White, John Manton 0411 444 930

14/56-58 St Vincent Place North, Albert Park
$550,000-$600,000
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom

This chic little pad with an address that speaks volumes is in a historic building of two adjoining houses converted in the 1980s into 14 apartments. A recent update by the apartment's vendor, an architect, gives it bamboo floors and a smart charcoal kitchen. Wander via resplendent 1868-designed St Vincent Gardens to Bridport Street's lively cafes and restaurants and the city tram.

Auction at 11.30am, on June 3Hocking Stuart, Stephanie Evans 0420 215 919