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The Agent Loves:
"What I love about this property is the foundation it gives you in a location where everything is at your doorstep. The next owner gets to focus on the fun part; updating and personalising as they please, which is extra appealing given the block size and layout, perfect for extension or granny flat additions."
The Location:
Rutherford is a hub of convenience and community, blending easy living with a laidback lifestyle. Just minutes from Maitland's city centre, it offers a wide range of shopping, dining, and everyday essentials right on your doorstep, along with quality schools and sporting facilities that make family life a breeze. In Rutherford, everything you need feels close, connected, and wonderfully uncomplicated.
Maitland - 6 min (5.4km)
Stockland Green Hills - 12 min (11.3km)
Newcastle - 40 min (40.3km)
The Snapshot:
This is a property where the fundamentals are working in your favour from day one. Four bedrooms, original hardwood timber floors throughout, 2.7m ceilings and a 581 sqm block with a remarkable established gum tree anchoring the rear lawn - this is the kind of honest, well-proportioned home that is increasingly hard to find.
The Home:
Sitting on a quiet street in well-connected Rutherford, 11 Third Avenue is a property that leads with honesty and rewards with potential. On a 581 sqm block with side access, a fully fenced yard and a magnificent established gum tree commanding the rear lawn, this is a home that offers more than its streetfront suggests - and the kind of bones that renovators, investors and first home buyers are increasingly chasing.
The exterior presents cleanly from the street, with a freshly refurbished Colorbond roof and new guttering already in place. Concrete pavers lead to the front entry, off-street parking is available, and gated side access gives the block practical usability from the outset.
Inside, the home opens to 98 sqm of well-distributed single-level living, with new paint throughout and original hardwood timber floors underfoot in every room. The 2.7m ceilings give each space a generous feel, and the decorative cornices speak to the home's mid-century character. There is warmth here, and there is promise - the kind that doesn't require much imagination to see through to its conclusion.
The formal living room sits at the front of the home, and from here flows naturally into the combined kitchen and dining zone. All four bedrooms are comfortably proportioned, and the layout naturally and quietly separates the home, without corridors feeling cramped or rooms feeling compromised.
The bathroom is clean and functional, with a separate powder room that keeps the morning routine running smoothly. The internal laundry - with external access - completes the amenities without fuss.
Outside, the backyard is the property's most compelling asset. Secured by Colorbond fencing on all sides, the rear lawn is flat, manageable and generous for the area and perfect size and shape for the addition of a granny flat for dual investment income or multigenerational living. The dominant feature - a large, beautiful, established gum tree - gives the space a scale and presence that no landscaper can fast-track. It is the kind of yard that keeps kids outside, absorbs the heat of a summer afternoon, and gives any future renovation a natural centrepiece to orient around.
11 Third Avenue asks for a little imagination - and for the right buyer, it will reward it generously.
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