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38 High Street
Macarthur VIC 3286
5 bed, 5 bath, 4,421 m²
$600,000 to $660,000
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38 High Street, Macarthur VIC 3286
$600,000 to $660,000 · 5 bed, 5 bath, 4,421 m²
For sale
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What the selling side says about this home, from its live listing. Their words, not ours.
Published by buymyplace.
A Rare Opportunity St Malachys Church
Phone Enquiry ID: 234009
A unique piece of the district's history is on offer in Macarthur, only 1/2 hour drive from Port Fairy, providing the purchaser endless opportunities.
138 years after its construction, the St Malachy's Catholic Church is now ready to take on a new lease of life, a conversion limited only by the buyers imagination.
The main portion of the church building was constructed in 1887 from local volcanic stone, quarried from a nearby property, while a later addition at the main entrance is of bluestone construction.
The building showcases stunning Gothic style elements including stained glass windows, vaulted ceiling and pointed arch windows.
Rich in history.
Sitting on 1.09 Acres or 4421 square metres.
RENOVATIONS: The church has now been renovated, it only needs external plumbing, wiring, plastering and tiling, then fit off. Our circumstances have changed and not finishing it off is heart breaking.
HISTORY OF RENOVATIONS: The church now has 5 bedrooms, behind the kitchen is a fully disabled bedroom and bathroom, all bedrooms are roughly 6.1 metre by 4.5 metre's, including the bathrooms. Water has been connected to the church and mains power has been updated from the street and a new metre box and breakers have been installed. The church has two kitchens, the main kitchen is in the Vestry, It will be a fully compliant commercial kitchen with stainless benches sinks and fridge.
THE DESIGN: Part owner of the church is Alex Devantier, he is a qualified interior architect and the design is breath taking, with 10.5 metre ceiling at the ridge, the design begged for a mezzanine. Alex took this to a new level with the 8 metre long gang way, joining three of the upstairs bedrooms, with voids either side, looking up to the 10.5 metre ridge.
COMPLIANCE: Surveyors are in place, council have agreed to the driveway, the septic system and are happy working with the surveyors, all reports and documentation are available upon request to genuinely interested parties.
HANDOVER: Patricia and Alex want to see the building complete, with the sale an agreement can be made, that ensures Alex helps with the completion of the build, the amount of input depends on the new owners requests.
WHATS INCLUDED: Everything right down to the cutlery is included, here is a list of major items.
- Purchase of the Church
Commercial Hybrid flooring 252.75 square metre's.
French pattern Travertine marble 115.74 square metre's.
Commercial Benches and Sinks.
Commercial Fridge.
Toilets x 4 wall hung toilets with inwall cisterns.
Disabled toilet with all fittings including hand rails and back rest for the disabled bathroom.
Wall Hung Vanities hand made with marble basins x 5.
5 x shower rails and all fittings for bathrooms.
2 Dining Tables x 2.
Chairs x 12.
Framing of rooms timber and beams.
Carpenter this includes the side fence, redoing the floor and footing underneath bedroom three as had rotten floor joists etc.
Electrical.
Plaster.
Paints.
Plumbing including all fittings to finish.
Stereo System including all wiring, HDMI cables, speakers and Amplifier.
Two large church pews from the First Chinese Christian Church Carlton.
Security System x 8 cameras and DVR.
Washing machine LG 17kg wash and 10 kg dryer.
Tvs 50 inch Hitachi x 5 + 1 75 inch LG TV.
- Fireplace 11 kw gas
Kitchen in main hall.
Staircase.
Sheet sets X 10, doona covers x 10, doona inserts x 5, pillows 20 etc.
Cutlery x 16 x 4.
Beds x 10 King Singles that join for super kings, bases and mattresses.
Light switches and Dimmer switches all Wi fi and Glass cover plates.
Truck for delivery from Melbourne.
Shipping container.
Surveyors and septic plans.
Tools to be left on site roughly (price to be agreed).
Painter and general labourer.
Scaffold X 16 weeks.
- All receipts supplied to genuine buyers
To Complete the building, depending on work you do yourself, these are conservative estimates:
- Electrical: $8000
- Plaster: $10,000
- Septic: $30,000
- Tiling: $20,000
- Plumbing: $10,000
- Painting: $15,000
- Surveyor $6000
- Council fees $4000
- Total = $103,000
THE COTTAGE: As you can't live on site, Patricia owns a quaint cottage about 3 hundred metre's from the Church, it is on 2500 square metre's of flat land (possibility of development ), it comprises of three large bedrooms and a modern kitchen with a walk in pantry and a renovated bathroom and has two fireplaces. The cottage comes fully furnished.
We are willing to sell both properties together or separate them.
- $650,000 for the Church
- $450,000 for the cottage
- Or $1,000,000.00 for both
- Features include: Ensuite,Heating,Energy efficient appliances,Car spaces: 5
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The basics
- Property type
House
- Bedrooms
5
- Bathrooms
5
- Car spaces
5
- Internal area
152 m²
- Land size
4,421 m²
- Year built
1887
Listing
One of these looks wrongWhat the home has
- Ensuite bathroom
- Heating
From the market feed, seen 13 June 2026.
A feature that is not listed here may still be there.
Has anyone checked these features?
No. Each one is something a listing or an agent said the home has, written down and passed on. Nobody from Byrz has been inside to confirm any of it, so treat the list as claims to check at an inspection rather than as findings.
How buying a home actually works
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What each step involves
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- Find out what you can borrow. Do this before you fall in love with a home. A lender or a mortgage broker works out how big a loan you could get, and that ceiling decides which homes are worth your Saturdays. It is called pre-approval, it is not a loan and it is not a promise, and asking for one costs you nothing.
- Go and stand in a few. Photographs flatter every home ever listed. An open home is free, nobody books you in, and you can leave after two minutes. Walking through five homes in one suburb teaches you what your money buys there, which is the thing no website can tell you.
- Pay somebody to check the home, and somebody to read the contract. A building and pest inspector finds what the photographs left out. A conveyancer or a solicitor reads the contract, which is the part that decides what happens if something goes wrong, and it is written before you ever see it. Both cost money, both are cheaper than what they find, and both happen before you sign rather than after.
- Then you make an offer, or you bid. An offer can usually be made subject to your finance and to the inspection, so you have a way out if either falls over. An auction sale usually has no cooling off period, so at an auction everything above has to be done before you raise your hand. After that comes settlement, which is a month or two of paperwork your conveyancer runs, and then the keys are yours.
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The money
What buying this one would actually cost
The price is not the number you need: transfer duty, registry fees, a conveyancer and a building and pest inspection all come out of the same savings as your deposit, and Byrz works them out only from a price this listing states or one you put in, never one it invented.
Queensland only, for now
Byrz has transcribed the transfer duty schedule and the registry fees for Queensland, and so far only for Queensland. This home is in VIC, so Byrz will not put Queensland rates on it and will not guess at another state's.
Everything else on this page is unaffected, and what each of these costs pays for is the same wherever you buy, so the notes below still hold. A conveyancer in that state will give you the duty and the fees before you sign anything.
What each of these costs pays for
Transfer duty is a tax on the transaction itself, paid to the state, and on most purchases it is far larger than everything else combined. The registration fees pay the state titles office to record who owns the lot and who holds the mortgage over it. Conveyancing pays a person to read the contract, run the searches that tell you whether the property is affected by anything, and move the money on settlement day. Building and pest pays an inspector to walk the home before you are committed.
Why two of these are ranges, not rates
A published rate is set by a government, either applies to you or does not, and you can check it against the schedule yourself in a minute. A typical range is an observation Byrz has made about what people are charged, and nobody is bound by it. A page that mixes the two into one total without saying which is which has misled you by its shape, whatever its words said. Ring two conveyancers and find out what yours will be.
Why none of this can go on the loan
A lender lends against the property, not against the cost of buying it, so none of these charges can be added to the loan. They come out of the same savings you were going to put down, and they come out first. That means the price you can reach is not your savings divided by a deposit percentage: it is your savings, minus all of this, divided by a deposit percentage. People find this out at the wrong end, usually a week before settlement.
What Byrz cannot know about this home
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How this area scores with the ABS
These scores describe the area around this home, not this home itself and not the people who live in it.
Scores for the Moyne - West area, from the 2021 Census.
- Disadvantage
- 7 out of 10 across Australia
- Advantage and disadvantage
- 6 out of 10 across Australia
- Economic resources
- 7 out of 10 across Australia
- Education and occupation
- 6 out of 10 across Australia
This one is about disadvantage only. A decile of 1 means the area is among the most disadvantaged tenth of areas, counting things like low income, unemployment and homes without a car. A decile of 10 means it has few of those things. A high score does not mean an area is wealthy, only that it has little measured disadvantage.
This one counts advantage and disadvantage together, so it sits on one scale. A decile of 1 means the area has a lot of measured disadvantage and little advantage, and a decile of 10 means the opposite.
This one is about income and housing costs, and it leaves out education and job type on purpose. A decile of 1 means households in the area have relatively fewer economic resources, and a decile of 10 means they have relatively more.
This one is only about how much education people have and what kinds of jobs they do. A decile of 10 means the area has a lot of people with higher qualifications and skilled jobs. It says nothing about income.
SEIFA describes the area, not the people or households in it. These indexes are computed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Moyne - West, the statistical area this suburb sits in. A statistical area is a Bureau region of a few thousand people, so it can take in more than one suburb. A decile places the area against every other area in Australia: 1 means the lowest tenth on that index and 10 means the highest tenth.
What do these scores actually measure?
SEIFA is how the Australian Bureau of Statistics compares areas. Every area in Australia gets a score from 1 to 10, and the score describes the area as a whole, not any one household in it.
Government records for this location
They describe the location, not the condition of the home.
- Bushfire
- Bushfire prone area
- Planning overlays
MOYNE (Bushfire prone area)
TOWNSHIP ZONE (TOWNSHIP ZONE)
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- Council
Moyne (VICTORIA)
Please note that ABS approximated boundaries do not match official legal or administrative boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.
- Public transport
Eversley St/Hamilton - Port Fairy Rd
bus, about 226 m away
Where these records come from
Byrz reads these from government flood studies, planning schemes, school catchment maps and public transport datasets, at the mapped coordinate for this home. Boundaries and datasets change, and a mapped risk describes the mapped area, not the state of any building on it. Before relying on one of these records, check it against the council's or the custodian's own tools for this address.
What is a planning overlay?
An overlay is an extra rule a council puts on an area of land, on top of the normal zoning. If a home sits inside one, it means the council looks at certain plans more closely, like building near a waterway or changing an older character home. An overlay does not stop you buying the home.
What is a school catchment?
A state school catchment is the area a school takes its enrolments from, so a home inside one is generally entitled to a place at that school. Catchments are redrawn from time to time and there are exceptions, so confirm with the school or the education department before relying on one. Non-government schools set their own enrolment rules, which is why only state catchments appear here.
What is a lot and plan number?
It is how the state land registry names the piece of land an address is recorded against, and it is what a title search, a council enquiry or a conveyancer will ask you for. It describes the land, not the building on it: every unit in a block shares one plan, and a single parcel can hold more than one home. Where a land size is shown beside it, Byrz measured that from the boundary the registry publishes, because no state publishes the area itself.
What our software saw
It is an estimate, not an inspection, and it can be wrong.
Most photos show dated fittings
31 of 39 photos analysed
Dated fittings are cosmetic. They affect what a home looks like, not whether it is sound. A building and pest inspection is what tells you about condition.
Presented simply
Architectural style: Federation
Byrz AI
One of these looks wrongAn estimate from photos
Might anything need fixing up?
Our software looked at this home's photos, one area at a time. It picked the area that looks like it would cost the most to fix up, and guessed a rough price range for that one area. It is a guess from pictures, not a quote and not an inspection, and it can be wrong. If it is wrong about your home, tell us and we will look at it.
The area that looks like it would cost the most to fix up
$50,000 to $100,000
That range is for that one area on its own. It does not include any other area, and it is not what the whole home would cost.
Based on 48 photos across 9 rooms, read on 10 September 2026.
Areas overview
Biggest looking jobs first, each price for that one area on its own. There is no total: what you spend depends on what you do.
Want a real number? Our renovation partners can quote it.
How our software works this out
It reads the photos on the listing. It sorts them by area, then looks at things like benchtops, tiles, floors and paint. It compares what it sees with what that kind of work usually costs. It never visits the home, and it never sees anything the photos do not show.
Why we show one area and not the whole home
Adding every area together would give you a number that looks precise and is not. Most people do not redo everything at once, homes get fixed up in stages, and any area with no photo is invisible to us. So we show you the one area that stands out, and we leave the adding up to a real quote.
What could change this number
A lot. Photos can be years old, or taken right after a tidy up. What you choose matters more than what is there now: the same kitchen can cost $10,000 or $60,000 depending on what you put in it. Prices also differ between towns and cities. Treat this as a starting point for a conversation, not a budget.
Is this wrong about your home? Tell us and we will look at it.
This looks wrong: the renovation estimateByrz does not yet hold: a past sale price, rent figures for this area.
- No past sale price on file
- We do not have a past sale price for this home. That can mean it has never sold, or simply that we do not have it.
- No rent figures for this area
- We do not have median rents for this area. Government rent releases reach us for some parts of Australia and not others.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these, and each entry links back to what it is used for.
Source 1
From the sale listing. The home may have changed since.
Source 2
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data
SEIFA describes the area, not the people or households in it. These indexes are computed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Moyne - West, the statistical area this suburb sits in. A statistical area is a Bureau region of a few thousand people, so it can take in more than one suburb. A decile places the area against every other area in Australia: 1 means the lowest tenth on that index and 10 means the highest tenth.
Source 3
© State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). Vicmap Planning, Planning Scheme Zone. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). Designated Bushfire Prone Area. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The State of Victoria: does not give any representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of DTP spatial products (including data and metadata), Vicmap products or Vicmap product specifications; or the fitness of such data or products or of DTP spatial services (including APIs and web services) for any particular purpose; disclaims all responsibility and liability whatsoever for any errors, faults, defects or omissions in such data or products and services. Any person using or relying upon such products and services must make an independent assessment of them and their fitness for particular purposes and requirements.
Source 4
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Please note that ABS approximated boundaries do not match official legal or administrative boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.
Source 5
© State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning). GTFS Schedule. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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