Ingleside buyers agent

About the suburb

Ingleside at a glance

Ingleside sits about 28 kilometres north of the city, in Northern Beaches Council, and takes in the localities of Ingleside Heights and Tumbledown Dick in the west. It is named after Ingleside House, a mansion built in the 1880s by Baron von Bieren, an industrial chemist whose gunpowder factory gave Powder Works Road its name.

It is almost entirely houses, many of them on semi-rural properties, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Couples with children are the largest household group, and the most common age group is 50 to 59.

Much of Ingleside is bushland and semi-rural land, with housing developments gradually increasing. Its most recognised landmark is the Sydney Baha'i Temple, completed in 1961. The former ranch of the country singer Smoky Dawson is now home to an Armenian school, which opened a ranch-style gate in his memory in 2002.

Daily life here depends on the car. Mona Vale Road runs through the suburb, and shops, beaches and the B-Line are a short drive away in Mona Vale. The Armenian college on the old Dawson ranch is the local school, and the animal rescue shelter DoggieRescue.com is based here.

The trade-offs are worth saying plainly. With so much bush, bushfire-prone land and the rules that come with it need checking early, along with access, water and services on rural blocks. More housing is planned for parts of the area, so what may be built nearby matters. And because few homes change hands here, treat the figures in the statistics box as a guide, not a price.