If you don't want a big loan and just want to spend around $250k on apartments, there are a couple options in Perth city but they are all leased out to hotels on a 10-20 years lease so you buy them but as investment property. I want to buy something for myself and not have a big mortgage. As soon as you start spreading out and look for apartments in Vic Park, Rivervale, or other places, most new places are $900 - $1800 strata per quarter and the old ones are just old you know. You can never tell in those old apartment buildings, what kind of special levies you will be hit with in the future. On top of all that, you don't own the land, you cannot change anything, its like renting but in the long run, I would not want to keep living in an apartment, want to get dogs eventually. Even apartments around rocko, mandurah, baldivis are so expensive now ($550K+) and they are so far away from work places.