Como sits on the southern bank of the Canning River, roughly 5km from the Perth CBD. It is one of the few Perth suburbs where a genuine waterfront lifestyle is accessible without the premium price tag of river-facing prestige corridors to the west. Streets like Blyth Avenue, Preston Point Road and Jarrah Road offer a mix of 1950s and 1960s brick homes sitting alongside more recently built townhouses and villas, creating a property mix that attracts a broad range of buyers.
The Holdsworth team works across the Perth property market with an understanding of what separates one riverside suburb from the next. For buyers considering Como real estate, the fundamentals are strong: consistent rental demand, school catchments that include Como Secondary College and South Perth Primary, and easy access to the Canning Highway retail strip. For sellers, the market rewards well-presented homes and accurate pricing in equal measure.
Como is a suburb that tends to reward patience and preparation. Properties here attract buyers who know the area well and come with a clear sense of what they want. Whether you are looking to buy, sell or explore investment in Como, Holdsworth brings the on-the-ground knowledge that translates directly into better outcomes.
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The land now occupied by Como was originally part of a series of pastoral and market garden leases granted during the early colonial period. Its proximity to the Canning River made it well suited to cultivation, and for many decades the suburb’s character was shaped more by orchards and market plots than by residential development. Subdivision accelerated through the post-war era of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the demand for owner-occupier housing in Perth’s inner ring drove rapid growth across the city’s south side.
The name Como is thought to derive from Lake Como in northern Italy, a naming convention common across many of Perth’s riverside and lakeside suburbs during the settlement era. By the 1960s the suburb had taken on the residential character it largely retains today, with a dense mix of single-storey brick homes on mid-sized blocks spread across a grid of tree-lined streets.
From a property market perspective, Como benefits from a structural supply constraint familiar to any fully established inner-ring suburb. There is limited scope for significant new development across most of the residential precinct, which supports long-term price stability. The suburb’s rental market is particularly active, driven by proximity to Curtin University and the wider South Perth and Bentley employment corridors. For investors, Como real estate has historically delivered reliable yields alongside steady capital growth.
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