Blues Point, Berrys Bay, and a suburb that people move to and stay.
McMahons Point occupies a peninsula between Berrys Bay to the west and Lavender Bay to the east, and its southern tip - Blues Point - is one of the best spots in Sydney to watch a New Year's Eve fireworks display or simply sit and look at the Harbour Bridge from directly underneath it. The suburb is three kilometres from the CBD and eight minutes from Circular Quay by ferry. It was once predominantly working-class, and the transition to one of Sydney's most exclusive locations happened gradually enough that some of the original character survived - the neighbourhood feel, the Friday afternoon crowd at the Commodore Hotel on Blues Point Road, the sense that people here actually know each other.
The housing stock is primarily medium to high density - apartment buildings of various vintages stacked up from Blues Point Road toward Waverton, with the occasional freestanding home on the residential streets that have somehow avoided the development pressure that the harbour views generate. Most of the apartments date from the 1960s and 1970s, which means their lifts are small where they exist and their stairwells were built for a different era of furniture. Blues Point Road is the main spine and has better loading options than the side streets, but it carries enough through-traffic that timing matters.
Billy has worked the Lower North Shore harbour suburbs throughout his career. McMahons Point is the kind of suburb where a Tuesday morning and a Saturday morning are genuinely different moving environments - the weekday quiet versus the weekend walkers, ferry passengers, and café crowds on Blues Point Road. He plans around both.
Blues Point Road is the main commercial strip and provides better truck access than most of the side streets. The terrace houses and apartment buildings on the residential streets running east toward Lavender Bay - around Napier Street, Holdsworth Street, and the blocks on the peninsula's eastern side - are quieter but often have permit-restricted parking that requires a confirmed loading position before the day.
The ferry wharf on Blues Point serves routes to Balmain East, Pyrmont, Barangaroo, and Circular Quay, and the commuter activity around the wharf in the morning peak affects parking and pedestrian flow on Blues Point Road from around 7am. For early start moves near the wharf end of the suburb, Billy accounts for this in the timing. For afternoon starts, the evening ferry crowd creates its own equivalent consideration.
For the apartment buildings along Blues Point Road with lifts, Jet confirms the lift access and any strata requirements before the day. For the older walk-up blocks on the side streets, the stair access is assessed during quoting. The period apartment buildings in McMahons Point have the same vintage characteristics as the rest of the Lower North Shore - character lifts with lower weight limits, original tile entries that mark easily, and internal layouts that reward knowing them before the move starts.
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"Blues Point Road apartment with a period lift that would not take the fridge. Billy had already identified this during quoting and had a stair plan ready. The fridge went up three flights without drama."- Daniel O., McMahons Point apartment move
Yes - the period walk-up and mid-rise buildings are standard territory for us. We assess lift capacity and stair access during quoting so nothing is discovered on the morning.
The morning commuter peak around Blues Point wharf affects parking from around 7am. Billy factors this into the start time and loading position for any Blues Point Road property.
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