Exploring Block of 40 Vacant Houses in Sydney

[@urbexgecko]

You can only pick one, which house you moving into? 🤔

[@urbexgecko]

That's it AA, some really solid fixer uppers amongst them. Good choice, big place...I'd be super happy with the rock feature granny flat alone.

[@urbexgecko]

Sure would Joe! I'm a sucker for some stained glass. Yep, so many nice features and value amongst all that. Can only hope they salvaged as much as possible, but those piles of already demolished rubble show just how much will go to the tip.

[@jimmyd5117]

Bong on brother 😂

[@urbexgecko]

Cheeky bando sesh 💨👌

[@stevetaylor9556]

Holy hell , What a waste of some beautiful homes , shows what greed does , awesome video , thanks for sharing , liked it , greetingsfrom New Zealand👍👍😎

[@urbexgecko]

Hey again Steve! Yep, watched max profit slowly become the top priority more and more over the years...house to apartment ratio is changing here at a drastic rate.

[@stevetaylor9556]

@@urbexgecko Hey mate , yeah , it's happening here as well , bloody awful hi density cookie cutters going up everywhere here as well on property's that were single homes on a quarter acre section , another thing I think is it's sad , in 50 or 100 years time there will be no historical buildings left as the keep bowling them every 20 years , I was gobsmacked by what you shared with us , enjoy the vids mate keep it up 😁👍

[@urbexgecko]

Crazy to think this is happening everywhere, paints a very bleak picture for the future. Exactly, I remember when heritage preservation was of utmost importance and things were built to last a century.

[@stevetaylor9556]

@@urbexgecko 👍👍👍😎

[@denehardy949]

I love what you're doing. Capturing some of these parts within the places that we know that otherwise would be lost forever because no one saw the value in bothering to do it. Without your effort so much could be just lost to history with no record at all.

[@urbexgecko]

Not a popular opinion Dene haha, breath of fresh air someone else thinking outside the box...appreciate it!

[@JudyMackirdy-v7r]

Hi from Canada 🇨🇦 Glad I found your videos

[@urbexgecko]

Having a bit of a binge watch hey Judy haha. Cool as! Know there's a fair few Americans on here, but first Canadian I'm aware of : )

[@aklnrt]

Been binging on your vids for 3 days, loving them so much. Sad to see so many abandoned places that were once peoples pride and joy. Glad you dont feel the need to destroy anything during your visits even though they dont have much time left. I`d take the one in the dead end street i think. Just been checking google earth street view when they were in happier times 🙂

[@urbexgecko]

That's awesome man, apologise for some of my older videos...takes a lot of willpower to not delete them 😂 yeah, just imagine ALL the memories and stories. Nah, can't relate to people who smash up places in the slightest...all about the explore. The very first one in the dead end street? Haha, I did the same thing...before and afters are always a major spin out.

[@aklnrt]

@@urbexgecko don't delete any of them! I'll get through them all one day haha

[@MRGHIA]

my new and fav channel, ime to binge watch

[@urbexgecko]

Awesome to hear, welcome! Fresh upload this Friday.

[@maverickflint1991]

I think all your videos are awesome.🙂👍

[@maverickflint1991]

Oh yes that one is perfect I like the view of the towers in the background and reflecting off the pool 🙂👍

[@urbexgecko]

Love a good bando pool reflection, that one in particular is one of the best yet.

[@freelanceopportunist559]

Ive explored some big houses on the main road, but never got to go into these blocks before they were demolished. I did walk up and down those streets, sussing out the houses, and was devo I missed out. Thanks for satisfying a curiosity i thought was lost forever. Edit: I agree with the rule of urban explorers not taking things or destroying abandoned places, but in cases like these, if you see something cool, take it. Its not stealing, its preserving or rescuing. I work driving a van past these places, and Ive stopped to look at the rubble, its full of stained glass windows, mature trees, the wood floors, the stonework was all destroyed. I intended to go back to save some of those old windows, dig up some plants, grab anything that shouldnt become landfill.

[@urbexgecko]

Must've been weird seeing them on this video, then walking around there and seeing it now. Yeah, lazy demo crew will just flatten it all as a whole. There are places out there that take the time to disassemble them carefully, and resell.

[@krexplores163]

Wow 40 houses that's insane! I ended up watching the whole video! great editing. it must be hard editing the raw footage in to only an hour. keep up the great work👍

[@urbexgecko]

Unreal hey lil' dude, hope you get to explore something similar one day...you'd have an absolute blast! Yep, narrowed it down to the stuff I really liked and still couldn't get it under an hour haha. The worst part was the 6 hour render times, and having to watch the whole thing over and over again to iron things out. There ended up being 6 renders before I was happy with this final edit 😫 the joys of content creation hey man haha.

[@maverickflint1991]

And some of them with pools absolutely crazy

[@urbexgecko]

Love a bando pool, really spoilt for choice here

[@Xavier_Reynolds97]

Great job mate 👍 👏

[@urbexgecko]

Cheers Xavier!

[@maverickflint1991]

And the one at the 1 hour mark was nice 👍

[@maverickflint1991]

Be safe and careful.🙂👍🙏

[@NightWalkUrbex]

Very cool exploration, it is unbelivable that these houses are just sitting there! Also a technical question, I assume that you are using a headmount for your camera? I also would like to try head or chest mount for our next abandoned exploration trip, as currently I am holding my camera while exploring and that makes things a bit difficult sometimes.

[@urbexgecko]

Yeah, headmount all the way...just chuck it on and forget it is there. Frees your hands up for the explore. Cons are it's not as steady, and you will find the footage to be a bit more irratic as you're constantly looking around. Chest mount will give you more linear, steadier footage, but I personally don't like the lower obstructed viewing angle and it's still somewhat inconvenient.

[@NightWalkUrbex]

@@urbexgecko Thanks for the detailed info, I will try the headmount with our next footage! :)

[@NightWalkUrbex]

@@urbexgecko Thanks, I just tested it last night on our exploration and it was much better than holding my camera! :)

[@grunttheaussie6141]

Ouch took a tumble pretty badly 😂

[@urbexgecko]

Felt that one for days Grunt. That wasn't the only gnarly stair slam I took on that roadtrip funnily enough, shocking shoe choice for Winter exploring 😂🤦‍♂️

[@grunttheaussie6141]

@@urbexgecko mate was amazing how many homes were empty cheers for a great vid

[@maverickflint1991]

I live in the US and I have never ever seen so many home that are so beautiful that are going to be demolished. I cannot believe there is that many homes

[@urbexgecko]

Couldn't believe it either Martin, they're pretty much all gone now.

[@maverickflint1991]

@@urbexgecko that is so sad sometimes when developers do that

[@urbexgecko]

Yep, overall they're only getting quicker these days too. Gotta explore them whilst you can.

[@maverickflint1991]

@@urbexgecko 😢 Here in the US people would pay big dollars for homes like those

[@maverickflint1991]

And that one house with the pool at the 51:31 marker that would be a million-dollar home here in the US

[@urbexgecko]

These days it is over here too, but doubt it would've been a decade ago.

[@maverickflint1991]

And I also like the one that the 53:12 marker

[@purplemonkeydishwasherr]

How do I go about getting some addresses of abandoned place in Melbourne?? I'm keen to do this

[@urbexgecko]

Not gonna lie man, takes some time to get established but totally worth it in the long run. Start off by researching online, Google will give you some well known spots to ease into it. Instagram is perfect as a lot of people share locations (or at least hints) on there and If you gain the trust of others, you can work together. Share your explores on there to get recognised and become involved with the community. KZbin videos will also often have clues/locations. Also train yourself to look for bando's whenever you're out and about, it'll become second nature eventually. The way you worded your question is perfect also, you'll turn people off if you outright demand locations. Be safe, and enjoy 🙂

[@maverickflint1991]

95% of those homes have been really fixed up on the inside 👍

[@urbexgecko]

So much waste!

[@maverickflint1991]

That place is very secluded and they really fixed up the garage

[@VagrantButterfly]

wait why was it all cleared out?

[@urbexgecko]

Developers purchased them for the land.

[@maverickflint1991]

You can tell that the people that owned it spent some money on that place

[@urbexgecko]

Yeah, some of them looked recently renovated hey. Goes to show how much money they must have been offered by the developers.