Overall, the development's master plan calls for 2,000 residences, including town houses and stand-alone houses.

Over 82% of dwellings in the area are units and 15% are stand-alone houses.

Safehouses may not be literal stand-alone houses.

For apartment dwellers, which most of us were, any unoccupied stand-alone house obviously had an ominous history.

Eighty-eight per cent of the dwellings in the area are stand-alone houses; townhouses account for another 8%.

The suburb is characterised by stand-alone houses on separate lots, which make up 89% of the housing stock in Bardon.

One was Centennial, as a master-planned city of 23,000 homes, half of which would be stand-alone houses (the rest condominiums and apartments).

With rare exceptions, the dwellings in Stretton are stand-alone houses - generally modern, brick and tile.

But Ms. Cooper said that a simple stand-alone house nearby would start at about $1.1 million.

"And we really wanted to live in a stand-alone house because of the space and the light coming in on four sides."