Suggestions for temporary apartment in Richmond, Victoria (Melbourne Australia)?

Question

We are relocating to Mebourne around end of July and I have read in the news that renting a permanent place to live their is quite tricky these days. So just to make sure we have enough time to find the "ideal" apartment for us we are planning of getting a temporary accommodation in or around the Richmond suburb.

Can you suggest of any place where we pay by the week, and will not set us back a fortune? Of course safety is still our top priority.

Answer 1

What you've described is a holiday apartment, but you'll be doing well if you can get one close to town for under $150 per night. They're the only places with cooking facilities that will rent by the week that I know of.

Check out this site for a start, but there are a number of others with similar listings:

http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/vic...

You could also try wotif http://www.wotif.com/search/Advanced?sel...

but AFAIK, they only have listings for accomodation available for the next month.