Pitard Group's 24-apartment Fairview under construction in Hawthorn

On 22 October 2026, Apartments.com.au reported that Pitard Group’s Fairview development in Hawthorn, in the City of Boroondara, is well underway, with the developer expecting its first residents to move in from early 2027. The outlet’s report is the most recent public update on the 24-apartment project at 48 Riversdale Road.

Fairview is a four-level boutique building a short walk from the Yarra River and Fairview Park, within reach of Riversdale Village and Glenferrie Road. Pitard Group is acting as both developer and builder on the project, which was designed by VIA Architects, with landscaping by John Patrick Landscape Architects. The 24 residences are a mix of two- and three-bedroom apartments and penthouses, and several of the ground-floor homes open onto private courtyards rather than standard balconies.

Why it matters

Fairview adds 24 owner-occupier apartments to Hawthorn, priced from $895,000 to $3.65 million, ahead of first move-ins in early 2027. Pitard Group is both developer and builder, a structure that keeps delivery in-house rather than tendering the build. For Boroondara agents and buyers’ advocates, it is new two and three-bedroom stock in a suburb dominated by established houses. It sits in the same inner-Melbourne infill band as a Yarra-adjacent surplus site in Richmond.

The numbers

Apartments.com.au put Fairview at 24 apartments spread across four levels, with pricing from $895,000 for two-bedroom homes up to $3.65 million for the largest residences. A separate listing on View.com.au priced the penthouses at the top of that range and gave an expected completion of February 2027, broadly consistent with Apartments.com.au’s early-2027 move-in timeline. The two sources agree on the apartment count, the four-storey scale and the Riversdale Road address. Both place completion in the first quarter of 2027.

The top price is about four times the entry price. The mix runs from two and three-bedroom apartments to penthouses, and several ground-floor homes have private courtyards instead of balconies. That gives agents a wide spread of product within one four-level building at 48 Riversdale Road. Apartments.com.au names VIA Architects as the designer and John Patrick Landscape Architects for the landscaping.

What’s next

With construction described as well underway, the remaining steps for Fairview are completion and handover, both currently tracking to early 2027 on the developer’s own timeline. Pitard Group has not published a fixed settlement date beyond that window, and neither source reports a formal occupancy milestone yet. Buyers and anyone tracking supply in Hawthorn will have a clearer picture once the building reaches practical completion and the first of the 24 apartments are handed over, which on the current timeline is likely to fall within the first few months of 2027. Until then, the project’s progress is being reported through the developer’s own sales and marketing channels rather than through a separate planning or building record, so figures on completion and pricing should be treated as the developer’s current position rather than as confirmed by an independent authority.

The View.com.au listing gives February 2027 as the expected completion month, the most specific date in either source. Apartments.com.au is less precise, saying only that the first residents are expected in early 2027.