Perhaps the only thing better than getting totally caught up in the lives of our fave Australian TV characters is checking out their on-screen homes. Actually owning a house may be in the “fantasy” basket for the time being, but who better to fuel the fantasy than the Real Housewives of Melbourne?

With that in mind, we’ve put in the TV-snooping equivalent of hard yards to bring the best houses on Australian TV. Who wouldn’t want to live here?

#1 Sue Knight’s house, Puberty Blues

We know this one may require winding back the clock a few decades, but we’d do it just to live in Debbie’s ‘70s-style Sutherland Shire house for a week. Laid back and beachy, we can totally see ourselves wearing kaftans and throwing parties with Sue’s freewheeling graphic designer parents in that sunken living room.

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#2 The Big Brother Mansion, Big Brother

The sprawling Big Brother mansion may have been the best thing about all eight seasons of the iconic reality TV show famed for cultivating big on-screen personalities and even bigger controversies.

Secret rooms, comfy couches, long tables primed for socialising and a pool (with toys!).With facilities like that, who needs privacy and/or personal space?

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#3 Pretty Much Any House Featured On The Real Housewives of Melbourne

Chyka’s vine-covered, English-inspired manor, or Jackie’s ultra-modern glass city house? How about both, on alternate weekends? What The Real Housewives of Melbourne lacks in substance it more than makes up for in seriously lush houses, and we’re completely fine with a bit of mind-numbing TV if it means uninterrupted ogling.

Of course, if you’re willing to go one step further, look into taking a Real Housewives virtual tour. You (probably) won’t regret it.

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#4 The Wonderland Complex, Wonderland

A Coogee apartment block dating back to 1922 sets the scene for relationship drama Wonderland, which aired on Channel Ten between 2013 and 2014. But while some people were hanging out for the next big break-up, others were probably eyeballing the “Leve” chairs by designer Gary Galego in Tom’s apartment.

Each apartment had its own look and feel – reflective of the people who inhabited it – with both modern and vintage design elements working in tandem. When do we move in?

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#5 Ash Park, A Place To Call Home

Hello, period mansion! Ash Park (known as Camelot IRL) is a three-storey house built in 1888 and located in Camden on the outskirts of Sydney. It’s every bit the fairy tale castle you imagine yourself living in after you marry into some kind of aristocratic family. Think turrets, chimney stacks, gables ­– the lot.

The property last sold in 1999 for $2.6 million – chump change compared to The Bachelor mansion.

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#6 Speaking of… The Bachelor Mansion, The Bachelor

Tim and Matty J may have been easy on the eyes, but weren’t we all watching The Bachelor for the epic mansion where bachelors and bachelorettes vied for the love of their contestants? Love may be a battlefield, but the Glenorie, NSW, property is a salve like no other. It’s set on two hectares, with expansive gardens and lawns, a tennis court and an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

The property is valued between $2.9 and $3.8 million, so it may take a little while to save for that deposit. We believe in love you, though.

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#7 Any House On Ramsay Street, Neighbours

The houses on Ramsay Street aren’t necessarily flashy or luxurious, but they’re comforting touchstones of suburban familiarity in soap-opera landscape we hardly recognise anymore. Plus, we know those houses so well from years of watching Neighbours that they may as well be ours. Did Susan slap Karl inside Number 28 after uncovering his affair, or did it all unfold in your living room? Is there even a difference?

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Lead image: Luxury Estates

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