Figtree has a hotel, an oval, many specialty stores, a dog park, a private hospital and several schools.

To the suburb's south between Figtree and Unanderra is Cobbler's Hill, where houses have been built on its side.

The suburb is named after a giant fig tree that once stood on the eastern side of the highway at the junction with O'Brien's Road, a mountain pass used in early days of settlement built by subscription in 1821 before completion by convict labour of Mount Keira road.

[2] On 25 November 1903, Figtree park was opened by senator Hugh Vaughan-Floyd, 12 years before his death in World War I.

[citation needed] The famous figtree was cut down in 1996 and only a small portion of its trunk is left.

[citation needed] At the junction of the highway and The Avenue is Figtree Grove, a two-storey indoor shopping centre with a Woolworths, Coles and Kmart.