The upper class suburb is mainly residential and contains many fine homes, and a number of historic mansions: "Willyama", (the Aboriginal name for Broken Hill), at 12 The Avenue was named so by Charles Rasp, the boundary rider who pegged a mining claim that became Broken Hill, after he bought it in 1887 from Oscar Görger, a local doctor/surgeon;[2][3] "The Briars" at 15 Briar Avenue, built for George Hawker in 1856, is now the McBride Hospital; and there are many fine houses along Robe Terrace.

The school moved to Northcote Terrace north of the current location in 1885 and to its current address at 30 Northcote Terrace in 1893.

Medindie's median property sale price in the June quarter of 2010 was $1,657,000.

[8] The suburb regularly ranks with the highest median sale price in the South Australian Real Estate Institute's quarterly sales statistics.

The top sale price in the 12 months to 21 March 2012 was $2,350,000 for a 4 bedroom house on Dutton Terrace.