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196 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst

Strata plan SP50269 · 24 lots (NSW Strata Hub) · registered 1995-07-11 (age floor) · VG property id 2125156

This building has 9 recorded sales since 2017; 100% of its 4 tracked resales sold above the owner's purchase price; 1 of its 24 lots are for sale right now. Every figure below is a government record with its source named — and the last section lists what the public record cannot tell you.

On the market now

23/196 Forbes Street 2 bed Guide $1,500,000 43d+ on market

Every sale in this building

9 priced transfers on the public record since 2017. Across 4 same-unit resales, owners held a median 4.2 years and 100% sold above what they paid (median +3.4%/yr gross — price only, before costs and any renovation).

In the last three years, 3 lots changed hands — 13% of the scheme's 24 lots. Trailing 36 months of VG transfers ÷ registered lot count.

1/196 FORBES ST$1.43M2026-05-29

9/196 FORBES ST$1.65M2026-03-28

22/196 FORBES ST$1.5M2026-02-14

24/196 FORBES ST$1.2M2022-06-27

22/196 FORBES ST$1.3M2022-05-30

1/196 FORBES ST$990k2022-03-02

NSW Valuer General bulk property sales information (CC-BY), every lot sharing this building's property id; addresses and unit labels are the register's own strings. Resale pairs under 3 months apart or settling on the same date are excluded; growth figures are gross price movements, not returns.

What units here actually rent for

2-bed$950–$1300/wkmedian $1100141 bonds, Q2 2026

Real transacted rents — every residential bond lodged in postcode 2010 (NSW Fair Trading, CC-BY). Postcode is the finest geography the source publishes; the middle half (25th–75th percentile) is shown because identical floor plans in one building can lease hundreds apart.

Nearby buildings with dossiers

251 Palmer St9 sales

1 Rosebank St9 sales

48 Surrey St9 sales · 14 lots

20 Mclachlan Ave236 sales · 94% of resales above purchase

184 Forbes St Storage139 sales · 94% of resales above purchase

What this dossier cannot tell you

Stated so a gap never reads as a clean bill (rule 7's positive form — silence is not evidence):

The strata books. Levies, the capital-works (sinking) fund, insurance, AGM minutes, and any defect claims in progress are not public records. Only a strata report — a paid inspection of the owners corporation's own books — has them. If you are serious about a unit here, buy that report; nothing on this page substitutes for it.
When the building was actually completed. The 1995 registration date is a floor — the scheme existed by then. Occupation certificates aren't in our sources; a conveyancer can obtain them.
Bedrooms on sales records. The Valuer General publishes no bedroom counts, so the sales above are every configuration pooled — a $732k sale and a $1.38M sale may be different-sized homes, not a price swing.
This building's own rents. Bond data is postcode-grain — the ranges above are the area's real transactions, not this building's ledger.
Why any individual vendor is selling. The patterns above are the building's record; no line on this page is a claim about a particular home or owner.

© State of New South Wales (Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW). For current information go to spatial.nsw.gov.au. VG figures: NSW Valuer General bulk property sales information (CC-BY). Every fact above names its source; where a source doesn't cover this building, the section doesn't appear.