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28 Pelican Street, Surry Hills

Strata plan SP59038 · 73 lots (NSW Strata Hub) · registered 1999-03-11 (age floor) · VG property id 2038219

This building has 22 recorded sales since 2015; 75% of its 4 tracked resales sold above the owner's purchase price. Every figure below is a government record with its source named — and the last section lists what the public record cannot tell you.

Every sale in this building

22 priced transfers on the public record since 2015. Across 4 same-unit resales, owners held a median 2.9 years and 75% sold above what they paid (median +11.7%/yr gross — price only, before costs and any renovation).

In the last three years, 7 lots changed hands — 10% of the scheme's 73 lots. Trailing 36 months of VG transfers ÷ registered lot count.

Unit 73$850k2025-09-25
Unit 64$1.42M2025-01-28
Unit 121$1.42M2025-01-28
Unit 62$820k2024-07-10
Unit 54$792k2024-02-29
Unit 66$2M2024-02-22

NSW Valuer General bulk property sales information (CC-BY), every lot sharing this building's property id; unit labels are the register's own strings. Transfers under 3 months apart are excluded as double entries; growth figures are gross price movements, not returns.

What units here actually rent for

1-bed$645–$855/wkmedian $750344 bonds, Q2 2026
2-bed$950–$1300/wkmedian $1100141 bonds, Q2 2026
3-bed$1370–$1800/wkmedian $150021 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

26 Kippax St22 sales · 100% of resales above purchase
6 Bedford St22 sales · 13 lots · 100% of resales above purchase
228 Elizabeth St22 sales · 57 lots · 33% of resales above purchase
443 Bourke St123 sales · 81% of resales above purchase
194 Goulburn St77 sales · 177 lots · 82% 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):

© 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.