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489 Hunter Street, Newcastle

Strata plan SP73863 · 40 lots (NSW Strata Hub) · registered 2004-12-15 (age floor) · VG property id 3143900

This building has 19 recorded sales since 2015; 100% of its 3 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.

489 Hunter St, Newcastle has 40 strata lots with 19 recorded sales since 2015. In the last 3 years, 5 units sold; all resales in tracked pairs sold above their prior purchase price. 1-bedroom units in the postcode rent at a median of $580/wk, with the middle half of rents at $486–$672/wk. 2-bedroom units have a median rent of $700/wk ($600–$880/wk for the middle half), and 3-bedroom units median at $950/wk ($760–$1500/wk).

Written by AI from the government records on this page — checked figure-by-figure against them (2026-08-27). A description of the record, never advice.

Every sale in this building

19 priced transfers on the public record since 2015. Across 3 same-unit resales, owners held a median 3.7 years and 100% sold above what they paid (median +6.5%/yr gross — price only, before costs and any renovation).

In the last three years, 5 lots changed hands — 13% of the scheme's 40 lots. Trailing 36 months of VG transfers ÷ registered lot count.

Unit 501$925k2026-06-25

Unit 402$1.06M2026-03-09

Unit 1004$900k2026-01-02

Unit 1104$855k2024-11-29

Unit 1203$870k2024-06-29

Unit 501$850k2022-10-19

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$486–$672/wkmedian $58060 bonds, Q2 2026

2-bed$600–$880/wkmedian $700105 bonds, Q2 2026

3-bed$760–$1500/wkmedian $95017 bonds, Q2 2026

Real transacted rents — every residential bond lodged in postcode 2300 (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

97 Scott St17 sales · 50 lots

77 Shortland Esp17 sales · 55 lots · 100% of resales above purchase

8 King St16 sales · 36 lots

509 Hunter St159 sales · 120 lots · 95% of resales above purchase

11 Perkins St154 sales · 106 lots · 93% 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 2004 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.