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679-695 Bourke Street, Surry Hills

Strata plan SP8153 · 72 lots (NSW Strata Hub) · registered 1974-03-29 (age floor) · VG property id 2110586

This building has 28 recorded sales since 2015; 100% of its 6 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.

The 72-unit apartment building at 679 Bourke St, Surry Hills has recorded 28 sales since 2015, with 18 sales in the last 3 years. In the postcode, studio rents have a median of $562/wk, 1-bedroom units a median of $750/wk, 2-bedroom units a median of $1100/wk, and 3-bedroom units a median of $1500/wk. Among 6 resale pairs tracked, the median hold period was 2.5 years, with 100% of resales selling above their original purchase price.

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

28 priced transfers on the public record since 2015. Across 6 same-unit resales, owners held a median 2.5 years and 100% sold above what they paid (median +5%/yr gross — price only, before costs and any renovation).

In the last three years, 18 lots changed hands — 25% of the scheme's 72 lots. Trailing 36 months of VG transfers ÷ registered lot count.

Unit 2$910k2026-05-21

Unit 66$750k2026-05-14

Unit 4$600k2026-03-03

Unit 6$715k2026-02-12

Unit 72$783k2025-10-25

Unit 18$792k2025-07-16

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

209 Albion St28 sales · 71 lots · 100% of resales above purchase

156 Goulburn St27 sales · 116 lots

423 Bourke St27 sales · 28 lots · 90% 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):

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 1974 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.