Currently listed — $3,100,000
4 bed · 3 bath · 2 car · Townhouse · 464 m² land
The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
What we've tracked
- 14 May 2026 listed by the agency (portal date)
- 19 Aug 2026 asking $3.1M
- 28 Aug 2026 on market 106 days — portal listing date
Suburb risk flags
crime index: 24 — below sydney average · ferries ~every 5 min at peak
Where every number comes from
- Evidence trail: tracked by our radar from portal listings, web-archive checks and published auction results — each entry dated
- Risk flags: suburb-level overlays (BOCSAR crime, flood/bushfire intel, aircraft bands, GTFS transit) — NOT a per-parcel assessment
⏱ Days on market — this campaign
106 days since our daily sweep first saw this listing.
The portal's own campaign may have started slightly earlier than our first sighting. Longer campaigns tend to mean more negotiating room — the board's "Longest listed" sort exists for exactly that reason.
Rent evidence — asking vs transacted, Balgowlah · postcode 2093
$875/week median new-tenancy rent for units in 2093 (2026Q2, 106 bonds lodged — all bedroom counts pooled).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $580 → $875/wk · +6% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for units in 2093, all bedroom counts pooled.
Asking rents are what agents hope for; bond figures are what tenants actually signed at (NSW Fair Trading bond lodgements, CC BY). No yield % is derived here: each rent above is a different grain from this home's price, and a ratio of two grains reads as precision it doesn't have. New-tenancy rents run hotter than sitting rents. Not financial advice.
Growth trend — Balgowlah units at auction
Too few same-bed sales for a measured growth rate yet. Recent quarterly sold medians (all unit sizes — thin samples move these):
2023Q3 $1390k (5) · 2024Q4 $1374k (10) · 2025Q1 $1380k (4) · 2025Q2 $2120k (3)
Suburb-level, from published auction results. No single building has enough sales for a block-level series, so this is the honest grain; sales-mix shifts move raw medians, and the measured rate (when shown) controls for bed count.
Agencies' own published sales nearby — Balgowlah, around 4 beds
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Hill Street | 17 Aug 2026 | $2,830,000 | 3 | Cunninghams |
| 102 Condamine Street | 30 July 2026 | $4,000,000 | 4 | Cunninghams |
| 1/20 Kitchener Street | 14 July 2026 | $2,370,000 | 3 | Cunninghams |
| 2/1 Brighton Street | 20 Mar 2026 | $2,310,000 | 3 | Cunninghams |
| 159 Balgowlah Road | 11 Mar 2026 | $2,600,000 | 4 | Cunninghams |
Prices as published on the selling agency's own website (their sold pages) — includes private-treaty sales the auction results never see. Only sales the agency chose to publish a figure for appear here.
Planning & zoning — E1 Local Centre
A retail/commercial hub — shops and services at your door, but busier and noisier.
Height limit 8.5m (≈ 2 storeys) — the current legal ceiling for new building at this point under the LEP. Any proposal above it needs a variation or a rezoning — the kind of change the fast-track pipeline tracks.
Floor space ratio 1:1 — the maximum gross floor area you can build is 1:1 times the site area. On this 464 m² block that's up to ~464 m² of floor space (a guide — clause exceptions, setbacks and height limits also apply).
Strata plan SP18537 — A strata-titled scheme — the parcel area is the WHOLE scheme's land, not this unit's. From the NSW cadastre at this address's geocoded point.
Zone E1 (Local Centre) under the NORTHERN BEACHES LEP, from the NSW ePlanning layers at this address's geocoded point — a guide, not a parcel-level legal check. Confirm the exact lot at the NSW Planning Portal.
Development applications — at & near this address
| Where | Proposal | Status | Outcome | Est. cost | Lodged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~7 m · 2 67 New Street West Balgowlah Heights 2093 | Demolition, Alterations And Additions To Residential Development · 1 new dwelling | Determined | Approved | $83k | 2022-03-18 |
| ~85 m · 23 Gertrude Street Balgowlah Heights 2093 | Balconies, Decks, Patios, Terraces Or Verandahs, Garages, Carports And Car Parking Spaces · 1 new dwelling | Determined | Approved | $70k | 2020-11-27 |
| ~104 m · 51 New Street West Balgowlah Heights 2093 | Alterations And Additions To Residential Development | Determined | Approved | $550k | 2021-02-25 |
| ~124 m · 17 Gertrude Street Balgowlah Heights 2093 | Pools / Decks / Fencing | Determined | Approved | $34k | 2021-03-02 |
| ~139 m · 11 Seaview Street Balgowlah 2093 | Alterations And Additions To Residential Development | Withdrawn | not on record | $1.51M | 2021-06-17 |
| ~144 m · 59 Lewis Street Balgowlah Heights 2093 | Dwelling House, Change Of Use Of Land Or A Building Or The Classification Of A Building Under The Building Code Of Australia, Residential Accommodation · 1 new dwelling | Operational consent issued | not on record | — | 2025-10-24 |
Development application data © NSW Department of Planning and Environment, used under CC BY 4.0. Matched at this exact address or within ~150 m of its geocoded point — proximity evidence, not a parcel-level check. Lodged means proposed, not approved or built. Outcome comes from a separate NSW dataset that stops in Nov 2023: applications determined after that, or still undetermined, read “not on record” — which means we don't know, never that it was refused. “Status” is the council's own workflow state and “Determined” on its own does not say which way it went. Verify any application on the NSW Planning Portal.
Construction risk — what no listing tells you
Building Commission NSW / Strata Community Association 2023 Strata Defects Survey: 53% of newly registered strata buildings reported at least one serious defect in common property (39% in the 2021 survey). Defects are common, not exceptional — and new does not mean safe (Opal Tower was under a year old).
Get an independent structural and strata inspection before you commit — the defect base rate makes it the single highest-value dollar in the purchase.
We cannot see inside a building — no one can from public records. This section states base rates and observable adjacency only, and will never call a building safe.
The building — its registered strata scheme
Strata plan SP47172 registered 1994 — the building is at least 32 years old · 2 lots in the scheme (small scheme — levies and decisions shared among few owners).
Registration is an age floor, not a build date — a converted building is older than its strata plan. Scheme records from the NSW Strata Hub. © 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.
What's changing in Balgowlah — recent local signals
2025-10-13 — Petrol station invest — 487 SYDNEY ROAD BALGOWLAH 2093 ($127k) (institutional-signals.json (PAN-577428, OnlineDA))
Dated public signals compiled for this suburb — openings, closures, site sales and institutional moves. Facts with sources, not forecasts.
School catchments
Balgowlah Hts PS (primary) · The Forest HS (secondary)
5 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1136 — the socio-educational advantage of the school community (My School, national average ~1000): a demographic measure, never a results or quality score.
NSW DoE intake zones at this address's geocoded point — tighter than a suburb-level guess, but geocodes carry a few metres of error and boundaries change with reviews. Verify the exact address at School Finder. Intake zones cover government schools only.
Green space nearby
Protected public recreation land within 250 m
Land zoned RE1 under the local environmental plan — reserved for public recreation, which protects it from being built over. The zoning doesn't say what's on it or how usable it is, and this layer doesn't carry park names.
Privately-zoned recreation land (RE2 — typically golf courses or club grounds) within 1000 m. Private land: green outlook, not public open space.
Straight-line distance, not walking distance. NSW ePlanning planning layers (Land Zoning), CC BY. Distances are ladder buckets measured at the address's geocoded point.
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