The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
Confidence: Medium — based on 36 comparable auction sales · model runs ±11% for this configuration · the model's typical miss is ~11% against published results — every hit and miss
Comparable auction sales
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/15-21 Webb Av | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.05M | May 2025 |
| 8/8 Northcote Rd | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.59M | May 2025 |
| 4/22 Frederick St | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.25M | Oct 2024 |
| 3/7 Forbes St | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.57M | Sept 2024 |
| 5/53-57 Burdett St | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.43M | Aug 2024 |
| 5/18-20 Dural St | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.63M | Aug 2024 |
Suburb risk flags
crime index: 36 — below sydney average · trains ~every 3 min at peak
Where every number comes from
- Fair value: AI PropertyEye price model 2026-08-11-v5 — trained on 146,492 published auction sales; configuration-level (suburb × type × beds), not an appraisal of this exact home
- Comps: published Domain auction results for Hornsby — suburb × configuration matches, not hyper-matched to this address
- Risk flags: suburb-level overlays (BOCSAR crime, flood/bushfire intel, aircraft bands, GTFS transit) — NOT a per-parcel assessment
Rent evidence — asking vs transacted, Hornsby · postcode 2077
$825–$900/wk is what 3-bed units in 2077 actually transact for (middle half of 25 bonds lodged, Q2 2026 · median $850/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $475 → $700/wk · +6% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for units in 2077, 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 — Hornsby units at auction
Not enough Hornsby unit auctions on record to show a trend — this fills in as the archive grows.
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.
Published auction results at this address
| Auction week | Result | Price | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug 2026 | Sold | withheld | The Cavill Group |
From Domain's published weekly auction results — individual outcomes as published; withheld prices stay withheld.
Agencies' own published sales nearby — Hornsby, around 3 beds
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 809/88-90 George Street | by 17 Aug 2026 | $780,500 | 2 | Meriton |
| 1209/90 George St | by 17 Aug 2026 | $750,000 | 2 | Meriton |
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.
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 SP47609 registered 1994 — the building is at least 32 years old · 4 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.
School catchments
Hornsby NPS (primary) · Hornsby HS (secondary)
3 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1126 — the socio-educational advantage of the school community (My School, national average ~1000): a demographic measure, never a results or quality score.
Suburb-centre approximation for Hornsby — addresses near a boundary can differ. Verify the exact address at School Finder. Intake zones cover government schools only.
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Data from published auction results (Domain) and live portal listings. Estimates are never valuations or financial advice. Own this home and want a result corrected? hello@aipropertyeye.com.