The listing we observed
3 bedrooms · ApartmentUnitFlat
Listing details describe the advertised home. They do not verify its condition or approved use.
Sunny Properties Group - Sydney · last observed 5 Oct 2026
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Currently listed — $1,200,000
3 bed · 2 bath · 2 car · Apartment / Unit
Your buyer evidence guide
Understand the home before the offer.
The useful records, what they mean, and the questions they leave open. Start here, then explore the evidence below.
The strata scheme
SP95428 · 175 lots
Scheme size provides context. It does not tell us the current levies, finances or condition of the building.
NSW strata register · registered 2017Planning activity nearby
4 recorded applications at or near this address
An application is not an approval or a promise that building work will happen. Location and stage matter.
NSW Planning Portal · individual records in Explore the areaWhat deserves a closer look
- asking $1.2M
- first tracked by our radar (the portal doesn't publish its list date)
These are recorded events, not evidence of the seller's motivation.
What we still cannot tell you
- No settled-sale history is available in this page's records. This does not mean the home has never sold.
- The model has no confident read on this property: its comparable pool disagrees with the advertised figure by more than 40%, and on our sold-validation set the advertised guide — not the model — predicted the sale in these cases. The comparable pool is likely describing different stock than what is being sold.
- Public records and an automated estimate cannot establish whether the home is defect-free, what the contract contains, or why the owner is selling.
Questions to take to the inspection
Use these with the agent and your independent advisers. An answer is something to verify, not a fact we have recorded.
- Which nearby applications affect this home, and what stage has each actually reached?
- Which recent sales are most comparable to this home, and how do their size, condition and position differ?
- What repairs, alterations or water issues are documented, and what can an independent inspection verify?
- What do the strata records show about current levies, planned works, meeting decisions and unresolved defects?
- Do the planning and heritage records match this exact lot, and what approvals exist for alterations?
The estimate is a model output. The records are evidence. Your inspection and document checks fill the gaps.
Is the asking price plausible?
This is a comparison with the evidence we hold, not a valuation or a recommended offer.
NO CONFIDENT READ
The model has no confident read on this property: its comparable pool disagrees with the advertised figure by more than 40%, and on our sold-validation set the advertised guide — not the model — predicted the sale in these cases. The comparable pool is likely describing different stock than what is being sold.
Comparable auction sales
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1237/7 Crescent St | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1.78M | May 2025 |
Suburb risk flags
flood exposure 35% of the suburb · bushfire exposure 0% · aircraft noise low · crime index: 97 — well above sydney average · 2 min walk to Waterloo Metro · ~5 min metro to the CBD · metro ~every 4 min at peak
Where every number comes from
- Comps: published Domain auction results for Waterloo — suburb × configuration matches, not hyper-matched to this address
- 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
What changed recently?
- 2 July 2026 first tracked by our radar (the portal doesn't publish its list date)
- 21 Sept 2026 asking $1.2M
- 15 Oct 2026 on market 104+ days — first tracked by us, a lower bound
What to inspect before you offer
- Condition, aspect, renovation and the contract — these can materially change price, and the estimate cannot see them.
- The strata scheme: registration is recorded in 2017 and has 175 lots; ask for the strata report, planned works and levies.
- 4 development applications are recorded at or near this address — check the source records and current status.
- Planning controls and heritage status — confirm the exact lot, not just the address-level guide, before relying on development potential.
- Building condition: public records cannot establish that a building is defect-free; inspect independently.
These are due-diligence prompts, not a verdict on this property.
⏱ Days on market — this campaign
104 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, Waterloo · postcode 2017
$1470–$1665/wk is what 3-bed units in 2017 actually transact for (middle half of 67 bonds lodged, Q2 2026 · median $1550/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $730 → $1065/wk · +3% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for units in 2017, 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 — Waterloo units at auction
Measured like-for-like growth ≈ 5.0%/yr — 2-bed sold-price medians across 14 quarters (59 sales).
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 — Waterloo, around 3 beds
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 727/7 Potter Street | by 17 Aug 2026 | $940,000 | 2 | Meriton |
| 518/7 Potter Street | by 17 Aug 2026 | $930,000 | 2 | Meriton |
| 185/11 Potter Street | by 17 Aug 2026 | $1,215,000 | 3 | 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.
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The 6 listings above are on the market now: same unit category, within 1 bedroom of 3, asking within 20% of this one, in Waterloo or a suburb whose centre is within 3 km — ordered by how close the asking price is. That is the whole rule: a filter, not a recommendation, and nothing here judges which home is better.
Planning & zoning — MU1 Mixed Use
Shops/offices below, apartments above. Walkable and lively, but denser and busier.
Floor space ratio 1.5:1 — the maximum gross floor area you can build is 1.5:1 times the site area.
Strata plan SP95428 · scheme parcel ~2,712 m² — 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 MU1 (Mixed Use) under the SYDNEY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~60 m · 14 Archibald Avenue Waterloo 2017 | Subdivision | Cancelled | not on record | — | — |
| ~61 m · 44-48 O'Dea Avenue, Waterloo | Temporary Building, Structure Or Use, Exhibition Home | Determined | not on record | $1.11M | 2026-01-20 |
| ~90 m · 40 O'Dea Avenue Waterloo 2017 | Demolition, Advertising And Signage, Erection Of A New Structure | Under Assessment | not on record | $31.07M | 2026-06-24 |
| ~98 m · 14, 16 & 18 Archibald Avenue Waterloo | Subdivision | Determined | not on record | — | 2026-05-12 |
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 SP95428 registered 2017 — the building is at least 9 years old · 175 lots in the scheme (large scheme — expect facilities and higher levies).
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 Waterloo — recent local signals
2026-08-24 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (131 Botany Road, Waterloo, NSW 2017) (listing rea-149440776 (rea), first seen 2026-08-24)
2026-08-14 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (672 Elizabeth Street, Waterloo, NSW 2017) (listing rea-151639380 (rea), first seen 2026-08-14)
2026-07-31 — Place of worship invest — 2-6 KELLICK STREET WATERLOO 2017 ($987k) (institutional-signals.json (PAN-660763, OnlineDA))
Dated public signals compiled for this suburb — openings, closures, site sales and institutional moves. Facts with sources, not forecasts.
School catchments
Green Square PS (primary) · Alexandria Park CS (secondary)
6 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1105 — 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 2000 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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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.