The listing we observed
5 bedrooms · House
Listing details describe the advertised home. They do not verify its condition or approved use.
Norman So · last observed 14 Oct 20265 bed · 3 bath · 4 car · House · 708 m² land
Asking price cut 9.1% ($400k, from $4,400,000 to $4,000,000) 7 weeks ago. The vendor has already moved once: negotiate below the NEW asking, not at it.
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The listing we observed
Listing details describe the advertised home. They do not verify its condition or approved use.
Norman So · last observed 14 Oct 2026How much price evidence fits
The wider pool is not a set of identical homes. Bedroom count, condition and location within the suburb affect comparability.
Published auction evidence · model trained through 2026-09-15Planning activity nearby
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 areaThese are recorded events, not evidence of the seller's motivation.
Use these with the agent and your independent advisers. An answer is something to verify, not a fact we have recorded.
The estimate is a model output. The records are evidence. Your inspection and document checks fill the gaps.
This is a comparison with the evidence we hold, not a valuation or a recommended offer.
Confidence: Low — based on 391 comparable auction sales (158 of this exact configuration) · model runs ±12% for this configuration · priced from this property's own records: block size, land value · thin comparable support for this configuration — read the range as wider, not as a warning · the model's typical miss is ~11% against published results — every hit and miss
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Amaroo Av | 5 bd · 4 ba | $4.75M | Sept 2025 |
| 7 Noble Av | 5 bd · 4 ba | $6.8M | Sept 2025 |
crime index: 51 — around sydney average · 23 min walk to Strathfield · ~18 min train to the CBD · trains ~every 2 min at peak
These are due-diligence prompts, not a verdict on this property.
76 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.
$1500–$2000/wk is what 5-bed houses in 2135 actually transact for (middle half of 41 bonds lodged, last 12 mo · median $1750/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $800 → $1100/wk · +1% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for houses in 2135, 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.
708 m² · up to ~389 m² of floor space under the current FSR (a guide — setbacks and height also apply)
A house's size is its land. An apartment's advertised "size" can include car space and balcony — the two are never comparable and this site never pools them. Lot details and planning controls sit under Explore the area.
Refuses 3.14% of the development applications it decides (determinations to Nov 2023).
The full outlook — every category with confidence ranges, which plan elements come unstuck, and the heritage effect by category — is under Explore the area.
| Auction week | Result | Price | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2026 | Postponed | withheld | Belle Property Strathfield |
From Domain's published weekly auction results — individual outcomes as published; withheld prices stay withheld.
The 6 listings above are on the market now: same house category, within 1 bedroom of 5, asking within 20% of this one, in Strathfield 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.
Houses and dual occupancies. A protected low-rise street — little chance of towers next door.
Floor space ratio 0.55:1 — the maximum gross floor area you can build is 0.55:1 times the site area. On this 708 m² block that's up to ~389 m² of floor space (a guide — clause exceptions, setbacks and height limits also apply).
Registered lot 10/DP219141 — The registered plan lot at this address's geocoded point (NSW cadastre). On semis, duplexes and recent subdivisions the registered lot can be the parent parcel — the portal's advertised land size can differ legitimately.
Zone R2 (Low Density Residential) under the BURWOOD LEP, as recorded against this property in the NSW Valuer General's valuation record — a guide, not a parcel-level legal check. Confirm the exact lot at the NSW Planning Portal.
| If you wanted to… | Refused | vs NSW | Applications decided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alterations & additions | 1.98% (0.54–6.93%) | 0.8× (NSW 2.63%) | 2 refused of 101 |
| Off-street parking | too few to rate | — (NSW 2.58%) | 1 refused of 28 |
| Pool, deck or fence | 3.45% (0.95–11.73%) | 2× (NSW 1.73%) | 2 refused of 58 |
| Granny flat | too few to rate | — (NSW 4.45%) | 0 refused of 17 |
| Knock down & rebuild | too few to rate | — (NSW 11.55%) | 0 refused of 3 |
Across all application types Burwood Council refused 3.14% (1.66–5.85%) of the 287 development applications it decided.
The refusal rate above says how strict the council is. This says which part of a plan is exposed — measured across all 192,284 NSW development applications, not just this council. Each is an association: plenty of applications carrying these elements are approved, and nothing here is a verdict on a proposal you haven't made yet.
Determinations lodged on the NSW Planning Portal up to Nov 2023 — the published dataset stops there, so this is a record of how the council has behaved, not a forecast and not a statement about any particular application. Rates cover development applications only; modifications and reviews of an earlier decision are excluded. A rate is shown only where at least 30 applications were decided — below that the counts are given instead, because a percentage from a handful of decisions is not a fact about a council. "Approved with conditions" is a consent, not a refusal, and is never counted as one.
| Where | Proposal | Status | Outcome | Est. cost | Lodged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~78 m · 52 Woodside Avenue Strathfield 2135 | Demolition, Dwelling House, Erection Of A New Structure · 1 new dwelling | Determined | not on record | $4.31M | 2025-12-22 |
| ~78 m · 52 Woodside Avenue Strathfield 2135 | Demolition, Dwelling House, Erection Of A New Structure · 1 new dwelling | Under Assessment | not on record | $4.63M | 2026-09-07 |
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.
2026-10-01 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (51 Cotswold Road, Strathfield, NSW 2135) (listing rea-152357712 (rea), first seen 2026-10-01)
2026-09-30 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (5 Marion Street, Strathfield, NSW 2135) (listing rea-152345268 (rea), first seen 2026-09-30)
2026-09-26 — Development site — listing's own words: "stca" (21 Wentworth Road, Strathfield, NSW 2135) (listing rea-152236188 (rea), first seen 2026-09-26)
Dated public signals compiled for this suburb — openings, closures, site sales and institutional moves. Facts with sources, not forecasts.
Burwood PS (primary) · Homebush BHS (secondary)
6 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1059 — 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.
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