Currently listed — $460,000
1 bath · 1 car · Studio
The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
What we've tracked
- 12 June 2026 listed by the agency (portal date)
- 19 Aug 2026 asking $460k
- 28 Aug 2026 on market 77 days — portal listing date
Suburb risk flags
crime index: 87 — well above sydney average · 1 min walk to Newtown · ~8 min train to the CBD · trains ~every 4 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
77 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, Newtown · postcode 2042
$680/week median new-tenancy rent for units in 2042 (2026Q2, 175 bonds lodged — all bedroom counts pooled).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $475 → $680/wk · +6% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for units in 2042, 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 — Newtown units at auction
Measured like-for-like growth ≈ -3.1%/yr — 1-bed sold-price medians across 15 quarters (51 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 — Newtown
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19/15-17 Erskineville Road | 11 Aug 2022 | $900,000 | 2 | Harris Partners |
| 90 Hordern Street | 16 Dec 2021 | $1,500,000 | 2 | Harris Partners |
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 SP44724 registered 1993 — the building is at least 33 years old · 121 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 Newtown — recent local signals
2026-03-10 — Childcare new — 20-28 MUNNI STREET NEWTOWN 2042 ($1053k) (institutional-signals.json (PAN-617522, OnlineDA))
Dated public signals compiled for this suburb — openings, closures, site sales and institutional moves. Facts with sources, not forecasts.
School catchments
Newtown PS (primary) · Newtown HS of Performing Arts (secondary)
11 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1097 — 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 Newtown — 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.