The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
Confidence: Low — based on 17 comparable auction sales (8 of this exact configuration) · model runs ±12% for this configuration · confidence held at Low — under 20 same-configuration sales · the model's typical miss is ~11% against published results — every hit and miss
Comparable auction sales
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/3 Gallimore Av | 2 bd · 1 ba | $2.72M | Feb 2025 |
| 10/86 Darling St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.06M | Feb 2025 |
| 28/2 Pearson St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.66M | Oct 2024 |
| 18/9 Nicholson St | 2 bd · 2 ba | $3.12M | Oct 2024 |
| 10/41 Darling St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.92M | Aug 2024 |
| 8/16 Hosking St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.75M | July 2024 |
Suburb risk flags
crime index: 42 — around sydney average · ferries ~every 13 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 Balmain East — 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, Balmain East · postcode 2041
$798–$1031/wk is what 2-bed units in 2041 actually transact for (middle half of 40 bonds lodged, Q2 2026 · median $925/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $628 → $790/wk · +1% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for units in 2041, 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 — Balmain East units at auction
Not enough Balmain East 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026 | Sold prior | $1,905,000 | BresicWhitney Balmain |
| 1 Aug 2026 | Postponed | withheld | BresicWhitney Balmain |
From Domain's published weekly auction results — individual outcomes as published; withheld prices stay withheld.
Agencies' own published sales nearby — Balmain East, around 2 beds
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/15 Johnston Street | 6 Mar 2026 | $750,000 | 1 | Harris Partners |
| 18 Pearson Street | 19 Aug 2025 | $3,105,000 | 3 | Harris Partners |
| 15/5 Gallimore Avenue | 11 Feb 2024 | $1,840,000 | 2 | Harris Partners |
| 18 Johnston Street | 10 Nov 2023 | $6,700,000 | — | 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 SP3257 registered 1968 — the building is at least 58 years old · 36 lots in the scheme.
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
Nicholson St PS (primary) · SSC Balmain (secondary)
4 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1114 — 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 Balmain East — addresses near a boundary can differ. Verify the exact address at School Finder. Intake zones cover government schools only.
Want the numbers agents don't volunteer?
Check any Sydney suburb free — Market Mint market-conditions readout, live median, clearance trend and the price model — at aipropertyeye.com. No sign-up for the suburb check; the full board is 7 days free.
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.