Currently listed
2 bed · 2 bath · 2 car · ApartmentUnitFlat
The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
Confidence: Low — based on 193 comparable auction sales (4 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
What we've tracked
- 14 Aug 2026 our tracking restarted after a six-week portal gap — the campaign start is unknown, this is not a listing date
Comparable auction sales
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 526/50 Burton St | 2 bd · 2 ba | $2M | July 2025 |
| 2803/184 Forbes St | 2 bd · 2 ba | $3.88M | June 2025 |
Suburb risk flags
crime index: 100 — well above sydney average · 11 min walk to Kings Cross · ~5 min train to the CBD · trains ~every 4 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 Darlinghurst — 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
Local rents — postcode 2010 units, new tenancies
$825/week median new-tenancy unit rent in 2010 (2026Q2, 544 bonds lodged).
The rent is real (NSW Fair Trading bond lodgements, CC BY) but it pools every bedroom count in the postcode and this is a 2-bed — so we don't derive a yield % from it: a ratio of two different grains reads as precision it doesn't have. New-tenancy rents also run hotter than sitting rents. Not financial advice.
Growth trend — Darlinghurst units at auction
Measured like-for-like growth ≈ 0.4%/yr — 2-bed sold-price medians across 16 quarters (53 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 — Darlinghurst, around 2 beds
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 412/38-52 College Street | 28 Mar 2023 | $395,000 | 1 | 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.
Sale history — the official settled-sale record at this address
| Exchanged | Price | Change since prior sale |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Dec 2024 | $3,250,000 | — |
Settled-sale records from the NSW Valuer General's Property Sales Information. Dates are contract (exchange) dates; sales appear only once lodged, so the most recent months are incomplete and revise upward — never read the latest month as final. Two entries on one date are usually a single transaction recorded across parts. © State of New South Wales (Valuation NSW).
Planning & zoning — MU1 Mixed Use
Shops/offices below, apartments above. Walkable and lively, but denser and busier.
Heritage conservation area — East Sydney. The property sits in a heritage conservation area — the streetscape is protected, so visible/external changes are controlled. It's area-wide, not this building specifically; it tends to preserve character and value.
Zone MU1 (Mixed Use) under the SYDNEY LEP · heritage from the NSW Heritage Map layer, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~36 m · 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst 2010 | Other | Determined | Approved | $20k | 2020-10-29 |
| ~36 m · 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst 2010 | Residential Flat Building · 9 new dwellings | Determined | Approved | $2.89M | 2020-07-09 |
| ~36 m · 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst 2010 | Signage, Change Of Use | Withdrawn | not on record | $136k | 2023-01-24 |
| ~58 m · 46-50 Burton Street, Darlinghurst | Alterations Or Additions To An Existing Building Or Structure, Supporting Development | Determined | not on record | $391k | 2026-05-14 |
| ~65 m · 32a Burton Street Darlinghurst 2010 | Alterations And Additions To Residential Development · 1 new dwelling | Determined | Approved | $429k | 2020-08-05 |
| ~69 m · 236 Crown Street Darlinghurst 2010 | Demolition, Alterations Or Additions To An Existing Building Or Structure, Change Of Use Of Land Or A Building Or The Classification Of A Building Under The Building Code Of Australia | Withdrawn | not on record | $349k | 2025-07-30 |
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 SP65530 registered 2001 — the building is at least 25 years old · 134 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.
School catchments
Crown St PS (primary) · Inner Sydney HS (secondary)
7 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1116 — 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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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.