The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
Confidence: Low — based on 65 comparable auction sales (14 of this exact configuration) · model runs ±11% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/25 Kelly St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $675k | May 2025 |
| 540/99 Jones St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $741k | Feb 2025 |
| 202/349-357 Bulwara Rd | 1 bd · 1 ba | $735k | Feb 2025 |
| B601/503 Wattle St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $760k | Feb 2025 |
Suburb risk flags
crime index: 100 — well above sydney average · 16 min walk to Central · light rail ~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 Ultimo — 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, Ultimo · postcode 2007
$595–$780/wk is what 1-bed units in 2007 actually transact for (middle half of 142 bonds lodged, Q2 2026 · median $675/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $560 → $750/wk · +5% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for units in 2007, 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 — Ultimo units at auction
Too few same-bed sales for a measured growth rate yet. Recent quarterly sold medians (all unit sizes — thin samples move these):
2024Q3 $803k (5) · 2024Q4 $1078k (6) · 2025Q1 $750k (4) · 2025Q2 $955k (3)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2026 | Sold prior | $770,000 | McGrath Surry Hills |
From Domain's published weekly auction results — individual outcomes as published; withheld prices stay withheld.
Agencies' own published sales nearby — Ultimo, around 1 beds
| Address | Sold | Price | Beds | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108/330-370 Wattle Street | 26 Feb 2024 | $378,000 | — | Harris Partners |
| 502/287 Pyrmont Street | 6 Dec 2023 | $850,000 | 1 | Harris Partners |
| 16/330 Wattle Street | 7 June 2023 | $401,500 | — | Harris Partners |
| 91/330 Wattle Street | 2 June 2023 | $652,300 | — | 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 SP73377 registered 2004 — the building is at least 22 years old · 113 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 Ultimo — recent local signals
2025-12-15 — Education invest — 1 2-14 MOUNTAIN STREET ULTIMO 2007 ($13467k) (institutional-signals.json (PAN-598691, OnlineDA))
Dated public signals compiled for this suburb — openings, closures, site sales and institutional moves. Facts with sources, not forecasts.
School catchments
Ultimo PS (primary) · SSC Balmain (secondary)
7 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1102 — 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 Ultimo — 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.