The Property Brief — what the evidence shows. You draw the conclusion.
Confidence: High — based on 151 comparable auction sales (23 of this exact configuration) · model runs ±11% for this configuration · the model's typical miss is ~11% against published results — every hit and miss
Comparable auction sales
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/131-147 Alice St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.43M | June 2025 |
| 5/70-74 Wilson St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.46M | May 2025 |
| 45/3-13 Erskineville Rd | 2 bd · 2 ba | $1.28M | May 2025 |
| 2/1-3 Queen St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1.16M | May 2025 |
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
- 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 Newtown — 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, Newtown · postcode 2042
$778–$900/wk is what 2-bed units in 2042 actually transact for (middle half of 48 bonds lodged, Q2 2026 · median $850/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
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.
Published auction results at this address
| Auction week | Result | Price | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2026 | Sold prior | $1,000,000 | Ray White (IW Group) |
From Domain's published weekly auction results — individual outcomes as published; withheld prices stay withheld.
Agencies' own published sales nearby — Newtown, around 2 beds
| 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.
Sale history — the official settled-sale record at this address
| Exchanged | Price | Change since prior sale |
|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2026 | $1,000,000 | — |
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).
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 SP52555 registered 1996 — the building is at least 30 years old · 73 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.
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.