The listing we observed
5 bedrooms · Duplex
Listing details describe the advertised home. They do not verify its condition or approved use.
McGrath - Strathfield · last observed 18 Oct 2026









5 bed · 3 bath · 2 car · Duplex · 317 m² land
Asking price cut 6.3% ($150k, from $2,400,000 to $2,250,000) 2 weeks ago. The vendor has already moved once: negotiate below the NEW asking, not at it.
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The listing we observed
Listing details describe the advertised home. They do not verify its condition or approved use.
McGrath - Strathfield · last observed 18 Oct 2026These are recorded events, not evidence of the seller's motivation.
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This is a comparison with the evidence we hold, not a valuation or a recommended offer.
crime index: 33 — below sydney average · 24 min walk to Meadowbank · ~20 min train to the CBD · trains ~every 8 min at peak
These are due-diligence prompts, not a verdict on this property.
69 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.
$1500–$2000/wk is what 5-bed houses in 2112 actually transact for (middle half of 13 bonds lodged, Q2 2026 · median $1900/wk — NSW Fair Trading, CC BY).
2019Q1 → 2026Q2: $692 → $1040/wk · +6% over the last 12 months (latest four quarters averaged against the previous four) — quarterly new-tenancy medians for houses in 2112, 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.
317 m²
A house's size is its land. An apartment's advertised "size" can include car space and balcony — the two are never comparable and this site never pools them. Lot details and planning controls sit under Explore the area.
Refuses 4.76% of the development applications it decides · off-street parking 1.85% (determinations to Nov 2023).
The full outlook — every category with confidence ranges, which plan elements come unstuck, and the heritage effect by category — is under Explore the area.
The 6 listings above are on the market now: same house category, within 1 bedroom of 5, asking within 20% of this one, in Ryde or a suburb whose centre is within 3 km — ordered by how close the asking price is. That is the whole rule: a filter, not a recommendation, and nothing here judges which home is better.
Houses and dual occupancies. A protected low-rise street — little chance of towers next door.
State heritage item — Great North Road. This building is on the State Heritage Register — the strongest protection. Alterations or demolition generally need Heritage NSW approval; expect strict controls (and possible grants/loans).
Registered lots in Ryde run 290–630 m² (middle 80% of 46 registered parcels). This one is 315 m² — inside that range.
Whether a block this size can be subdivided or redeveloped is a separate question: minimum lot size, setbacks and the council's DCP controls decide it, and this page doesn't check them. One point per registered parcel, so a tower's parent lot counts once — not once per unit. Confirm the parcel and its controls with the council before you inspect.
Zone R2 (Low Density Residential) under the RYDE LEP · heritage from the NSW Heritage Map layer, as recorded against this property in the NSW Valuer General's valuation record — a guide, not a parcel-level legal check. Confirm the exact lot at the NSW Planning Portal.
| If you wanted to… | Refused | vs NSW | Applications decided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alterations & additions | 3.74% (1.91–7.2%) | 1.4× (NSW 2.63%) | 8 refused of 214 · 3 approved with conditions |
| Off-street parking | 1.85% (0.33–9.77%) | 0.7× (NSW 2.58%) | 1 refused of 54 |
| Pool, deck or fence | 3.01% (1.18–7.48%) | 1.7× (NSW 1.73%) | 4 refused of 133 · 1 approved with conditions |
| Granny flat | too few to rate | — (NSW 4.45%) | 0 refused of 25 · 2 approved with conditions |
| Knock down & rebuild | too few to rate | — (NSW 11.55%) | 0 refused of 13 |
Across all application types Ryde City Council refused 4.76% (3.55–6.35%) of the 904 development applications it decided.
The refusal rate above says how strict the council is. This says which part of a plan is exposed — measured across all 192,284 NSW development applications, not just this council. Each is an association: plenty of applications carrying these elements are approved, and nothing here is a verdict on a proposal you haven't made yet.
Heritage does not make everything harder — it depends entirely on what you want to do, and for some work it makes approval more likely. Measured across NSW by category:
These are NSW-wide rates for heritage-affected applications, not Ryde City Council-specific, and they describe applications rather than this property. The zoning section above records the actual listing at this address.
Determinations lodged on the NSW Planning Portal up to Nov 2023 — the published dataset stops there, so this is a record of how the council has behaved, not a forecast and not a statement about any particular application. Rates cover development applications only; modifications and reviews of an earlier decision are excluded. A rate is shown only where at least 30 applications were decided — below that the counts are given instead, because a percentage from a handful of decisions is not a fact about a council. "Approved with conditions" is a consent, not a refusal, and is never counted as one.
2026-10-08 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (4 Kenneth Street, Ryde, NSW 2112) (listing rea-152567764 (rea), first seen 2026-10-08)
2026-10-08 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (22 Parry Street, Ryde, NSW 2112) (listing rea-152573624 (rea), first seen 2026-10-08)
2026-10-04 — Development site — listing's own words: "STCA" (319-321 Blaxland Road, Ryde, NSW 2112) (listing rea-149271496 (rea), first seen 2026-10-04)
Dated public signals compiled for this suburb — openings, closures, site sales and institutional moves. Facts with sources, not forecasts.
Smalls Rd PS (primary) · Ryde SC (secondary)
6 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1107 — 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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