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WA › Glen Forrest › Mcglew Rd

27 Mcglew Rd, Glen Forrest WA 6071

House

$680,000

Last sold

8 Sept 2023

3

Bedrooms

1

Bathrooms

4

Car spaces

4,047 m²

Land

162 m²

Building

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Districts View

What should you know about this lot before spending serious money?

Why this property?

  • FactLast recorded sale $680,000 (8 Sept 2023).(Recorded sale)
  • CalculationLand 4,047 m² against a 162 m² dwelling — the land is most of what is being bought.(Districts calculation)
  • CalculationRecorded House sales in Glen Forrest (last 5 years) with land size: median $382/m² of land (n=104). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.(Districts recorded sales)

What could make it worth more?

  • InterpretationA large lot with a small dwelling means the value case rests on the land and what the zone allows on it, not the house.

What could make it worth less?

No detected risks — but see the checklist: absence of evidence is not an all-clear.

What should you verify next?

  1. 1Official planning layers are still retrieving for this parcel — check back before relying on zoning or overlay absence.
  2. 2No hazard layer has been retrieved — confirm flood, bushfire and heritage exposure from council mapping before an offer.

Each line above is labelled. A fact is quoted from the named source, with its date. A calculation is worked out by Districts from those facts — you can check the arithmetic. An interpretation is Districts' opinion of what the evidence means, not a fact, a valuation, or advice. Anything we haven't retrieved yet is marked as missing rather than treated as a pass.

Price evidence

What this lot has actually traded at

Last sold

$680,000

8 Sept 2023 · derived via latest_sale

Local land rate: recorded House sales in Glen Forrest (last 5 years) with land size have a median of $382/m² of land (n=104). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.

Glen Forrest at a glance

3,087

People

$1,291,500

Median sale

$790/wk

Median rent

3.18%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 28 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full Glen Forrest report →

Vs Glen Forrest

-47.3%

Median sale

Suburb $1,291,500

+2.86 pp

Gross yield

Suburb 3.18%

Suburb median $1,291,500 from 28 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation, not a portal figure.

Planning

Planning and development

Planning data is being calculated

Development activity

Data unavailable

Source

  • Provider: unavailable
  • Dataset: unavailable
  • Retrieved: not yet retrieved
  • Version: planning-v1

Planning facts are copied from official government GIS where available. Where an official property PDF exists (VicPlan, PlanBuild), Districts stores and serves that original document. Neither is a planning certificate, survey, or advice.

Site

Terrain

Terrain has not been calculated for this property yet.

Slope is calculated on a projected metric grid from a public DEM clip of the official parcel. This is not a survey, engineering, or insurance assessment.

Flood, bushfire and heritage

i

Flood

Not retrieved

Flood exposure has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.

Bushfire

Not retrieved

Bushfire exposure has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.

Heritage

Not retrieved

Heritage listing has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.

Records

Property history

  1. Sold$680,0008 Sept 2023
  2. Listedprice unknowncompleted18 Aug 2023

Events are recorded observations from public listings, kept with their source and date. Missing values are shown as unknown, never estimated.

Capital growth

WA

Why this lot, not just this suburb

Why could this property outperform?

WA full cadastre is not free for commercial use. Lot optionality cannot be computed from official geometry. Listed land size is 4,047 m² — that is not official geometry. A suburb median or growth rate is not a reason this particular lot would outperform. Funded catalyst catchments are not loaded. A TOD badge is not this product.

What could kill that thesis?

Confidence: low

Official flood overlay has not been retrieved (pending). Missing layer is unknown, not “no.” Nearby development applications are not loaded for this property.

Rental

Income, competition, and yield

What will it realistically rent for?

Confidence: low

No advertised rent is recorded. Suburb median rent $790/week — not this address. An inferred likely-rent range is not shown until official bond series are loaded for this dwelling type and bedrooms.

What competition will it face?

Current comparable rental listings within 400 m of this lot are not loaded. Nearby development applications are not loaded for this property. Supply pressure needs comparable listings near this lot plus a nearby DA pipeline. Neither is loaded. Suburb vacancy or leased-tape days are not this property’s competition.

What does the yield actually look like?

Confidence: low

Yield cannot be shown without both a price and a rent figure. Net yield is not estimated from gross advertising copy. Net yield / holding costs are not estimated outside NSW without inventing land tax.

Verdict

What this means for this property

Districts view

Not enough official evidence yet to underwrite this as an investment.

Detail

The same ten questions apply to every property. Missing flood, nearby DAs, achieved rents, or lot geometry is unknown — not “no.”

Read more

Do not treat a suburb median, an advertised yield, or a listing score as the case for this lot.

The evidence loaded so far isn't enough on its own to change a buy, offer, or walk-away decision for this property.

Evidence

What is known for this property

Districts asks the same ten questions of every property. If one shows as unknown, that data isn't published for this state or hasn't been loaded yet — the question stays visible so you can see exactly what's missing.

1 of 10 questions answered so far

  • Development optionality of this lot

    Unknown

    WA full cadastre is not free for commercial use. Lot optionality cannot be computed from official geometry. Listed land size is 4,047 m² — that is not official geometry.

  • Nearby development pipeline

    Unknown

    Nearby development applications are not loaded for this property.

  • Honest achievable rent

    Knownlow

    This is not “bond data says this address leases for $X.” The comparable figure is a suburb advertised/median rent, not this property. Official bond files (postcode or suburb × type × bedrooms) are not loaded yet.

  • Rental supply pressure

    Unknown

    Supply pressure needs comparable listings near this lot plus a nearby DA pipeline. Neither is loaded.

  • Why is this cheap?

    Unknown

    The constraint stack has not been retrieved for this lot, so Districts cannot explain a discount versus land size.

  • Lot-level flood

    Unknown

    Official flood overlay has not been retrieved (pending). Missing layer is unknown, not “no.”

  • Catalyst exposure

    Unknown

    Funded catalyst catchments are not loaded. A TOD badge is not this product.

  • This lot's DA history

    Unknown

    Development applications have not been queried for this parcel.

  • Statutory land value versus ask

    Unknown

    Statutory land value is not available as free bulk data in this jurisdiction. Do not fake it with a suburb median.

  • Net yield / holding costs

    Unknown

    Net yield / holding costs are not estimated outside NSW without inventing land tax.

Area

Glen Forrest in one glance

Glen Forrest at a glance

3,087

People

$1,291,500

Median sale

$790/wk

Median rent

3.18%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 28 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full Glen Forrest report →

Keep researching

  • Why Glen Forrest? Read the area thesis →
  • What else is on the market in Glen Forrest →
  • Other records on Mcglew Rd →

Listing material

Listed by The Agency Perth

The Ultimate Cosy Woodland Cottage

** FIRST HOME OPEN this SUNDAY 20th Aug from 1.00 - 1.30pm **

Are you looking for a enchanting retreat in the Perth Hills? Do you love nature and history? If so, you mustn't miss out on this captivating cottage now on the market in one of the oldest villages in the area!

Completely screened from the road and accessed by a charming curving driveway through the majestic native eucalypts, you'll find the cottage nestling amongst a host of mature shrubs, rose beds and fruit trees on a 1 acre block only a few minutes level walk from Glen Forrest's village centre. What a luxury to have the option of an easy walk or quick cycle ride to the shops, cafe, restaurants and sport facilities this popular Hills community offers!

Read the full description

Key Features

- 3 bed, 1 bath 1948 construction home

- Large country kitchen with slate floors

- Choice of 3 living areas

- Classic Art Deco inspired interior design

- Huge L-shaped sun room

- Jarrah floors in most public areas.

- Slow combustion wood burner, open fireplace and Metters stove

- Double car port

- Below ground pool

- Level walk to village centre, café and shops

- Close to heritage trail for hiking/biking

- Easy commute to airport/city/Midland

Built in 1948, this property retains many Art Deco influences, coupled with the functional features typical of Hills properties of the era. These include a classic Metters wood fired oven in the original kitchen, which now forms the formal dining room, which also features striking jarrah wainscoting and floorboards. Meanwhile a stroll through the formal lounge room, with its open fire place, beautiful jarrah floors and Art Deco inspired ceiling rose and architraves will have you expecting Poirot to come bustling through from the wonderful wrap around sun room!

The sun room has been created by enclosing the original deep verandah which wraps around the western and southern sides of the property. Being glazed all the way round from waist height up to the ceiling, this is a splendidly flexible space that offers multiple choices for the next owner. Everything from a games room, to a kids play area, or a relaxing warming space when Spring and Autumn sun beams break through. At one end of the sun room is a cosy single bedroom.

The master bedroom is a spacious king-size room with an enormous floor to ceiling built-in wardrobe that occupies one whole wall. Adjacent to this is the small but functional bathroom. In addition to the Art Deco lounge room and dining room, there's also a wonderful family room that benefits from a slow combustion wood burning stove which offers the flexibility to work as an office or study, or a TV room.

The current owners have added a substantial extension to the original cottage which contains the country kitchen, laundry and a bedroom, floored in slate and with a high pitched ceiling. The kitchen has oodles of low level cupboards and drawers for storage, electric hob and double oven, and with a view out to the east of the property where a patio is also located.

The grounds of this wonderful property are a magical mixture of formal planting, native gum trees and meadow, and also contain an original sawyers lumber shed, where timber was prepared for shipment down the hill on the original railway line which now serves as a very popular Heritage walking and cycle Trail. This is a quite remarkable slice of history that has remained safe on this private property while the vast majority of such structures that peppered this township's centre over a 100 years ago have long been lost to posterity.

When the warm swimming days of summer come around, you'll appreciate the good sized below ground pool, discretely located behind a solid wooden fence, which has plenty of room for outdoor furniture if lounging beside the pool is more your thing.

Words cannot do full justice to this one-of-a-kind property. There's just such an amazing choice of sitting and family areas in this property – you are really spoilt for choice! And outside its picturesque and peaceful private backyard is perfect for outdoor entertaining and relaxation with all your friends and family, with the wonderful pool sure to be an absolute magnet during the summer months.

The property's unique combination of features and its easy access to the centre of one of the communities of choice in the heart of the Hills presents a rare opportunity, and is sure to generate a lot of interest.

This property is being sold under the End Date process. All offers to be received by 12th September 2023. The owner retains the right to sell at any time.

For more information please contact Nigel Peters on 0407 212156

Disclaimer:

This information is provided for general information purposes only and is based on information provided by the Seller and may be subject to change. No warranty or representation is made as to its accuracy and interested parties should place no reliance on it and should make their own independent enquiries.

Listing description written by Nigel Peters, The Agency Perth — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.

Property features

  • Broadband
  • Built-in Robes
  • Deck
  • Floorboards
  • Living Areas: 3
  • In-Ground Pool
  • Toilets: 1
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