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VIC › Longford › Merricks Rd

315 Merricks Rd, Longford VIC 3851

House

3

Bedrooms

1

Bathrooms

4

Car spaces

161,874.257 m²

Land

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Districts View

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

Why this property?

  • FactLand 161,874 m²; no building size recorded.(Property record)
  • CalculationRecorded House sales in Longford (last 5 years) with land size: median $80/m² of land (n=38). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.(Districts recorded sales)

What could make it worth more?

No upside evidence detected in the data Districts holds for this lot.

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

No recorded sale price for this property yet.

Local land rate: recorded House sales in Longford (last 5 years) with land size have a median of $80/m² of land (n=38). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.

Longford at a glance

1,537

People

$750,000

Median sale

$347/wk

Median rent

2.41%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 15 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full Longford report →

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

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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. Soldprice unknown30 Nov 2017
  2. Listedprice unknowncompleted14 Jan 2016

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

Capital growth

VIC

Why this lot, not just this suburb

Why could this property outperform?

Planning layers have not been retrieved for this property yet. 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.” Victoria has no public statewide property-level DA API. Nearby pipeline is unknown.

Rental

Income, competition, and yield

What will it realistically rent for?

Confidence: low

No advertised rent is recorded. Suburb median rent $347/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. Victoria has no public statewide property-level DA API. Nearby pipeline is unknown. 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

    Planning layers have not been retrieved for this property yet.

  • Nearby development pipeline

    Unknown

    Victoria has no public statewide property-level DA API. Nearby pipeline is unknown.

  • 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

Longford in one glance

Longford at a glance

1,537

People

$750,000

Median sale

$347/wk

Median rent

2.41%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 15 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full Longford report →

Keep researching

  • Why Longford? Read the area thesis →
  • What else is on the market in Longford →
  • Other records on Merricks Rd →

Listing material

Listed by Wellington Real Estate

RELAXING COUNTRY LIFESTYLE

Looking for that place that offers a relaxing country lifestyle in a private surrounding yet still within easy reach of a major provincial town? Then this Farmlet of 16 hectares should be the answer.

This well built and maintained home offers a unique country lifestyle. The privately located house sits high on the property with views over the whole property and the surrounding rural countryside.

It is an extremely well cared for and presented home that offers a separate lounge with wood heater plus reverse cycle air conditioner, ceiling fan and glass sliding doors opening onto a large covered timber decking and outdoor entertaining area.

Read the full description

A practical modern timber kitchen with electric hot plates and wall oven with good bench and cupboard space, dishwasher, Walk in Pantry, plus room for the kitchen table and sideboard.

The bedrooms are all of a generous size, are newly carpeted, freshly painted with new ceiling fans and have built in robes, with the main bedroom also having a sliding door onto the verandah. All rooms have great outlook over the property.

The bathroom is a good size and has been renovated with large bath, separate vanity and shower. There are also 2 separate toilets and laundry.

The house offers full length front and back verandah plus a large covered outdoor area that is well protected from the weather and offer great views of the property and surrounding countryside. This area is an ideal entertaining area or for just a place to sit and relax. There is also a covered pool spa set in the garden area at the rear of the home.

There is plenty of water available with 3 good size tanks and a pumping rite of 4 megalitres from Boundary Creek that meanders through the property.

There is also a large lock up work shop of 6 x 12 Meters with power and concrete flooring, a 4 bay open fronted machinery shed, plus chook yards, veggie patch and stock yards. The property is well treed and laid out with 9 paddocks and 2 dams.

A farmlet that offers the whole family a fantastic lifestyle of rural living.

Longford in Wellington Shire is situated in Central Gippsland with access from Melbourne via the Princes Highway. There is access from the Port of Sale to the Gippsland Lakes, wetlands, and only 25 minutes to the 90 Mile beach, Bass Strait, associated Oilfields, Gas plant and only 90 minutes to the snow and wilderness area. The area and RAAF base is surrounded by productive Farming areas, Macalister River and Macalister Irrigation Area also the Avon, Latrobe and Thomson Rivers, and just over a two and a half hour drive to Melbourne.

Listing description written by Tony Kiss, Wellington Real Estate — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.

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