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VIC › Smythesdale › Hillcrest Rd

40 Hillcrest Rd, Smythesdale VIC 3351

House

3

Bedrooms

2

Bathrooms

1

Car spaces

40,000 m²

Land

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Districts View

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

View not ready — official layers are still retrieving for this property. Official planning layers still retrieving. Flood / bushfire / heritage not yet retrieved. No recorded sale price for this property. Districts does not score a property it cannot yet see.

Why this property?

  • FactLand 40,000 m²; no building size recorded.(Property record)

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.

Smythesdale at a glance

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Median sale

No data

Median rent

No data

Suburb gross yield

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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. Listedprice unknowncompleted26 Aug 2022

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?

No advertised rent and no suburb rent aggregate are loaded. Official bond files are not loaded. Listing rent and suburb aggregates are evidence, not this address’s rent.

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.”

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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.

0 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

    Unknown

    No advertised rent and no suburb rent aggregate are loaded. Official bond files are not loaded. Listing rent and suburb aggregates are evidence, not this address’s rent.

  • 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.

Nearby

Nearby properties

  • 2 Taylor St, Smythesdale VIC 3351
  • 59 Browns Rd, Smythesdale VIC 3351
  • 49 Brooke St, Smythesdale VIC 3351
  • 120 Whites Rd, Smythesdale VIC 3351

Area

Smythesdale in one glance

Smythesdale at a glance

No data

Median sale

No data

Median rent

No data

Suburb gross yield

See the full Smythesdale report →

Keep researching

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

Listing material

Listed by Harcourts Ballarat

Fully Renovated Home On A Gorgeous 10.5 Acres (approx.)

Welcome to 40 Hillcrest Road, a charming home on a picturesque 10.5 Acres lot in Smythesdale. Those searching for a property that offers complete privacy and peace are sure to be impressed by this block, which is still within easy reach of the Delacombe Town Centre & Ballarat.

With two large feature dams (stocked with red fin, yabbies, and turtles), lush green spaces for the animals to roam, soaring trees that provide the perfect amount of space, and even a homemade golf practice green, this gorgeous block is bursting with appeal.

Stepping inside the home you'll discover a modern layout that enjoys plenty of natural light throughout. In the kitchen, dining and bathrooms you'll enjoy timber-look floors underfoot, and in the remaining rooms, you'll find plush carpets.

Read the full description

The air-conditioned and open-plan dining and kitchen are light-filled and spacious, with the kitchen offering ample preparation and storage space, an electric cooktop and a dishwasher.

There is a separate lounge room that has a charming fireplace that promises to keep you cozy during the cooler months, and a second family room adds to the spacious feel of the home.

The master bedroom enjoys an ensuite and a walk-in robe, bedroom two is oversized, and bedroom three features a walk-in robe. A modern bathroom with a separate toilet accommodates busy households, and there is a laundry with direct access outside to the clothesline.

There is a carport that ensures your vehicles are out of the weather, as well as a shed measuring 4mx6m (approx.), a smaller garden shed and a woodshed.

For those requiring additional shedding, there is already a site cut with power in place which will make the process of building further shedding as straight forward as possible.

A large chicken coop is ready to house your chooks, and there is a dog enclosure to keep your pooches safe and secure. There are 4 fully fenced paddocks.

The property backs onto the state forest which ensures you'll enjoy a peaceful and private life, yet still within easy reach of all you need. The centre of Smythesdale is a quick 6-minute drive away where you'll find an IGA Supermarket, amenities, local schools and sporting fields. You can be at the DTC in just 15 minutes (approx.), and Melbourne is less than a 2-hour drive away.

* This information has been prepared to assist solely in the marketing of this property. While all care has been taken to ensure the information provided herein is correct, we do not take responsibility for any inaccuracies. Accordingly, all interested parties should make their own inquiries to verify the information.

Listing description written by Dean Mifsud, Harcourts Ballarat — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.

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