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NSW › The Oaks › Merlin St

48 Merlin St, The Oaks NSW 2570

House

$996,000

Last sold

15 Oct 2018

4

Bedrooms

2

Bathrooms

4

Car spaces

2,023 m²

Land

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

Why this property?

  • FactLast recorded sale $996,000 (15 Oct 2018).(Recorded sale)
  • FactLand 2,023 m²; no building size recorded.(Property record)
  • CalculationRecorded House sales in The Oaks (last 5 years) with land size: median $1,092/m² of land (n=59). 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

$996,000

15 Oct 2018 · derived via latest_sale

Local land rate: recorded House sales in The Oaks (last 5 years) with land size have a median of $1,092/m² of land (n=59). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.

The Oaks at a glance

2,914

People

$1,357,500

Median sale

$592/wk

Median rent

2.27%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 20 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full The Oaks report →

Vs The Oaks

-26.6%

Median sale

Suburb $1,357,500

+0.82 pp

Gross yield

Suburb 2.27%

Suburb median $1,357,500 from 20 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

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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. Sold$996,00015 Oct 2018
  2. Listedprice unknowncompleted17 Sept 2018

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

Capital growth

NSW

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.” NSW has a statewide DA API. Nearby (100–800 m) applications are not loaded for this property yet.

Rental

Income, competition, and yield

What will it realistically rent for?

Confidence: low

No advertised rent is recorded. Suburb median rent $592/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. NSW has a statewide DA API. Nearby (100–800 m) applications are not loaded for this property yet. 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. NSW net yield needs land tax and VG inputs that are not loaded. Gross yield from listings is not net yield.

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

    NSW has a statewide DA API. Nearby (100–800 m) applications are not loaded for this property yet.

  • 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

    NSW Valuer General land values are not loaded for this property yet.

  • Net yield / holding costs

    Unknown

    NSW net yield needs land tax and VG inputs that are not loaded. Gross yield from listings is not net yield.

Area

The Oaks in one glance

The Oaks at a glance

2,914

People

$1,357,500

Median sale

$592/wk

Median rent

2.27%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 20 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full The Oaks report →

Keep researching

  • Why The Oaks? Read the area thesis →
  • What else is on the market in The Oaks →
  • Other records on Merlin St →

Listing material

Listed by LJ Hooker United Group Bringelly

Owners Delighted, SOLD By United!

Extremely happy with Melinda! Would highly recommend her to anyone! From start to finish nothing has been a problem! Melindas knowledge of the market and negotiation skills got us the result we wanted!

Vendor/s

Amy & Jeff McNamara

Read the full description

48 Merlin Street, The Oaks

Brent:

From the first meeting Brent gave us the confidence to trust himself and Melinda to get the results we were after.

He was true to his word when he said they would work late at night and during family time if that what was needed to be done, no time was too late for them to make a phone call whether it was to answer a simple question or deal with negotiating buyers.

We were impressed with Brents local market knowledge, advice in relation to prices, communication and customer service in general.

We would highly recommend Brent to anyone!

Melinda:

We were recommended to Melinda for her negotiating skills and she did not disappoint!

Melinda was on call any time, day and night and went above and beyond to deal with issues right up to settlement.

Its obvious Melinda genuinely cares for her clients, youre not just another number.

We were very happy with the price we achieved in the current market situation and it only took one open home to sell with many buyers turning up for inspections.

We would highly recommend Melinda to anyone!

Vendor/s

Amy & Geoff McNamara

48 Merlin Street, The Oaks

We had the pleasure of being introduced to Brent when attending the open house of what is now our new home. Brent had a wonderful, welcoming presence that made it easy to approach him and his knowledge allowed him to answer any of our questions with ease.

We were more than happy to also have Brent represent us for the sale of our property where he offered that same level of knowledge and customer engagement to our purchasers to allow what turned out to be a speedy sale after just the one open home.

Thankyou Brent for your outstanding efforts to produce two fantastic results for us!

Martin & Belinda Pace

Vendor/s

35 Grimes Avenue, Elderslie

Purchaser/s

48 Merlin Street, The Oaks

Listing description written by Melinda Bargallie, LJ Hooker United Group Bringelly — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.

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