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NSW › Dungog › Upper Monkerai Rd

873 Upper Monkerai Rd, Dungog NSW 2420

Rural Property

4

Bedrooms

2

Bathrooms

10

Car spaces

424,919.924 m²

Land

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Districts View

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

Why this property?

  • FactLand 424,920 m²; no building size recorded.(Property record)
  • CalculationRecorded Rural Property sales in Dungog (last 5 years) with land size: median $9/m² of land (n=12). 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 Rural Property sales in Dungog (last 5 years) with land size have a median of $9/m² of land (n=12). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.

Dungog at a glance

2,045

People

$690,000

Median sale

$500/wk

Median rent

3.77%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 29 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full Dungog 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 unknown6 Mar 2023
  2. Listedprice unknowncompleted9 Jan 2023

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 $500/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

Dungog in one glance

Dungog at a glance

2,045

People

$690,000

Median sale

$500/wk

Median rent

3.77%

Suburb gross yield

Median sale from 29 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.

See the full Dungog report →

Keep researching

  • Why Dungog? Read the area thesis →
  • What else is on the market in Dungog →
  • Other records on Upper Monkerai Rd →

Listing material

Listed by Dillon & Sons Real Estate

'Gadara Farm'

From the minute you arrive you won't ever want to leave and this is because the current owners have done all the hard work. Simply pick your chosen breed of cattle and watch them grow in front of your eyes, whilst you enjoy the country lifestyle.

A fully renovated country, homestead and self-contained cottage, with views so good you won't want to leave. Productive and heavily improved pastures fronting a very impressive stretch of the Karuah River with dams and troughs throughout the property. Excellent working improvements (too many to mention), shedding and cattle yards, set up for ease of management.

The homestead features:

Read the full description

• Tastefully renovated country residence over 100 years old

• Three bedrooms, sleep out and home office with high-speed internet

• Enclosed north facing verandah overlooking inviting inground swimming pool

• Eye catching country kitchen with Smeg appliances and all the mod cons including butlers pantry

• Reverse cycle air conditioner, ceiling fans and wood heater

The Land:

• Highly productive and fully usable 42.49 HA (105 acres) known as Lot 31 DP 753206

• Approximately 40 acres of genuine river flats

• Land divided into 17 paddocks with new fencing and laneways set up to be managed by one person

• Balance improved pasture cleared to shade timber

• Adopting the current grazing practices allows the farm to carry 50 cows and calves producing some outstanding vealers for the butcher shop market

Water – Drought Proof:

• Approximately 400m of park like frontage to the Karuah River with your own private campground

• 86 meg irrigation license – underground mains, power and pump

• Header tank servicing troughs and stock dams

• Abundance of domestic water, high annual rainfall

Improvements:

• Self- contained one bedroom cottage with bathroom (formally the 1860's butchers shop)

• Brick dairy (complete with milk vat and dividers) ready for a multitude of uses

• Well positioned, professionally designed and built steel yards, vet crush, and scales

• Impressive open-faced machinery shed, separate workshop with hoist and/ hay shed measuring a whopping 20 metres long by 10 metre wide and 8 metres high

• 10kw solar system, new SMART meters and full rewired

Location:

• Scenic 30km drive north of Dungog in the picturesque Upper Monkerai Valley

• School bus service picks up from front gate

• Just over 1 ½ hour from Newcastle, just under 1 ½ hour from Maitland and less than 3.5 hours from Sydney

Offered for Private Sale - Guide $1,800,000 to $1,900,000

Inspections highly recommended as this is one of the Valley's finest small farms. Ongoing management available if required.

Disclaimer: Dillon and Sons have prepared this information using our best endeavours to ensure that the information contained therein is true and accurate but accept no responsibility and disclaim all liability in respect of any errors, inaccuracies or misstatements contained herein. Prospective purchasers should make their own inquiries to verify the information contained herein. All information contained in the Dillon and Sons website is provided as a convenience to clients. All property prices displayed on the Website are current at the time of issue but may change at any time.

Listing description written by Tavis Chivers, Dillon & Sons Real Estate — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.

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