Drouin at a glance
16,837
People
$654,000
Median sale
$540/wk
Median rent
4.29%
Suburb gross yield
Median sale from 56 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.
VIC › Drouin › Plantation Rd
$906,500
For sale
Asking
4
Bedrooms
2
Bathrooms
2
Car spaces
515 m²
Land
Districts View
No detected risks — but see the checklist: absence of evidence is not an all-clear.
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
Asking
$906,500
Asking · $1,760/m² of land
No recorded sale for this property.
Local land rate: recorded House sales in Drouin (last 5 years) with land size have a median of $1,005/m² of land (n=52). Districts calculation from recorded sales — not a valuation.
Drouin at a glance
16,837
People
$654,000
Median sale
$540/wk
Median rent
4.29%
Suburb gross yield
Median sale from 56 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.
Vs Drouin
+38.6%
Median sale
Suburb $654,000
-1.19 pp
Gross yield
Suburb 4.29%
Suburb median $654,000 from 56 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation, not a portal figure.
$55,384 on top of the price (6.1% extra)
Estimates only, at standard investor rates — no first-home or owner-occupier concessions applied. Not included: lenders mortgage insurance (usually applies when borrowing more than 80% of the price), loan application and settlement fees from your lender, the foreign-purchaser duty surcharge, and building insurance — in Queensland the property is at your risk from the first business day after signing, not from settlement. Verify with your conveyancer.
Stamp duty and transfer fees: Victoria schedules from 2026-07-01. Ongoing council rates and land tax are not included.
Pre-filled with Drouin's advertised median rent — not a rent for this listing.
Gross yield is weekly rent × 52 ÷ price. Net yield subtracts operating expenses. Cashflow then subtracts interest-only interest on price × LVR. Tax, vacancies, and principal repayments are not included.
Planning
Planning data is being calculated
Data unavailable
Source
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 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 exposure has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.
Bushfire exposure has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.
Heritage listing has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.
Records
Events are recorded observations from public listings, kept with their source and date. Missing values are shown as unknown, never estimated.
Capital growth
VICPlanning 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.
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
No advertised rent is recorded. Suburb median rent $540/week — not this address. An inferred likely-rent range is not shown until official bond series are loaded for this dwelling type and bedrooms.
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.
Gross yield if leased at the suburb aggregate is 3.1%. The yield that matters is the one on achieved rent, which has not been inferred for this address. Net yield (land tax, rates, insurance, vacancy) is not loaded. Net yield / holding costs are not estimated outside NSW without inventing land tax.
Verdict
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.”
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
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
UnknownPlanning layers have not been retrieved for this property yet.
Nearby development pipeline
UnknownVictoria has no public statewide property-level DA API. Nearby pipeline is unknown.
Honest achievable rent
KnownlowThis 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
UnknownSupply pressure needs comparable listings near this lot plus a nearby DA pipeline. Neither is loaded.
Why is this cheap?
UnknownThe constraint stack has not been retrieved for this lot, so Districts cannot explain a discount versus land size.
Lot-level flood
UnknownOfficial flood overlay has not been retrieved (pending). Missing layer is unknown, not “no.”
Catalyst exposure
UnknownFunded catalyst catchments are not loaded. A TOD badge is not this product.
This lot's DA history
UnknownDevelopment applications have not been queried for this parcel.
Statutory land value versus ask
UnknownStatutory land value is not available as free bulk data in this jurisdiction. Do not fake it with a suburb median.
Net yield / holding costs
UnknownNet yield / holding costs are not estimated outside NSW without inventing land tax.
Area
Drouin at a glance
16,837
People
$654,000
Median sale
$540/wk
Median rent
4.29%
Suburb gross yield
Median sale from 56 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.
Listing material
Listed by Turnkey Real Estate GroupLOT 205 PLANTATION ROAD, DROUIN
$906,318 | 4 Bedrooms | 3 Bathrooms | 2 Car Garage | 515m² Block
THE PROPERTY
This double storey home carries 34 squares of living across a 515m² block in Drouin Fields Estate. Downstairs splits into four distinct zones: an open-plan kitchen, meals and family area, a separate theatre room, a study, and a formal living room near the entry, all serviced by a double garage with internal access. Upstairs holds all four bedrooms alongside a rumpus room and a study nook, with the master bedroom set apart from the other three and finished with its own walk-in robe and ensuite.
FOR OWNER-OCCUPIERS
Four separate zones downstairs means the household isn’t competing for one room every evening. The theatre handles movie nights, the study covers calls and homework, and the formal living room gives guests somewhere that isn’t the middle of family life happening in the kitchen and meals area. Upstairs adds two more options in the rumpus room and nook, and bedrooms 2 to 4 each get their own walk-in robe rather than sharing storage.
The master sits apart from the rest of the bedrooms with its own ensuite, so there’s a genuine end point to the day rather than just another door along the same hallway. The double garage opens straight into the house, which matters more than it sounds on a wet Gippsland morning.
FOR INVESTORS
Drouin runs along the Gippsland rail corridor, giving tenants a direct V/Line service into Melbourne’s CBD alongside road access via the Princes Freeway through to Warragul and Pakenham. A layout built around four distinct downstairs zones plus four upstairs bedrooms covers a wide range of tenant types, from families wanting the theatre and study kept separate from daily living to share-housers after their own defined space.
Three bathrooms keep the property functional even at full occupancy, split across an upstairs bathroom, a master ensuite and a ground-floor powder room. At $906,318, the entry price still sits accessible for the corridor relative to what the floorplan offers.
WHAT SETS THIS ONE APART
Two separate work-capable spaces in one home, a ground-floor study and an upstairs study nook, is not something most packages at this size bother including. It only really makes sense once you look at how people end up living in Drouin in the first place.
The V/Line service into Melbourne means plenty of buyers here are splitting their week between working from home and catching the train into the city. A downstairs study for focused calls and an upstairs nook for something quicker, checking emails or finishing a report before bed, suits that pattern better than a single study ever could, and it’s the kind of detail a floorplan alone won’t tell you unless someone walks you through it.
KEY FEATURES
Layout & Design
• 4 bedrooms upstairs; master with walk-in robe and ensuite, positioned apart from the rest
• Four separate downstairs living zones: theatre, study, formal living, and open-plan kitchen/family/meals
• Upstairs rumpus room and study nook
• Double garage with internal access
Kitchen
• Open-plan kitchen servicing the family and meals area
• Walk-in pantry
Bathrooms & Extras
• 3 bathrooms: upstairs bathroom servicing bedrooms 2 to 4, master ensuite, and a ground-floor powder room
• Additional upstairs toilet
• Walk-in robes to bedrooms 2, 3 and 4
• Separate laundry with walk-in linen downstairs, plus upstairs linen storage
Build & Location
• 34 squares under roof, double storey, fully turnkey
• 515m² block in Drouin Fields Estate, Drouin
• All developer and council requirements met
THE ESTATE — DROUIN FIELDS, DROUIN
Drouin Fields sits in Drouin, within the Baw Baw Shire in West Gippsland. The town runs along the Gippsland rail corridor, giving residents a direct V/Line service into Melbourne’s CBD, with road access via the Princes Freeway connecting through to Warragul and Pakenham.
It’s drawing people priced out of metro Melbourne who aren’t willing to give up a train line into the city, backed by an established retail strip and a new-build corridor still finding its shape.
Package Summary
Land: $360,000 | Build: $546,318 | Total: $906,318
Bed 4 | Bath 3 | Car 2 | Home Size: 34sq | Land Size: 515m²
Contact me today to secure this home or discuss your own house-and-land package in Drouin.
Images, plans and drawings are for illustrative purposes only and may not represent the final product. Lot layouts, dimensions, easements and landscaping are subject to change without notice and are dependent on third-party approvals, including council and developer requirements.
Listing description written by Lachy Foster, Turnkey Real Estate Group — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.
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