Sunshine at a glance
10,164
People
$860,500
Median sale
$467/wk
Median rent
2.82%
Suburb gross yield
Median sale from 80 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.
VIC › Sunshine › Farnsworth St
$590,000–$640,000
For sale
Asking range
2
Bedrooms
1
Bathrooms
2
Car spaces
Districts View
No upside evidence detected in the data Districts holds for this lot.
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
$590,000–$640,000
Asking range
No recorded sale for this property.
Sunshine at a glance
10,164
People
$860,500
Median sale
$467/wk
Median rent
2.82%
Suburb gross yield
Median sale from 80 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.
Vs Sunshine
-31.4%
Median sale
Suburb $860,500
+1.30 pp
Gross yield
Suburb 2.82%
Suburb median $860,500 from 80 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation, not a portal figure.
Based on the low end of the asking range, not a contract price.
$35,655 on top of the price (6.0% 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.
Based on the low end of the asking range, not a contract price.
Pre-filled with Sunshine'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 $467/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 4.1%. 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
Sunshine at a glance
10,164
People
$860,500
Median sale
$467/wk
Median rent
2.82%
Suburb gross yield
Median sale from 80 recorded sales (last 12 months) — a Districts calculation.
Listing material
Listed by Ray White SunshineBehind a white picket fence, a neat lawn and a garden that has clearly been loved for years, the original 1950s home takes the front position on a block of only two, right in the middle of Sunshine. That single detail changes everything about the way this one lives. Your own frontage, your own gate, your own front garden, and the street presence of a home rather than the anonymity of a unit.
Inside, the era shows off. Timber floorboards run warm underfoot, ceilings sit high above decorative cornice, and the living room stretches out beneath a wide window that frames the greenery out front. A decorative fireplace gives the room its centrepiece, while ducted heating and a split system keep things comfortable whatever Melbourne decides to do next.
The kitchen is bright, honest and properly practical, with crisp white cabinetry, generous bench space, tiled splashback, electric cooking and room for a casual dining setting. A separate laundry with its own trough sits alongside a bathroom where the shower and wide vanity handle the morning rush without fuss.
Both bedrooms come with built in robes. The main is generous and light, with a ceiling fan, its own split system and an outlook to the garden, while the second currently doubles as a study and guest room, which is exactly the flexibility a first home should offer.
Out the back, the personality really turns up. Festoon lights are strung above a wide terrace that steps down to lawn, fenced and gated for privacy, with a carport and roller door plus storage space alongside. Long evenings out here ask very little of you beyond a table, a bottle and good company.
Central Sunshine does the rest. Sunvale Community Park with its playground, skate park and barbecue shelters is a few minutes on foot, Sunshine Plaza and the Hampshire Road shops, cafes and restaurants are barely further, and Sunshine Leisure Centre is close at hand for laps, weights or a lazy Sunday in the water.
Families are well covered too, with Sunshine Harvester Primary School and Sunshine College North Campus both inside a kilometre, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Primary School and Saints College nearby, and Sunshine Station, one of the west's key transport hubs, around a fifteen minute walk away for the run into the city.
For a first home buyer, this is a rare place to begin. A home with history, a garden, a frontage and a story already in progress. All you have to do is keep it going.
Listing description written by Marcus Fregonese, Ray White Sunshine — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.
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