Boxers Creek vs Hurlstone Park

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $2.5M in Boxers Creek and $2.5M in Hurlstone Park.

For units, Boxers Creek sits at a median of $560K against $845K in Hurlstone Park, which makes Boxers Creek the more affordable unit market and Hurlstone Park the pricier one.

On cash flow, Hurlstone Park leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 2.22%, compared with 1.18% in Boxers Creek, a gap of 1.04 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +11.9% in Boxers Creek and +7.5% in Hurlstone Park (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Boxers Creek, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.9% in Hurlstone Park and 6.0% in Boxers Creek, so landlords in Hurlstone Park face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Hurlstone Park is the bigger suburb, with a population of 5,001 against 259, roughly 19 times the size of Boxers Creek; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Hurlstone Park for rental income, Boxers Creek for recent price momentum, Hurlstone Park for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.