Dee Why Beach vs Hurlstone Park

The median house price is $2.5M in Dee Why Beach and $2.5M in Hurlstone Park, so Hurlstone Park is the cheaper entry point.

For units, Dee Why Beach sits at a median of $830K against $845K in Hurlstone Park, which makes Dee Why Beach the more affordable unit market and Hurlstone Park the pricier one.

On cash flow, Dee Why Beach leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.26%, compared with 2.22% in Hurlstone Park, a gap of 1.04 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +11.3% in Dee Why Beach (an estimate) and +7.5% in Hurlstone Park (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Dee Why Beach, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.3% in Dee Why Beach and 0.9% in Hurlstone Park, so landlords in Dee Why Beach face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Dee Why Beach is the bigger suburb, with a population of 42,917 against 5,001, roughly 9 times the size of Hurlstone Park; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Dee Why Beach for rental income, Hurlstone Park for a lower purchase price, Dee Why Beach for recent price momentum, Dee Why Beach for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.