Dural vs Hurlstone Park

The median house price is $2.5M in Dural and $2.5M in Hurlstone Park, so Hurlstone Park is the cheaper entry point, with Dural houses about 1% dearer.

For units, Dural sits at a median of $1.2M against $845K in Hurlstone Park, which makes Hurlstone Park the more affordable unit market and Dural the pricier one.

On cash flow, Hurlstone Park leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 2.22%, compared with 2.06% in Dural, a gap of 0.16 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +4.7% in Dural and +7.5% in Hurlstone Park (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Hurlstone Park, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.9% in Hurlstone Park and 2.1% in Dural, 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.

Dural is the bigger suburb, with a population of 7,900 against 5,001, larger than Hurlstone Park; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Hurlstone Park for rental income, Hurlstone Park for a lower purchase price, Hurlstone Park 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.