Frenchs Forest vs Hurlstone Park

The median house price is $2.5M in Frenchs Forest and $2.5M in Hurlstone Park, so Hurlstone Park is the cheaper entry point.

For units, Frenchs Forest sits at a median of $1.1M against $845K in Hurlstone Park, which makes Hurlstone Park the more affordable unit market and Frenchs Forest the pricier one.

On cash flow, Frenchs Forest leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 2.91%, compared with 2.22% in Hurlstone Park, a gap of 0.69 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +4.4% in Frenchs Forest (an estimate) 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 1.6% in Frenchs Forest, 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.

Frenchs Forest is the bigger suburb, with a population of 14,267 against 5,001, roughly 2.9 times the size of Hurlstone Park; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Frenchs Forest 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.