McMahons Point vs Wollstonecraft

The median house price is $4.6M in McMahons Point and $4.8M in Wollstonecraft, so McMahons Point is the cheaper entry point, with Wollstonecraft houses about 4% dearer.

For units, McMahons Point sits at a median of $1.2M against $1.4M in Wollstonecraft, which makes McMahons Point the more affordable unit market and Wollstonecraft the pricier one.

On cash flow, McMahons Point leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 1.63%, compared with 1.42% in Wollstonecraft, a gap of 0.21 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved -4.4% in McMahons Point (an estimate) and -1.3% in Wollstonecraft, so recent momentum favours Wollstonecraft, while McMahons Point went backwards.

Rental vacancy is 1.2% in Wollstonecraft and 2.6% in McMahons Point, so landlords in Wollstonecraft face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Wollstonecraft is the bigger suburb, with a population of 8,115 against 2,315, roughly 3.5 times the size of McMahons Point; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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