Hornsby vs Frankston vs Annandale: One Scores 77/100

You asked us to run the numbers on Hornsby, Frankston and Annandale — here’s what the data says. One of them scores 77/100. Hornsby → Median house price: $1.9 million in July, down 3.4% from the April peak of $1.966 million and up 2.7% year on year. Hornsby → Yield 2.57%, vacancy 1.6%, days on market 23, owner occupied 49%, 301 sales in 12 months. Frankston → Median house price: $870,000 in July, down 4.4% from the March peak of $910,000 and up 7.9% year on year. Frankston → Yield 3.59%, vacancy 2.2%, days on market 16, owner occupied 48%, 596 sales in 12 months. Annandale → Median house price: $803,000 in July, an all-time high and up 15.5% year on year. Annandale → Yield 3.89%, vacancy 1.4%, days on market 14, owner occupied 65%, 108 sales in 12 months. Requested by our community — keep them coming. Download our no-cost Top Five Markets Report 2026 → ripe.house/showdown-ep29 Want your suburb in the next Showdown? Drop it in the comments. Subscribe for tomorrow’s episode. #Hornsby #Frankston #Annandale #AustralianProperty #PropertyInvesting #SuburbShowdown This video is general information only and not financial or investment advice. Consider your own circumstances and seek professional advice.

77, 77, and 34. Two of these three suburbs just posted two of the biggest one-month score jumps we have ever aired, and they finished five points apart. The third fell to its lowest score in 18 months, and it is the $1.9 million one, Hornsby, Frankston, Annandale, and the top two could not be separated. Welcome to The Suburb Showdown. I'm Jacob from Ripe House Advisory. Property investment is a science, not a vibe, not a hot tip. Every suburb goes through the same four layers of research, macro, LGA, suburb fundamentals, and street-level data. Three suburbs went in. We count them down from worst to best, and you don't find out the ranking until the end of each segment. Today's three come from the picky follow list, and tonight, one month separated them. Subscribe if you want tomorrow's three first. Four layers, macro, the national picture, LGA, the council area where the jobs and the building approvals live, suburb, the actual market you're buying into, and street, because two houses 800 metres apart can be completely different investments. Most people stop at layer three. The money is in layer four. Three face-down cards, 34, 77, 77, a dead heat at the top, separated by five raw points, the tightest finish we have ever recorded. We start at the bottom in Sydney's north, suburb number three, Hornsby, New South Wales, postcode 2077, the first northern Sydney suburb we have ever rated on this show. 64 people on picky are following it right now, and in 18 months of data, the score has never fired. July just printed its lowest read yet. Start with Hornsby Shire, and here is the twist. The council is not the problem. Supply sits in the 56th percentile, eight approvals for every thousand existing dwellings, moderate, no flood, employment diversity, 69th percentile, but the council is quiet, 19th percentile on the project's pipeline, 24th percentile on population growth. The council R score sits at 74, same four layers. Here is what changed at the suburb. Now, the suburb itself, Hornsby's median house sold for $1.9 million in July. That is down 3.4% from the April peak of 1.966 million, and up just 2.7% on a year ago. The weakest price growth on tonight's card, yield, 2.57%. The worst on the card, vacancy, 1.6%. Tight, days on market, 23, the slowest on the card. Owner occupied, 49%. Investors hold 36, 301 sales in 12 months. And the caveat, Hornsby does not have a verified suburb level population and income read in our database, so we are using the Hornsby Shire figures where that is relevant. Disclosed, not guessed. One more, Hornsby has a big unit market around the station. The unit price series is empty in our data, so everything you're about to see is houses. Buy side, the gold line is what sellers were asking. The white line is what buyers actually paid. For 18 months, the sold price went nowhere, 1.75 to 1.85 million, a flat band. Sellers held out through 2025. Asking peaked at 2.395 million in November. Then they blinked, $700,000 of asking price cuts in eight months. Sellers are now asking 200,000 below what buyers are paying. Now the R-score history, 61 was the peak back in February. It has never been higher than 61 in 18 months. July printed 34, the lowest read we have. Rent side, the rent ground up from 8.50 to 9.50, then rolled, 9.40 in July. And the yield, a 2.4 to 2.6% band for 22 straight months. When a $1.9 million asset returns 2.6% and the price stalls, there is no margin. That is the 34. Street level, Hornsby is 8.4 square