3 Tea Tree Rise, Torquay VIC 3228

4 bed | Torquay | 592m² block | school walk zone | low turnover street This house on Tea Tree Rise offers a rare combination of a larger-than-median block in a street where only ten properties exist and 81% of residents are long-term. For a buyer seeking family tenure in Torquay, the configuration — four bedrooms, two bathrooms, dual garage — aligns directly with the dominant demographic: 34% of the local population is under 20, and both a government primary and a Catholic school sit within 400 metres. The 2021 purchase price indicates the vendor has held through a rising market, but the current listing sits above the suburb median of $1.255m, meaning the seller’s cost base is not a constraint; the property must be justified on current comparables alone. The primary risk is pricing: the listed figure exceeds both the estimated value and the historical price range, and the zero percent auction clearance rate in Torquay suggests softening demand at this level. For a buyer, that gap represents negotiation room. The property’s advantage is scarcity on a low-turnover street with school-walk proximity — a combination that historically supports value retention. A buyer should treat this as a long-term family hold, not a short-term trade, and anchor any offer to the suburb median rather than the vendor’s appreciation narrative.