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Buyers agent in Seddon
Yarraville's smaller neighbour at a lower entry price, but it hasn't kept up.
Figures below are July 2026, suburb level, all bedroom counts. Full Maribyrnong council report.
The Seddon numbers
Houses
$1,040,712
Typical price
$699
Weekly rent
3.49%
Gross yield
+1.6%
Growth a year, 10yr
-1.9%
Growth, last 12mth
106
Sales a year
Units
$513,979
Typical price
$504
Weekly rent
5.10%
Gross yield
+0.7%
Growth a year, 10yr
+0.2%
Growth, last 12mth
33
Sales a year
Vacancy rate 1.44% across roughly 2,665 dwellings. HtAG Analytics, suburb level, all bedroom counts. Typical price is a modelled estimate, not a median of recent sales.
The honest read
What I'd tell you over a coffee
Seddon sits right next to Yarraville and costs about $246,000 less for a typical house. That sounds like the obvious value play until you look at the growth.
Yarraville has done 2.8% a year over ten years. Seddon has done 1.6%. Same council, shared border, and a meaningful gap in performance.
It's also a small market. 2,665 dwellings and only about 106 house sales a year. Thin markets cut both ways. Less competition when you buy, fewer buyers when you sell.
The last three years have been negative at -1.2% a year, so this isn't a market with momentum behind it right now.
Who Seddon suits
Buyers who want the inner west at a lower entry point than Yarraville and are patient about it.
What I'd watch
The thin turnover. 106 sales a year means the data moves around, and it means exit liquidity depends on the cycle more than it would in a bigger suburb.
How I work
- Flat $20,000 fee, whatever you buy and wherever it is
- No commissions from agents, developers or builders
- I'll tell you when a suburb doesn't stack up, including this one
Fair questions
Buying in Seddon, answered
Seddon or Yarraville?
Yarraville on the numbers. It has grown 2.8% a year over the decade against Seddon's 1.6%, and its vacancy rate is tighter at 0.69% against 1.44%. Seddon saves you around $246,000 at entry, which matters, but you've been buying slower growth with the saving.
How big is the Seddon market?
Small. About 2,665 dwellings with roughly 106 house sales and 33 unit sales a year. That's one of the smallest markets I get asked about in inner Melbourne.
Other Melbourne suburbs
Same treatment, same data, different answer in every one of them.