Articles

A Professional Guide to selecting your Sydney Property to best suit your child’s education.

Families with school age children often search for Sydney property in an area to guarantee placement with the top local school.

A willingness to pay a premium to live in the right catchment zone can drive property prices by 5-20%, as parents justify spending more while saving on what would have been spent on a private education. It can be difficult to determine the true value of a property without the correct information. From a property investment perspective, families will pay a higher rent to lease a property within a desirable school catchment zone, and Investment Property yields often vary, partly depending on the catchment zone your investment falls into.

Unfortunately catchment zones don’t provide a guarantee your child will be automatically accepted. Sydney zone boundaries are regularly changing, in some cases individual streets can be cut in half, meaning it can come down to a house number of side of the road. While some excellent performing public schools select students based on an individual’s performance and so catchments zones are less of an issue.

Parents need to consider that reputations of top school do change over time, a change of principal, or budget changes can make a significant difference, also consider new schools that are being built with excellent facilities.

Top ranking schools are scattered across Sydney, with many in areas that have not yet felt affects of School Catchment price increases. It is vital to do your market property research and stay within YOUR budget.

*The Top Performing Public Primary Schools in Sydney are ranked below:

If you’d like help with locating property to purchase, accurately valuing the property to avoid paying too much and expertly negotiate, Call the property buying experts at Search Find Invest 1300 132 970 or visit www.searchfindinvest.com.au

*www.bettereducation.com.au