🇦🇺 AU · New South Wales
Sydney.
Where the housing market sits.
Australia's most-expensive city — high price-to-income, persistent investor demand, weekly auction clearance as the leading indicator.
Updated 20h ago
Latest data: 2025-10-01
ABS RPPI Sydney · RBA · 2021 Census
Sydney sits in Transitional — at least one dimension in the middle zone. Affordability scores 2/100 and momentum 49/100.
City gauges
Affordability
2
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (AUD)
- A$1,180,000City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (AUD)
- A$113,000Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 60.8%30-year amortized payment at current rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
49
Below average
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- +16.5%Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
- Months of supply
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
- Days on market
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
Regime · What the gauges say together
Transitional
Between regime quadrants — affordability and momentum mixed.
Between regime quadrants — affordability and momentum mixed.
Context
| Real price growth (3-mo annualized) | +0.05% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 6.1% |
| CPI year-over-year | 1.02% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | -4.1% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 0/3 |
Data sources for Sydney
- CoreLogic Daily HVI
- Domain auction clearance
- REA Group listings data
Full source documentation on /data-sources.
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