🇦🇺 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$1,180,000
City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
Median household income (AUD)
A$113,000
Most 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 rate6.1%
CPI year-over-year1.02%
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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