Four kilometres from the city, between Darling Point and Point Piper, Double Bay has spent a century perfecting a single idea — that a village can be both intimate and rarefied. It remains one of the most considered addresses in the east.
A market that rewards judgement, not noise
Double Bay is a small, deeply traded market. A handful of houses change hands in any given year, and the apartment market, while busier, is no less discerning. At this level the result is settled long before the campaign opens — by how the property is positioned, who is approached, and the restraint with which the whole exercise is handled.
This is precisely the market our practice was built for. Every appraisal, every conversation and every negotiation is handled personally — no juniors, no scripts, no theatre. For owners weighing a sale, a downsize, or a quiet off-market approach, the value lies in counsel, not volume.
Market Snapshot
Guide figures to early 2026, drawn from CoreLogic and Domain suburb data. Medians reflect a thin, prestige market — treat them as orientation, not valuation.
$7.28m — Median house $2.05m — Median apartment 56 / 28 — Days on market · house / apartment 4 km — To the Sydney CBD
The Suburb
A village that holds every stage of life
Few suburbs in Sydney accommodate as many lives at once. Double Bay carries the young professional in a Bay Street apartment, the family in a Federation home above New South Head Road, and the long-time owner downsizing into a building they have watched go up. The village holds all of them, and that breadth is the source of its durability.
The pleasures are unhurried and close at hand — coffee on Knox Street, the boutiques and salons along Bay Street, the Friday markets in Guilfoyle Park, and the harbour itself a short walk away at Redleaf, where Murray Rose Pool and the boardwalk at Seven Shillings Beach lend the suburb a private, almost coastal calm. Steyne Park and Blackburn Gardens anchor the green edges; the ferry wharf carries commuters into the city in minutes.
It is, in the end, a suburb that has never needed to announce itself. The wealth here is established rather than performed, and buyers who understand the east treat a Double Bay address as a kind of shorthand — for proximity, for permanence, and for a quality of life that is quietly assured.
What’s Changing in Double BayA new tier of residence is reshaping the village
01 · Ruby House raises the ceiling
Fortis’s mixed-use Ruby House, on the corner of Bay Street and New South Head Road and due for completion later in 2026, has redrawn the top of the market before a resident has moved in. Its crowning penthouse — close to 1,000 square metres, with interiors by Melbourne’s Pete Kennon — has been brought to market with a guide near $50 million. Should it sell at that level, it would roughly double the suburb’s previous apartment record. At street level, new commercial floors and dining will open onto the heart of the village.
02 · Ode brings boutique scale
Completed in 2025, the Luigi Rosselli–designed Ode on Cross Street delivered fifteen large apartments above ground-floor retail now home to established names such as Indigo. Its penthouse sales off the plan — at $24.95 million and above — were the first clear signal of how deep downsizer demand runs for full-floor living without leaving the suburb.
03 · Houses hold; apartments firm
The picture beneath the headlines is measured. House values eased modestly over the past year on very low turnover — only around two dozen sales — while apartment values firmed by a few per cent on far stronger volume. The pattern points to a structural shift: premium owners are increasingly choosing to stay in Double Bay and trade down into new, large-format apartments rather than leave.
Alan’s View
The records make the headlines, but the real story in Double Bay is the downsizer who refuses to leave. That demand is deep, patient and largely unseen — and selling well into it is a matter of discretion, not exposure.
Considering a move in Double Bay?
Whether you are weighing a sale, exploring a downsize, or simply want a candid read on where your property sits in this market, the first conversation is unhurried and without obligation.
