Suburb snapshot · 2020–2026
Rose Bay: the six-year street-level snapshot
Median price, volume, and every street with two or more verified sales, houses and units, 2020–2026.
Rose Bay is one of the more volatile suburbs on price in this data set — house medians have ranged from $4.05 million in 2020 to a spike of $6.95 million in 2024, back to $5.6 million in 2025, then up again to $6.55 million this year. That pattern says more about which specific homes sold in a given year than any underlying trend; Rose Bay’s top end is thin enough that a handful of harbourfront sales can swing the median hard in either direction.
Median sale price by year, Rose Bay, houses vs units. Source: property sales register, verified prices only.
A median that jumps a million and a half dollars between one year and the next usually isn’t the market moving — it’s a different mix of homes selling.
Reading the street data
Old South Head Road is comfortably Rose Bay’s deepest and most reliable address, with 192 unit sales at a $1.37 million median — enough genuine trading history to treat as a proper benchmark rather than a small sample. On the house side, Chaleyer Street, Old South Head Road and Onslow Street are essentially tied at 17 sales apiece, each with medians in the mid-$3 million range, while New South Head Road (108 unit sales, $2.42 million median) and Spencer Street (63 sales, $3.45 million) round out a genuinely liquid unit market.
Houses — every street with two or more sales
| Street | Sales | Average | Bottom sale | Top sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaleyer Street | 17 | $3.46M | $2.10M | $5.80M |
| Old South Head Road | 17 | $3.59M | $2.32M | $8.90M |
| Onslow Street | 17 | $3.54M | $1.44M | $6.85M |
| Blake Street | 16 | $5.78M | $136K | $8.00M |
| Dover Road | 15 | $5.30M | $3.56M | $10.00M |
| Roberts Street | 15 | $4.00M | $2.40M | $5.61M |
| Beaumont Street | 14 | $6.28M | $3.10M | $10.15M |
| The Avenue | 14 | $3.69M | $2.20M | $4.70M |
| Liverpool Street | 11 | $3.80M | $3.00M | $9.23M |
| Beresford Road | 10 | $11.50M | $6.00M | $14.66M |
| Chamberlain Avenue | 9 | $12.14M | $8.80M | $23.00M |
| Courtenay Road | 9 | $7.00M | $4.28M | $10.80M |
| Ebsworth Road | 8 | $7.86M | $4.60M | $9.51M |
| New South Head Road | 8 | $10.65M | $5.66M | $26.50M |
| Albemarle Avenue | 7 | $6.45M | $3.58M | $10.15M |
| Dudley Road | 7 | $6.60M | $3.00M | $10.62M |
| Victory Street | 7 | $10.88M | $7.72M | $19.00M |
| Dumaresq Road | 6 | $21.00M | $6.50M | $54.60M |
| Faraday Avenue | 6 | $5.98M | $2.53M | $9.60M |
| Princess Street | 6 | $5.00M | $3.35M | $9.20M |
| Strickland Street | 6 | $5.20M | $3.45M | $10.00M |
| Wilberforce Avenue | 6 | $4.68M | $2.01M | $8.20M |
| Rawson Road | 5 | $16.50M | $9.75M | $38.50M |
| Salisbury Road | 5 | $7.78M | $6.26M | $9.30M |
| Spencer Street | 5 | $3.60M | $2.65M | $5.50M |
| Fernleigh Gardens | 4 | $12.55M | $10.21M | $40.10M |
| Kent Road | 4 | $17.93M | $10.00M | $45.10M |
| Mitchell Road | 4 | $6.79M | $5.80M | $8.25M |
| Plumer Road | 4 | $5.83M | $4.67M | $8.00M |
| Tivoli Avenue | 4 | $29.88M | $14.00M | $45.00M |
| Carlisle Street | 3 | $3.40M | $3.40M | $8.00M |
| Cecil Road | 3 | $11.58M | $1.47M | $16.50M |
| Collins Avenue | 3 | $30.00M | $29.00M | $35.00M |
| Conway Avenue | 3 | $7.00M | $5.61M | $11.62M |
| Ian Street | 3 | $7.50M | $4.50M | $32.50M |
| Newcastle Street | 3 | $8.35M | $7.10M | $9.38M |
| Northcote Street | 3 | $6.30M | $5.75M | $8.15M |
| Norwich Lane | 3 | $2.48M | $2.30M | $3.40M |
| The Plaza | 3 | $2.70M | $2.31M | $3.81M |
| Hamilton Street | 2 | $6.41M | $4.21M | $8.60M |
| O’Sullivan Road | 2 | $6.53M | $3.95M | $9.10M |
| William Street | 2 | $3.84M | $2.67M | $5.01M |
42 qualifying house streets, Rose Bay, 2020–2026. “Average” is the median sale price; “bottom” and “top” are the lowest and highest verified sales recorded on that street.
Units — every street with two or more sales
| Street | Sales | Average | Bottom sale | Top sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old South Head Road | 192 | $1.37M | $400K | $15.00M |
| New South Head Road | 108 | $2.42M | $648K | $20.20M |
| Spencer Street | 63 | $3.45M | $1.48M | $10.80M |
| Balfour Road | 54 | $1.18M | $500K | $7.50M |
| Liverpool Street | 52 | $1.50M | $380K | $3.15M |
| William Street | 51 | $1.30M | $630K | $2.20M |
| Manion Avenue | 50 | $1.27M | $712K | $1.84M |
| Newcastle Street | 49 | $3.54M | $633K | $7.20M |
| Carlisle Street | 46 | $3.58M | $1.31M | $13.85M |
| Chaleyer Street | 42 | $1.33M | $300K | $7.50M |
| The Avenue | 38 | $1.51M | $765K | $2.95M |
| Onslow Street | 33 | $1.66M | $750K | $3.40M |
| O’Sullivan Road | 31 | $1.60M | $910K | $4.60M |
| Hamilton Street | 29 | $2.29M | $1.00M | $5.60M |
| Dover Road | 28 | $1.97M | $1.00M | $6.75M |
| Wilberforce Avenue | 22 | $2.88M | $1.17M | $6.00M |
| Salisbury Road | 20 | $1.82M | $1.16M | $3.15M |
| Kent Road | 16 | $8.03M | $1.62M | $10.50M |
| Norwich Road | 9 | $1.33M | $625K | $7.60M |
| Plumer Road | 9 | $1.26M | $1.08M | $1.53M |
| Caledonian Road | 8 | $1.65M | $1.30M | $2.68M |
| Dumaresq Road | 7 | $3.00M | $2.10M | $35.00M |
| Elanora Street | 7 | $1.43M | $905K | $1.68M |
| Ian Street | 7 | $5.10M | $500K | $11.00M |
| Conway Avenue | 6 | $3.60M | $1.20M | $6.90M |
| Iluka Street | 6 | $1.26M | $1.02M | $2.30M |
| Norton Avenue | 6 | $1.08M | $725K | $1.75M |
| Beaumont Street | 4 | $4.15M | $465K | $5.30M |
| Powell Road | 4 | $1.53M | $1.31M | $1.57M |
| Rose Bay Avenue | 4 | $8.78M | $6.52M | $9.75M |
| Princess Street | 3 | $3.12M | $1.01M | $3.90M |
| Richmond Road | 3 | $1.21M | $955K | $1.47M |
| Albemarle Avenue | 2 | $3.50M | $3.26M | $3.75M |
| Beresford Road | 2 | $3.67M | $2.40M | $4.95M |
| Collins Avenue | 2 | $8.38M | $2.25M | $14.50M |
| Strickland Street | 2 | $4.50M | $4.50M | $4.50M |
| The Plaza | 2 | $2.92M | $2.85M | $3.00M |
37 qualifying unit streets, Rose Bay, 2020–2026. “Average” is the median sale price; “bottom” and “top” are the lowest and highest verified sales recorded on that street.
192 sales on one street is real depth. That’s the number to trust in Rose Bay, more than any single year’s suburb-wide median.
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