Suburb snapshot · 2020–2026
Bronte: the six-year street-level snapshot
Median price, volume, and every street with two or more verified sales, houses and units, 2020–2026.
Bronte’s house median jumped hard through the 2021 boom — from $3.96 million to $5.53 million in a single year — and has held broadly in that $5–$5.9 million range ever since, easing only slightly to $5.25 million this year. It’s one of the steadier post-boom pictures in the Eastern Suburbs: a sharp step up, then a genuine plateau rather than either further growth or a real pullback.
Median sale price by year, Bronte, houses vs units. Source: property sales register, verified prices only.
A 40% jump in one year, then five years of holding steady. Bronte’s house market found its level early and hasn’t really moved since.
Reading the street data
Bronte Road is the suburb’s defining address on both sides of the ledger — 26 house sales at a $6.67 million median and 93 unit sales at $1.39 million, the latter giving Bronte one of the deeper, more trustworthy unit markets among the smaller Eastern Suburbs. Read Street and Hewlett Street follow on the house side, both with medians above $4.7 million, while Macpherson Street (63 unit sales) and Pacific Street (38 sales, $2.0 million median) round out a solid spread of unit trading.
Houses — every street with two or more sales
| Street | Sales | Average | Bottom sale | Top sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronte Road | 26 | $6.67M | $3.10M | $25.00M |
| Read Street | 20 | $4.71M | $2.42M | $7.82M |
| Hewlett Street | 19 | $5.20M | $3.05M | $18.50M |
| Belgrave Street | 17 | $5.67M | $3.00M | $8.90M |
| Macpherson Street | 17 | $4.65M | $2.66M | $18.27M |
| Gardyne Street | 16 | $9.61M | $50K | $25.00M |
| Boundary Street | 15 | $4.10M | $2.27M | $12.65M |
| St Thomas Street | 15 | $6.21M | $2.36M | $17.00M |
| Yanko Avenue | 14 | $9.04M | $4.88M | $23.50M |
| Chesterfield Parade | 13 | $5.20M | $3.23M | $15.00M |
| Brown Street | 12 | $5.60M | $3.60M | $9.05M |
| Birrell Street | 10 | $5.11M | $840K | $11.25M |
| Evans Street | 10 | $6.01M | $3.58M | $10.00M |
| Busby Parade | 8 | $5.53M | $4.04M | $9.20M |
| Darling Street | 8 | $4.26M | $1.83M | $9.20M |
| Bayview Street | 7 | $12.25M | $9.50M | $16.00M |
| Blandford Avenue | 7 | $5.22M | $3.12M | $7.35M |
| Gipps Street | 7 | $5.00M | $2.70M | $7.70M |
| Murray Street | 7 | $4.92M | $2.55M | $7.60M |
| Palmerston Avenue | 7 | $4.77M | $3.83M | $5.85M |
| Tipper Avenue | 7 | $6.60M | $5.65M | $29.25M |
| Alfred Street | 6 | $5.16M | $3.50M | $7.05M |
| Cross Street | 6 | $8.30M | $4.13M | $15.50M |
| Dickson Street | 6 | $5.06M | $3.00M | $6.40M |
| Arden Street | 5 | $3.25M | $2.45M | $3.79M |
| Brae Street | 5 | $2.50M | $1.85M | $4.75M |
| Pembroke Street | 5 | $8.70M | $8.00M | $9.85M |
| Scott Street | 5 | $5.45M | $2.60M | $8.35M |
| Lugar Brae Avenue | 4 | $3.41M | $2.12M | $4.75M |
| Violet Street | 4 | $5.00M | $3.86M | $8.40M |
| Bronte Marine Drive | 3 | $23.39M | $22.65M | $24.00M |
| Collingwood Street | 3 | $5.28M | $4.70M | $6.20M |
| Gibson Street | 3 | $4.67M | $3.30M | $6.35M |
| Lugar Street | 3 | $4.05M | $3.90M | $5.79M |
| Carter Street | 2 | $5.76M | $3.83M | $7.70M |
| Gordon Place | 2 | $6.05M | $5.35M | $6.75M |
| Leichhardt Street | 2 | $3.50M | $2.10M | $4.90M |
| Pacific Street | 2 | $8.45M | $7.30M | $9.60M |
38 qualifying house streets, Bronte, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronte Road | 93 | $1.39M | $288K | $8.10M |
| Macpherson Street | 63 | $1.81M | $225K | $6.90M |
| Pacific Street | 38 | $2.00M | $762K | $8.25M |
| Palmerston Avenue | 25 | $1.33M | $750K | $4.38M |
| Hewlett Street | 21 | $1.32M | $325K | $7.30M |
| Murray Street | 19 | $1.81M | $1.15M | $9.10M |
| Belgrave Street | 15 | $1.72M | $1.17M | $11.15M |
| Brown Street | 12 | $1.59M | $658K | $3.83M |
| Darling Street | 12 | $1.25M | $765K | $2.34M |
| Lugar Street | 12 | $1.48M | $825K | $2.40M |
| Tipper Avenue | 11 | $2.22M | $986K | $5.00M |
| St Thomas Street | 9 | $2.38M | $1.26M | $3.20M |
| Cross Street | 8 | $1.36M | $1.10M | $1.65M |
| Gardyne Street | 8 | $2.67M | $2.05M | $10.00M |
| Birrell Street | 6 | $1.20M | $675K | $1.97M |
| Blandford Avenue | 6 | $1.37M | $785K | $6.27M |
| Brae Street | 5 | $1.71M | $900K | $3.85M |
| Rose Street | 5 | $2.02M | $1.68M | $2.20M |
| Andrew Street | 3 | $1.46M | $1.38M | $1.63M |
| Bayview Street | 3 | $1.65M | $1.61M | $6.31M |
| Dickson Street | 3 | $1.03M | $945K | $1.76M |
| Gipps Street | 3 | $4.96M | $2.12M | $4.96M |
| Read Street | 3 | $1.32M | $1.32M | $1.85M |
| Evans Street | 2 | $6.97M | $5.50M | $8.45M |
24 qualifying unit streets, Bronte, 2020–2026. “Average” is the median sale price; “bottom” and “top” are the lowest and highest verified sales recorded on that street.
Bronte Road does double duty as the suburb’s busiest house street and busiest unit street. Whatever happens there tends to set the tone for the rest of the suburb.
If you’re weighing up a sale on one of these streets, the suburb median only gets you so far. I price every appraisal against what that specific street has actually done — not just this year, but across the full cycle.
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