Bondi Junction apartments in 2026. The market before the cranes arrive.
The Junction's apartment market is the engine room of housing in the Eastern Suburbs. It is about to be reshaped by the largest supply pipeline the suburb has seen in twenty years. Here is where it sits after nine months of sales.
By Alan Weiss · Weiss Real Estate · Licence 218396 · apartment sales from 1 January to 1 October 2026.
82Sales analysed, Jan–Sep
$1.35mTwo-bedroom median
$6.63mTop sale, Oxford St
10Sold below purchase price
Nine months, read plainly
I have gone through every recorded apartment sale in Bondi Junction this year above $500,000. There are 90 records. After removing duplicates and records that conflict, 82 clean sales remain. Unlike the suburb's thin house market, this is where the depth is, and where most buyers actually transact.
One bedroom$835,000Median of 33 sales. Range $595,000 to $1,180,000.
Two bedroom$1,350,000Median of 37 sales. Range $825,000 to $2,395,000.
Three bedroom$2,492,500Median of 12 sales. Range $1,550,000 to $3,500,000.
One result stands apart. A three-bedroom residence at 568 Oxford Street is recorded at $6,625,000. Only two houses in the suburb sold for more this year. The next apartment down is a three-bedroom in Eastgate Gardens on Spring Street, at $3,500,000.
Beneath the top the market is broad and active. Scale and quality take the premium. Smaller stock trades steadily to investors and first-home buyers.
Where the market stands now
Recorded apartment sales by month, 2026
3Jan
13Feb
15Mar
11Apr
9May
15Jun
6Jul
5Aug
5Sep
Sales above $500,000. Gold bars are the September quarter. Recent months rise as settlements are recorded.
Thirty-one sales in the March quarter. Thirty-five in the June quarter. Sixteen so far in the September quarter. The last figure will grow. Sales take weeks to reach the record, and some prices stay undisclosed until settlement. Do not read the fall as a collapse. Read it as incomplete.
What can be said is that this is a steady market, not a frenzied one. Demand is layered across buyer types — downsizers, professionals, investors, first-home buyers — and that is what keeps it steady.
Who made money, and who did not
This is the part owners should read carefully. Seventy-five of this year's sales have an earlier price to compare against. Sixty-three sold for more. Two sold for exactly what they cost. Ten sold for less. The year of purchase explains almost all of it.
Change in price against the year the seller bought
Select a point for the address and both prices.
Each point is one 2026 resale. Red sold below the previous price. Purchases before 2010 are not shown; all of them sold for more. Gains above 150% are plotted at the top line.
Bought in 2015 or earlier: 38 sellers. None lost money. Their median gross gain was 73 per cent.
Bought between 2016 and 2023: 35 sellers. Ten lost money and one broke even. Their median gross gain was 9.2 per cent. After stamp duty on the way in and selling costs on the way out, a gain of that size is a loss.
Together those ten sellers gave back $1,209,440. Nine of the ten were in newer or high-rise buildings. Several of the earlier prices were off-the-plan contracts — a forward price for a building that did not yet exist. The resale market has since said what those apartments are worth.
The older low-rise stock bought in the same years did better. Allens Parade resales were up 23, 33 and 41 per cent. Llandaff Street was up 60 per cent on a 2016 price. Gardiner Street was up 57 per cent since 2020. Same suburb, same years, different result.
Land content matters. A block of twelve carries far more land per apartment than a tower of two hundred. Over a full cycle, that shows.
An objective view
iScale sets the topThe premium end is held by large, well-finished apartments. The $6.625m Oxford Street result, and three-bedroom sales on Spring Street, Waverley Crescent and Oxford Street above $3m, show buyers will pay house money for the right apartment.
iiThe year you bought decides the resultNobody who bought before 2016 and sold this year lost money. More than one in four who bought between 2016 and 2023 did. Time in the market did the work.
iiiQuality over newnessWith defect concerns dogging some newer NSW stock, established buildings with proven build quality, parking and aspect are increasingly favoured, especially by selective downsizers.
The new-supply picture
The most important context for any Bondi Junction apartment owner sits in the planning system. In May 2026, Waverley Council put its draft Bondi Junction Master Plan on public exhibition. It is the first blueprint of its scale here in two decades.
3,000New homes proposed
10%Affordable
9,000m²New public space
10,000m²Community infrastructure
2,400Dwellings targeted by 2029
The plan also proposes a revitalised Oxford Street Mall, an upgraded station entrance and a parkline connecting Centennial Park to Waverley Park. The 2029 target sits under the National Housing Accord. Alongside it, a wave of private development is already moving through approvals.
An eight-storey residential flat building with affordable housing at Bondi Road and Old South Head Road
The sixteen-storey Cassa Blanka mixed-use tower, exhibited in early 2025
A major rezoning at 34–36 Flood Street, signalling higher-density potential
A $946,400 voluntary planning agreement linked to 96–104 Ebley Street
The centre itself is changing too. Scentre Group's next stage of Westfield Bondi Junction adds a new Level 6 precinct, a refurbished Event Cinemas reopening late 2026, an expanded dining precinct and a Virgin Active wellness club.
For owners, put the two halves of this page together. The apartments that have struggled to beat their purchase price are the newer tower stock. Three thousand more homes will compete most directly with exactly that stock. The buildings best placed are the established ones with size, parking, outlook and land that cannot easily be repeated.
The same investment lifts the precinct around every apartment in it. But as ever in the Junction, two apartments with the same bedroom count can perform very differently once aspect, floor level, building reputation and parking are weighed.
The 2026 apartment sales
Recorded Bondi Junction apartment sales above $500,000, January to September 2026, grouped by price band. Where a sale has an earlier price, the change is shown. Where it sits in a building or street I have studied, the tag links to the full analysis.
1 bed · 18 Sep 2026 · Malcolm · $650,000 in 2023 · +9.2%
$710,00094
1205/80 Ebley St
1 bed · 25 Aug 2026 · Genoa Apartments · $400,000 in 2008 · +72.5%
$690,00095
8/108 Ebley St
1 bed · 1 Apr 2026 · $490,000 in 2019 · +21.4%
$595,000
* Record flagged: possible duplicate address, conflicting bedroom count, or price supplied by the author. Flagged duplicates and conflicts are left out of the medians. † Recorded in a later export or on the earlier version of this page; shown for completeness and not included in the medians or the resale analysis.
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My building studies and street guides. Real sales results, how each address trades, and what the numbers say about value.
Looking at houses rather than apartments? Bondi Junction's freestanding homes and terraces are a thinner, tightly held market. Thirty-three sold in the first nine months of the year.
Methodology. Sales data: CoreLogic RP Data, units in Bondi Junction NSW 2022 sold 1 January to 1 October 2026 for more than $500,000. Sales at or below $500,000, undisclosed and nil prices are not included, so medians sit higher than a full count would show. Bedroom counts follow CoreLogic records. Four possible duplicate addresses are counted once and four records with conflicting bedroom counts are left out of the medians and resale analysis. The 2026 price for 802/1 Adelaide Street was supplied by the author. Five further sales, marked †, come from later property exports or the earlier version of this page, including the $6,625,000 sale at 568 Oxford Street; they are listed but not included in the medians. Changes compare the 2026 price with the previous priced sale. They are not annual growth or net profit. Recent months are incomplete. The house comparison uses Bondi Junction house sales recorded to 30 September 2026. Master Plan, development-pipeline and Westfield details reflect Waverley Council and Scentre Group announcements current to May 2026. Sales data is indicative, not a valuation. Past results are not a guarantee of future outcomes. This article is general information, not financial or legal advice.
