A market read plainly.
Bronte Beach is small, backed by a large green park, and known for a swell that draws surfers. For calmer water there is the heritage-listed Bronte Baths and the Bogey Hole on the southern headland. Bronte Gully runs down behind the park, and the cafés along Bronte Road hold the village together. Bronte’s geography is its price map: the valley walls and the cliff line trade far above the flat ground behind them.
The 2026 record runs from 30 January to 29 September. 71 sales: 33 houses and 38 units, worth $308.5 million. Houses carried $228.3 million of that, 74 per cent. The house median is $5.80 million. The unit median is $1.63 million.
Seven years of volume.
Bronte is the most evenly balanced market in the Eastern Suburbs, and 2026 is no exception. Thirty-three houses and 38 units, close to parity again, as in almost every year on the register. Neither side dominates the way units do in Bondi or houses do in Dover Heights, which means real comparable evidence on both.
House salesUnit sales
Sales by calendar year. 2020 to 2025 from the verified Eastern Suburbs sales register; 2026* from this year’s sales file, January to September.
Volume, month by month.
February and March produced 17 sales each, and 19 of the year’s 33 house sales between them. April and May held at ten a month. Then the market went quiet: three sales in June, one in July, and no house sales at all in July or August. September brought three houses back.
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Recorded sales by month of sale. Hover or tab to a month for the split.
Every sale, plotted.
Each dot is one sale. Five houses sold for $12 million or more, together worth $68.8 million, 22 per cent of the year. 27 Chesterfield Parade and 73 Hewlett Street led at $15 million each, with 18 Tamarama Marine Drive at $13.5 million, 144A Hewlett Street at $13 million and 45 Yanko Avenue at $12.3 million.
HouseUnitHouse median $5.80mUnit median $1.63m
Sale price against date of sale, 2026. Dashed lines mark the medians. Tap or hover a dot for the address.
Where the money traded.
Most apartments are the way in: 28 of the 38 unit sales were under $2 million. The house market sits squarely above that. The busiest house band was $5 million to $8 million, with 13 sales. Nine more houses fell between $3 million and $5 million, and nine sold for $8 million or more.
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Quarter by quarter.
The first quarter carried the year: 35 sales and $174.1 million, 56 per cent of everything traded. The second added 23 sales and $102 million, including both Hewlett Street results. The third has been quiet, 13 sales for $32.3 million with only three houses, and late-quarter sales may still be reaching the record.
Jan–Mar
35
sales · $174.1m traded
- Houses
- 20 · median $5.74m
- Units
- 15 · median $1.98m
Apr–Jun
23
sales · $102m traded
- Houses
- 10 · median $6.50m
- Units
- 13 · median $1.41m
Jul–Sep to 29 Sep
13
sales · $32.3m traded
- Houses
- 3 · median $4.09m
- Units
- 10 · median $1.51m
Seven years of medians.
The house median has been remarkably flat since 2021, holding between about $5 million and $5.9 million. At $5.80 million this year, it sits near the top of that band. Units were Bronte’s growth story, rising from $1.30 million in 2020 to $1.76 million last year. This year it has eased to $1.63 million.
House median ($m)Unit median ($m)
Median sale price by calendar year, in millions. 2020 to 2025 from the verified Eastern Suburbs sales register; 2026* from this year’s sales, January to September.
Bronte’s records.
The suburb’s house record is $29.25 million, set at 3 Tipper Avenue in April 2023. Its strata record is $11.15 million, at 1 Belgrave Street in November 2024. Neither fell in 2026. The year’s best results, $15 million twice for houses and $8.25 million for an apartment, sit a clear step below, and the ladders below show by how much.
House record
$29,250,000
3 Tipper Avenue
April 2023 · 6 bed · 1,062sqm
Still standing after 2026.
2026 house high
$15,000,000
27 Chesterfield Parade · 73 Hewlett Street
February and June 2026
51% of the house record.
Strata record
$11,150,000
1 Belgrave Street
November 2024 · 487sqm
Still standing after 2026.
2026 strata high
$8,250,000
3/16 Pacific Street
February 2026
74% of the strata record.
Houses. The register’s three highest sales since 2020, against every 2026 house sale above $12 million.
Register top three since 2020Sold in 2026
Apartments. The register’s three highest strata sales, against the two highest of 2026.
Register top three since 2020Sold in 2026
Register results are the top verified sales from the Eastern Suburbs sales register, January 2020 to July 2026. The ladders are not a full ranking: other sales between these prices may exist on the register.
Hewlett Street, the year’s record street.
Two house sales three days apart in June, 73 Hewlett Street at $15 million and 144A at $13 million, after 81 Hewlett Street at $8.25 million in February. Four sales worth $37.3 million, more than any other Bronte street this year.
The record on the flat ground.
Records run both ways. On Boundary Street, two like-for-like resales went backwards: number 30 down 11 per cent over four and a half years, sold this April, and number 26 down 19 per cent in fourteen months. Bronte’s rise has been concentrated on the escarpment.
The streets that traded.
Sales came from 26 streets, and half of them recorded a single sale. Bronte Road led on volume with 13 sales, all apartments. Hewlett Street led on value: four sales worth $37.3 million. Macpherson Street’s nine sales added $31.9 million, and Belgrave Street’s five added $25.4 million.
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Streets with three or more recorded sales in 2026, with the total value traded on each.
The 2026 ledger.
Every recorded sale, January to September. Filter by type, search a street, or sort by date or price.
71 sales
| Address | Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan | 23 Violet StreetHouse | House | $4,800,000 |
| 5 Feb | 18 Tamarama Marine DriveHouse | House | $13,500,000 |
| 10 Feb | 3D/337 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,980,000 |
| 10 Feb | 15 Gibson StreetHouse· Single-storey | House· Single-storey | $3,300,000 |
| 18 Feb | 51 St Thomas StreetHouse | House | $7,185,000 |
| 18 Feb | 1/374-376 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $2,000,000 |
| 19 Feb | 27 Chesterfield ParadeHouse | House | $15,000,000 |
| 19 Feb | 12/26 Lugar StreetUnit | Unit | $1,965,000 |
| 19 Feb | 18/107 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $3,050,000 |
| 20 Feb | 81 Hewlett StreetHouse | House | $8,250,000 |
| 20 Feb | 3/16 Pacific StreetUnit | Unit | $8,250,000 |
| 21 Feb | 3 Albert StreetUnit· Townhouse | Unit· Townhouse | $4,175,000 |
| 22 Feb | 11 St Thomas StreetHouse | House | $6,340,000 |
| 25 Feb | 9/337 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,600,000 |
| 25 Feb | 6/120-128 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $1,505,000 |
| 27 Feb | 241 Birrell StreetHouse | House | $5,250,000 |
| 28 Feb | 18A Blandford AvenueHouse | House | $7,350,000 |
| 28 Feb | 29 Gipps StreetHouse | House | $5,000,000 |
| 5 Mar | 25 Belgrave StreetHouse | House | $5,130,000 |
| 5 Mar | 50 Brown StreetHouse | House | $5,800,000 |
| 5 Mar | 15/62 Brown StreetUnit | Unit | $1,000,000 |
| 10 Mar | 48 Evans StreetHouse | House | $7,150,000 |
| 11 Mar | 4/16 St Thomas StreetUnit | Unit | $2,375,000 |
| 12 Mar | 32 Belgrave StreetHouse | House | $4,900,000 |
| 12 Mar | 5/371 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,650,000 |
| 13 Mar | 20 Palmerston AvenueHouse | House | $5,675,000 |
| 13 Mar | 14/337 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,600,000 |
| 14 Mar | 8/361A Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,375,000 |
| 18 Mar | 39B Murray StreetHouse | House | $4,630,000 |
| 19 Mar | 25 Read StreetHouse | House | $5,220,000 |
| 19 Mar | 12 Belgrave StreetHouse | House | $8,900,000 |
| 20 Mar | 32/107 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $2,400,000 |
| 21 Mar | 25 Busby ParadeHouse | House | $7,900,000 |
| 26 Mar | 1/463-467 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $3,400,000 |
| 28 Mar | 47 Evans StreetHouse | House | $4,500,000 |
| 1 Apr | 6 Brae StreetHouse | House | $1,850,000 |
| 1 Apr | 19/36 Pacific StreetUnit | Unit | $1,500,000 |
| 1 Apr | 28 Brown StreetHouse | House | $7,000,000 |
| 9 Apr | 75 Read StreetHouse | House | $6,000,000 |
| 18 Apr | 4/359B Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,410,000 |
| 18 Apr | 15/359B Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,410,000 |
| 22 Apr | 21 Scott StreetHouse | House | $4,600,000 |
| 22 Apr | 5/394 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,388,000 |
| 22 Apr | 12/394 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,388,000 |
| 23 Apr | 9 Marroo StreetHouse | House | $3,300,000 |
| 4 May | 45 Yanko AvenueHouse | House | $12,300,000 |
| 7 May | 5/35 St Thomas StreetUnit | Unit | $1,725,000 |
| 9 May | 54/107 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $6,900,000 |
| 11 May | 18/380 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,900,000 |
| 20 May | 21 Belgrave StreetHouse | House | $4,670,000 |
| 22 May | 25/19-21 Palmerston AvenueUnit | Unit | $1,223,000 |
| 22 May | 6/19-21 Palmerston AvenueUnit | Unit | $1,223,000 |
| 26 May | 15 Scott StreetHouse | House | $8,350,000 |
| 29 May | 7/17 Palmerston AvenueUnit | Unit | $1,360,000 |
| 30 May | 50/107 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $2,750,000 |
| 3 Jun | 73 Hewlett StreetHouse | House | $15,000,000 |
| 6 Jun | 144A Hewlett StreetHouse· Single-storey | House· Single-storey | $13,000,000 |
| 30 Jun | 9/65-69 Belgrave StreetUnit | Unit | $1,800,000 |
| 25 Jul | 2/35 St Thomas StreetUnit | Unit | $1,511,000 |
| 3 Aug | 1/19 Busby ParadeUnit | Unit | $1,425,000 |
| 6 Aug | 5/22 Read StreetUnit | Unit | $1,435,000 |
| 6 Aug | 10/47 Murray StreetUnit | Unit | $1,925,000 |
| 13 Aug | 17/107 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $1,915,000 |
| 22 Aug | 5/30 Hewlett StreetUnit | Unit | $1,035,000 |
| 1 Sep | 43/107 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $2,225,000 |
| 4 Sep | 32 Read StreetHouse | House | $2,900,000 |
| 9 Sep | 17/380 Bronte RoadUnit | Unit | $1,500,000 |
| 17 Sep | 15 Darling StreetHouse· Single-storey | House· Single-storey | $4,090,000 |
| 24 Sep | 4/1 Palmerston AvenueUnit | Unit | $1,197,000 |
| 25 Sep | 145 Macpherson StreetHouse· Single-storey | House· Single-storey | $9,500,000 |
| 29 Sep | 303/113 Macpherson StreetUnit | Unit | $1,650,000 |