Clovelly in 2026. Prestige, quietly held.

A market read plainly.

Unlike Bondi, Clovelly does not trade on noise or spectacle. It is a tightly held coastal enclave where families, downsizers and prestige buyers pay for privacy, village life and long-term scarcity. The bay, the cliff-top walk, Gordon’s Bay and the Geoff James Pool sit minutes from Coogee, Randwick and Bondi Junction, yet the place feels removed from all of them.

The 2026 record is now nine months deep. Fifty-two sales have been recorded from 21 January to 28 September: exactly twenty-six houses and twenty-six units. The even split is not new. CoreLogic’s twelve months to April 2026 showed the same pattern, 44 houses and 44 units. Clovelly trades in small, matched numbers on both sides.

The money is not matched. Houses account for $156.3 million of the $203 million total, about 77 per cent. The house median sits at $6.21 million and the unit median at $1.77 million. The two markets meet at exactly one price: $2.95 million, the year’s cheapest house and its dearest townhouse.

Volume, month by month.

The year front-loaded. February and March produced 22 of the 52 sales, more than four in ten. Then the market went quiet: two sales in April, two in June. Spring is building again, with six in August and seven in September.

Every sale, plotted.

Each dot is one sale. Read across for when it traded, up for what it fetched. Two markets sit in the same postcode with a clear gap between them. No unit has sold above $2.95 million this year. No house has sold below it. Three houses sold for $10 million or more, two of them on Surfside Avenue.

Where the money traded.

Units cluster tightly: 14 of the 26 sold between $1.5 million and $2 million. Houses spread across a much wider range. Nine sold between $3 million and $5 million, seven between $5 million and $7 million, six between $7 million and $9 million, and three above $9 million. The middle of the house market is deep; the top is thin and decisive.

Quarter by quarter.

The first quarter carried the year: 25 sales. The second halved to 11. The third has recovered to 16, with the last days of September still to report. The house median in the July–September quarter reads lower, at $4.72 million. That is a change in mix, not in value. Five of the quarter’s ten houses sold under $5 million, against three of eleven in the first quarter.

The top of the market.

Surfside Avenue produced the year’s two highest results, less than four months and $25,000 apart. Northumberland Street and Knox Street each recorded two house sales, and Blackwood Avenue two houses and a unit. That says as much about depth in the house streets as any single price.

The streets that traded.

Sales came from 25 streets. Fifteen recorded two or more; ten recorded one. Clovelly Road leads on volume with six sales, five of them units. Clifton Road follows with five, four of them houses.

The 2026 ledger.

Every recorded sale, January to September. Filter by type, or sort by date or price.

2025 set the ceiling.

For context, the top of the market was set the year before. Five 2025 sales cleared $9.5 million, a concentration Clovelly had not previously recorded. No 2026 sale has yet reached the 2025 high.