Dover Heights in 2026. The clifftop, by the numbers.

A market read plainly.

Dover Heights sits on the ridge between Vaucluse, Rose Bay and North Bondi, with the Pacific on one side and the city skyline on the other. Its streets are quiet, its blocks are generous, and on the ocean side the land simply stops at the cliff. Very little here changes hands, and most of the money that does is spent on family homes.

The 2026 record runs from 12 February to 29 September. 38 sales: 20 houses and 18 units, worth $218.5 million. Houses carried $165.5 million of that, 76 per cent. The house median is $7.20 million. The unit median is $1.44 million.

Those two numbers sit a long way apart. No house sold under $3.2 million, and only four unit sales went above $2 million, one of them a whole block of five apartments. Dover Heights is, in practice, two markets that share a postcode: apartments for downsizers and first buyers into the East, and family homes on the ridge.

Volume, month by month.

The year started late and fast. No sales were recorded in January. Then February and March produced 19 sales, half the year, nine of them houses. May brought a second wave, with six house sales. Since June the pace has eased to one to four sales a month.

Every sale, plotted.

Look at the top left of this chart. Five houses sold for more than $10 million in the 25 days from 12 February to 8 March. 13 Kippara Road led at $17 million, with 13 Rodney Street at $13.5 million, 51 Wallangra Road at $12.8 million, 55 Portland Street at $12.5 million and 8 Napier Street at $10.88 million. A sixth, 16 Napier Street, followed in May at $11.5 million. Together those six sales are worth $78.2 million, more than a third of the year.

Where the money traded.

Fourteen of the 18 unit sales were under $2 million. Then nothing until $5 million. The house market starts where the unit market stops, and it is spread evenly across the top: six houses between $5 million and $7 million, five between $7 million and $10 million, and six at $10 million or more. The four unit sales above $5 million are not typical apartments: a block of five apartments at 157-159 Military Road, sold in one line for $11.5 million; the pair at 50A and 50B Gilbert Street, at $8.5 million and $8 million; and 2/2 Elvina Street at $5.25 million.

Quarter by quarter.

The first quarter, which in practice means six weeks from mid-February, carried more than half the year’s value: $116.2 million across 19 sales. The second quarter traded 13 sales for $71.4 million. The third has been quiet, six sales for $30.9 million. In a suburb this small, a quiet quarter is not a weak market. It is a market waiting for the next good house.

The top of the market.

13 Kippara Road at $17 million is the year’s benchmark. Napier Street recorded two of the top six house sales, at $11.5 million and $10.88 million. On the unit side, the top result was not one apartment but five: the block at 157-159 Military Road, sold in one line for $11.5 million in March.

The streets that traded.

Sales came from 14 streets. Military Road is the spine: nine sales, seven of them houses, worth $58 million, including the block at 157-159. Peel Street follows with six, mostly units, and Gilbert Street with five units worth $19.9 million. Seven streets, including Kippara Road, Rodney Street, Wallangra Road and Portland Street, recorded a single sale each, and those single sales include four of the year’s top five.

The 2026 ledger.

Every recorded sale, February to September. Filter by type, search a street, or sort by date or price.