A market read plainly.
Once known as the “place of wild figs”, Tamarama has become one of Sydney’s most elite and tightly held postcodes. Limited land, compressed turnover and steady demand from high-net-worth buyers make it a market where scarcity sets the price. In Tamarama, prestige is not loud. It is assumed.
The 2026 record now runs to the end of September. Twenty sales have been recorded from 24 January to 26 September: ten houses and ten units, for a combined $109.7 million. The house median is $7.99 million. The unit median is $2.09 million.
The headline is how few there are. Twenty sales in nine months, in a suburb this small, is turnover measured in single addresses. Each one matters, and each one moves the record.
Volume, month by month.
The year front-loaded hard. Eighteen of the twenty sales landed by the end of June, and February and March alone produced eleven. Then the market went close to silent: one sale each in May and June, none in July, one in August and one in September. The last two were both houses, and together they were worth $28.2 million.
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Recorded sales by month of sale. January from 24 Jan; September to 26 Sep. Hover or tab to a month for the split.
Every sale, plotted.
Each dot is one sale. Read across for when it traded, up for what it fetched. In Tamarama the line between house and apartment blurs. 9/63 Fletcher Street sold for $8.8 million, more than six of the ten houses. At the other end, two houses on Tamarama Street sold for $3.1 million and $3.2 million, level with the best units. Position, not property type, sets the price.
HouseUnitHouse median $7.99mUnit median $2.09m
Sale price against date of sale, 2026. Dashed lines mark the medians. Tap or hover a dot for the address.
Where the money traded.
Half the units sold under $2 million, and every unit but one sold under $3.2 million. Houses spread from $3.1 million to $20 million. Three houses sold between $8 million and $10 million, one at exactly $10 million, and one above $20 million. The top is thin, and in a market this small, one result can carry a year.
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Quarter by quarter.
Count the sales and the year looks like a slide: twelve, then six, then two. Count the money and it does not. The July–September quarter’s two house sales were worth $28.2 million, more than the six sales of the quarter before. Volume fell. Value held. That is what a scarcity market looks like.
Jan–Mar
12
sales · $53.6m traded
- Houses
- 6 · $41m
- Units
- 6 · $12.6m
Apr–Jun
6
sales · $27.9m traded
- Houses
- 2 · $13.2m
- Units
- 4 · $14.7m
Jul–Sep to 26 Sep
2
sales · $28.2m traded
- Houses
- 2 · $28.2m
- Units
- 0 · –
The top of the market.
9 Kenneth Street sold for $20,025,000 on 26 September, the year’s top result and 18 per cent of everything traded in 2026. The four highest sales together account for 44 per cent of the year’s value. On the apartment side, 9/63 Fletcher Street at $8.8 million sits in a tier of its own.
Highest house
$20,025,000
9 Kenneth Street
House · 26 September 2026
Second house
$10,000,000
89 Fletcher Street
House · 24 January 2026
Third house
$9,400,000
19 Dellview Street
House · 10 March 2026
Highest unit
$8,800,000
9/63 Fletcher Street
Unit · 16 April 2026
Second unit
$3,150,000
3/4 Silva Street
Unit · 3 March 2026
Third unit
$2,840,000
1/17 Alexander Street
Unit · 13 February 2026
The streets that traded.
Sales came from just ten streets. Fletcher Street is the market: six of the twenty sales, four houses and two units, worth $43 million, close to 40 per cent of the year’s value. Silva Street follows with three, all units. Five streets recorded a single sale.
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Every street with a recorded sale in 2026, with the total value traded on each.
The 2026 ledger.
Every recorded sale, January to September. Filter by type, or sort by date or price.
20 sales
| Address | Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jan | 89 Fletcher Street | House | $10,000,000 |
| 6 Feb | 22 Tamarama Street | House | $3,200,000 |
| 13 Feb | 1/17 Alexander Street | Unit | $2,840,000 |
| 13 Feb | 4/25 Carlisle Street | Unit | $1,070,000 |
| 16 Feb | 20 Tamarama Street | House | $3,100,000 |
| 23 Feb | 4/35 Fletcher Street | Unit | $1,960,000 |
| 3 Mar | 3/4 Silva Street | Unit | $3,150,000 |
| 10 Mar | 19 Dellview Street | House | $9,400,000 |
| 12 Mar | 364 Birrell Street | House | $6,300,000 |
| 20 Mar | 21 Fletcher Street | House | $9,000,000 |
| 24 Mar | 5/21 Illawong Avenue | Unit | $2,210,000 |
| 26 Mar | 2/1 Silva Street | Unit | $1,381,000 |
| 2 Apr | 37 Fletcher Street | House | $5,400,000 |
| 7 Apr | 14/1 Silva Street | UnitStandard | $1,375,000 |
| 16 Apr | 9/63 Fletcher Street | Unit | $8,800,000 |
| 29 Apr | 13 Fletcher Street | House | $7,800,000 |
| 11 May | 5/17 Gaerloch Avenue | Unit | $1,780,000 |
| 6 Jun | 4/17 Carlisle Street | Unit | $2,700,000 |
| 27 Aug | 16 Illawong Avenue | House | $8,175,000 |
| 26 Sep | 9 Kenneth Street | House | $20,025,000 |
2025 set the ceiling.
For context, 2025 saw an estimated 43 sales and more than $203 million change hands, with six results above $11 million. The suburb’s house record remains $45 million, ‘Lang Syne’ on Gaerloch Avenue in 2023, an eastern beaches record.
2 Mirimar Avenue · house · Dec 2025
$20,500,000The year’s leading result, on one of the suburb’s smallest and most tightly held streets. It last traded at $12.5 million in 2018. Price withheld on public portals; recorded in industry sales data.
10 Carlisle Street · 612sqm site · Mar 2025
$20,100,000Traded as a nine-unit block for $15 million in 2021. The land and the position, not the improvements, carry the value. Recorded in industry sales data.
1/22 Gaerloch Avenue · house · 2025
$15,000,000Elevated above the cove on the street that holds the suburb’s record.
283 Birrell Street · house · Oct 2025
$14,500,000On the ridge line at Tamarama’s boundary, with views back across the gully to the ocean.
27 Carlisle Street · house · Sep 2025
$12,350,000‘The Carlisle’ by Penman Brown, a four-storey architectural home with pathway access to the sand. Design pedigree still moves a Tamarama price beyond what position alone achieves.
1A Ashley Street · house · Oct 2025
$11,750,000On the high ground between Tamarama and Bronte. The sixth sale of 2025 above $11 million.
2026 has already produced a result at that level. 9 Kenneth Street, at just over $20 million, sits just below the two 2025 leaders.