Woollahra in 2026. A village market, read by volume.

A market read plainly.

Woollahra has never been a median-driven market. It is a village of workers’ cottages and harbourside estates trading under one postcode, which is why the honest read comes from its volume, its streets and the mix of what sells, not a single headline number.

The 2026 record now runs from 6 January to 29 September. 105 residential sales: 43 houses and 62 units, worth $376.9 million. Houses carried $234.5 million of that, about 62 per cent. The house median is $4.60 million. The unit median is $1.71 million.

Unlike Clovelly, where houses and units never meet on price, Woollahra’s two markets overlap. Between $2 million and $5 million, 26 houses and 22 units changed hands. A buyer with $4 million can choose a cottage near the village or a large apartment on the hill. That choice is what keeps this market moving.

Volume, month by month.

February was the year’s busiest month by a distance: 25 sales, 14 of them houses. February and March together produced 25 of the year’s 43 house sales. After March, house sales thinned: five in April, then one or two a month, apart from seven in July. Units have been steadier, never fewer than three a month and mostly between five and eleven.

Every sale, plotted.

Each dot is one sale. Most units sit in a tight band under $2 million. Houses spread from $2.1 million to $16.8 million. The three highest results all came within five weeks of each other: 10 Wallaroy Road at $16.8 million, 5 Wallaroy Crescent at $13.2 million and 304 Jersey Road at $13.8 million, between 18 February and 20 March.

Where the money traded.

Thirty-eight of the 62 units sold under $2 million. That is the entry point to Woollahra, and it is deep. The middle is where the two markets cross: $3 million to $5 million carried 33 sales, 17 houses and 16 units, the busiest band of the year. Above $8 million, only houses: seven of them.

Quarter by quarter.

The first quarter carried the year: 50 sales and $210 million, more than half the value traded so far. The second and third quarters were close to each other in value, around $81 million and $85 million. The unit median in the July–September quarter jumped to $2.93 million. That is the mix, not the market: a run of large apartments on Rosemont Avenue, Wallaroy Road and Jersey Road sold over winter.

Seven years of medians.

The house median has never held still. $3.15 million in 2020, $5.31 million in 2022, back to $4.21 million in 2024, up to $5.45 million last year, and $4.60 million so far this year. That swing is not the market lurching. It is which end of Woollahra’s house stock happens to trade, cottages or estates, in any given year.

Units tell the opposite story. For six straight years the unit median sat between $1.41 million and $1.62 million. In 2026 it has moved above that band for the first time, to $1.71 million. Part of that is the run of new and larger apartments selling this year. Part of it may be buyers who once would have bought a house choosing a large apartment instead.

The top of the market.

Wallaroy, again. 10 Wallaroy Road led the year at $16.8 million, and 5 Wallaroy Crescent sat third at $13.2 million. On the apartment side, a townhouse at 76 Oxford Street and an apartment at 5/24 Rosemont Avenue each reached $5 million, and twelve units in all sold for $4 million or more.

The streets that traded.

Sales came from 33 streets, and 16 of them recorded a single sale. Edgecliff Road is the market’s spine: 21 sales, 19 of them units, worth $47.3 million. Ocean Street follows with 13, across both houses and units. John Street’s four house sales alone added $27.8 million.

The 2026 ledger.

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

The six-year record.

For context, the top of Woollahra was set earlier in the cycle. No 2026 sale has yet come close to these.