A month that belonged to the apartments.
The month’s recorded-sales search for the Waverley property market returned five properties — all of them units, led by two near-identical Art Deco two-bedders in the same six-unit Albion Street block at $1.18 million and $1.17 million. No house sale appeared in the records checked. A small sample, honestly read.
Five units, and their fine print.
The stock that moved shows Waverley’s apartment range — compact Art Deco homes near Queens Park and Charing Cross, alongside larger apartments with gardens, balconies or parking. The recent records are labelled “Pending Settlement Advice”: a data-status note, not a sign that anything passed in at auction.
| Address | Date | Property | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/33 Albion Street | 22 Oct | 2-bed, 1-bath, 70sqm top-floor Art Deco; period details, updated kitchen and bathroom, city outlook | $1,180,000 |
| 2/33 Albion Street | 8 Oct | 2-bed, 1-bath, 70sqm in the same six-unit block; NE aspect, ornate ceilings, fireplace, near Queens Park | $1,170,000 |
| 4/50 Wiley Street | 29 Sep | Renovated 2-bed, 1-bath, 75sqm top floor in a four-unit Art Deco block; sunroom, balcony, storage | $1,075,000* |
| 8/10 Henrietta Street | 22 Oct† | 2-bed, 1-bath with car space in Ocean Park; long balcony, lift, landscaped grounds, shared pool | Withheld |
| 1/31 Macpherson Street | 9 Oct | Garden apartment with private entry, terrace and garden; marketed with study/3rd-bed option, 155sqm on title | Withheld |
* The records show $1,075,000 marked “Un”, and the public listing withholds the price — I don’t present it as a confirmed sale price without the underlying advice. † Sale records show 22 October; public listing records show 9 October, so the date differs across sources.
Four decades inside one Albion Street block.
Both October sales at 33 Albion Street carry recorded histories back to the late 1980s. Unit 2 first appears at $85,000 in May 1987; unit 3 at $167,500 in March 1991. This month they changed hands within $10,000 of each other. Individual-property history, not a suburb median — but forty years of one small Art Deco block tells its own story.
Recorded transfers from property-history timelines; hover any point for the date. Open circles are the October 2026 results, still pending settlement advice. The 1993 timeline shows duplicate entries for both units — plotted once each here.
What the month’s results actually say.
Two 70sqm two-bedders in the same six-unit Art Deco block, sold a fortnight apart, $10,000 between them. That is as clean a price signal as a small suburb gives you — well-kept deco near Queens Park clears just under $1.2 million.
A renovated 75sqm top-floor deco two-bedder with a sunroom. The records carry the figure with an “Un” marker and the public listing says “contact agent” — so it stays flagged, not confirmed. Prior transfers in 2020 and 2009 show no public price either.
A garden apartment with private entry and terrace, price withheld. Its history is on record, though: $780,000 in 2008, $900,000 in 2013, $1.56 million in 2017. Larger garden apartments remain Waverley’s quiet prestige tier.
Five unit sales and no recorded house sale is a thin month, and I won’t stretch it further than it goes. But the signal inside it is clear: Waverley’s Art Deco two-bedders near Queens Park and Charing Cross are clearing just under $1.2 million, and they’re doing it quickly and consistently. For owners thinking about selling a property, two near-identical homes in one block landing within $10,000 of each other is a strong indication that the market knows exactly what that stock is worth.
The Albion Street chart is the longer lesson. An $85,000 apartment in 1987 selling at $1.17 million in 2026 is what four decades of holding good small-block deco in this suburb has looked like. For anyone buying property in the Eastern Suburbs, the buyers competing for it today are buying the same thing those 1987 buyers did: position, scarcity and a block small enough to care about.
What the records can — and cannot — say.
The Wiley Street figure stays flagged. The record’s “Un” marker and the withheld public price mean $1,075,000 is not presented as a confirmed sale price without the underlying settlement advice.
Henrietta Street is recorded on 22 October in the sale records and 9 October in public listing records. The discrepancy is reported, not silently resolved — check with the selling agent before relying on either date.
No Waverley house sale appeared in the sold-results records checked for the period, and no house pass-in could be substantiated from that extract. That is a statement about the records checked — not a claim that no house auction passed in.
“Pending Settlement Advice” on recent records is a data-status note while settlement confirmation flows through — it does not mean a property passed in. And five sales is a sample, not a census: withheld prices mean the month’s true activity is wider than the priced results shown here.
Know what your block is really doing.
I have sold in Waverley, Queens Park and Charing Cross since the mid-1980s — more than 1,000 properties across the Sydney Eastern Suburbs. If you own deco, a garden apartment or a house that didn’t show up in this month’s records, I’ll tell you where it sits — numbers first, pitch never. You can also request a property appraisal based on current comparable sales.
Sources: Cotality sales records, Waverley NSW 2024, 27 September – 27 October 2026, with individual property-history timelines; cross-checked against Domain and realestate.com.au listing records. Sale records can update — the “Un” marker, withheld prices and the Henrietta Street date discrepancy should be confirmed with the selling agents. Commentary is Alan Weiss’s professional assessment, not financial advice.
