Capital-growth ranking · NSW
The highest growth suburbs in New South Wales.
Suburbs with the strongest annual house price growth over the past 12 months. Filtered to New South Wales suburbs only.
About this ranking
Capital growth is the long-term wealth driver in property, and the gap between top-quartile and bottom-quartile suburbs is enormous. A suburb growing at 8% annually doubles in 9 years; one at 3% takes 24. We rank by 12-month annual house-price growth, with the caveat that recent growth doesn't perfectly predict the next decade.
New South Wales property market in 2026
New South Wales is Australia's most expensive housing market by a wide margin. Sydney's median house price sits around $1.6M to $1.7M in 2026, with a structural undersupply of well-located stock keeping the harbour-city market firm even as borrowing capacity catches up to elevated rates. Regional NSW (Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong) has compressed the discount to Sydney over the last five years, and the Hunter and Illawarra now trade at premiums older buyers wouldn't have predicted. Lifestyle suburbs along the coast, Byron, Kiama, Port Macquarie, have held the COVID-era gains. Investor demand is back at scale; rental vacancies in metro Sydney remain below 1.5%.
Buyer tip, NSW
If you're buying in Sydney, the gap between asking prices and clearing prices has narrowed meaningfully. A 2024-style 'discount the asking price by 10%' approach now leaves you out of contention. Pre-approval at the top of your range plus 1-2 weekends of pre-auction reconnaissance is the approach that works now.Watch out, NSW
Sydney's middle-ring suburbs (Kingsford, Marrickville, Concord) have seen significant apartment supply. Body corporate fees on newer towers can swallow yield, so always pull the strata report and the sinking fund balance before committing.Methodology
Annual growth is the 12-month change in the suburb's median house price, measured on the same sales as the median. It is measured in New South Wales (Valuer General sales) and South Australia (SA Government quarterly medians); the other sources publish a median without a change, so those states are not ranked. A suburb is ranked only when its own page publishes the median: at least five recorded sales. A change beyond 25% in a year is left out as a small-sample artefact.Best for
Investors focused on capital appreciation; buyers willing to enter outer suburbs with strong fundamentals; buyers researching where the next wave of growth corridors might be.
Showing top 50 suburbs in New South Wales
Ranked from 1,076 suburbs in New South Wales with a published 12-month change. The change is measured on the same sales as the median. A change beyond 25% in a year is left out as a small-sample artefact. Prices are medians of house sales recorded by the NSW Valuer General. A suburb needs five recorded sales in the year before a median is published.
NSW 2556
Annual growth
+25.0%
Median price
$12M
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NSW 2105
Annual growth
+25.0%
Median price
$3.9M
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NSW 2323
Annual growth
+25.0%
Median price
$1.4M
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NSW 2325
Annual growth
+24.8%
Median price
$730K
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NSW 2025
Annual growth
+24.7%
Median price
$5.3M
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NSW 2747
Annual growth
+24.6%
Median price
$1.3M
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NSW 2320
Annual growth
+24.6%
Median price
$1.9M
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NSW 2584
Annual growth
+24.5%
Median price
$582K
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NSW 2800
Annual growth
+24.5%
Median price
$1.5M
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NSW 2229
Annual growth
+24.2%
Median price
$2.3M
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NSW 2827
Annual growth
+24.1%
Median price
$335K
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NSW 2571
Annual growth
+24.1%
Median price
$1.2M
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NSW 2540
Annual growth
+23.9%
Median price
$570K
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NSW 2229
Annual growth
+23.9%
Median price
$3.4M
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NSW 2066
Annual growth
+23.9%
Median price
$4.3M
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NSW 2834
Annual growth
+23.8%
Median price
$195K
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NSW 2330
Annual growth
+23.7%
Median price
$770K
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NSW 2221
Annual growth
+23.6%
Median price
$2.5M
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NSW 2550
Annual growth
+23.5%
Median price
$620K
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NSW 2471
Annual growth
+23.4%
Median price
$475K
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NSW 2641
Annual growth
+23.3%
Median price
$621K
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NSW 2290
Annual growth
+23.2%
Median price
$1.3M
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NSW 2665
Annual growth
+23.1%
Median price
$230K
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NSW 2221
Annual growth
+23.1%
Median price
$2.7M
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NSW 2117
Annual growth
+23.1%
Median price
$2.6M
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NSW 2484
Annual growth
+23.1%
Median price
$800K
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NSW 2069
Annual growth
+22.8%
Median price
$3.9M
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NSW 2352
Annual growth
+22.8%
Median price
$912K
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NSW 2790
Annual growth
+22.7%
Median price
$540K
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NSW 2582
Annual growth
+22.7%
Median price
$2.7M
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NSW 2454
Annual growth
+22.6%
Median price
$1.1M
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NSW 2582
Annual growth
+22.5%
Median price
$1.3M
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NSW 2579
Annual growth
+22.4%
Median price
$820K
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NSW 2806
Annual growth
+22.3%
Median price
$315K
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NSW 2745
Annual growth
+22.3%
Median price
$1.1M
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NSW 2575
Annual growth
+22.3%
Median price
$930K
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NSW 2799
Annual growth
+22.2%
Median price
$600K
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NSW 2446
Annual growth
+22.2%
Median price
$878K
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NSW 2450
Annual growth
+22.2%
Median price
$568K
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NSW 2306
Annual growth
+22.2%
Median price
$745K
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NSW 2480
Annual growth
+22.1%
Median price
$971K
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NSW 2575
Annual growth
+22.0%
Median price
$1M
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NSW 2321
Annual growth
+21.9%
Median price
$948K
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NSW 2325
Annual growth
+21.8%
Median price
$719K
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NSW 2137
Annual growth
+21.7%
Median price
$4M
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NSW 2500
Annual growth
+21.7%
Median price
$1.3M
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NSW 2257
Annual growth
+21.6%
Median price
$1.9M
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NSW 2470
Annual growth
+21.6%
Median price
$1.0M
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NSW 2261
Annual growth
+21.5%
Median price
$1.2M
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NSW 2010
Annual growth
+21.3%
Median price
$3.0M
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Common questions
About this ranking
Does last year's growth predict next year's?
Weakly. Top-performing suburbs over rolling 12-month windows tend to revert toward state averages over 5-10 year horizons. The more durable predictors are population growth, infrastructure investment, supply constraint, and yield, not headline growth in the previous year. Use this ranking as a starting point, not a verdict.
Why are some growth numbers so high?
Outer-suburb and growth-corridor markets can show 15%+ annual growth when an under-supplied catchment meets a wave of buyer demand (e.g. Olympic infrastructure, a new train line, or a school catchment opening). These periods can persist for 2-3 years before normalising.
How do I tell sustainable growth from a bubble?
Look at supporting fundamentals: rising population, declining vacancy rates, infrastructure investment, and yields that aren't compressing too aggressively. If growth is happening but yield is staying constant or rising, supply is genuinely constrained. If yield is collapsing as prices rise, you're often looking at speculative inflows.
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