Sydney Property Prices Force Smarter Investing | Strategy Over Speculation
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What factors are influencing Sydney property prices?
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It's the Real Estate Breakfast too, back for another weekend as we break down for you the Australian property market. And yes, tomorrow is the first day of February. We'll be right back. It is a Saturday, January the 31st and good morning to Stevie and Caitlin in Melbourne. Now we received your email about wanting to move to the Gold Coast. You're looking as a result of some of our conversations that we've been talking about. These are these locations, these satellite areas between the Gold Coast and Brisbane. Hey, great choice too, by the way. You've got parts of your family on both sides. You want to be closer to them as well as enjoying the lifestyle and the weather. You asked for a couple of our recommendations regarding agents, which we have passed on.
So keep in touch and keep listening. And let's go from the Gold Coast this morning to Sydney, where the cost of buying a typical Sydney home is now at record highs. Yes, it is pushing many buyers towards units. That has been happening for some time. Or the housing in outer ring suburbs. These affordability pressures are also reshaping investor behaviour. as both home ownership and property investment become more and more expensive, as well as more complex. So let's take you to Anthony Landau, our mortgage broker at Equilibria Finance. But he's not in the finance house. He's in the camping ground in the snowy mountains. Good morning to you, Anthony. Also, last day, as I mentioned, for Jan, which means we've got the RBA decision time for the first time this year coming up.
But how's the camping going first off?
Yeah, good morning, Craig. Great to be here. Starlink is obviously working at the tail end of my annual camping trip in the Snowy Mountains, which is always a fantastic week just to Refreshed before the year, as you say, kicks off in full swing from February with early next week, the first muchly anticipated RBA meeting for the year will be taking place.
Yes, a lot of people will be rightly feeling a little nervous come Tuesday. But let's have a look at Sydney's median house price, which keeps on nudging higher. And it's happening quietly rather than in big spikes. Limited stock, yes, that is a factor. Steady demand and people holding on to homes longer are keeping these prices pretty firm. Buyers are adjusting expectations, but the reality is clear. Sydney's housing remains expensive. It is competitive and it's increasingly segmented between houses and units. What does the Sydney median house price currently sit at? We should sort of start there, I guess.
Yeah, it's a great point to start on. And as of end of December 2025, Sydney median house prices is a mouthwatering $1.759 million. That's growth over the 12-month period of $105,000. Or if we really want to break it down, as you know, I like to, it's $2,028 a week of growth through 2025. Now, one of the biggest challenges is the gap between the median house price and median unit price. Median units still sit at $844,000. It's still an affordable price point for a even to your listener who said they're moving to the Gold Coast, it's driving a lot of people to units or to regional areas because Sydney is dead set getting basically unaffordable. It's driving a lot of people to regional areas and affordable units because Sydney's housing market is now unaffordable for many, many, many buyers.
Yes, the big drivers are still supply shortages, population growth and uneven construction activity. That is a real factor in Sydney. Fewer homes are coming onto the market while demand hasn't gone away. Then you add stable employment and buyers with strong equity positions and prices stay supported. I think it's fair to say it's not frenzy driven. It's structural pressure meeting constrained supply. And we should look at what is driving the sustained price growth for Sydney in 2026.
Yeah, I think that's a really good observation. It has gone from a couple of years ago being very much driven by emotion and very much driven by, I guess, fear of missing out.
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