The biggest sales, dearest suburbs and streets, and what a typical house or flat cost this winter across the Northern Beaches, Lower and Upper North Shore, from the NSW Valuer General’s register.
Northern Beaches house prices, spring 2026: what winter’s sellers made, from the Valuer General’s register and Cotality. Manly to Palm Beach
Spring 2026 across Sydney’s Northern Suburbs: what winter’s sellers made on three districts, what they share, where they differ, and spring’s test
The Northern Beaches is doing materially better than the post-Budget commentary suggests. House prices flat across the comparison window; the wider unit market firmed five per cent; Manly units jumped twenty-four per cent on a meaningful sample. The standout suburb on the peninsula.
Five months of NSW Valuer General registered-sales data across the Northern Beaches, the Lower North Shore and the Upper North Shore, read side by side. The Northern Beaches has held its level. The Lower North Shore has softened. The Upper North Shore is doing something the headlines miss.
Six months ago we stopped using intermediated property data. We built our own analytics practice, anchored to the legal settlement record — every NSW Valuer General registered transfer in our coverage area, read directly. The manifesto for the practice, and the foundation every piece we publish sits on.
