North Shore buyers agents, Lower and Upper
Two markets north of the bridge, priced on different things. We help you choose the right one, then the right street.
Book a Zoom call Or see where the line runs ↓Lower North Shore
Harbour, river and the city edge. Thirty-six suburbs, with the boundary put in writing.
Lower North Shore buyers agents →Upper North Shore
Land, gardens and the rail line, from Roseville north. Where you trade water for ground.
Upper North Shore buyers agents →Buying across the Spit instead? Meet our Northern Beaches buyers agents.
Lower or Upper North Shore?
Most buyers never make this decision. They inherit it from wherever they started looking. Made on purpose, it is simple: the Lower prices proximity, the Upper prices ground. Start with the row that matters most to you.
Two things the table cannot show. School catchments do not follow suburb lines and can split a street, so we tell you plainly when a price carries a catchment premium and whether it is likely to hold. And the building or block matters more than the category: a well-run boutique block can outperform a compromised house on a main road.
North Shore property prices: six months of settled sales
Not portal estimates or agent talk: every qualifying sale that actually settled, drawn from the NSW Torrens register and compiled by our own research team across the Lower and Upper North Shore.
| Region / suburb | House sales | Median house | Unit sales | Median unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lower North ShoreHarbour, river & city edge · 36 suburbs
|
428 | $3,841,500 | 1,192 | $1,200,000 |
| Artarmon | 15 | $3,101,000 | 44 | $1,050,000 |
| Cammeray | 12 | $3,670,000 | 33 | $1,370,000 |
| Castle Cove | 9 | $4,100,000 | 0 | — |
| Castlecrag | 6 | $4,097,000 | 0 | — |
| Chatswood | 32 | $3,295,000 | 91 | $1,150,000 |
| Chatswood West | 8 | $2,641,500 | 0 | — |
| Cremorne | 16 | $3,667,500 | 81 | $1,450,000 |
| Cremorne Point | 7 | $8,010,000 | 16 | $2,300,000 |
| Crows Nest | 16 | $2,912,500 | 25 | $980,000 |
| Greenwich | 6 | $3,575,000 | 22 | $882,500 |
| Hunters Hill | 30 | $3,800,000 | 7 | $1,400,000 |
| Kirribilli | 0 | — | 27 | $1,265,000 |
| Kurraba Point | 3 | — | 14 | $1,847,500 |
| Lane Cove | 18 | $3,295,000 | 73 | $995,000 |
| Lane Cove North | 21 | $2,500,000 | 114 | $862,500 |
| Lane Cove West | 6 | $3,696,500 | 5 | $1,125,000 |
| Lavender Bay | 2 | — | 5 | $1,680,000 |
| Linley Point | 1 | — | 0 | — |
| Longueville | 6 | $4,588,750 | 0 | — |
| McMahons Point | 2 | — | 19 | $1,510,000 |
| Middle Cove | 5 | $4,280,000 | 0 | — |
| Milsons Point | 0 | — | 13 | $2,150,000 |
| Mosman | 68 | $5,075,000 | 133 | $1,390,000 |
| Naremburn | 17 | $3,200,000 | 27 | $1,650,000 |
| Neutral Bay | 15 | $2,920,000 | 84 | $1,285,000 |
| North Sydney | 9 | $3,900,000 | 102 | $1,100,000 |
| North Willoughby | 14 | $4,500,000 | 13 | $980,000 |
| Northbridge | 25 | $5,330,000 | 5 | $1,218,000 |
| Northwood | 3 | — | 0 | — |
| Riverview | 19 | $3,650,000 | 0 | — |
| St Leonards | 2 | — | 109 | $1,077,680 |
| Waverton | 2 | — | 14 | $1,476,944 |
| Willoughby | 17 | $4,000,000 | 44 | $1,422,500 |
| Willoughby East | 8 | $3,985,000 | 0 | — |
| Wollstonecraft | 6 | $3,587,500 | 71 | $1,440,000 |
| Woolwich | 2 | — | 1 | — |
Upper North ShoreLand, bush & the rail line · 17 suburbs
|
386 | $3,240,000 | 315 | $1,100,000 |
| East Killara | 9 | $3,200,000 | 0 | — |
| East Lindfield | 7 | $4,250,000 | 0 | — |
| Gordon | 24 | $3,150,000 | 37 | $910,000 |
| Killara | 18 | $4,206,250 | 33 | $1,268,000 |
| Lindfield | 33 | $5,820,000 | 51 | $1,300,000 |
| North Turramurra | 17 | $3,250,000 | 4 | — |
| North Wahroonga | 4 | — | 0 | — |
| Pymble | 34 | $3,825,000 | 33 | $947,000 |
| Roseville | 23 | $4,950,000 | 39 | $990,000 |
| Roseville Chase | 7 | $3,300,000 | 0 | — |
| South Turramurra | 9 | $2,600,000 | 0 | — |
| St Ives | 58 | $3,100,000 | 49 | $1,120,000 |
| St Ives Chase | 14 | $2,532,500 | 2 | — |
| Turramurra | 45 | $3,275,000 | 30 | $1,026,750 |
| Wahroonga | 50 | $2,485,000 | 24 | $1,207,500 |
| Warrawee | 9 | $3,750,000 | 13 | $935,000 |
| West Pymble | 25 | $2,810,000 | 0 | — |
Swipe the table sideways to see every column.
Source NSW Valuer General, Property Sales Information, the Torrens register of settled sales recorded by NSW Land Registry Services. Compiled and cleaned by Sarah Kaye & Co Research from 26 weekly data files covering 2 February to 27 July 2026.
Method 2,321 residential sales across the 53 North Shore suburbs we service. Dates shown are contract dates. Non-arm's-length transfers are excluded, as are commercial, retail, industrial, car-space and vacant-land sales. Medians are calculated across every qualifying sale in each region, not averaged from suburb medians.
At suburb level Counts are always shown, but a suburb median is published only where at least five qualifying sales of that type settled in the window. Below that, a median describes the handful, not the market. Every North Shore suburb we service is listed.
On recency A sale enters the register only once it has settled, so the most recent weeks are under-represented; the figures for the final month will firm up as later contracts settle.
What a North Shore buyers agent costs
The whole engagement, end to end, with the fee in plain sight, because that is where a fee belongs.
The brief
What you are actually buying, and why, pressure-tested before a single inspection. Budget and brief aligned, or realigned, in writing.
The search
On-market, pre-market and off-market, across every suburb in the brief, including the ones you had not thought to ask about.
The evidence
Valuation triangulated, contract and reports first-passed, the street walked at the right time of day. What it is worth, not what it is asking.
The negotiation
Auction, private treaty or off-market, run to a plan set in advance, with a walk-away price you agreed when you could still think clearly.
Two fixed fees, both in writing
An engagement fee of $5,500 including GST when you appoint us. It is non-refundable and covers the work that starts immediately: the brief, the plan and the search.
A success fee, fixed before the search begins and payable only on unconditional exchange. It is not a percentage of the purchase price, because a percentage would pay us more the more you spend, which is the opposite of the job. Our income comes from you, and from nowhere else.
If your budget and your brief do not line up, we will say so in the first conversation, before you have paid us anything. That promise costs us engagements every year, and it is why the ones we take succeed.
North Shore buyers agent questions, answered straight
Including the ones that can send you elsewhere. If an answer here talks you out of calling us, it did its job.
Where does the Lower North Shore end and the Upper North Shore begin?
There is no official boundary, so here is ours, and we will stand behind it. Cross the Harbour Bridge and you are on the Lower North Shore: west to Hunters Hill, north as far as Chatswood, and east through Mosman to the Spit. The Upper North Shore starts at Roseville and runs north along the rail line.
Inside the Lower sit four quite different markets: the harbour east, the city edge and rail spine, the Middle Harbour arm (Northbridge, Castlecrag, Castle Cove, Middle Cove and Willoughby), and the river west. The suburb list below groups every one of them.
Is Chatswood on the Lower North Shore or the Upper North Shore?
Lower. Chatswood is the last suburb of the Lower North Shore, and the Upper North Shore starts at Roseville. Plenty of people place it the other way and agents are inconsistent about it, which is why buyers searching one region keep seeing listings from the other.
The line matters more than it sounds. Chatswood prices on transport, apartments and its own town centre; Roseville and everything north of it prices on land, houses and the school run. They are different markets that happen to be one stop apart.
Do I need a buyers agent on the North Shore, or can I do it myself?
Plenty of people should do it themselves. If you know the suburb, you have your weekends, you are comfortable at auction and you are not stretching, you may do perfectly well without us, and we would rather say so on the first call than take an engagement we cannot improve on.
The case for help is strongest when the market is unfamiliar, the purchase is large relative to your position, or your shortlist spans two regions that price on different things. If you do engage someone, ask what they will tell you not to buy, and how they are paid. The answers separate advisers from finders. The long-form answer lives in our guide to what a buyers agent actually does, written to be useful whichever way you decide.
What does a buyers agent cost on the North Shore, and how should they be paid?
Fees are usually either a fixed amount agreed before the search or a percentage of the purchase price, and the structure matters more than the number. A percentage pays your adviser more the more you spend, which is the opposite of what you engaged them to do.
We charge in two fixed parts: an engagement fee of $5,500 including GST when you appoint us, non-refundable, and a success fee agreed in writing before the search begins, payable only on unconditional exchange. Neither moves with the price you pay. Our income comes from the client and from nowhere else.
Is it true that the best North Shore homes sell off-market?
Some do, and "off-market" covers three different things: the genuine private sale that never lists, the property being quietly tested before a campaign, and the one that failed to sell and is being re-offered without the fanfare. Only the first is rare.
What good access actually buys you is time: hearing about a property early enough to inspect it properly and get your evidence together before the crowd arrives. That is worth a great deal. It is not a secret list. If an agency's pitch rests on properties you are not allowed to see, ask what share of their purchases last year actually came that way.
What clients say when it is over.
Three of more than 50 reviews on Google, quoted as the clients wrote them. We cannot edit them and would not want to.
“They helped me find my first home on the upper north shore recently, and kept me informed and supported every step of the way through the process from finding the property, to getting it insured after completion. I am currently working in the UK so they were my main eyes and ears in Sydney.”Emily Martin · May 2026 · bought an Upper North Shore home from overseas
“Their insights were invaluable and they truly balances their advice across the financial considerations (capital growth, improvement upside etc) with the more immeasurable considerations (proximity to schools, local amenities etc). … We never once felt pressured to go higher unnecessarily and both of them were a phone call away at any stage.”Dean Jones · May 2026
“They took the time to genuinely understand us - our lifestyle, our personalities, and what we do on weekdays and weekends. … Sarah and Mike provided unfiltered, practical, and to-the-point advice without any of the usual sales fluff.”Priyam Yogesh · October 2025
Who we help buy on the North Shore
Buying from overseas or interstate
On a clock, and unable to stand in the kitchen yourself. You need eyes you can trust, evidence you can read at midnight, and someone on the ground whose only side is yours.
Upgrading to the family home
The family home, bought once, at the top of what feels sensible. At this stretch a wrong buy is not a lesson, it is a decade. Evidence before emotion, and a straight answer about which region your budget respects.
Short on time, not on standards
You know what good looks like; you do not have the Saturdays to find it. The work here is access, filtering and negotiation: hearing about the right ones early and arriving with the evidence already done.
Every North Shore suburb we cover
The full North Shore territory, region by region, with the Lower's thirty-six as defined above. Suburbs link where a dedicated page exists; the rest are named in plain text and will earn their links as their pages are written.
Lower North Shore, the thirty-six
Four characters, one region.
Balmoral, Clifton Gardens, Beauty Point and The Spit are part of Mosman: localities, not suburbs, which is exactly the kind of thing this page exists to say plainly.
Upper North Shore
From Roseville north: land, bush and the rail line.
The North Shore Private Briefing
Once a month, written by the directors rather than a marketing team: what the public market did, what the quiet market did, and what we would be looking at with our own money. It reads in five minutes and asks nothing of you.
FROM SARAH KAYE & CO RESEARCH
The monthly briefing carries the off-market notes as well. Get the monthly briefing. All articles.
A conversation, not a contract.
Thirty minutes on Zoom with both directors, free. No obligation, no follow-up drumbeat, and no offence taken if the answer is the Beaches, the other North Shore, or doing it yourself. You will leave the call knowing your region, and usually your shortlist, whichever way you go.
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