Upper North Shore buyers agents

An Upper North Shore buyers agent acts only for the buyer. We take your brief, search on and off market, inspect and shortlist, price each home from recorded sales of comparable homes nearby, run the checks (contract, building and pest, zoning, heritage and nearby development), negotiate or bid at auction to a limit you set, and manage everything through to settlement. Sarah and Mike do the work themselves.

There is no official boundary. Most people mean the Ku-ring-gai council area plus Hornsby: Roseville, Roseville Chase, Lindfield, East Lindfield, Killara, East Killara, Gordon, Pymble, West Pymble, Turramurra, North Turramurra, South Turramurra, Warrawee, Wahroonga, North Wahroonga, St Ives, St Ives Chase and Hornsby. Chatswood and the suburbs south of Roseville are usually counted as the Lower North Shore.

Of the ten suburbs in our spring report, Cotality's August 2026 estimates put Roseville highest for houses at $3.70 million, just ahead of Lindfield at $3.69 million and Killara at $3.57 million. By actual sales over the year to September, the same three lead: Roseville at $4.18 million, Lindfield at $4.12 million and Killara at $3.97 million. The dearest suburbs on the whole North Shore sit on the Lower North Shore, led by Mosman.

They eased over winter, and not where you might expect. On the register, the typical seller of a home resold after an 18-month to five-year hold made 2.5 per cent this winter, against 10 per cent a year earlier, and about a third of house sellers took a loss. Cotality has the dearest suburbs down least over the year to August, 5 to 8 per cent for Roseville, Lindfield and Killara, with Wahroonga, St Ives, Pymble and Gordon down 11 to 19 per cent. Every suburb is still 32 to 41 per cent above August 2020. Our spring report sets out every suburb.

Buyers agents charge either a percentage of the price or a fixed fee. We charge a fixed fee, agreed in writing before we start: an engagement fee, then a success fee that does not change with the price you pay. It is the same on the Upper North Shore, the Lower North Shore and the Northern Beaches, and our fees page sets out what it covers.

Public school catchments are set by the NSW Department of Education and do not follow suburb boundaries, so one street can sit in one catchment and the next street in another. We confirm the catchment for the exact address on the Department's School Finder before you commit. Private schools set their own enrolment timing, often years ahead. We have done this ourselves: our three sons went all the way through Knox in Wahroonga, so we know the drop-offs, the buses and the 8am traffic.

Three things change what you can do with a block here. Heritage: many streets sit in heritage conservation areas and some homes are listed heritage items, which limits alterations and demolition. The Low and Mid-Rise housing rules allow more homes on some lots within walking distance of nominated stations and town centres, though not on land with a heritage item, and since October 2025 Ku-ring-gai has required a minimum lot size of 1,015 square metres for a dual occupancy. And Ku-ring-gai's own Transport Oriented Development scheme, in force since 14 November 2025, allows buildings of up to eight storeys around Roseville and Killara stations and taller around Gordon and Lindfield; it sits in the council's height and floor-space maps rather than on the state's map. Large apartment projects can also be approved by the state as State Significant Development, and an approval will not show on any zoning map. So we check the zoning, height, heritage and the state's Major Projects register for the home, the street and the lots behind it.

Yes, often. We inspect in person, send video and notes, run the checks, and negotiate or bid on your instructions, on your time zone. Some clients first see the home in person at settlement. If you are not an Australian citizen, check the foreign investment rules first: buying an established home is heavily restricted for most foreign buyers at present, and we will check your position before we start.