PropertyEye tracks live listings in Sydney and Brisbane today — open the live board. These pages are built from published auction results (2021–2026), our price model and weekly clearance data.
Price model — what the model says a typical home here achieves at auction
| Configuration | Model estimate | Range | Comparable sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-bed unit | $933k | $833k–$1.03M | 58 |
| 2-bed unit | $1.3M | $1.16M–$1.44M | 58 |
| 3-bed unit | $2.48M | $2.09M–$2.88M | 58 |
| 3-bed house | $3.3M | $2.8M–$3.78M | 174 |
| 4-bed house | $4.14M | $3.32M–$4.98M | 174 |
| 5-bed house | $4.87M | $3.41M–$6.53M | 174 |
Modelled from 146,492 Australian auction sales (2021–2026). Sydney cells run on the base model (suburb prior + configuration + time) without the Sydney-only land/school/transport features — ranges are honest about the wider uncertainty. Estimates from comparable auction results — not valuations or financial advice.
Buildings in Balmain — full dossiers: every sale, turnover, orders, what units rent for
| Building | Recorded sales | Last 3 yrs | Lots | Resale record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Hyam St | 64 since 2014 | 32 | — | 70% of 23 resales above purchase · median hold 2.5y |
| 2 Buchanan St | 57 since 2015 | 21 | 168 | 88% of 8 resales above purchase · median hold 3.2y |
| 110 Elliott St Storage | 56 since 2021 | 27 | — | 62% of 26 resales above purchase · median hold 1.4y |
| 10 Dick St | 37 since 2015 | 18 | — | |
| 22 Colgate Ave | 29 since 2014 | 18 | — | 100% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 4.1y |
| 1 Buchanan St | 22 since 2014 | 8 | 82 | |
| 10 Gow St | 22 since 2014 | 11 | 40 | 100% of 5 resales above purchase · median hold 4.9y |
| 66 Mullens St | 16 since 2014 | 2 | — | 100% of 4 resales above purchase · median hold 7.6y |
| 383 Darling St | 16 since 2021 | 4 | 14 | |
| 2 Beattie St | 14 since 2015 | 4 | 43 | |
| 6 Thames St | 13 since 2015 | 4 | 33 | 67% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 4.2y |
| 1 Grafton St | 12 since 2020 | 4 | 28 | 100% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 2.5y |
| 100 Reynolds St | 12 since 2021 | 5 | 26 | |
| 1 Barr St | 10 since 2015 | 4 | — | |
| 13 Evans St | 10 since 2020 | 5 | — | |
| 440 Darling St | 9 since 2021 | 2 | 23 | |
| 1 King St | 9 since 2021 | 5 | 35 | |
| 9 Longview St | 9 since 2014 | 2 | 9 | |
| 15 King St | 8 since 2021 | 6 | 17 | |
| 338 Darling St | 8 since 2015 | 3 | — |
The 20 most-transacted of 39 Balmain buildings with dossiers — the rest are reachable from these pages and the sitemap. Sales counts and resale records from NSW Valuer General bulk data (CC-BY); lot counts from the NSW Strata Hub register. Each dossier also states what public records cannot tell you.
Recent comparable sales — the real auction results behind the estimates
Units
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/9 Longview St | 3 bd · 2 ba | $1,910,000 | Sep 2025 |
| 1/6 Thames St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $1,230,000 | Sep 2025 |
| 202/22 Colgate Av | 1 bd · 1 ba | $1,125,000 | Jun 2025 |
| 12/2 Hyam St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $935,000 | Jun 2025 |
| 7/40 Arthur St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $730,000 | May 2025 |
| B18/1 Buchanan St | 2 bd · 2 ba | $1,328,000 | Apr 2025 |
Houses
| Address | Config | Sold | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 North St | 2 bd · 2 ba | $2,340,000 | May 2025 |
| 41 Elliott St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $1,970,000 | May 2025 |
| 46 Glassop St | 4 bd · 2 ba | $4,000,000 | May 2025 |
| 4 Evans St | 2 bd · 1 ba | $2,200,000 | May 2025 |
| 11 Gladstone St | 1 bd · 1 ba | $1,501,050 | May 2025 |
| 16 White St | 3 bd · 1 ba | $3,040,000 | Apr 2025 |
Recent sold auction results in Balmain from the price model's training set (published Domain results). A sample, not every sale.
What Balmain actually sold for — published auction results, quarter by quarter
Units — median sold price by quarter
Latest quarter $1.03M (4 sales)
Houses — median sold price by quarter
Latest quarter $2.51M (8 sales) · measured trend -4.3%/yr (3-bed like-for-like, 46 sales)
Quarterly medians of real published auction results (sold outcomes only). Historical results — not a prediction, valuation or financial advice.
All settled sales — every recorded sale, not just auctions
Last 12 months: 193 settled sales · median $2,330,000 (middle half $1,675,000–$3,150,000)
| Year | Settled sales | Median | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 287 | $1,950,000 | $1,300,000–$2,650,000 |
| 2022 | 213 | $2,100,000 | $1,410,000–$2,975,000 |
| 2023 | 223 | $2,200,000 | $1,583,750–$3,080,000 |
| 2024 | 245 | $2,275,000 | $1,575,000–$2,930,000 |
| 2025 | 256 | $2,300,000 | $1,500,000–$3,350,000 |
| 2026 | 93 | $2,330,000 | $1,700,000–$3,200,000 |
Settled-sale records from the NSW Valuer General's Property Sales Information. Dates are contract (exchange) dates; sales appear only once lodged, so the most recent months are incomplete and revise upward — never read the latest month as final. Residential sales of all methods — private treaty and auction. © State of New South Wales (Valuation NSW).
Crime — recorded key offences (BOCSAR)
Index 42 — around the Sydney average (50 = average) · band average
BOCSAR recorded key offences per resident at POSTCODE level (2041) — a postcode can span neighbouring suburbs. Rates are per RESIDENT — visitor-heavy precincts read high. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (CC BY 4.0).
Delivered & approved supply — what got built around here, honestly windowed
256 dwellings approved in Balmain between 2019-08-30 and 2023-04-29 (598 applications).
Census check: occupied dwellings grew from 4,185 (2016) to 5,037 (2021) — +852 delivered in that window, +210 of them apartments — measured completion, independent of any approval record.
Council portal records begin August 2019 — approvals before that date are invisible to the automated count and appear here only where curated from public record (and say so). Approved also precedes completed by 1–3 years. State-assessed projects live in the fast-track section, not these counts.
Institutional moves — arrivals & departures, 12-month DA window
When an organisation with real money commits to a location — or abandons one — they've done homework you can't see. The market moves around that decision; the building is the visible end of it.
departure Aged care / seniors — 13-13a Thames Street Balmain 2041 · $10k works
Demolition · Residential care facility · Determined · determined 2026-03-25 · PAN-610806
A DA is intent, not an opening — and a demolition DA is not always a closure (rebuilds happen). Classification is over the Planning Portal's own structured development types; every record above is checkable by its PAN number. Departures are deliberately listed first: almost nobody watches them. Supermarket-class moves live in the anchor-tenant section, not here. Development application data © NSW Department of Planning and Environment, used under CC BY 4.0.
State-assessed housing nearby — the fast-track pipeline within 2.5km, refused declarations included
7 dwellings · 2-2 6 Mansfield Street, Rozelle · 0.8km away · Huish Episcopi Pty Ltd
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2025-08-29
154 dwellings · 104-108 Victoria Road, Rozelle · 1.5km away
Preparing the EIS — design being documented · SSD-101723458
138-152 Victoria Road, Rozelle · 1.5km away
Determination — decision imminent · SSD-68298726
150 dwellings · 56-60 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Pyrmont · 2km away · Time & Place
Preparing the EIS — design being documented · SSD-127281248
56 - 60 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Pyrmont · 2km away
Preparing the EIS — design being documented · SSD-129494241
220 dwellings · 60 Union Street, Pyrmont · 2km away
Preparing the EIS — design being documented · SSD-96974214
+ 10 more within 2.5km — see the full fast-track list.
Known pipeline within 2.5km: 1,127 dwellings across 16 projects — future supply IF approved and built. More homes coming can mean growth in services and momentum, but also more stock competing with a resale.
These proposals go straight to NSW state assessment (Housing Delivery Authority pathway) and never appear in council DA counts. Dwelling numbers are the applicant's EOI figures — assessment can trim them. Distance is suburb-centre to project, ±500m.
Schools — density, catchment and community profile
4 primary schools within 2km · nearest school ~0.34km · 6 selective within 5km · ICSEA 1132
Catchment (suburb-centre approximation): Balmain PS · SSC Balmain — a boundary address can differ; verify yours at NSW School Finder.
ICSEA is the socio-educational advantage of a school's community (My School, national average ~1000) — a demographic measure, not a quality or results score. NSW DoE school locations + intake zones, CC BY 4.0.
Auction market pace — Sydney weekly clearance
Benchmark series (Domain): week to 2026-08-22 — 53.8% of 372 reported auctions. Our own tracking (withdrawn counted): week to 2026-08-22 — 43% of 524 scheduled. Lower clearance generally means more room for buyers to negotiate.
Suburb breakdown — trailing 8 weeks, our tracking, withdrawn counted
| Suburb | Clearance | Withdrawn | Auctions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Cove | 54% | 8% | 87 |
| St Ives | 34% | 16% | 58 |
| Randwick | 51% | 14% | 57 |
| Turramurra | 40% | 17% | 52 |
| Marrickville | 52% | 17% | 46 |
| Castle Hill | 43% | 11% | 44 |
| Mosman | 48% | 31% | 42 |
| Wahroonga | 20% | 7% | 41 |
| Eastwood | 38% | 15% | 40 |
| Epping | 46% | 15% | 39 |
Recent auction addresses in Balmain
Every address links to its own page — published results, price estimate, suburb context.
44 Reynolds St · 29 Llewellyn St · 13 Wortley St · 153 Beattie St · 2 Tobruk Av · 12 Trouton St · 77 Beattie St · 15 Gladstone St · 27 Short St · 8 Davidson St · 2 Ford St · 53 College St · 40 High St · A19/1 Buchanan St · 204/110 Elliott St · 161 Darling St · 4/6 Turner St · 22 Phillip St · 5/140-148 Beattie St · 38 Phillip St
Development pipeline — what's proposed in Balmain, and how far along it is
Major applications in the DA channel
| Address | Scale | Stage | Lodged |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 COLGATE AVENUE BALMAIN 2041 | 36 dwellings · $53.9M | Lodged — under assessment | 2026-03-10 |
| 7/169 Darling Street Balmain 2041 | 10 dwellings · $0.1M | Approved | 2021-05-20 |
| 267 DARLING STREET BALMAIN 2041 | 9 dwellings · $4M | Refused | 2020-12-17 |
| 323 DARLING STREET BALMAIN 2041 | 5 dwellings · $3.6M | Determined — outcome not published in the open feed | 2023-08-10 |
| 229 DARLING STREET BALMAIN 2041 | 3 dwellings · $0.5M | Approved | 2020-11-05 |
| 14C JANE STREET BALMAIN 2041 | 1 dwellings · $4.6M | Determined — outcome not published in the open feed | 2026-03-18 |
| 14A EWENTON STREET BALMAIN 2041 | 1 dwellings · $4.1M | Determined — outcome not published in the open feed | 2023-08-24 |
Plus 212 smaller applications (renovations, single dwellings, signage) — 103 determined, 68 approved, 9 withdrawn, 20 lodged, 7 rejected, 4 refused, 1 cancelled.
What this view cannot see
- Council DAs from the NSW Planning Portal open feed, matched within ~150 m of addresses we track — a proximity net, not a complete register.
- Verdicts (approved/refused) come from a dataset frozen in Nov 2023: anything determined after that shows “determined” without a published outcome. Check the application on the NSW Planning Portal for the current decision.
- The largest master-planned sites can proceed as State Significant Development or planning proposals and never appear as council DAs. State-pipeline EOIs shown here are proposals, not applications, and can change or lapse.
- No feed we hold ties a construction certificate to a specific application, so no project row here can honestly read “under construction” — “approved” never means “built”. Suburb-level construction-certificate volume appears in the DA-volume section.
Planned growth — Inner West LGA
The Sydney Plan, the NSW Government's 20-year framework published 13 August 2026. These are projections for the whole LGA, not a forecast for any individual property.
Jobs figures are published as a guidance range and are not legislated the way housing targets are. Source: © State of New South Wales and Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Housing and jobs targets — INNER WEST LGA
Under the NSW Government's 20-year Sydney plan, INNER WEST has a five-year housing target of 7,800 new homes (2024–2029) and a jobs target of 15,000–21,600 additional jobs by 2046.
The housing target is the supply pipeline for the area: the number of new homes the state expects the council to plan capacity for, concentrated around the centres and station areas the Plan nominates. The jobs figure is published as an aspirational range and is not legislated the way housing targets are.
Source: The Sydney Plan, Appendix D — Housing and Employment Guidance (published 13 August 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0. © State of New South Wales and Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 2026
State rezoning pipeline — Inner West LGA
The Sydney Plan lists 3 state significant rezoning sites in this LGA — land the NSW Government is rezoning (or has rezoned) for additional homes and jobs, alongside council-led supply. Dwelling and jobs figures are preliminary estimates provided by proponents or councils.
- Parramatta Road (Leichhardt/Camperdown) — ~8,000 dwellings · assessment underway, announced Sept 2025
- Bays West Precinct — ~8,500 dwellings · assessment underway, announced Nov 2024
- WestConnex Dive Site, Annandale (Landcom) — ~580 dwellings, ~50 jobs · rezoning completed Dec 2025
These are LGA-level sites, not a statement about any individual property; the Plan does not publish site boundaries or coordinates in this appendix. Source: The Sydney Plan, Appendix F — State-led or assessed rezonings (published 13 August 2026, updated every 6 months), licensed CC BY 4.0. © State of New South Wales and Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 2026
All figures derive from published auction results and public data — estimates only, not financial advice.