Darlinghurst · Sydney NSW

Suburb intelligence from Sydney's published auction results — all Sydney suburbs

43 state-assessed housing projects within 2.5km — ~1,852 dwellings in the pipeline (EOI figures, assessment can trim). Nearest: 21 - 35 Oxford Street, Surry Hills (0.5km, Declared State Significant — on the fast-track). Details below ↓

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

ConfigurationModel estimateRangeComparable sales
1-bed unit$935k$835k–$1.04M193
2-bed unit$1.45M$1.29M–$1.6M193
3-bed unit$2.97M$2.38M–$3.57M193
3-bed house$4.06M$3.45M–$4.66M47
4-bed house$4.84M$4.11M–$5.55M47
5-bed house$5.51M$4.1M–$7.04M47

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 Darlinghurst — full dossiers: every sale, turnover, orders, what units rent for

BuildingRecorded salesLast 3 yrsLotsResale record
20 Mclachlan Ave 204 since 2011 28 99% of 67 resales above purchase · median hold 9.3y
184 Forbes St Storage 99 since 2014 36 92% of 13 resales above purchase · median hold 3.3y
50 Mclachlan Ave 75 since 2014 27 168 100% of 5 resales above purchase · median hold 5.9y
227 Victoria St 64 since 2014 18 123 86% of 14 resales above purchase · median hold 7.5y
46 Burton St 63 since 2014 31 75% of 12 resales above purchase · median hold 4.2y
3 Kings Cross Rd 55 since 2014 23 170 83% of 6 resales above purchase · median hold 2.8y
220 Goulburn St 54 since 2015 31 100% of 6 resales above purchase · median hold 7.6y
100 Barcom Ave 51 since 2014 20 82% of 11 resales above purchase · median hold 3.1y
38 College St 50 since 2014 26 86% of 7 resales above purchase · median hold 2y
18 Neild Ave 42 since 2020 12 60% of 5 resales above purchase · median hold 3.7y
6 Darley St 41 since 2015 22 67% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 4.2y
6 Oxford St 40 since 2014 20 60% of 5 resales above purchase · median hold 3.4y
48 Stanley St 37 since 2014 0 100% of 7 resales above purchase · median hold 8y
1 Francis St 35 since 2015 11
302 Crown St 35 since 2014 10 100% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 3.3y
299 Forbes St 35 since 2014 9 101 100% of 4 resales above purchase · median hold 6.1y
438 Victoria St 33 since 2014 20 79 100% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 6.4y
18 Oxford St 32 since 2015 16
18 College St 32 since 2014 9 89 100% of 3 resales above purchase · median hold 6y
265 Crown St 31 since 2015 18 100% of 4 resales above purchase · median hold 2.8y

The 20 most-transacted of 111 Darlinghurst 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

AddressConfigSoldWhen
4/227 Crown St1 bd · 1 ba$728,000Sep 2025
526/50 Burton St2 bd · 2 ba$2,000,000Jul 2025
8/2 Clapton Pl1 bd · 1 ba$820,000Jul 2025
1206/227 Victoria St1 bd · 1 ba$1,160,000Jun 2025
3/19 Kirketon Rd1 bd · 1 ba$687,500Jun 2025
2803/184 Forbes St2 bd · 2 ba$3,875,000Jun 2025

Houses

AddressConfigSoldWhen
1A Palmer La3 bd · 2 ba$3,360,000Apr 2025
133 Barcom Av3 bd · 1 ba$2,455,000Mar 2025
47 Surrey St5 bd · 3 ba$5,000,000Mar 2025
47 Surrey St5 bd · 3 ba$5,000,000Mar 2025
3 Sims St2 bd · 1 ba$1,600,000Feb 2025
160 Bourke St4 bd · 3 ba$2,670,000Dec 2024

Recent sold auction results in Darlinghurst from the price model's training set (published Domain results). A sample, not every sale.

What Darlinghurst actually sold for — published auction results, quarter by quarter

Units — median sold price by quarter

Q 3 21: $845k (11 sales)Q 4 21: $1.3M (14 sales)Q 1 22: $1.1M (13 sales)Q 3 22: $1M (7 sales)Q 4 22: $1.27M (5 sales)Q 1 23: $1.18M (5 sales)Q 2 23: $1.06M (11 sales)Q 3 23: $1.24M (12 sales)Q 4 23: $908k (10 sales)Q 1 24: $1.05M (13 sales)Q 2 24: $1.35M (7 sales)Q 3 24: $753k (9 sales)Q 4 24: $1.6M (25 sales)Q 1 25: $845k (3 sales)Q 2 25: $1.42M (14 sales)Q 3 25: $820k (3 sales) Q 3 21 Q 3 25 $820k

Latest quarter $820k (3 sales) · measured trend +0.4%/yr (2-bed like-for-like, 53 sales)

Houses — median sold price by quarter

Q 3 21: $1.74M (4 sales)Q 4 21: $1.93M (5 sales)Q 2 22: $2.4M (5 sales)Q 3 22: $2.35M (6 sales)Q 4 22: $2.59M (8 sales)Q 2 23: $2.35M (5 sales)Q 3 23: $2.73M (4 sales)Q 4 23: $2.71M (8 sales)Q 2 24: $2.64M (6 sales)Q 3 24: $2.04M (6 sales)Q 4 24: $3.17M (7 sales)Q 1 25: $2.53M (5 sales)Q 2 25: $3.35M (3 sales) Q 3 21 Q 2 25 $3.35M

Latest quarter $3.35M (3 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: 313 settled sales · median $1,250,000 (middle half $766,250–$2,115,000)

YearSettled salesMedianMiddle half
2021451$1,375,000$825,000–$2,112,500
2022321$1,440,000$837,500–$2,400,000
2023341$1,200,000$790,000–$2,000,000
2024350$1,232,500$710,000–$2,200,000
2025430$1,245,000$735,875–$2,246,250
2026154$1,257,500$761,250–$2,059,000

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 100 — well above the Sydney average (50 = average) · band high

BOCSAR recorded key offences per resident at POSTCODE level (2010) — 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).

🚩 Yield vs growth — who pays here, and does it convert?

Rent trap risk — cash flows, capital has sat still. Gross yield 5.3% (bond-median rent $830/wk against a measured unit sale median of $820k) · measured growth +0.4%/yr — against metro medians of 4.1% and 1.7%/yr across 39 tracked suburbs.

Yield is above the metro median but measured growth is below it. Ask WHO pays that rent: if the tenant base structurally can't convert to buyers, the yield never becomes growth.

Observable drivers: UTS 1.8km away — student demand pours into renting, none of it into buying.

Rent trajectory (new-tenancy bond medians, postcode 2010): +5.9%/yr over the last 3 years · +4.5%/yr since 2019 — a level is not a trend; both are shown so neither is implied.

Working: rent = NSW rental bond lodgements, flats, postcode level; growth = like-for-like 2-bed OLS (53 sales) over 16 quarters. Relative labels — "high" means above the metro median in this window, nothing more. Drivers are places and distances, never who lives here.

Delivered & approved supply — what got built around here, honestly windowed

274 dwellings approved in Darlinghurst between 2019-08-30 and 2023-04-29 (445 applications).

Census check: occupied dwellings grew from 5,042 (2016) to 6,508 (2021) — +1,466 delivered in that window, +362 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.

State-fiat planning programs — controls moved by state decision (RULE-002)

Low and Mid-Rise Housing reform — Darlinghurst and Paddington town centre (Oxford Street) · controls from 2025-02-28 · source

A state-fiat listing changes what can be BUILT here — planning controls, height, density — by government decision, with no demand-demonstration step. It is a zoning signal, not a price signal: our own backtests found listed and unlisted suburbs moving together, so we don't claim price uplift from a listing. What it reliably means: development capacity changed on the date shown, checkable at the source.

State-assessed housing nearby — the fast-track pipeline within 2.5km, refused declarations included

102 dwellings · 21 - 35 Oxford Street, Surry Hills · 0.5km away · Paro Consulting (Paro Planning Pty Ltd)
Declared State Significant — on the fast-track · HDA record, 2026-06-22

100 dwellings · 70-76 Riley Street, Darlinghurst · 0.5km away · Creative Planning Solutions
Declared State Significant — on the fast-track · HDA record, 2026-03-13

100 dwellings · 48 - 50 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst · 0.6km away · Inspire Planning
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2026-07-23

128 dwellings · 4 - 16 Yurong Street, Darlinghurst · 0.6km away · MAPP Group Holdings Pty Ltd
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2026-06-22

105 dwellings · 17 - 19 Brisbane Street, Surry Hills · 0.6km away · Think Planners Pty Ltd
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2026-03-31

102 dwellings · 85-93 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills · 0.8km away · Think Planners Pty Ltd
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2026-06-15

+ 53 more within 2.5km — see the full fast-track list.

Known pipeline within 2.5km: 5,820 dwellings across 59 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

7 primary schools within 2km · nearest school ~0.37km · 4 selective within 5km · ICSEA 1116

Catchment (suburb-centre approximation): Crown St PS · Inner Sydney HS — 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

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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

SuburbClearanceWithdrawnAuctions
Lane Cove54%8%87
St Ives34%16%58
Randwick51%14%57
Turramurra40%17%52
Marrickville52%17%46
Castle Hill43%11%44
Mosman48%31%42
Wahroonga20%7%41
Eastwood38%15%40
Epping46%15%39

Recent auction addresses in Darlinghurst

Every address links to its own page — published results, price estimate, suburb context.

104 Surrey St · 6 Ryder St · 1/235 Darlinghurst Rd · 409/227 Victoria St · 806/227 Victoria St · 155 Riley St · 69/1 Tewkesbury Av · 24/299 Forbes St · 4/163-167 William St · 203/150 Liverpool St · 80/6 Stanley St · 65/20 Mclachlan Av · 2403/1 Kings Cross Rd · 28/37-39 Francis St · 5/12-20 Rosebank St · 64 Surrey St · 2/2 Kings La · 28/15-19 Boundary St · 212 Palmer St · 28/20 Mclachlan Av · 16/121-129 William St · 1/291 Liverpool St · 215 Crown St

Development pipeline — what's proposed in Darlinghurst, and how far along it is

State-pipeline proposals (pre-DA — the biggest projects start here)

Major applications in the DA channel

AddressScaleStageLodged
355-357 LIVERPOOL STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 19 dwellings · $13.6M Determined — outcome not published in the open feed 2024-04-03
349 LIVERPOOL STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 14 dwellings · $28M Cancelled
349 LIVERPOOL STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 14 dwellings · $28M Determined — outcome not published in the open feed 2022-08-19
349 LIVERPOOL STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 14 dwellings · $0M Determined — outcome not published in the open feed 2025-12-02
278 PALMER STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 9 dwellings · $2.9M Approved 2020-07-09
42 HARDIE STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 1 dwellings · $4.9M Determined — outcome not published in the open feed 2021-11-12
1 TAGGARTS LANE DARLINGHURST 2010 1 dwellings · $4.8M Lodged — under assessment 2026-07-22
58-76, 82-106 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst 0 dwellings · $44.1M Approved with conditions 2020-10-15
256 CROWN STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 0 dwellings · $28.8M Determined — outcome not published in the open feed 2023-03-31
110-122 OXFORD STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 0 dwellings · $16.1M Approved with conditions 2020-10-15
110-122 OXFORD STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 0 dwellings · $15.2M Approved 2022-08-09
301 FORBES STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 $9.1M Lodged — under assessment 2025-12-03
107-113 CROWN STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 $7.6M Lodged — under assessment 2026-08-07
58-76, 82-106, 110-122 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst 0 dwellings · $7.6M Approved 2022-01-04
163-169 OXFORD STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 0 dwellings · $5.1M Withdrawn by the applicant 2020-10-15
86 FLINDERS STREET DARLINGHURST 2010 $3.6M Determined — outcome not published in the open feed 2025-11-10

Plus 106 smaller applications (renovations, single dwellings, signage) — 58 determined, 7 lodged, 2 refused, 26 approved, 3 cancelled, 10 withdrawn.

What this view cannot see

Planned growth — Sydney 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.

244,560 → 278,141 +13.7%people, 2026 → 2046
664,300 → 807,300 +21.5%jobs, 2026 → 2046
134,394homes today · 27 km²

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 — SYDNEY LGA

Under the NSW Government's 20-year Sydney plan, SYDNEY has a five-year housing target of 18,900 new homes (2024–2029) and a jobs target of 93,500–143,000 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 — Sydney LGA

The Sydney Plan lists 4 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.

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.