Petersham · Sydney NSW

Price model — what the model says a typical home here achieves at auction

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

The 20 most-transacted of 43 Petersham 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

Houses

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

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

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: 191 settled sales · median $1,270,000 (middle half $825,000–$1,908,500)

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 56 — around the Sydney average (50 = average) · band average

BOCSAR recorded key offences per resident at POSTCODE level (2049) — 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?

Below metro on both sides. Gross yield 3.9% (bond-median rent $700/wk against a measured unit sale median of $945k) · measured growth -0.5%/yr — against metro medians of 4.1% and 1.7%/yr across 39 tracked suburbs.

Yield and measured growth both under the metro median in this window. Not a verdict on the future — but the recent numbers earn no story either way.

Rent trajectory (new-tenancy bond medians, postcode 2049): +5.0%/yr over the last 3 years · +4.1%/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 = all-unit quarterly-median OLS — mix-sensitive, read as indicative over 14 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

1,366 dwellings approved in Petersham between 2019-08-30 and 2023-04-29 (292 applications). Largest: 357dw 3-7 Regent Street Petersham 2049 (2022) · 357dw 3-7 Regent Street Petersham Nsw 2049 (2022).

Census check: occupied dwellings grew from 3,145 (2016) to 3,876 (2021) — +731 delivered in that window, +147 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 — Petersham station · 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

120 dwellings · 307-315 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt · 0.7km away
Under assessment · SSD-83721209

102 dwellings · 31-41 Bridge Road, Stanmore · 1.5km away · Crown Constructions Australia Pty Limited
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2025-10-10

200 dwellings · 168 – 180 Victoria Rd, Marrickville · 1.6km away · Marchese Partners | Life 3a
Not declared — fast-track refused · HDA record, 2025-08-29

203 dwellings · 40-76 William Street, Leichhardt · 1.8km away
Responding to public submissions · SSD-119545240

600 dwellings · 52-54 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Annandale · 1.8km away · Camperdown Estates Pty Ltd
Preparing the EIS — design being documented · SSD-125914490

200 dwellings · 40-76 William Street, Leichhardt · 1.8km away
Preparing the EIS — design being documented · SSD-80704962

+ 5 more within 2.5km — see the full fast-track list.

Known pipeline within 2.5km: 2,092 dwellings across 11 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

10 primary schools within 2km · nearest school ~0.44km · 6 selective within 5km · ICSEA 1118

Catchment (suburb-centre approximation): Petersham PS · Dulwich HS of Visual Arts and Design — 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

Recent auction addresses in Petersham

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

31a Chester St · 16a Andreas St · 3/27 Gordon St · 221/1 Phillip St · 508/2 Regent St · 5/121-123 New Canterbury Rd · 4 Robert St · 210/5 Regent St · 801/2 Regent St · 32 Bishop St · 303/2 Regent St · 16/5 Croydon St

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

Major applications in the DA channel

Plus 111 smaller applications (renovations, single dwellings, signage) — 38 approved, 48 determined, 7 lodged, 6 rejected, 7 withdrawn, 4 cancelled, 1 refused.

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.

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