From inner city units to family houses, there were a range of properties homebuyers and investors opted for across Sydney suburbs over the last 12 months.
PropTrack data shed light on the most popular property categories, offering fresh insight into buyer demand and outlook for 2026.
Units in Parramatta recorded the highest amount of sales in the last 12 months at 709, followed by 555 unit sales in Liverpool and 534 unit sales in Ryde.
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Units in Parramatta topped the list. This Aird St home is listed for $600,000 to $650,000.
Houses dominated across the suburbs of Austral, Box Hill, Blacktown, Castle Hill and Oran Park.
PropTrack senior economist Anne Flaherty highlighted the most noticeable trend in the data was areas that were seeing the strongest growth tended to be those where the median price was lower.
“On the flip side some of the areas where the growth has been a bit less or even negative are tending to be slightly higher,” she said.
“If we look at units only, a lot of those suburbs where the unit price is sub $800,000 level, the growth has been stronger.”
Ms Flaherty said one suburb that stands out was Liverpool, where the median price is sub$500,000 and had seen the strongest growth in the list.
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100/1-3 Bigge Street, Liverpool listed for $400,000 to $420,000
According to Ms Flaherty, the property preferences over the past year reflect Sydney’s prices driving more buyers, particularly first homebuyers, to units.
“For a lot of buyers in Sydney, purchasing a house, it’s just not even a possibility,” she said.
“We have seen an increase in first homebuyer activity off the back of the federal government five per cent home guarantee scheme.
“That’s also a key factor driving more first homebuyers into looking for properties in that price threshold.”
This sentiment was echoed by Ray White Head of Research Vanessa Rader who said the high volume of more affordable transactions at that sub $1m mark reflected the October First Homebuyer Guarantee.
“It’s really indicative particularly towards the tail end of last year of first homebuyers looking to purchase,” she said.
Ms Rader pointed to the threshold for first homebuyers at $1.5m includes all suburbs listed barring Castle Hill in terms of price.
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Vanessa Rader
“Those places like Parramatta, Liverpool and Ryde is probably indicative of some new unit sales,” she said.
“Austral and Box Hill are located in the south west and north west growth corridors of Sydney and provide an entry level home.”
According to Ms Rader, more established markets feature on the list but not to the extent of the first top five or six locations.
Ms Rader also noted locations with growth around transport and development.
“The government has been particularly good with the growth around those transport nodes – the Parramatta, Liverpool, Ryde, Epping, Blacktown and even Hurtsville all of those they are all around transport nodes,” she said.
“We will continue to see more development happen in those as long as they are the right sort of price point.”
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109 Seventh Ave, Austral listed for $1,075,000
Ms Rader highlighted properties that were trading the most predominantly sit below the median house price in Sydney.
“We need more affordable housing product that’s pretty much what this is telling us,” Ms Rader said.
“The houses are all around the southwest or northwest growth corridors where land has opened up and people will still be able to buy at a relatively affordable price, be it $1m.”
Ms Flaherty also highlighted the suburbs houses dominated were in the growth suburbs with median price around or just a $1m median.
“That’s still below the greatest Sydney median house price, so I think affordability is a factor there,” she said.
Ms Flaherty said another factor included certain areas in greater Sydney seeing relatively stronger population growth such as Blacktown or Oran Park.
Ms Rader said there will likely continue to be a lot of transaction in the sub $1m price point in 2026.
“I do believe a lot of the first homebuyers in particular will remain in the market and the same with investors,” she said.
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Anne Flaherty
Ms Flaherty said overall they are expecting home price growth this year to be slightly lower than in 2025.
“Across the whole of greater Sydney home prices increased by seven per cent in Sydney, we’re looking at around the five to seven per cent as far as the forecast goes,” she said.
“I think that we’re going to see very different growth rates across price categories with interest rates expected to remain on hold or potentially even increase.
“I think that the more expensive segment of the market could see slower growth but on the flip side with that five per cent deposit scheme being launched relatively recently in October of last year I think that’s going to drive a stronger level of growth at that sub $1.5m category.”
Suburb Property Type Number Sold 12 months Median Sale Price 12 months
Parramatta U 709 $610,000
Liverpool U 555 $495,000
Ryde U 534 $735,000
Austral H 510 $1,018,000
Dee Why U 471 $1,000,000
Box Hill H 458 $1,297,000
Wentworth Point U 442 $740,000
Epping U 434 $810,000
Blacktown H 430 $1,100,000
Hurstville U 428 $770,000
Penrith U 406 $575,000
Lidcombe U 405 $780,000
Randwick U 395 $1,222,500
Macquarie Park U 393 $835,000
Castle Hill H 387 $2,500,000
Cronulla U 373 $1,115,000
Bankstown U 369 $585,000
Oran Park H 366 $1,145,000
Zetland U 362 $962,000
Merrylands U 361 $520,000
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