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NationalAustralia
After a record 2025, the top of the market has entered a more measured phase. Scarcity still sets the price of the finest addresses, but rates, tax reform and a broader downturn are testing buyers' resolve.
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NSWNew South Wales
Sydney still writes Australia's prestige record book, from Point Piper's nine-figure estates to a record run of $20 million-plus sales. In 2026, even the harbour's finest addresses are being priced with care.
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NSWNew South Wales
The selling agency’s winter 2025 report records the Point Piper estate at $130 million and names Brad Pillinger as the selling agent, confirming one of Sydney’s landmark transactions.
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VICVictoria
Melbourne's trophy estates and its broader upper-end market tell different stories. Agency commentary records a landmark Toorak sale, while independent market indices show a wider correction.
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QLDQueensland
From Noosa Sound to New Farm and the Gold Coast’s Millionaires’ Row, Queensland has spent a decade closing the gap on Sydney and Melbourne. In 2026 it set a new state record, even as the wider market cooled.
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WAWestern Australia
Three years of double-digit growth have turned Perth’s riverside and coastal enclaves into a genuine national prestige market. Thirty-one suburbs now have a median house price of $2 million or more, and in September a Cottesloe home set the year’s benchmark.
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SASouth Australia
Adelaide recorded more sales above $5 million in 2025 than in the previous year. Its prestige market combines established villas, coastal positions and tightly held land, while the broader market has since lost momentum.
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SASouth Australia
The Valuer-General’s historical series records a metropolitan house-sale median of $847,000 for the March quarter of 2025, with substantial differences between individual suburbs.
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TASTasmania
Tasmania recorded no $5 million sales last year. That says less about demand than about how rarely the island’s finest addresses change hands.
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ACTAustralian Capital Territory
The national capital's prestige market is small, discreet and fiercely concentrated. Forrest, Red Hill, Deakin and Yarralumla trade on land, gardens and heritage rather than water views, and their finest streets change hands only rarely.
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NTNorthern Territory
Darwin was the strongest capital city market of the past year, but prestige property in the Territory works on its own terms. It has no $5 million sales, few comparable homes, and an appeal based on harbour light, space and value.
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ACTAustralian Capital Territory
The 2026–27 Territory Budget removes every price cap and income test for first home buyers from 1 July 2026, and cuts duty and charges on new ‘missing middle’ homes.
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