New South Wales as a whole, as the publisher reports it.
New South Wales publishes no figure for the state as a whole, so there is none here. A median of the areas below would count a small market equally with a large one, which is not what a reader would take a state median to mean.
What can be said: of the 347 postcodes we hold, half rent above $700 a week.
New South Wales divides its councils into Greater Sydney, the rest of the Greater Metropolitan Region, and the rest of the state. The division is the publisher’s own and travels with every figure.
A New South Wales council area. It covers every suburb inside the council boundary, so it is wider than any one of them. Jump to a letter, or search the list.
A postcode. New South Wales reports rents by postcode and by council area, never by suburb, so a postcode is the smallest area we can show here. Jump to a letter, or search the list.
Every stage between permission and a home somebody can live in, for New South Wales. An approval is the weakest evidence in this chain and a completion is the strongest — only the last line counts dwellings that exist.
| Approved | 51,967 | the twelve months to March 2026 · knowable 6 August 2026 · ABS building approvals, summed over the state |
|---|---|---|
| Approved and not yet started | 12,745 | March quarter 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity — a count at this date |
| Started | 51,714 | the twelve months to March 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity |
| Under construction | 80,522 | March quarter 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity — a count at this date |
| Completed | 44,804 | the twelve months to March 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity |
The first three lines are permission and intent. Only the last counts homes that exist.
Dwellings were started at 100% of the rate they were approved over the twelve months to March 2026.
Fewer were finished than started (87% as many), so the number under construction grew.
What is under construction represents about 1.8 years of building at the current rate of completions.
These are counts of activity in a period, not a cohort. The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not publish which approvals became which commencements, so none of these figures says what share of any particular approvals was built.
Market data sources are named beside the figures above. APRIQ keeps the publication period, source, licence and calculation method available for inspection. See full sources & methodology →
