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South Australia

South Australia as a whole, as the publisher reports it.

Latest data

The median new lease in South Australia was $560 a week in June quarter 2026, across 13,950 new leases. That is the publisher's own figure, computed over every bond in the state, not one we assembled from the areas below.

It is up 3.7% on a year earlier.

Median weekly rent$560publisher’s figure · June quarter 2026
Rent change — 1 yearUp 3.7%June quarter 2026 against a year earlier
Rent change — 5 yearsUp 60.0%June quarter 2026 against five years earlier
New leases13,950in June quarter 2026

69 quarters of history

Median weekly rent of bonds lodged in the quarter, which is new lettings only.

$200$300$400$500$600$56020092013201720212025

Regions

South Australia splits the state into metropolitan Adelaide and the rest, and publishes a median for each alongside thirteen regional aggregates. Every figure is computed over the bonds inside the area, not averaged from the suburbs in it.

224 suburbs

A single South Australian suburb. Jump to a letter, or search the list.

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131 postcodes

A postcode. It usually covers several suburbs, which makes its sample larger and its median steadier than any one of them. Jump to a letter, or search the list.

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From approval to completed home

Every stage between permission and a home somebody can live in, for South Australia. An approval is the weakest evidence in this chain and a completion is the strongest — only the last line counts dwellings that exist.

The chain, March quarter 2026

Approved14,761the twelve months to March 2026 · knowable 6 August 2026 · ABS building approvals, summed over the state
Approved and not yet started3,308March quarter 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity — a count at this date
Started14,902the twelve months to March 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity
Under construction15,605March quarter 2026 · knowable 8 July 2026 · ABS building activity — a count at this date
Completed14,051the 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.

Started against approved101%the twelve months to March 2026
Finished against started94%the twelve months to March 2026
Years of work under construction1.1at the rate of March quarter 2026
Approved pipeline not yet started17%of everything approved and unfinished at March quarter 2026

Dwellings were started at 101% of the rate they were approved over the twelve months to March 2026.

Fewer were finished than started (94% as many), so the number under construction grew.

What is under construction represents about 1.1 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.

Sources & methodology

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 →