Rosebery, NSW 2018
Council Of The City Of Sydney, New South Wales
Good to Know
Rosebery, NSW 2018 is a high-value house market in the Council Of The City Of Sydney area, currently positioned as a long-hold capital growth submarket. Located inner-south of Sydney and close to the CBD, Rosebery is home to roughly 13,533 adults across 7,838 dwellings, with a vacancy rate of 2.14%.
According to HtAG Analytics, Rosebery is exhibiting tight supply conditions. Stock on Market sits at 0.24% and Inventory at 1.56 months — well below the ~3-month balanced-market threshold — driving +4.8% YoY price growth and +4.9% YoY rent growth.
What the market data is signalling
Rosebery shows concurrent price and rent growth (+4.8% and +4.9% respectively) while market supply measures are unusually tight (Stock on Market 0.24%, Inventory 1.56 months). That combination typically supports capital appreciation but constrains gross yields (houses here show an indicative gross yield of 2.50%), so investors focused on cashflow will need to recognise yield pressure.
Track broader short-term momentum on the Markets in the Moment (MiM™) heatmap for cross-market sentiment and hotspots.
Who lives in Rosebery — and why it matters for investors
Rosebery sits at an IRSAD decile of 10, indicating a highly advantaged socioeconomic profile that typically correlates with lower long-term volatility and price resilience. At the same time the local tenure mix is skewed — 51% renter share and a 85% units/houses ratio are both labelled unfavourable — which can mean higher turnover and shorter holding-period dynamics for some properties.
For how neighbourhood advantage interacts with price cycles see the IRSAD Crossover study.
Why suburb-level data matters for Rosebery
Council-level summaries mask the micro-variations inside a suburb. Rosebery's own metrics — a typical house price of $2,622,788, a gross yield of 2.50%, Stock on Market 0.24%, Inventory 1.56 months and median days on market of 81 days — are the actual inputs you should use when sizing an investment case. Decisions at the property level should be driven by these suburb-specific signals, not by broader averages.
Read more about why council averages can mislead in our LGA vs Suburb research. For a printable breakdown of Rosebery metrics, download the full Rosebery data guide.
What's behind the RCS™ score of 38
HtAG's RCS™ (Rating Composite Score) bundles three independent dimensions — risk minimisation, capital-growth potential and cashflow resilience — into a single composite to help match markets to strategy. A score of 38 indicates modest overall balance with notable trade-offs between capital potential and cashflow.
Check our explainer on how the RCS™ is built, then open Rosebery in HtAG Copilot to explore the sub-score breakdown relative to your strategy.
Forward signals to watch
vacancy rate — currently 2.14%: this sits in the balanced band. A sustained fall below 1% over 12–24 months would typically accelerate rent growth; a sustained rise above 3.5% would signal weakening rental demand.
building approvals ratio — currently 0.71%: this is in the neutral band (0.3–2%), indicating moderate new supply that is unlikely to swamp demand but could ease tightness if it continues to trend up.
Sydney cycle phase: a city-wide shift into a weaker cycle phase would likely dampen local capital momentum and slow price growth in Rosebery, while a stronger Sydney cycle would typically reinforce the suburb's recent price and rent gains.
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RCS Breakdown
Rosebery's RCS™ headline is an overall signal — but it doesn't tell you why. The three sub-scores below reveal whether that score is earned through risk minimisation, capital growth, or cashflow — and which portfolio brief it fits.
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Market Trends
Rosebery's headline values — $2,622K to buy and $1,262PW to rent, a 2.5% gross yield. Over the past decade, prices have moved 62.15% and rents 58.47% — the Yield series shows whether that gap is widening (price outpacing rent, yield compressing) or closing.
$2,622K is today. The 10-year trajectory reveals whether that's the top of a run, the start of a new leg, or somewhere mid-cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
$1,262PW today, with rent growth at (+4.9% YoY) compared to price growth (+4.79%). That spread determines yield is expanding or compressing across the next cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
Where is Rosebery in its cycle - and is the 2.5% yield holding?
Cycle phase tells you whether you're buying near the bottom (room to run) or top (compression ahead). Yield trajectory tells you whether cashflow is durable or being eroded — the single most important question for a long-hold thesis.
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Area Risks
Property data alone won't flag the structural risks that can erode a long-hold position. Bushfire overlays, flood-zone exposure, and economic concentration sit outside the price feed but determine whether your capital is insurable, defensible, and structurally protected. Unlock to see.
Are there hidden structural risks shaping Rosebery's long-hold story?
Beyond the headline price, Rosebery carries risk signals a median can't show — hazard exposure from bushfire and flood overlays, and how narrowly local employment leans on a handful of sectors (the concentration the EDI score quantifies). Together these separate insurable, defensible long-holds from those carrying tail-risk that never surfaces in the headline number.
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Supply & Demand
Rosebery's headline numbers show where the market is today. The two cards below answer where it's heading. Direction is what separates a buy from a wait.
Is housing supply tightening or building up?
Stock on Market is one number — the trend is what matters. SoM, inventory, building approvals and hold period together reveal whether the market is starving for stock (price pressure up) or quietly building a pipeline (pressure down).
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Is buyer and renter demand heating up or cooling off?
Vacancy is one signal — the real question is whether demand is still building or quietly peaking. Days on market, vacancy, search index and clearance rate are the four pulse-points — when they diverge, they signal a turning point.
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Fundamentals
Rosebery can look solid on the surface — but the three layers below separate markets that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Is Rosebery genuinely stable - or just expensive?
IRSAD hints at affluence, but socio-economic strength alone doesn't guarantee resilience. Combined with the renter-to-owner balance and unit-to-house ratio, you get the three signals that separate a tightly-held submarket from one carrying hidden volatility.
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Where do Rosebery prices go over the next 12 months?
Today's headline price is just a snapshot. Projected ROI and the volatility index tell you whether to commit capital now, wait for a softer entry, or rotate into a steadie submarket.
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Can you actually buy into Rosebery - and exit cleanly?
Tightly-held areas reward long-hold investors but punish anyone who needs liquidity. Annual sales and rental volume reveal whether your capital can reposition — or sits structurally locked in.
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Education & Infrastructure
Rosebery looks tightly-held and stable on the surface — but the three layers below separate areas that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Does Rosebery's school catchment + infrastructure pipeline justify the price?
School ranks anchor family demand and tenant quality. The active infrastructure pipeline shifts a suburb's price ceiling over the next 5–10 years. Together they tell you whether Rosebery has structural support for the next leg of capital growth.
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Full HtAG Intelligence
Rosebery shows potential. The platform tells you whether it's the best fit for your portfolio.
Price and yield are only the surface. HtAG reads the forces underneath — supply tightening or loosening, demand heating or cooling, and the risks that move slowly but decide long-term growth. Together they show whether Rosebery has the structural support for its next leg — or whether the numbers are running ahead of the fundamentals.
The total adult population (15 years or older) of Rosebery 2018 NSW is 11,898, with a median age of 33. Of those, 36.64% are married, 7.97% are divorced or separated, 52.56% are single and 2.87% are widowed.
The average household size is 2.3 people per dwelling, and the median household monthly income is estimated to be $10,888. The median monthly mortgage repayment for households in this suburb is $2,600 which is 23.88% of their earnings.
Source: ABS Census Data (2021)