Cordeaux Heights, NSW 2526
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales
Good to Know
Cordeaux Heights, NSW 2526 is a high-value house market in the Wollongong City Council area, currently positioned as a long-hold capital growth submarket. Located in the Illawarra region south of Sydney, it is home to roughly 4,460 adults across 1,557 dwellings and currently records a vacancy rate of 2.29%.
According to HtAG Analytics, Cordeaux Heights is exhibiting tight supply and price-led momentum. Stock on Market sits at 0.11% and Inventory at 1.46 months — both well below the ~3-month balanced-market threshold — driving +7.0% YoY price growth and +2.7% YoY rent growth.
What the market data is signalling
Cordeaux Heights shows stronger capital gains than rental returns: 1-year price growth is +7.0% versus 1-year rent growth of +2.7%. That divergence, combined with a low gross yield of 2.95% (below the 3% guideline), points to a market driven more by scarcity and buyer competition than by immediate cashflow.
Very low selling availability — Stock on Market 0.11% and Inventory 1.46 months — suggests seller-tight conditions that have supported recent price gains. For a visual of where this sits in the cycle, see the Markets in the Moment (MiM™) heatmap.
Who lives in Cordeaux Heights — and why it matters for investors
Cordeaux Heights records an IRSAD of 1080, indicating a relatively advantaged socioeconomic profile. Higher affluence typically reduces price volatility and supports long-run capital resilience, although it can compress rental yields.
The area’s household mix is also notable: a renter/owner ratio of 8.0% and a units/houses ratio of 1.0% are both labelled opportune, indicating a predominantly owner-occupied, house-based suburb — useful context for strategies that prioritise price stability over high yield. Read more in our IRSAD Crossover study.
Why suburb-level data matters for Cordeaux Heights
Council-level averages can hide pockets like Cordeaux Heights: decisions should rest on the suburb’s own metrics. Here those metrics show a typical house price of $1,480,581, a gross yield of 2.95%, Stock on Market of 0.11%, Inventory of 1.46 months and median days on market of 38 days. These figures together describe a tightly-held, low-supply house market where capital growth has been the dominant return driver.
For more on why granular suburb research matters, see LGA vs Suburb research. You can also download the full Cordeaux Heights data guide.
What's behind the RCS™ score of 70
The HtAG RCS™ score of 70 bundles three independent dimensions — risk minimisation, capital-growth potential and cashflow resilience — into a single composite. A mid-high score like this typically reflects stronger capital upside tempered by lower rental yield, so reading the sub-score breakdown matters when matching the suburb to your strategy.
Learn more about how the RCS™ is built, or open Cordeaux Heights in HtAG Copilot to explore the sub-score details.
Forward signals to watch
vacancy rate — currently 2.29%: a sustained, balanced vacancy around 2–3% typically supports steady rent growth and manageable tenant churn; a sustained fall below 1% would tighten the leasing market and push rents higher, while a rise above ~3.5% would signal weakening demand.
building approvals ratio — currently 0.07%: this very low approvals reading signals a thin pipeline of new housing supply, which tends to underpin price resilience in low-supply suburbs over the medium term.
Sydney cycle phase: monitor the broader Sydney cycle phase closely — a city-wide slowdown would likely moderate local price momentum in Cordeaux Heights, while continued expansion in Sydney would support further capital upside locally.
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RCS Breakdown
Cordeaux Heights'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
Cordeaux Heights's headline values — $1,480K to buy and $839PW to rent, a 2.94% gross yield. Over the past decade, prices have moved 93.61% and rents 64.51% — the Yield series shows whether that gap is widening (price outpacing rent, yield compressing) or closing.
$1,480K 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.
$839PW today, with rent growth at (+2.69% YoY) compared to price growth (+7.04%). That spread determines yield is expanding or compressing across the next cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
Where is Cordeaux Heights in its cycle - and is the 2.94% 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 Cordeaux Heights's long-hold story?
Beyond the headline price, Cordeaux Heights 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
Cordeaux Heights'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
Cordeaux Heights 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 Cordeaux Heights 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 Cordeaux Heights 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 Cordeaux Heights - 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
Cordeaux Heights 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 Cordeaux Heights'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 Cordeaux Heights has structural support for the next leg of capital growth.
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Full HtAG Intelligence
Cordeaux Heights 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 Cordeaux Heights 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 Cordeaux Heights 2526 NSW is 3,693, with a median age of 41. Of those, 61.68% are married, 5.96% are divorced or separated, 29.46% are single and 2.95% are widowed.
The average household size is 3.1 people per dwelling, and the median household monthly income is estimated to be $10,924. The median monthly mortgage repayment for households in this suburb is $2,167 which is 19.84% of their earnings.
Source: ABS Census Data (2021)