Melbourne bayside · VIC 3186

Buyers agent in Brighton

The most famous postcode on this list and, on ten year growth, one of the worst performers on it.

Figures below are August 2026, suburb level, all bedroom counts. Full Bayside council report.

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The Brighton numbers

Houses

$2,559,394

Typical price

$1,235

Weekly rent

2.51%

Gross yield

+0.1%

Growth a year, 10yr

-2.7%

Growth, last 12mth

318

Sales a year

Units

$1,099,438

Typical price

$797

Weekly rent

3.77%

Gross yield

+0.2%

Growth a year, 10yr

-4.7%

Growth, last 12mth

325

Sales a year

Vacancy rate 2.13% across roughly 13,257 dwellings. HtAG Analytics, suburb level, all bedroom counts. Typical price is a modelled estimate, not a median of recent sales.

The honest read

What I'd tell you over a coffee

Brighton houses have grown 0.12% a year over ten years. That is the second weakest number on this page.

Recent years are actively negative. Minus 2.37% a year over five, minus 3.66% over three, minus 2.70% in the last twelve months.

A typical house is $2,559,394 on a 2.51% yield. About $1,235 a week.

Here is the comparison that gets people's attention. Brighton East, next door, costs $2,495,897, which is $63,497 less, and has grown 2.68% a year over the decade against Brighton's 0.12%. Near enough the same money, more than twenty times the growth rate.

Vacancy is 2.13%, which is soft for bayside, and rent has grown only 2.85% a year over ten years.

The units have done 0.17% a year and fell 4.69% in the last twelve months. 325 unit sales a year against 318 house sales, so it is an evenly split market.

Who Brighton suits

People buying Brighton because it is Brighton. There is a real and enduring demand for that and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Just do not let anyone tell you the numbers support it as an investment, because they have not for a decade.

What I'd watch

The Brighton East comparison. If you are spending two and a half million dollars in bayside, the ten year data says the postcode next door has done many times better for effectively the same money.

How I work

Flat $20,000 fee, whatever you buy and wherever it is
No commissions from agents, developers or builders
I'll tell you when a suburb doesn't stack up, including this one

How the process runs

Fair questions

Buying in Brighton, answered

Brighton or Brighton East?

On the data, Brighton East, and it is not close. 2.68% a year against 0.12% over ten years, for a difference of $63,497 in the typical price. If someone can tell you why Brighton is worth that trade, listen to the argument. The numbers do not make it for them.

Has Brighton really only grown 0.12% a year?

Over ten years, yes, on the typical house. The last three years are minus 3.66% a year. High end markets move differently from the rest and Brighton has been going through the down half of that.

Would you buy in Brighton?

For a client buying a home who wants Brighton, yes, and I would negotiate very hard in a market falling 2.70% a year. For an investor, no, and I would show them these numbers before they got attached to anything.

Other Melbourne suburbs

Same treatment, same data, different answer in every one of them.

Thinking seriously about Brighton? Read the full Bayside council report before you look at a single listing.

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