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Watsons Bay is a NSW suburb in Waverley LGA, matched to postcode 2030 — also covering Diamond Bay, Dover Heights, Hmas Watson and nearby localities. New rental bonds in that postcode had a median weekly rent of $1,100 in 2025, up 4.8% from $1,050 in 2024. That is about 58% above the NSW median of $695. Bond medians describe new lodgements with Fair Trading, not every current lease in the suburb. Watsons Bay recorded 88 criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2026, up 11.4% from 79 a year earlier. These are police-recorded incidents, not convictions, and they are not adjusted for how many people live or visit here. House bonds typically leased at $2,650 a week and flats/units at $950. Townhouse bonds sat at $1,700 a week. Two-bedroom bonds had a median of $950; three-bedroom bonds $1,450. One-bedroom bonds sat at $732 a week. Four-bedroom bonds sat at $2,950 a week. Half of new bonds sat between $890 and $1,972 a week. Fair Trading recorded 418 new bonds in the postcode in 2025. Over 2021–2025 the postcode median moved from $780 to $1,100 a week. Because several suburbs share the postcode, the rent charts are a postcode picture, not a street-level one. Property offences totalled 22 and violent-related offences 15. Other offences made up the largest published share (19 incidents, 22%). Next was Theft (13). The crime series is coded to this suburb name; the rent series, where shown, is the whole postcode. Sources: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements, calendar 2025; NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Apr 2025 – Mar 2026.
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+4.8% year-on-year
+11.4% year-on-year
These figures describe rental bonds recorded across postcode 2030, not an individual property quote.
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Postcode-wide figure for 2030
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Postcode-wide figure for 2030
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Postcode-wide figure for 2030
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