Most Negotiable Suburbs for Australian House Buyers

Which Australian suburbs have sellers most open to a deal right now? These tables rank 170,127 tracked agency listings, over an 8-week analysis window, last refreshed 6 November 2026. Every suburb links to its full profile — price signals, schools, childcare and more.

Most negotiable suburbs — NSW

#	Suburb	Active Listings	Median Days on Market	Properties with Price Drop	Negotiation Openness Score
1	Cronulla	72	70	23	8.5 / 10
2	Port Macquarie	150	63	33	8.2 / 10
3	Tweed Heads	33	56	11	8.0 / 10
4	Bankstown	65	49	17	7.9 / 10
5	Bundanoon	80	63	9	7.8 / 10
6	Mount Druitt	28	35	12	7.8 / 10
7	Blacktown	103	35	22	7.7 / 10
8	Merrylands	39	63	10	7.6 / 10
9	Umina Beach	127	84	12	7.5 / 10
10	Sydney	80	80.5	12	7.5 / 10

Most negotiable suburbs — SE QLD

#	Suburb	Active Listings	Median Days on Market	Properties with Price Drop	Negotiation Openness Score
1	West End	35	84	18	9.6 / 10
2	Narangba	36	34	20	9.1 / 10
3	South Brisbane	46	63	21	9.0 / 10
4	Camp Hill	43	77	18	8.9 / 10
5	Carindale	40	49	16	8.8 / 10
6	Morayfield	54	52	20	8.7 / 10
7	Victoria Point	29	52	15	8.7 / 10
8	Morningside	51	42	20	8.5 / 10
9	Fortitude Valley	40	24.5	16	8.5 / 10
10	Woolloongabba	32	73.5	11	8.3 / 10

Most negotiable suburbs — Greater Melbourne

#	Suburb	Active Listings	Median Days on Market	Properties with Price Drop	Negotiation Openness Score
1	Rowville	59	42	24	8.6 / 10
2	Mordialloc	44	42	16	8.6 / 10
3	Mooroolbark	30	42	13	8.6 / 10
4	Croydon	73	49	29	8.5 / 10
5	Mitcham	38	73.5	14	8.5 / 10
6	Pakenham	125	56	40	8.4 / 10
7	Docklands	105	77	22	8.4 / 10
8	Corio	66	52.5	20	8.4 / 10
9	Doncaster	113	77	30	8.3 / 10
10	Point Cook	77	120	15	8.3 / 10

Most negotiable suburbs — South West WA

#	Suburb	Active Listings	Median Days on Market	Properties with Price Drop	Negotiation Openness Score
1	Southern River	39	49	13	8.3 / 10
2	Alkimos	40	42	14	8.1 / 10
3	Gosnells	80	42	20	8.0 / 10
4	Kalamunda	302	70	6	7.9 / 10
5	Mandurah	210	70	16	7.9 / 10
6	Halls Head	133	70	15	7.8 / 10
7	Yanchep	31	42	11	7.7 / 10
8	Byford	48	52.5	11	7.5 / 10
9	Thornlie	62	33	14	7.3 / 10
10	Greenfields	79	70	7	7.1 / 10

How these rankings work

Suburb Insights tracks active listings from real-estate agencies across Greater Sydney, SE Queensland, Greater Melbourne and South West Western Australia. Each week the tracker records price reductions, days on market, agency switches, passed-in auctions and delistings, and converts them into a per-suburb negotiation openness score on a 0–10 scale. Only suburbs with at least 10 active tracked listings are ranked, to avoid small-sample noise.

Asking-price figures are representative parsed price-guide values, not verified sale results.
None of the figures on this page are property valuations.
Rankings change weekly as listings are added, reduced or withdrawn.

Frequently asked questions

What does the negotiation openness score mean?

It is a 0–10 rating of how open sellers in a suburb appear to negotiation, computed weekly from tracked agency listings: price reductions, days on market, agency switches and passed-in auctions. A higher score suggests stronger buyer leverage; "Seller Holds Firm" is the low end and "Strong Buyer Leverage" the high end.

Is this a property valuation?

No. Everything on this page is derived from observed agency listing behaviour. Asking-price observations are representative parsed price-guide values, not verified sale results, and no figure here is a valuation.

How current is the data?

The underlying listings are re-scraped weekly and these rankings are regenerated with each refresh. The data date shown at the top of the page is the latest refresh.

Why doesn’t every suburb appear in the tables?

Suburbs need at least 10 active tracked listings to be ranked. With fewer, the signal is too small a sample to rank reliably, so those suburbs are excluded rather than shown with misleading precision.

Want the detail behind a suburb? Every suburb above links to its full profile — price signals, schools, childcare and more.