Suburbs where rents are rising fastest in Central Coast

Hamlyn Terrace leads the 3-bedroom house list: rents agreed on new leases rose 38% since 2021, from $470 to $650 a week. Wyoming leads the 2-bedroom unit list, up 47% ($432 to $635).

Rents people agreed to pay: every new lease lodges a bond with the state, and the bond record carries the weekly rent. Advertised rents were checked and not used. In October 2026 they roughly doubled the rise at the top of the Sydney list (Ermington: advertised +99%, agreed +44%), because suburbs where dearer homes now make up more of the listings looked like suburbs where rents had soared.

The median rent of the four quarters of 2021 against the median of the latest four, for 3-bedroom houses and 2-bedroom units separately. Every one of those quarters needs at least 10 new bonds, so one thin quarter cannot put a suburb at the top.

New South Wales publishes bond figures by postcode, not by suburb. Every suburb in a postcode would show the same numbers, so each postcode is listed once, under its most populous suburb.

Victoria publishes bond rents only for groups of suburbs, and the ACT and the Northern Territory publish none we can use. Western Australia's figures start in 2023, so they cannot be compared with 2021.