Twenty-six years of Victorian rents

Twenty-six years of Victorian rents, eighteen of South Australian

Victoria and South Australia — their series reach back furthest — twenty-six years and eighteen.

Depth rather than breadth. These two series reach back further than anything else here — far enough to cover property cycles rather than describe a moment. Neither state publishes an openly licensed suburb sale-price series, so neither carries a yield.

Across 146 areas published consistently through their own history, the middle one saw rent rise 228.6% since it was first reported. The series runs March quarter 2000 to September quarter 2025, 26 years. This is a moving annual median, so it is not comparable with the other figures on this page unless they say the same.

Area	Weekly rent	Since start	Per year	10 yr	5 yr	Bonds
Torquay	$685	+342%	+6%	+61%	+37%	474
Dromana-Portsea	$595	+341%	+6%	+83%	+51%	1,681
Warragul	$550	+323%	+6%	+96%	+53%	524
Hastings-Flinders	$580	+314%	+6%	+81%	+45%	587
Moe-Newborough	$390	+311%	+6%	+95%	+56%	431
Mt Eliza-Mornington-Mt Martha	$695	+309%	+6%	+70%	+40%	962
Footscray	$525	+304%	+6%	+58%	+35%	1,757
Dandenong	$520	+300%	+6%	+68%	+49%	1,601
Herne Hill-Geelong West	$480	+300%	+6%	+66%	+30%	679
Springvale	$570	+293%	+6%	+65%	+43%	1,466
West Footscray	$550	+293%	+6%	+62%	+38%	1,183
Yarra Ranges	$580	+287%	+5%	+66%	+45%	663
Warrnambool	$500	+285%	+5%	+72%	+47%	860
Portland	$420	+282%	+5%	+83%	+40%	297
Castlemaine	$475	+280%	+5%	+58%	+36%	153
Morwell	$380	+280%	+5%	+95%	+65%	557
Ocean Grove-Barwon Heads	$570	+280%	+5%	+63%	+34%	465
Benalla	$450	+275%	+5%	+96%	+50%	368
Sale-Maffra	$450	+275%	+5%	+61%	+50%	633
Cranbourne	$580	+274%	+5%	+66%	+49%	5,205
Seaford-Carrum Downs	$560	+273%	+5%	+70%	+47%	1,477
Noble Park	$520	+271%	+5%	+65%	+44%	1,126
North Bendigo	$480	+269%	+5%	+72%	+50%	845
Frankston	$550	+267%	+5%	+72%	+49%	1,990
Fairfield-Alphington	$550	+267%	+5%	+62%	+31%	676
Aspendale-Chelsea-Carrum	$620	+265%	+5%	+63%	+41%	1,102
Newport-Spotswood	$620	+265%	+5%	+41%	+25%	857
Croydon-Lilydale	$600	+264%	+5%	+67%	+45%	1,803
Bairnsdale	$460	+262%	+5%	+67%	+53%	387
Bendigo	$470	+262%	+5%	+71%	+38%	301
Traralgon	$450	+260%	+5%	+67%	+45%	813
Whittlesea	$540	+260%	+5%	+59%	+38%	2,669
Newtown	$500	+257%	+5%	+56%	+28%	360
Carnegie	$570	+256%	+5%	+56%	+31%	1,037
North Geelong	$480	+256%	+5%	+55%	+33%	713
Sunshine	$480	+256%	+5%	+55%	+33%	1,476
Bayswater	$550	+255%	+5%	+57%	+41%	498
Yarraville-Seddon	$620	+254%	+5%	+49%	+27%	1,023
Ferntree Gully	$600	+253%	+5%	+71%	+43%	452
Mentone-Parkdale-Mordialloc	$580	+252%	+5%	+55%	+32%	1,081
Bentleigh	$700	+250%	+5%	+63%	+40%	2,039
Thornbury	$525	+250%	+5%	+50%	+25%	838
Pakenham	$540	+248%	+5%	+69%	+54%	1,812
Geelong-Newcombe	$470	+248%	+5%	+57%	+34%	1,183
Wodonga	$500	+245%	+5%	+72%	+52%	1,166
Lara	$550	+244%	+5%	+67%	+38%	549
Clayton	$600	+243%	+5%	+62%	+43%	2,178
West Brunswick	$480	+243%	+5%	+45%	+23%	1,044
Murrumbeena-Hughesdale	$580	+241%	+5%	+51%	+32%	710
Boronia	$560	+239%	+5%	+60%	+42%	554
Preston	$560	+239%	+5%	+51%	+32%	1,371
Ringwood	$560	+239%	+5%	+56%	+35%	1,216
Narre Warren-Hampton Park	$560	+239%	+5%	+65%	+47%	2,012
Mount Waverley	$695	+239%	+5%	+54%	+39%	860
Wendouree-Alfredton	$440	+238%	+5%	+54%	+29%	1,356
Northcote	$640	+237%	+5%	+42%	+28%	940
Hamilton	$370	+236%	+5%	+61%	+37%	211
Wanagaratta	$420	+236%	+5%	+68%	+40%	559
Cheltenham	$635	+234%	+5%	+59%	+34%	1,642
Glen Waverley-Mulgrave	$695	+234%	+5%	+58%	+39%	1,967
Caulfield	$650	+233%	+5%	+63%	+37%	2,292
Altona	$550	+233%	+5%	+53%	+38%	4,394
Brunswick	$600	+233%	+5%	+46%	+25%	1,652
Coburg-Pascoe Vale South	$600	+233%	+5%	+52%	+33%	1,243
Belmont-Grovedale	$500	+233%	+5%	+52%	+30%	1,942
Box Hill	$610	+232%	+5%	+56%	+36%	2,437
Nunawading-Mitcham	$580	+231%	+5%	+55%	+36%	783
Oak Park-Glenroy-Fawkner	$530	+231%	+5%	+54%	+33%	1,743
Reservoir	$530	+231%	+5%	+61%	+38%	1,788
Dandenong North-Endeavour Hills	$530	+231%	+5%	+66%	+47%	980
Swan Hill	$430	+231%	+5%	+87%	+54%	250
Sebastopol-Delacombe	$430	+231%	+5%	+69%	+39%	1,445
Mildura	$460	+229%	+5%	+77%	+48%	1,344
Shepparton	$460	+229%	+5%	+77%	+53%	1,522
Flora Hill-Bendigo East	$460	+229%	+5%	+70%	+44%	680
Eltham-Research-Montmorency	$640	+228%	+5%	+60%	+39%	500
Seymour	$410	+228%	+5%	+69%	+37%	175
Golden Square-Kangaroo Flat	$475	+228%	+5%	+70%	+44%	531
Chadstone-Oakleigh	$620	+226%	+5%	+55%	+35%	1,067
Horsham	$390	+225%	+5%	+56%	+39%	475
Rowville	$650	+225%	+5%	+59%	+44%	410
Vermont-Forest Hill-Burwood East	$650	+225%	+5%	+59%	+43%	907
Berwick	$600	+224%	+5%	+62%	+50%	2,324
Elsternwick	$600	+224%	+5%	+50%	+32%	607
Ivanhoe-Ivanhoe East	$600	+224%	+5%	+43%	+28%	791
Essendon	$550	+224%	+5%	+53%	+33%	1,961
Pascoe Vale-Coburg North	$550	+224%	+5%	+53%	+31%	995
Corio	$400	+220%	+5%	+60%	+33%	906
Doncaster East-Donvale	$700	+218%	+5%	+56%	+41%	987
Broadmeadows-Roxburgh Park	$515	+218%	+5%	+56%	+39%	1,880
Burwood-Ashburton	$650	+217%	+5%	+48%	+33%	906
East Brunswick	$600	+216%	+5%	+46%	+33%	1,001
Sunbury	$520	+215%	+5%	+58%	+41%	1,041
Moonee Ponds-Ascot Vale	$575	+214%	+5%	+47%	+34%	1,396
Heidelberg-Heidelberg West	$565	+214%	+5%	+57%	+35%	1,318
Echuca	$470	+213%	+5%	+68%	+38%	316
St Albans-Deer Park	$470	+213%	+5%	+52%	+31%	1,558
Armadale	$625	+213%	+5%	+56%	+25%	635
Thomastown-Lalor	$500	+213%	+5%	+56%	+39%	999
Bundoora-Greensborough-Hurstbridge	$560	+211%	+5%	+56%	+40%	2,316
Wantirna-Scoresby	$620	+210%	+5%	+57%	+38%	1,021
Balwyn	$740	+208%	+5%	+49%	+32%	839
Blackburn	$600	+208%	+5%	+54%	+39%	750
Werribee-Hoppers Crossing	$490	+206%	+4%	+58%	+32%	11,050
East St Kilda	$550	+206%	+4%	+51%	+31%	1,495
Bulleen-Templestowe-Doncaster	$670	+205%	+4%	+52%	+40%	1,700
Gladstone Park-Tullamarine	$530	+203%	+4%	+58%	+36%	485
Fitzroy North-Clifton Hill	$725	+202%	+4%	+45%	+32%	887
Malvern	$630	+200%	+4%	+40%	+31%	399
Melton	$450	+200%	+4%	+58%	+29%	3,699
Mount Clear-Buninyong	$420	+200%	+4%	+40%	+20%	182
Elwood	$595	+199%	+4%	+49%	+32%	1,183
Brighton East	$835	+198%	+4%	+39%	+14%	426
East Hawthorn	$595	+198%	+4%	+45%	+32%	881
Keilor East-Avondale Heights	$550	+197%	+4%	+47%	+34%	1,233
Craigieburn	$520	+197%	+4%	+58%	+33%	3,259
Ballarat	$400	+196%	+4%	+51%	+25%	1,321
Camberwell-Glen Iris	$650	+195%	+4%	+51%	+30%	1,402
Mill Park-Epping	$530	+194%	+4%	+56%	+39%	1,937
Carlton North	$760	+192%	+4%	+43%	+29%	361
Hawthorn	$550	+189%	+4%	+43%	+28%	1,531
Canterbury-Surrey Hills-Mont Albert	$678	+189%	+4%	+51%	+32%	566
Keilor	$650	+183%	+4%	+68%	+59%	43
Collingwood-Abbotsford	$650	+183%	+4%	+46%	+35%	1,646
Kew	$690	+182%	+4%	+44%	+33%	887
Richmond-Burnley	$675	+181%	+4%	+42%	+29%	2,549
Fitzroy	$700	+180%	+4%	+40%	+24%	611
St Kilda	$560	+180%	+4%	+47%	+33%	2,593
Williamstown	$670	+179%	+4%	+49%	+29%	457
Hampton-Beaumaris	$750	+178%	+4%	+53%	+26%	1,012
Malvern East	$610	+177%	+4%	+45%	+33%	905
Toorak	$688	+175%	+4%	+53%	+27%	630
Brighton	$825	+175%	+4%	+29%	+21%	726
Flemington-Kensington	$570	+171%	+4%	+44%	+30%	1,638
South Yarra	$620	+170%	+4%	+46%	+29%	3,079
Albert Park-Middle Park-West St Kilda	$698	+168%	+4%	+41%	+27%	578
Prahran-Windsor	$590	+168%	+4%	+40%	+28%	1,995
North Melbourne-West Melbourne	$600	+161%	+4%	+40%	+25%	2,933
Sydenham	$500	+150%	+4%	+39%	+25%	4,284
Carlton-Parkville	$620	+147%	+4%	+41%	+29%	2,593
East Melbourne	$650	+145%	+4%	+38%	+25%	431
Port Melbourne	$795	+137%	+3%	+45%	+35%	1,077
South Melbourne	$650	+128%	+3%	+31%	+27%	1,147
CBD-St Kilda Rd	$660	+106%	+3%	+47%	+42%	13,655
Southbank	$680	+106%	+3%	+30%	+45%	4,349
Docklands from Jun 2000	$700	+106%	+3%	+40%	+40%	2,950

Median weekly rent across every new lease signed in the preceding twelve months. Smoother than a quarterly median and it lags one, so it is not comparable with the New South Wales or South Australian figures on this page. Growth is measured between named quarters, never by counting back rows: an area is published only when it clears the publisher's threshold, so a positional lookback would compare different spans in different places. Every one of the 146 areas reporting a current figure clears the bar for listing: published through at least 80% of its own span, and resting on at least 10 bonds in the latest quarter. Publication is not missing at random: an area drops out when its market thins, and a series that reappears years later gives a growth figure computed from two isolated observations with nothing in between.