Valentine (NSW 2280): property prices, streets & suburb profile

Lake Macquarie LGA · Latest published data July 2026 · Page updated August 2026 · Public government records

Valentine · NSW 2280 · median house price (24 months)
$1,300,000+103.1%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Valentine has about 2,686 dwellings on record, with 146 house and 43 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 84 streets.
Median house price
$1,300,000
146 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$850,000
43 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$710/wk
179 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
2.8%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 28
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Booragul Railway Station
Train, 6.4 km away

Valentine house and unit prices

The median Valentine house sold for $1,300,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +103.1% over 10 years and +48.1% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+19.8%
+33.0%
+54.4%
+109.0%
Units
+7.6%
+15.9%
+47.0%
+66.0%

Change in 12-month median sale prices to July 2026 vs the same window 1, 3, 5 and 10 years earlier · NSW Valuer General records

Median house price · 12 months to July 2026
Valentine
$1,390,000
Lake Macquarie LGA
$1,000,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
484k748k1.01M1.28M1.54M20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$596,000
Oct 2015$692,500
2016$590,000$495,000
Apr 2016$709,500
July 2016$697,500
Oct 2016$765,000
2017$720,000$509,500
Apr 2017$712,500
July 2017$707,500
Oct 2017$739,950
2018$736,500$540,000
Apr 2018$822,500
July 2018$755,000
Oct 2018$752,500
2019$780,000$595,000
Apr 2019$757,500
July 2019$750,000
Oct 2019$760,000
2020$710,000$618,000
Apr 2020$750,500
July 2020$851,500
Oct 2020$895,000
2021$860,000$710,000
Apr 2021$1,085,000
July 2021$1,080,000
Oct 2021$1,100,000
2022$1,100,000$721,000
Apr 2022$1,137,500
July 2022$1,190,000
Oct 2022$947,500
2023$965,000$822,500
Apr 2023$1,025,000
July 2023$1,250,000
Oct 2023$1,170,000
2024$1,170,000$900,000
Apr 2024$1,100,000
July 2024$1,200,000
Oct 2024$1,055,000
2025$1,115,000$835,000
Apr 2025$1,157,500
July 2025$1,300,000
Oct 2025$1,380,000
2026$1,467,500
Apr 2026$1,390,000
  • The headline growth figure uses a repeat-sales index of all dwellings (the same homes resold), which removes mix-of-what-sold noise; the tiles compare 12-month medians per dwelling type, so the two can differ, and differ widely where what sold changed.
  • Unit medians are yearly because strata volumes are low; treat them as indicative.
  • Quarters with fewer than three house sales are left off the chart; one sale does not make a market median.

Valentine street by street

Across the 27 Valentine streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $812,000 on Moola Avenue to $2,192,500 on Dilkera Avenue.

Most expensive street (houses)

Dilkera Avenue

$2,192,500 five-year median · 28 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Moola Avenue

$812,000 five-year median · 6 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
239 sales
  • under $1.00M
  • $1.00M to $1.25M
  • $1.25M and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 239 in all, placed at the address that sold and shaded by what it fetched. Prices are as paid, with part shares and multi-property dealings left out. It draws 24 of the 27 ranked streets, leaving off 3 whose sales are geocoded to a point several streets share, which stands for the suburb rather than for anywhere on the street; the colour bands are cut over all 27 of them, and the table below has them all.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Dilkera Avenue$2.19M28
Pandorea Way$1.60M5
Lurnea Crescent$1.57M6
Berringar Road$1.30M15
Helmsdale Drive$1.27M5
Agincourt Crescent$1.25M5
Connaught Road$1.25M7
Victor Avenue$1.23M9
Christopher Avenue$1.23M14
Albert Street$1.22M6
Excalibur Parade$1.20M6
Warwick Way$1.18M6
Cavalier Crescent$1.17M10
Sassafras Close$1.09M6
Keswick Grove$1.08M6
Regal Way$1.06M37
Kenton Crescent$1.06M7
Tallawalla Road$1.03M5
Andrew Road$1.02M26
Frederick Street$1.00M5
Lindsay Avenue$1.00M11
Valiant Avenue$945k5
Robertson Road$905k10
Moola Avenue$812k6
Valentine streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Dilkera Avenue$2.13M62$900k23
Crusade Close$1.45M5
Peter Street$1.38M5
Valentine Crescent$1.35M9
The Crest Cove$1.31M6
Pandorea Way$1.30M92
Helmsdale Drive$1.27M5
The Hill$1.20M19
Albert Street$1.17M16
Leichhardt Road$1.15M7
The Park Chase$1.07M29
Cavalier Crescent$1.05M152
Aberdeen Drive$1.01M6
Arbutus Street$1.00M8
Berringar Road$995k42$765k35
Keira Close$961k61
Westminster Close$955k6
Sassafras Close$952k14
Warwick Way$941k12
Kenton Crescent$928k10
Michael Crescent$928k6
Roma Road$915k13$635k10
Regal Way$910k66
Arundel Place$900k7
Keswick Grove$900k9
  • A street needs at least 5 sales of a type in 10 years to get a median, so streets quieter than that are left out entirely.
  • Sales that moved several properties on one dealing are left out, because the record repeats that dealing's whole price against every property in it.
  • The highlight cards rank on house sales only, using each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so unit-heavy streets are not mislabelled as cheap and the figures reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
  • A street is left out of the ranking when its five-year median sits below three-fifths of its own 10-year median, or far below the suburb's median (a bar set higher for streets with no older sales of their own to stand behind them). Those windows are usually land sold before the houses went up, or a part share of a home priced as though it were the whole. Those streets stay in the table with their 10-year median.
  • Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Valentine

Half of the 146 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $1,051,250 and $1,507,500.

011213242Median $1.30M$750k$1.25M$1.75M$2.25M$2.50M
Middle 50% of sales: $1.05M – $1.51M
Median $1.30M
133 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $750,000 to $2,500,000: 13 of the 146 house sales fall outside it (the cheapest and dearest few) and are left out so a handful of outliers cannot distort the shape.

Rent in Valentine by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $710/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$440/wk
2-bedroom
$580/wk
3-bedroom
$710/wk
4-bedroom
$850/wk
5-bedroom
$970/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$458/wk
2-bedroom
$500/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2280 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 1-bedroom units +12.2% year on year.

Who lives in Valentine

Valentine has a median age of 46 and a median household income of $2,159 a week, and 87.8% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Valentine)
5,773
Median age (Valentine)
46 years
Median household income (Valentine)
$2,159/wk
People per square kilometre
1,176
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$76,810
Average household size (SA2)
2.7
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$2,167/month
Australian-born (postcode)
87.0%
SEIFA advantage decile (Valentine)
9 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
330
How Valentine homes are held
Owned outright
48.8% · 1,018
Owned with a mortgage
39.0% · 813
Rented
11.2% · 233
Valentine homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
0.7% · 14
2 bedrooms
7.1% · 147
3 bedrooms
36.1% · 748
4 bedrooms
45.6% · 945
5 or more
10.5% · 217
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)from income, education, occupation and housing
9 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
10 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
9 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
8 of 10
  • Figures labelled Valentine are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Valentine - Eleebana" and postcode 2280 both extend beyond Valentine.
  • SEIFA decile 1 is the lowest tenth of Australian areas on that index and 10 the highest. The four indices measure different things and often disagree, which is why all four are shown: a suburb can rank high on education and occupation while ranking mid on economic resources.

Bushfire, flood and planning in Valentine

40.1% of Valentine properties sit in a mapped bushfire-prone area; no flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb.

Properties in a mapped bushfire-prone area
40.1%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
25
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (89%), R3 Medium Density Residential (10%), E1 Local Centre (0%)
  • Bushfire-prone land is the NSW RFS certified map; being inside it triggers extra building requirements, not a prediction of fire.
  • Absence of flood mapping in our dataset is NOT evidence a property cannot flood: always order a council s10.7 certificate before buying.

Schools serving Valentine

Most Valentine homes fall in the Valentine Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Valentine
Valentine Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,071
Public primary catchment (100% of homes)
Valentine Public School
Public primary catchment (0% of homes)
Belmont Public School
Public secondary catchment (100% of homes)
Warners Bay High School
Public secondary catchment (0% of homes)
Belmont High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Valentine · 1 school
76th · 1071
Lake Macquarie LGA
47th · 1000
Newcastle & Hunter
38th · 981
NSW
51st · 1009
Australia
51st · 1008
  • ICSEA is ACARA's socio-educational index (average 1000). It describes the family backgrounds of the students enrolled, NOT how well a school teaches: a lower ICSEA means a less advantaged intake, not a worse school.
  • Percentiles are ACARA's own national ranking, so the Australia bar is a published figure rather than our arithmetic. Each area shows the median of the mainstream schools sitting inside it; special schools are listed in the table but excluded from the medians.
  • Catchments are NSW Department of Education intake zones; always confirm an address with the school.

Crime and safety around Valentine

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,321 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2280, 12.1% below the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Lake Macquarie LGA (12m)
15,356
of which assault (LGA)
1,926
of which theft (LGA)
4,898
Recorded incidents, postcode 2280 (12m)
2,248
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2280 (Valentine + neighbours)
1,321
Lake Macquarie LGA
1,631
Newcastle & Hunter
2,215
NSW
1,502
  • Counts are BOCSAR recorded incidents for January 2025 to December 2025 at LGA and postcode grain: both cover several suburbs, so they include neighbours of Valentine.
  • Rates divide incidents by resident population (ABS 2021 Census), so they are comparable between areas in a way raw counts are not. Every tier uses the same offences and the same 12 months for January 2025 to December 2025.
  • Two limits worth knowing: the rate counts residents only, so a postcode with a town centre, nightlife strip or shopping precinct carries crime generated by visitors against a small resident denominator and reads high; and the population is the 2021 Census, so a suburb that has grown fast since then reads high too.

Recent house sales in Valentine

The most recent house sales on record in Valentine are from 2026, 21 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Victor Avenue2026$2.75M
Dilkera Avenue2026$1.89M
Dilkera Avenue2026$1.78M
Regal Way2026$1.69M
Andrew Road2026$1.65M
Kenton Crescent2026$1.63M
Pandorea Way2026$1.62M
Christopher Avenue2026$1.60M
Christopher Avenue2026$1.48M
Christopher Avenue2026$1.46M
Cavalier Crescent2026$1.45M
Connaught Road2026$1.44M

One row per house sale on record for the last five years, by street and the year it sold. Sale prices are as paid. Part shares and multi-property dealings are excluded, and unit sales are not included here.

Suburbs near Valentine

Valentine's median house price of $1,300,000 is the 8th highest of the 93 Newcastle & Hunter suburbs we cover.

All Newcastle & Hunter suburb research

Valentine: common questions

What is the median house price in Valentine?
$1,300,000, based on 146 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Valentine?
Of the 27 Valentine streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Dilkera Avenue has the highest house median at $2,192,500 (28 sales); Moola Avenue has the lowest at $812,000 (6 sales).
How much have Valentine property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Valentine dwellings has risen 103.1% over 10 years and moved +48.1% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Valentine?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2280 rents for $710/wk, from 179 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Valentine?
Valentine Public School (primary, zoned for 100% of homes); Belmont Public School (primary, zoned for 0% of homes); Warners Bay High School (secondary, zoned for 100% of homes); Belmont High School (secondary, zoned for 0% of homes).
Is Valentine affected by bushfire or flood risk?
40.1% of properties sit in the NSW RFS bushfire-prone land map. No flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb; that is not evidence properties cannot flood; check a council s10.7 certificate.
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Data sources

This page summarises public government datasets for general information. It is not financial, legal or property advice, figures can contain source errors, and postcode or SA2 statistics cover a wider area than the suburb itself. Verify anything material independently before acting on it.