Bar Beach

Located less than two kilometres from the CBD, or a four minute drive, Bar Beach is an inner city coastal suburb of Newcastle. Synonymous with the beach that shares its name and eastern border, we know that this is the case due to the natural rock pool coined ‘The Bar’ by those who wish to be locals — and ‘backyard’ by those who are.

In Bar Beach, we know that demand outstrips supply—evidently seen in a vacancy rate that doesn’t register on the graph. Read: 0%. We know that there is (almost) an even split between those renting the Bar Beach lifestyle, and those who have purchased it —primarily living in apartments or townhouses over houses. Therefore, the lack of freestanding stock has driven the median listing price for a house to $2,600,000 and $510,000 for units. And over the past five years, Bar Beach as seen a compound rate growth of 12.4% for houses and 3.3% for units.

Here, your choice between Bar Beach or Susan Gilmore beach will be one to make on the daily—although the lifeguards patrolling the former might sway your decision when the swell is pumping offshore. Another choice to make will be whether a spot of tennis, game of cricket, touch of rugby or afternoon picnic is on the agenda at Empire Park. Activities to fill your days whilst we spend ours ensuring that Bar Beach is the right place foryou to know as home.