Highgate

Highgate real estate agent. Full service at 1% + GST.

Heritage terraces and character homes beside Hyde Park — sold at Perth's lowest commission rate, with nothing removed from the service.

1% Commission + GST
98.9% List-to-Sold Ratio
20+ Years Agent Experience
Highgate property — One Percent Realty WA
The Suburb

Selling in Highgate.

Highgate is one of the smallest suburbs in the Perth metropolitan area — a compact grid of streets between Hyde Park, Beaufort Street and the Northbridge boundary. Its housing stock is unusually consistent: single-storey and two-storey heritage terraces, Federation cottages, and a limited number of small apartment developments, most of them low-rise.

Hyde Park is the suburb's defining asset. The Moreton Bay figs, the lakes and the autumn colour draw buyers who specifically want to live beside it, and homes on the park-facing streets trade at a clear premium to those a few blocks south. Because so few properties come to market in any given year, individual sales set the reference price for the suburb — which means the campaign you run has an outsized effect on your own result.

Highgate's heritage and character protections are the first thing serious buyers investigate. Where a property sits within a character protection area, alterations and demolition are constrained, and buyers price that certainty either up or down depending on what they intend. Having the planning position documented before the campaign starts converts a hesitation into a selling point. Parking is the second practical issue — many Highgate terraces have no off-street bay, and where yours does, that is worth leading with.

We are actively taking Highgate listings. Our agents have sold more than 1,200 properties across the Perth metropolitan area — every one of them plotted on our Perth sales map — and the campaign your home gets here is the same complete, full-service campaign, at 1% + GST.

Market Snapshot

Highgate at a glance.

Median house price
$1,350,000
Median unit price
$695,000
Postcode
6003
Distance to CBD
2 km
Typical buyers
Professionals and couples seeking heritage character with inner-city access, plus long-term owner-occupiers.

Median price source: reiwa.com.au, data to 2026. Medians reflect a rolling 12-month period and are updated periodically.

Local landmarks and amenity: Hyde Park, Beaufort Street, Highgate Primary School, Forrest Park, Perth College nearby.

Expanding Into Highgate

Our closest sales
to Highgate.

We're actively expanding our inner-city presence, and Highgate is a suburb we're taking listings in now. We haven't yet sold a home on these particular streets — so rather than tell you we have, here are the nearest properties we genuinely have sold, and how far they sit from the centre of Highgate.

7/17 Wickham Street, East PerthApartment  ·  Jun 2025
$756,000
1.5 km
83/148 Adelaide Terrace, East PerthApartment  ·  Mar 2025
$730,000
1.6 km
2/17 Wickham Street, East PerthApartment  ·  Aug 2025
$695,000
1.7 km
8/123C Colin Street, West PerthApartment  ·  Sep 2025
$485,000
2.4 km

The buyers who competed for these properties are the same buyers searching Highgate — and the campaign, the marketing spend and the 1% + GST rate are identical. Every sale we've made across Perth is on our sales map.

Local Knowledge

What shapes a Highgate sale.

I
 

Very low supply concentrates buyer demand

With so few Highgate listings annually, genuine buyers accumulate between sales. A campaign that reaches them properly starts with pent-up demand already in place — the opposite of a suburb where buyers can simply wait for next week's listings.

II
 

Heritage status affects the buyer pool

Where a property carries heritage listing or sits in a character protection area, some buyers are drawn in and others are filtered out. Being clear about what can and cannot be altered early in the campaign avoids conditional offers collapsing at the due diligence stage.

III

Park proximity is measured in streets

The premium attached to Hyde Park frontage falls away quickly with distance. Accurate pricing means comparing against sales on comparable streets, not a suburb median that blends park-facing terraces with properties near the freeway edge.

Highgate median house price  ·  $1,350,000
$18,090
Saved on commission
A Perth agent charging from 2.44% would take roughly $32,940. At 1% + GST, ours is $14,850 — for the same full-service campaign. See the full breakdown on our commission case, or run your own figure on the commission calculator.
* Perth commission range of 2.44% to 3.25% according to www.whichrealestateagent.com.au, updated 11 December 2025

We sell across inner Perth. Also selling in Central Perth, North Perth, East Perth, South Perth, West Perth, Leederville, Northbridge, Inglewood, Mount Lawley, Maylands — and everywhere across the metro — at the same flat 1% + GST rate. See every sale to date on our sales map.

 
Get Started Today

Selling in Highgate? Get exceptional results without overpaying.

Get a free, no obligation appraisal of your Highgate property. An honest assessment of what it should achieve in today's market — and a clear strategy to get there. Call 0466 250 944.