South Perth

South Perth real estate agent. Full service at 1% + GST.

From the foreshore to Mends Street — homes and apartments sold across South Perth at Perth's lowest commission rate.

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

Selling in South Perth.

South Perth holds one of the most recognisable addresses in Western Australia: the foreshore, the ferry to Elizabeth Quay, and an uninterrupted view of the city skyline across the water. That view underwrites the entire suburb. Apartments along Mill Point Road and Labouchere Road trade heavily on it, and established homes on the streets behind trade on proximity to it.

This is also where commission arithmetic bites hardest. At a median above $1.7 million, the difference between 1% + GST and a conventional 2.44% rate is not a rounding error — it is a material sum that stays with the seller. On a $2 million South Perth sale, that gap is over $28,000. Sellers here tend to run the numbers, which is exactly why the conversation is worth having.

Sellers here should understand exactly what protects their view. South Perth has been through significant planning debate over building heights around the Mill Point and Labouchere corridors, and a buyer paying a premium for an outlook will want to know whether anything can be built in front of it. Where your view is protected by planning, that is a genuine selling point worth documenting. Where it isn't, being straight about it early prevents an offer collapsing at due diligence.

We've sold 2 properties in South Perth, alongside 1,200+ sales across the wider Perth metro. You can see every one of them on our Perth sales map.

Market Snapshot

South Perth at a glance.

Median house price
$1,780,000
Postcode
6151
Distance to CBD
3 km
Typical buyers
Downsizers from larger family homes, executives, and buyers relocating who want a recognisable prestige address.

Median price source: reiwa.com.au — verify current figure before publish. Medians reflect a rolling 12-month period and are updated periodically.

Local landmarks and amenity: South Perth foreshore, Mends Street jetty and ferry, Perth Zoo, Sir James Mitchell Park, Angelo Street.

Our South Perth Sales

Properties we've sold
in South Perth.

3/54 Coode StreetApartment  ·  May 2025
$850,000
802/53 Labouchere RoadApartment  ·  Nov 2023
$550,000

Every sale we've made across Perth is plotted on our sales map — filter by suburb, property type or status.

Local Knowledge

What shapes a South Perth sale.

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The view line sets the price band

In South Perth, an unobstructed city and river outlook can move a valuation by hundreds of thousands. Establishing precisely where your property sits on that spectrum — and whether the outlook is protected by planning — is the single most important pricing input.

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Higher values attract advised buyers

Sales in this bracket routinely involve buyers' agents, solicitors and finance brokers scrutinising every term. Negotiation is structured and unhurried, and an agent who concedes early on price or conditions costs the seller real money.

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Peninsula, foreshore and behind-the-strip are three markets

The Mends Street precinct, the foreshore apartments and the established family streets toward Como each attract different buyers with different priorities. Marketing that treats them as one suburb reaches all of them weakly.

South Perth median house price  ·  $1,780,000
$23,852
Saved on commission
A Perth agent charging from 2.44% would take roughly $43,432. At 1% + GST, ours is $19,580 — 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, West Perth, Leederville, Northbridge, Highgate, 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.

 
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