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$900,000

Median house

$690,000

Median unit

$680 p/w

House rent

$600 p/w

Unit rent

Wallsend · August 2026 · source realestate.com.au

What’s it like to live in Wallsend?

On the outer limits of Newcastle LGA, Wallsend is a bustling suburb with a lower-than-average entry point for property hunters. Popular with first-time buyers and families, Wallsend has great shops, schools and family-friendly facilities.

With easy access to the A15 and the B53, Wallsend residents can quickly get to the rest of Newcastle by car and bus, as well as routes to Lake Macquarie, the Hunter Valley and beyond.

Wallsend features

If you live in Wallsend, it’s never far to what you need.

Wallsend Village is a small shopping centre with all the vital requirements – two supermarkets, a post office, a food court and options for haircuts, phone repair and even a bar. Across the road is Wallsend Library and on nearby Nelson Street, you’ll find plenty of restaurants, op shops and Asian grocery stores.

Just off Nelson Street you’ll find Federal Park, one of the biggest green spaces in the area. Here you’ll find soccer fields, cricket ovals and an athletics track with all the trimmings (including long jump sandpits and a hammer-throwing net). Right beside this is the $1.5m active hub with soccer/basketball courts, outdoor gym equipment and a tennis wall. But it doesn’t stop there, there’s also a great playground and Wallsend Pool.

For families, there’s also the Brickworks park (which is popular for playdates, birthday parties and bushwalks) and Wallsend Park with a further two ovals and a small playground.

Elsewhere in the suburb, you’ve got Wallsend Diggers, a Bunnings and some of the best Thai restaurants in the area.

The exemption Wallsend has just lost

A year ago the median house here sat $5,000 under $800,000, which is where New South Wales stops exempting a first home buyer from transfer duty entirely. It reads $900,000 as at August 2026, so that exemption is gone and a concession has taken its place.

The lower entry point the page describes is still real — Wallsend remains one of the more affordable suburbs in the Newcastle local government area, and plenty here still changes hands under $800,000, where the full exemption applies exactly as it did.

At the median an eligible first home buyer pays $19,594 against the $34,687 everybody else pays, so the concession is worth $15,093. A fifth of the price is $180,000, making about $215,100 to have ready with the registration fees. The deposit planner is the one to run if you are saving towards a specific figure.