Berry real estate
NSW 2535 · Shoalhaven City Council · About 26 km from our Shell Cove office
The suburb
Living in Berry
Berry is a country town in the north of the Shoalhaven, at the foot of the hills between Gerringong and Nowra. European settlement began in 1822 under Alexander Berry and Edward Wollstonecraft, and from 1825 it was the private estate town of Broughton Creek, renamed Berry around 1890. Timber and dairying built it, and today visitors are a large part of the town's economy.
Many of Berry's buildings are heritage listed, and the streets around Queen Street mix old cottages with newer homes. Around the town, the land climbs to rainforest ridges and farms at Berry Mountain, Woodhill and Bundewallah, and falls away to farmland on the flats towards the Shoalhaven River, so much of the property around Berry is acreage rather than town blocks.
The market
Prices and rents in Berry
Median house price, postcode 2535
+4.3% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, houses, 2535
+23.1% on a year earlier
Median price, all homes, 2535
Postcode sale prices: NSW Rent and Sales Report, March quarter 2026, sales in postcode 2535. Rents: NSW Rent and Sales Report, June quarter 2026, median of new bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading for postcode 2535. © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), CC BY 4.0. Medians are a guide, not a valuation. Compare all suburbs.
Living here
Queen Street and the country around it
Queen Street is the heart of the town: the Berry Museum in the former ES&A Bank, the old CBC bank, the Great Southern Hotel and the Berry Hotel, with cafes and shops in between. Since the Princes Highway bypass opened in 2017, through traffic no longer runs down the main street. The showground on Alexandra Street hosts the Berry Show each February, and walkers head up Woodhill Mountain Road for the Drawing Room Rocks track.
Berry Public School began as Broughton Creek School in 1860, and its original building is now the school library. Berry station, on Station Road, is on the South Coast Line, with diesel trains north to Kiama for connections to Wollongong and Sydney, and south to Bomaderry. Nowra, across the Shoalhaven River to the south, is the main centre for larger shopping and services.
Public schools in Berry
- Berry Public School · Primary School
The people
Who lives in Berry
People
Median age
Median household income a week
- Owned outright 51.5%
- Owned with a mortgage 24.1%
- Rented 12.3%
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Berry (SAL10321). © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Tenure shares are of occupied private dwellings and don't add to 100% where some households didn't say.
Selling
Selling in Berry
Berry has two kinds of buyers: people wanting a house or cottage within walking distance of Queen Street, and people wanting land. In town, heritage character, a level block and the walk to the shops shape price; on acreage, the land, water, access and zoning count for more than the house. We work across the Berry district from our office at Shell Cove and price from comparable sales of each kind.
Renting it out instead? We manage rental homes in Berry too, where houses in the postcode lease for around $800 a week.
Questions
About Berry
What is the median house price in Berry?
Houses across postcode 2535, which includes Berry, sold for a median of $1,618,000 in the March quarter 2026, up 4.3% on a year earlier, according to the NSW Rent and Sales Report. Prices within a postcode vary a lot from street to street, which is what an appraisal accounts for.
How much does it cost to rent a house in Berry?
The median weekly rent for a house across postcode 2535 was $800 in the June quarter 2026, from new bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading. Ask us for a rental appraisal of your property for a figure that reflects its size and condition.
Do you sell homes in Berry?
Yes. Monique Field Property sells and manages homes in Berry, about 26 km from our office on Harbour Boulevard in Shell Cove. Book a free appraisal and we'll show you recent sales near you and what we'd expect your home to sell for.
Does the highway still go through Berry?
No. The Foxground and Berry bypass opened to traffic in July 2017, about a year ahead of schedule, taking the Princes Highway around the north of the town with ramps at each end. Queen Street now carries mainly local and visitor traffic, and heavy vehicles no longer run down the main street.
What's your Berry home worth?
A free appraisal from Monique: recent sales near you, what's on the market, and the price range she'd expect.