Blackbutt real estate
NSW 2529 · Shellharbour City Council · About 3 km from our Shell Cove office
The suburb
Living in Blackbutt
Blackbutt is a small suburb beside Shellharbour City Centre, with Oak Flats, Barrack Heights and Flinders around it. Its eastern half is Blackbutt Forest Reserve, the largest natural woodland reserve in the Illawarra and the last viable remnant of coastal plain forest in the region. The suburb and the reserve take their name from the blackbutt tree, which dominates the bush.
The residential half was subdivided from the mid-1980s, with building carrying on into the 1990s. It is family homes on suburban blocks and a fair number of villas and townhouses in small strata groups, many on streets named after native animals and birds: Wallaby Street, Bettong Street, Quokka Drive, Albatross Drive. The villas tend to draw downsizers and first-home buyers, the houses families.
The market
Prices and rents in Blackbutt
Median house price, postcode 2529
+9.7% on a year earlier
Median unit or townhouse price, 2529
+9% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, houses, 2529
+3.2% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, units, 2529
+10% on a year earlier
Postcode sale prices: NSW Rent and Sales Report, March quarter 2026, sales in postcode 2529. Rents: NSW Rent and Sales Report, June quarter 2026, median of new bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading for postcode 2529. © 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
Bushland next to the shops
Blackbutt Forest Reserve, entered from Shellharbour Road, has walking tracks with views over Lake Illawarra to Macquarie Pass, the escarpment and Saddleback Mountain. There are picnic and barbecue areas, playgrounds, an amphitheatre, a fitness circuit, a cross-country course for running and riding, and Blackbutt Dam, where people go to watch the birds. Dogs are welcome on a lead.
Stockland Shellharbour, the Civic Centre and the City Library are next door in Shellharbour City Centre. Oak Flats is the nearest station, and the M1 Princes Motorway interchange is at Oak Flats too. The local catchment schools are Barrack Heights Public School and Oak Flats High School, and the beaches at Shellharbour Village and Warilla are a short drive east.
The people
Who lives in Blackbutt
People
Median age
Median household income a week
- Owned outright 40.6%
- Owned with a mortgage 28.6%
- Rented 29.4%
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Blackbutt (SAL10390). © 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 Blackbutt
In Blackbutt, price depends on what a home backs onto. A house that adjoins the reserve, or looks across it toward the lake, is compared differently from one on a busier road near the shopping centre. Villas and townhouses sell to a different buyer from four-bedroom houses, and strata levies and the state of the complex matter. We sell in Blackbutt from our office in Shell Cove.
“There were a lot of Europeans who built many of those big homes, and they're probably some of the best (quality) homes you'll see built. They're meticulous and they're very well-built.”
Renting it out instead? We manage rental homes in Blackbutt too, where houses in the postcode lease for around $810 a week.
Questions
About Blackbutt
What is the median house price in Blackbutt?
Houses across postcode 2529, which includes Blackbutt, sold for a median of $1,275,000 in the March quarter 2026, up 9.7% 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 Blackbutt?
The median weekly rent for a house across postcode 2529 was $810 in the June quarter 2026, and $660 for a unit, 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 Blackbutt?
Yes. Monique Field Property sells and manages homes in Blackbutt, about 3 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.
What's your Blackbutt home worth?
A free appraisal from Monique: recent sales near you, what's on the market, and the price range she'd expect.