Mount Warrigal real estate
NSW 2528 · Shellharbour City Council · About 5 km from our Shell Cove office
The suburb
Living in Mount Warrigal
Mount Warrigal is the high ground on the southern shore of Lake Illawarra, with Lake Illawarra suburb, Warilla, Barrack Heights and Oak Flats around it. The hill was known as Native Dog Hill. The land was granted to Thomas Davey in 1821 and farmed for years by the Gorrell family before Hooker-Rex began subdividing it in the 1960s.
The Geographical Names Board objected to the developers' name, since the hill is too low to count as a mountain, but it stuck. Most homes date from that subdivision onward, many renovated or extended to take in the view, with some villas and townhouses. The higher streets look east to the ocean and north and west across the lake to the escarpment.
The market
Prices and rents in Mount Warrigal
Median house price, postcode 2528
+6.4% on a year earlier
Median unit or townhouse price, 2528
+35.4% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, houses, 2528
+2.9% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, units, 2528
−1% on a year earlier
Postcode sale prices: NSW Rent and Sales Report, March quarter 2026, sales in postcode 2528. Rents: NSW Rent and Sales Report, June quarter 2026, median of new bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading for postcode 2528. © 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
Views over the lake and the sea
The lake foreshore along Reddall Parade has small parks, including Boonerah Point Reserve, which residents built with the Warilla-Mt Warrigal Apex Club in 1979, and Burroo Park near Burroo Point. The shared path along the foreshore passes by for walking and cycling, and Reddall Reserve's playground and boat ramp are next door in Lake Illawarra.
Shellharbour Hospital, which opened in 1986, is on Madigan Boulevard, and Mount Warrigal Public School on Hogarth Avenue has taught local children since 1967. Warilla High School in Barrack Heights and Lake Illawarra High School are both nearby. Warilla Grove and Stockland Shellharbour are a short drive for shopping, and Oak Flats has the nearest station and the M1 interchange.
The people
Who lives in Mount Warrigal
People
Median age
Median household income a week
- Owned outright 42.3%
- Owned with a mortgage 29.4%
- Rented 25.7%
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Mount Warrigal (SAL12812). © 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 Mount Warrigal
On Mount Warrigal, the view drives the price. A house on the high ground looking over the lake to the escarpment, or one on the Reddall Parade foreshore, is compared with very different sales from a similar house a few streets back with no outlook. After that comes condition, and how well a 1960s home has been updated. We sell here from our office in Shell Cove.
Renting it out instead? We manage rental homes in Mount Warrigal too, where houses in the postcode lease for around $700 a week.
Questions
About Mount Warrigal
What is the median house price in Mount Warrigal?
Houses across postcode 2528, which includes Mount Warrigal, sold for a median of $995,000 in the March quarter 2026, up 6.4% 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 Mount Warrigal?
The median weekly rent for a house across postcode 2528 was $700 in the June quarter 2026, and $495 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 Mount Warrigal?
Yes. Monique Field Property sells and manages homes in Mount Warrigal, about 5 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 Mount Warrigal home worth?
A free appraisal from Monique: recent sales near you, what's on the market, and the price range she'd expect.