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Bilgola Plateau vs Dee Why Beach

Property investment comparison - Bilgola Plateau, NSW 2107 vs Dee Why Beach, NSW 2099

Head-to-head across core investment metrics: Bilgola Plateau wins 1, Dee Why Beach wins 3. The better choice depends on whether you're optimising for cash flow, growth, affordability, or liquidity, the table below highlights the winner on each metric.

MetricBilgola PlateauDee Why Beach
Median house price$2.5M$2.5M
Median unit price-$830K
Gross rental yield (houses)2.90%3.26%
Gross rental yield (units)-5.26%
1-year house growth+3.7%+11.3%estimate
3-year house growth+1.4%-
Vacancy rate3.7%0.3%
Population3,65042,917

Bilgola Plateau vs Dee Why Beach: what the numbers say

The median house price is $2.5M in Bilgola Plateau and $2.5M in Dee Why Beach, so Bilgola Plateau is the cheaper entry point.

On cash flow, Dee Why Beach leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.26%, compared with 2.90% in Bilgola Plateau, a gap of 0.36 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +3.7% in Bilgola Plateau and +11.3% in Dee Why Beach (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Dee Why Beach, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.3% in Dee Why Beach and 3.7% in Bilgola Plateau, so landlords in Dee Why Beach face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Dee Why Beach is the bigger suburb, with a population of 42,917 against 3,650, roughly 12 times the size of Bilgola Plateau; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Dee Why Beach for rental income, Bilgola Plateau for a lower purchase price, Dee Why Beach for recent price momentum, Dee Why Beach for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.

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