Suburbs / Central Coast / Umina Beach
Every council DA in Umina Beach, the work behind it, and who's building. Tradies get the new ones texted every Monday, filtered to their trade.
DA Notice acknowledges the Darkinjung people, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Umina Beach stands, and pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Umina Beach is the peninsula's infill engine, a tight grid where the back lanes behind the houses let owners drop a second dwelling in, and a tired old house on a good block usually means a cash-poor owner who hasn't sold yet: when they do, it flips to a developer site and comes down. Up in the hills behind the flat it turns to treetop renos, restorations and new builds chasing the view. Most DA activity of any suburb down this end, and good luck parking for a coffee on the Esplanade.
Umina Beach runs renovation / extension first, with swimming pool / spa (244) close behind: renovation / extension leads at 253 of 1161 DAs on record. A Established-tier market on a $920k median, a typical job runs $138k, approvals are down 14% year on year.
23% of approvals are dual-occupancy, subdivision or granny flats, above the 16% coast norm, so a real share of the work is yield-driven, developers and landlords, not just homeowners.
28% of approvals are new builds or demolitions, so knock-down-rebuild is a genuine slice here, not just extensions.
the typical $138k approval is about 15% of the $920k median home, these are substantial transformations, not cosmetic touch-ups.
NSW public schools within ~3.5 km. Source: NSW Department of Education schools master dataset.
One trade, one area, weekly. Every new Umina Beach approval that matches your trade, texted with the address and the job. $35/month, reply STOP anytime.
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