There are just nine Sydney locales where home buyers’ price searches for houses were the same or lower than listing prices, in a stark indicator of the city’s affordability crunch, according to Domain data.

Only Warringah, Leichhardt, Hornsby, Sydney inner city, Blacktown, Botany, Mount Druitt, Richmond and Wyong have median listing prices that were lower than search prices, as prices elsewhere in the city have soared beyond buyers’ expectations,