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Queensland Property Investment Locations
We don’t research every location. We focus on the ones worth investigating, and match them to your budget, property type and strategy.
Queensland has hundreds of suburbs and towns. Very few have several growth drivers working at once. The locations below have passed our first filter.
A location only works for you if it matches your goals, your purpose for investing, the outcome you need, your strategy and, critically, your budget.
Queensland’s growth is concentrated in South East Queensland, where Ipswich and Logan were the state’s two fastest-growing councils in 2024–25. But fast growth also brings new supply. Your budget, the property type and the exact location inside each council decide whether that growth works for you.
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Our selected locations
Locations Worth Investigating
14 locations across South East and regional Queensland. Filter by region, hover or tap the map for a snapshot, and click through for the full research.
The matrix
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Each card links to our location research. The region filter above applies here too.
Brisbane
Queensland’s capital and the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic host city, adding more than 21,000 residents in a year.
Ipswich
Queensland’s fastest-growing council, with Springfield and the Ripley Valley driving its growth.
Greater Springfield
A master-planned city with its own rail line, university, health precinct and town centre.
Ripley Valley
A State Government priority development area planned for about 48,750 homes and 131,000 people.
Logan
Between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Queensland’s second-fastest-growing council.
Moreton Bay
Queensland’s third-largest council, between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
Gold Coast
Australia’s sixth-largest city, with tourism, health, education and construction jobs.
Sunshine Coast
A lifestyle region with a new CBD at Maroochydore and the 2032 Games on its doorstep.
Toowoomba
The Darling Downs’ regional capital, linked to Brisbane by the Toowoomba Bypass and Wellcamp Airport.
Townsville
Northern Australia’s largest city, built on defence, health, education and the port.
Hervey Bay & Fraser Coast
A coastal city with 1.6% vacancy and new train-manufacturing jobs at nearby Maryborough.
Bundaberg
A coastal regional city of 100,000+ people, with a major new hospital under way and values up 15.6% in a year.
Rockhampton
Central Queensland’s regional capital, with the $1.98 billion Rockhampton Ring Road under construction.
Mackay
The Bowen Basin’s service hub, with a $14.9 billion economy and unemployment around 2.5%.
Darwin
Australia’s northern capital, with values up 18.9% in 2025 and gross rental yields of 6.2%.
Melbourne & Victoria
Our sister site researches 17 locations across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Population: Queensland Government Statistician’s Office, Population growth, regional Queensland, 2024–25. Springfield and Ripley: Ipswich City Council, February 2026. Ripley Valley: Economic Development Queensland.
Our filter
What Makes a Location Worth Investigating?
A location doesn’t become interesting just because prices have risen. We look for evidence of the conditions that support sustained housing demand.
Population growth
Is the population growing, who is moving in, and what housing will they need?
Jobs and economic diversity
Growing employment across several sectors, not reliance on one industry or employer.
Infrastructure
Completed, under construction or funded. We treat proposals as upside, never the investment case.
Transport and connectivity
How easily people reach work, education, services and major centres.
Housing demand
Household formation, migration and the changing mix of local households.
Rental market
Vacancy rates, rent growth and genuine tenant demand.
Supply
Land releases, development pipelines and future competing stock.
Affordability
Prices relative to incomes, rents and surrounding markets.
Property matrix
New Stock by LGA and Shire
Builders and developers send us their new stock every week. We’ve sorted 662 Queensland listings received from July to October 2026 by local government area (LGA) and shire. Filter by region, dwelling type and budget, tap a council on the map to find it in the table, and sort the table by any column.
Circle size shows the number of listings that match your filters. Hollow circles are locations we research with no stock in the current lists. Councils marked “ask us” are covered in 7 Queensland Locations Worth a Closer Look in 2026.
| LGA / Shire | Listings | Price range | Median | Rent est. | Gross yield | Mix | Most stock in |
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Indicative prices and rents from builder and developer stock lists sent to properT network between July and October 2026. Rents are supplier or agent estimates, not guarantees, and gross yield is rent × 52 ÷ total price. Stock changes weekly, so ask us for what’s available now. Prices and rents are the median of listings that state them. A matrix of stock isn’t a recommendation: we test each location and property against our research before we put it to a client.
One Reason Isn’t Enough
A growing population alone isn’t enough. Neither is the 2032 Games, a new rail line or a single resources project. Queensland has seen what happens when a town relies on one industry: mining towns that boomed and then fell when the projects finished. When population, jobs, infrastructure, transport, housing demand and affordability work together, a location becomes worth a closer look.
This mirrors the approach of Hotspotting, the research firm founded by Terry Ryder, which looks for locations where several core growth drivers are working in their favour. We follow its research closely alongside government, council and market data.
Our location research is selective, not exhaustive. That’s the point.
A Location Is Only the Starting Point
A location with strong fundamentals doesn’t make every property in it a good investment. Two properties in the same suburb can perform completely differently because of property type, land, position, design, rental appeal, competing supply, price and resale demand.
We generally favour new builds for investors: stronger cash flow, higher depreciation, lower maintenance and a builder’s warranty. And we apply our ten-year rule: a new home stays ten years younger than the house next door, including when you sell. Read more in Existing Homes vs New Builds and our property options.
Markets don’t stand still. We review these locations as new information comes in, and add new ones as our research identifies markets worth investigating.
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