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Where should you buy, and why?

Type a region — say Sunshine Coast — and see every suburb in it on the numbers. Open any suburb for the full breakdown: housing, schools, building activity, crime, population and demographics, and an honest verdict. Then compare the contenders.

Step 1 · Find an area

Type a region or a suburb.

Type a region like Sunshine Coast to see every suburb in it, or go straight to a suburb like Buderim for its full breakdown — housing, schools, building activity, crime, population and demographics, and an honest verdict.

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Find suburbs by the numbers — filter & rank

Don't know the suburb yet? Set what matters — price ceiling, growth, yield — and rank the field. Click any suburb for its full read.

SuburbCouncilScoreHouse median1yr5yrYieldSold
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Two or three suburbs, head to head.

Weighing up a few suburbs? Put them side by side on the numbers that matter — value, growth, yield, rent and turnover — and see which wins each. Include the state, e.g. "Buderim QLD".

Where to buy

The strongest suburbs, ranked on the numbers.

A single Strength Score for every QLD suburb with a real market — built from five-year growth, gross yield, one-year momentum and how much actually sells, percentile-ranked across the state. Not an opinion; the numbers' own ranking. Click any suburb for its full read.

Top 12

Highest Strength Score

SuburbCouncilScore5yrYieldSold
How the Strength Score is built

Each suburb is percentile-ranked against every other QLD suburb (with at least 10 sales a year, so thin rural markets don't distort it) on four real Cotality measures: 5-year median-value growth (35%), gross rental yield (25%), 1-year momentum (20%) and sales turnover (20%). The weighted average is scaled 0–100. A high score means a suburb that is growing, yielding and liquid at once — the combination that actually stacks up, not just one number looking good.

Up and coming

Suburbs on the rise, before they peak.

The emerging markets — where growth is accelerating, prices are still affordable and demand is picking up. This ranks momentum over establishment: the suburbs starting to move, not the ones that already have. Click any for its full read.

Top 12

Highest up-and-coming score

SuburbCouncilEmerging1yr5yrPrice
What “up and coming” means here

Ranked on four real signals: acceleration (this year’s growth running ahead of its five-year pace, 35%), affordability (cheaper suburbs have more room to run, 25%), current momentum (25%) and real demand (sales turnover, 15%). It deliberately favours suburbs that are still affordable but heating up — the opposite of the Strength Score, which rewards already-established markets.

Renovation hotspots

Where owners are pouring money in.

The value of home renovation and extension approvals by area — from the ABS Alterations & Additions figures you supply each month. A surge here means owners are investing in an area rather than leaving it: one of the earliest signs a suburb is on the rise, before prices fully catch up.

Top 12

Fastest-rising renovation areas

Every council

Every council in Australia, one table.

Not every council has every signal — a figure is shown only where a real one exists, and left as "—" where it doesn't. The counts say how much of the table is really filled. Type a council name, filter by state, tap a column heading to sort; tap a row and that council's full read opens below the table.

CouncilState Approvals 12moGrowth Unemploy.Income House medianYield Crime /100kDA days Pop. to 2046

The leaders

Where the building is, and where it's turning.

Volume

Most approvals in the last 12 months

The number beside each bar is the change against the twelve months before — that is the part that says which way an area is turning.

Momentum

Fastest growing, of the big builders

Growth off a large base — only councils approving at least 1,000 homes a year, so a shire that went from one house to twelve cannot top the list.

By state

Approvals by state

The same twelve months, totalled by state.

Demand ahead

Where the most people are arriving by 2046

Projected population growth to 2046, Queensland councils — official government projection, not a forecast made here.

Investing lens

QLD councils, ranked by what actually matters to a buyer.

Every Queensland council on the numbers — median price, 1yr and 2yr growth, weekly rent, gross yield, vacancy rate, rental population share, stock movement. Read eight ways at once, then sort the full table by any field. Tap a council to open its full read.

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Council Pop Median price 1yr % 2yr % Rent Yield Vacancy Rental % Stock 1yr

Sourced live from Real Estate Investar via the builders-intelligence backend. Not personal financial advice.

How to use this

Explore a region on the map, discover its standout suburbs, zero in and compare the contenders, then check them against the national picture. Region first, then the numbers.