The cost to buy into some of Queensland’s most coveted public school catchments has soared, with many suburbs now recording a family-budget zapping median house price north of $1 million. SEARCH THE LIST
Queensland’s most viewed house this week was not a multimillion-dollar riverfront showstopper, but a retro ‘time capsule’ house listed for offers over $499,000. Take a look inside.
This vast fruit farm has a homestead, workers compound, bee hives, cold rooms, bore water, greenhouses, a shooting range and its very own 4WD race tracks. It is the perfect off-grid oasis.
A father of six who has been unable to find housing in the Burdekin is worried he may face the prospect of losing his kids if he can’t find accommodation any time soon.
An off-grid acreage property with private 4WD and motocross tracks, and six cabins has hit the market, and it is only two hours from the Brisbane CBD. And it doesn’t cost a bomb.
From mining towns to coastal enclaves and leafy city suburbs, there are 70 house and 36 unit locations across Queensland where house prices are cheaper now than they were a decade ago.
They have moved all over Australia with the RAAF, but this family have all but eliminated their mortgage after buying in this regional Queensland city. And its just minutes from the CBD.
Households in nearly 400 Queensland suburbs now need to earn more than $100,000 after tax a year to live and pay the mortgage, with affordability nationally the ‘worst on record’. SEARCH THE INTERACTIVE
Some of Australia’s richest people own properties in this prestige Brisbane suburb, which has a median sales price nudging $2 million. You won’t believe what you have to earn to live there.
Queensland’s crippling rental crisis has left vacancy rates below 1 per cent in a staggering 40 local government areas, with availability in one city shrinking to just 0.1 per cent, or effectively zero. SEE HOW BAD THINGS ARE IN YOUR REGION
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