$400 a week and under: 18 of Brisbane’s cheapest rentals

A dozen and a half studio apartments are currently listed for rent in Brisbane priced at $400 a week or lower, the cheapest rates to be found across the River City.

One of Brisbane’s cheapest rentals is a studio at 97 Alfred Street, Fortitude Valley, priced at $230 a week, bond $920, available June 7, 2023.

A dozen and a half studio apartments are listed for rent in Brisbane priced at $400 a week or lower, the cheapest to be found across the River City.

Realestate.com.au rental listings found almost 50 rooms in share accommodation available privately for students across Brisbane, none of which are available to other members of the public.

A further 18 studio apartments are open to the general public though, two of which are priced below $300 a week, with the cheapest being 97 Alfred Street, Fortitude Valley, which has options $230 to $300 a week available from June 7.

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A studio at 120 Terrace Street, New Farm, is $250 a week, bond $1,000, available now.

Studios at 9 Castlebar St, Woolloongabba, are for students and the general public priced at $365 to $378 a week fully furnished.

One of Brisbane’s most expensive suburbs, New Farm, also contained one of the city’s cheapest apartments – a boutique studio at 120 Terrace Street listed at $250 a week available now.

Real estate agent Tina Georgiou of Georgiou Property Management, whose listings include rooms in Fisher House in East Brisbane from $295 a week for women in need, said vacancy rates were very low across the lower end of the rental market.

“It is very hard due to the large amount of homelessness in Brisbane at the moment. We do have other properties that are like $200 or $320 a week, but there are no vacancies at all there.”

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Stunning studio at 518/160 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, priced at $390 per week + utilities, bond $1,560, available now.

This fully furnished granny flat at 23 Newcomen St, Indooroopilly, is $360 per week, available 13 Jul 2023

Three studio apartments were available for $300 a week: 303/204 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Studio/267 Mortimer Road, Acacia Ridge, and 230b Brighton Road, Sandgate.

Nine more studio apartments were priced below $400 a week including 7/453 Bowen Terrace, New Farm for $340 a week, 1a/70 Tenby St, Mount Gravatt for $350, and three priced as $360 a week – 23 Newcomen St, Indooroopilly, 1/23 Stones Road, Sunnybank, and 252/108 Margaret Street, Brisbane City.

This studio at 252/108 Margaret Street, Brisbane City, is $360 per week, bond $1,440, available now.

A studio at 2/59 Landsboro Avenue, Boondall, is $400 per week, bond $1,600, available now.

A popular student studio offering which is also open to the general public is 9 Castlebar Street, Kangaroo Point, where two are currently listed priced at $365 and $378 a week.

Four more listings come in at or under $400 a week, including $385 for Cordelia Street in South Brisbane, $390 for a luxury unit in Woolloongabba, and two for $400 in Boondall and Bald Hill. The Bald Hill offering is a two-bedroom unit for $400 a week.

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