PROPERTY X-RAY
Balmoral · 4171 · Brisbane

Balmoral, X‑rayed.

What the suburb is, and what it is becoming. The prices, what is being approved, the crime mix, the schools. By the numbers, then check any address on the street.

Each pin is a real development application near these streets, 47 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads soft, worth caution.

Buyer signal: caution
For sale now
37
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
2.0%
Stock on market
Within the balanced band of choice for buyers.
to go under offer
18days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 12 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
3
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Aug 2026
The counts (listings, stock, cuts) include every property type: houses, townhouses, units, land. Days on market is houses only. Active = listed and not yet delisted. Stock on market = active listings divided by all land parcels in the suburb (parcels are lots, not dwellings, so read it as a proxy).
Buyer-favourable Caution: softening / oversupply
Balmoral in four numbers

What is the median house price in Balmoral? By our own numbers.

Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.

+-10%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Feb 2026
Median pace
2026 (1 sales)
PXR sales
As at Feb 2026
2
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.6%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

What is being built in Balmoral? You can inspect the house, not the street's future.

Every buyer judges Balmoral as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 47 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 2 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 3 Site works & minor 42
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 2 lots being subdivided · 3 townhouse / multi‑dwelling · hover a dot for the type.

This is the suburb, not your lot. The map shows that change is approved, and roughly where. Which one sits next to the house you are buying, and what it actually means, is in the per‑address report.

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The use fingerprint

What kind of change is being approved (last 12 months).
Density Industrial Amenity
A densifying suburb. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
15 New houses
3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
2 Earthworks / site prep
2 Lot subdivision
25 of 47 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 14 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 2 lots 107 Lytton Road, Bulimba, QLD 4171
  • Apartments / use 6 units Multiple dwelling (low-rise apartments/units, stepped 2-3 storey over basement) accretiveA well-resolved boutique six-dwelling building on a generous 809m2 Balmoral block, scaled and stepped to sit comfortably among its character neighbours — modestly accretive for the immediate street.
  • New lots 2 lots Balmoral New Build
  • Apartments / use 4 units Townhouses + apartment (multiple dwelling) neutralA modest infill addition (one apartment plus a deck/spa) to an already multi-unit pocket of Balmoral - it reinforces the existing character rather than changing it.
  • Apartments / use 8 units Townhouses/villas (multiple dwelling) neutralA single covered patio on one villa in an existing 2003 complex; this is a homeowner amenity upgrade with no measurable effect on surrounding property.
  • Apartments / use 177 units Townhouses + apartments (multiple dwelling) mixedA 2.3 ha under-utilised institutional site (vast hardstand, likely a former church/community holding) is being renewed into ~177 dwellings — accretive for the suburb's renewal and housing supply, but the up-to-6-storey apartment bulk on a 2-storey street and a multi-year staged build will sit heavily on the immediate low-rise neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 3-storey Childcare mixedA genuinely useful local amenity replacing a tired dwelling, but its 3-storey bulk and 75-place traffic load sit awkwardly on a low-medium-density residential street and will pinch the immediate eastern and southern neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 6 units Multiple dwelling (apartments/units) accretiveA well-resolved, design-led 6-unit infill on an 809sqm Balmoral block that lifts the calibre of the street rather than dumping density on it — the kind of renewal that tends to lift, not dent, neighbour desirability.
  • Apartments / use 6 units Apartments (multiple dwelling over a single basement car park) mixedQuality architect-designed renewal that lifts the street's long-run trajectory, but the immediate abutters wear real overshadowing, privacy and a punishing rock-excavation build before any of that upside lands.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Multiple dwelling neutralMarcus Reid: a one-unit patio extension on an existing strata block — zero meaningful effect on surrounding property either way.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Balmoral flood? It's a street-by-street question.

A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.

Where we're straight with you
We hold the parcel-level flood overlay here.

Flood overlays for Brisbane are in our map. The per-lot answer (in or out of the overlay) is on the address report, not a suburb average.

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Crime · the full mix

Is Balmoral safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

130 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
31
Unlawful Entry
27
Other Property Damage
13
Traffic and Related Offences
12
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
11
Assault
9
Trespassing and Vagrancy
8
Handling Stolen Goods
5
Drug Offences
4
Fraud
2
Robbery
2
Other Offences Against the Person
2
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Weapons Act Offences
1
Good Order Offences
1
For context, not a verdict

These are recorded offences for the area, grouped by type. We don't grade the suburb. You read the numbers and decide what matters for your street.

QPS crime data current to 3 Aug 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Balmoral? The people behind the price.

Who owns, who rents, what they earn, and how much land sits under a typical home. The demand signals a suburb average can answer honestly, drawn from the census we hold.

Owner-occupied
63%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
36%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$1,300/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
463
a typical parcel here, across 1,890 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
23%
Owned with a loan
40%
Rented
35%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 63% of dwellings in Balmoral. A more tenanted mix, the kind of read buyer's agents weigh for stability.

What people do

Top occupation groups of working residents. A professional weight tends to track stable demand.
Professionals
36%
Managers
21%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
9%
Technicians and Trades Workers
8%
Sales Workers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 36% of workers in Balmoral. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Aug 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Balmoral.
What this tells you, and what it doesn't

A high owner-occupier share, paired with a professional resident base, is a demand signal: people buy here to live, not to flip. It says nothing about the specific street or block. The per-address report puts these residents next to the exact lot, its zoning and what is being built nearby.

Schools & value

What are the schools like in Balmoral? And what it rents for.

Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.

Schools in Balmoral

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Sts Peter and Paul's Schoolcatholic · 548 students
Balmoral State High Schoolgovernment · 929 students

Value & yield

House sales in Balmoral, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (50 sales)As at Feb 2026
$1.7M
2024 median house only (46 sales)As at Feb 2026
$1.9M
2025 median house only (20 sales)As at Feb 2026
$1.5M
2026 median house onlyAs at Feb 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 1 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 4 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$758/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.6%
Is Balmoral a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Balmoral.

Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.

Is Balmoral a good suburb?

Balmoral reads as a suburb being actively reshaped: house values down about 10% in two years. Median house sits at $1.54M, a notch above the Brisbane house median. It is about 4 km east of the Brisbane CBD. Flood is a per-lot question here and we hold the parcel overlay, so check the exact address rather than a suburb average. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you, because the suburb average is never the whole picture. Check the exact address.

What is the median house price in Balmoral?

The median house in Balmoral is about $1.54M (2026), a notch above the Brisbane house median. Over two years that is a fall of about 10%.

Does Balmoral flood?

Flood risk in Balmoral is a street-by-street question. We hold the parcel-level flood overlay for this council, so the honest answer is at the exact address, not a suburb average. Run an address to see whether a specific lot sits inside a mapped overlay.

Is Balmoral a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 2.6% in Balmoral, right around the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Balmoral a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 130 recorded offences in Balmoral, most commonly other theft. We show the full breakdown and do not grade the suburb; you read it and decide what matters for your street.

What is being built in Balmoral?

In the last twelve months the council logged 47 applications around Balmoral, 25 of them approved. That includes 2 lot subdivisions and 3 townhouse or multi-dwelling projects, a clue to how the streetscape is slowly changing. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Balmoral address.

Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.

Houses across Queensland · informational, not advice