PROPERTY X-RAY
Fortitude Valley · 4006 · Brisbane

Fortitude Valley, 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, 76 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
112
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
Stock on market
Too few parcels on record to read stock pressure here.
to go under offer
38days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 2 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
15
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
Fortitude Valley in four numbers

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

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

House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at May 2026
Median pace
2026 (3 sales)
PXR sales
As at May 2026
1
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
6.5%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Fortitude Valley as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 76 applications in the last 12 months, 1 refused.

Lot subdivision 1 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 3 Shops, services & community 11 Industry 1 Site works & minor 44
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 1 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.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
11 Retail / shopfront
9 Earthworks / site prep
4 New houses
3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
2 Office
2 School works
40 of 76 applications approved, 98% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 13 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 5-storey Mixed use commercial (food and drink outlet + shop at ground, office above) integrating a retained commercial character building accretiveA high-quality mixed-use renewal already under construction on Brisbane's premium James Street dining/retail strip, retaining and integrating a pre-1947 commercial character building — directionally supportive of surrounding values, with significant but finite inner-city construction disruption near-term.
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Apartments (existing multi-level apartment building) neutralA single in-unit balcony glazing job behind an existing facade. It changes nothing a neighbour can see and nothing that moves surrounding values either way.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Animal keeping / dog daycare (within existing 2-storey commercial character building) mixedA well-managed dog daycare slotting into an existing inner-city commercial building is a convenience amenity for the Valley's apartment-dwelling pet owners, but barking noise and odour are the perennial watch items in a precinct this dense, especially with the office tenants directly above.
  • Apartments / use Educational establishment neutralA paperwork extension only — the dial-mover (size and form of the school extension) isn't in this packet, and the project has sat unbuilt for eight years, so this changes little for neighbours today.
  • Apartments / use 3-storey Office (adaptive reuse / partial demolition of character building) accretiveA careful, character-retaining adaptive reuse of a pre-1946 building into a boutique office in a New Farm neighbourhood centre — broadly positive for the streetscape, with the only real watch-point being one fewer on-site car space in an already parking-stressed pocket.
  • Apartments / use 7-storey Mixed use commercial (food and drink outlet, shop, office, bar — no residential) accretiveA premium rooftop hospitality venue capping an already-under-construction building in Brisbane's strongest lifestyle precinct — net positive for surrounding desirability, with a manageable late-night-noise caveat for the residential edge.
  • Apartments / use 207 units Apartments accretiveA green-light extension that keeps a 30-storey, 207-unit transit-side renewal of the under-used Valley Metro block alive — directionally positive for the precinct, but the repeated time-extensions are a clear feasibility-stress flag, not a build-imminent signal.
  • Apartments / use 3-storey Commercial — 3-storey office + retail/shop building over an access laneway accretiveA modest, well-mannered 3-storey commercial infill that turns a derelict hardstand car park into active retail and office floor in the heart of the James Street Precinct — a quiet net positive for surrounding values.
  • Apartments / use 20 units Apartments + townhouses (mixed residential — tower + low-rise row, with heritage/pre-1911 building relocation) mixedMarcus Reid: a smaller, heritage-sensitive version of an already-approved tower — net renewal positive for the inner-Valley precinct, but a 10-storey wall and a multi-year heritage-relocation build still bear down hard on the immediate low-rise Hynes/Knapp neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Office (commercial character building) accretiveA small, character-sympathetic renewal of a tired pre-1946 commercial building into modern office space - mildly positive for the immediate Spring Hill streetscape and neutral-to-marginal for surrounding property values.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Fortitude Valley 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 Fortitude Valley safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

6,215 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Drug Offences
1,615
Good Order Offences
1,253
Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
1,159
Assault
540
Traffic and Related Offences
308
Other Property Damage
277
Weapons Act Offences
249
Unlawful Entry
220
Handling Stolen Goods
150
Fraud
117
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
84
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
79
Trespassing and Vagrancy
74
Other Offences Against the Person
42
Miscellaneous Offences
25
Robbery
22
Arson
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.

Schools & value

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

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

Schools in Fortitude Valley

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
All Hallows' Schoolcatholic · 1,707 students
Humanitas High Schoolindependent · 90 students
Fortitude Valley State Secondary Collegegovernment · 822 students
Angelorum Collegeindependent · 69 students
Music Industry Collegeindependent · 87 students

Value & yield

House sales in Fortitude Valley, and the rent it returns.
2025 median house only (14 sales)As at May 2026
$638K
2026 median house onlyAs at May 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 3 sold.
3BR house rent (RTA bonds (postcode))As at Aug 2026
$800/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
6.5%
Is Fortitude Valley a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Fortitude Valley.

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

Is Fortitude Valley a good suburb?

There is plenty of change underway in Fortitude Valley, 76 applications on the register over the past year. Median house sits at $638K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. It is about 2 km north-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 Fortitude Valley?

The median house in Fortitude Valley is about $638K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side.

Does Fortitude Valley flood?

Flood risk in Fortitude Valley 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 Fortitude Valley a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 6.5% in Fortitude Valley, comfortably above the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. That is a genuinely useful yield for a house, so the rent does more of the heavy lifting here. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Fortitude Valley a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 6,215 recorded offences in Fortitude Valley, most commonly drug offences. 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 Fortitude Valley?

In the last twelve months the council logged 76 applications around Fortitude Valley, 40 of them approved. That includes 1 lot subdivision 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 Fortitude Valley address.

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

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