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.
Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.
Every buyer judges Highgate Hill as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 57 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.
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.
Check a specific address →A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.
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.
Check a specific address →341 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.
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 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.
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.
Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.
Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.
Highgate Hill is one of the busier suburbs in Brisbane's south for development right now, with 57 applications on the council register in the past year. The typical house runs $2.37M, well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. Just know the yield is slim at about 1.8%, so the appeal is capital growth, not the rent cheque. Distance-wise it sits roughly 2 km south 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. That is the read from the data, not a verdict. The only number that truly counts is the one for the exact address, so check the lot before you fall for the suburb.
A typical house in Highgate Hill sits around $2.37M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. That is up roughly 28% over two years.
Flood risk in Highgate Hill 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.
Highgate Hill's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 1.8%, below the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. With prices climbing, the play here is capital growth rather than cashflow. You would probably top up the holding costs from your own pocket. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.
Across Highgate Hill, police recorded about 341 offences over the last year, most commonly other theft. The complete mix is on the page. We do not slap a score on it, that judgment is yours.
Highgate Hill had 57 development applications on the council register in the past year, 39 of them approved. That includes 5 lot subdivisions, a clue to how the streetscape is slowly changing. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.
Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.