PROPERTY X-RAY
Kelvin Grove · 4059 · Brisbane

Kelvin Grove, 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, 26 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
61
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
27days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 9 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
12
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Oct 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
Kelvin Grove in four numbers

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

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

+27%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Sep 2026
$1.6M
Median pace
2026 (11 sales)
PXR sales
As at Sep 2026
1
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Oct 2026
2.9%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Oct 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Kelvin Grove as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 26 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 1 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 2 Shops, services & community 3 Site works & minor 20
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 1 lots being subdivided · 2 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.
10 New houses
2 Park / recreation
2 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
1 Earthworks / site prep
1 School works
1 Lot subdivision
20 of 26 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 9 Oct 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 2 units Dual occupancy - retained pre-1946 dwelling house fronting Dalley Street plus a new detached 2-storey dwelling at the Lock Street rear frontage mixedA carefully choreographed rear infill that leaves the Dalley Street character streetscape untouched while quietly loading 55.9% site cover, 1.5m side setbacks and a new crossover onto a one-way lane, so the wider street is barely moved but the four immediate neighbours wear almost all of it.
  • New lots subdivision 15 Rusden Street, Kelvin Grove
  • Apartments / use 22 units Warehouse (self-storage / small-bay strata industrial estate) neutralA well-screened, low-traffic self-storage estate replacing tired industrial sheds on flood-liable industrial land — a benign neighbour that tidies the streetscape but won't move surrounding residential values much either way.
  • Apartments / use 4 units Rooming accommodation mixedA well-resolved 21-room student/shared rooming complex that fits the QUT Kelvin Grove precinct and keeps the character house out front — but a car-free, reduced-setback, height-exceeding build that nudges amenity and on-street parking the wrong way for the immediate low-rise neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 6 units Multiple dwellings accretiveSix well-located townhouses already part-built on a sub-1,100m2 inner-suburb LMR lot — consistent renewal, but the live risk to neighbours is the stalled, half-demolished site sitting idle while a new builder is found.
  • Apartments / use 20 units Apartments accretiveA genuine inner-city renewal — 20 modern, lift-served, accessible apartments replacing a tired 1970s-era walk-up and an old highset house on a steep Kelvin Grove block sits comfortably within the area's medium-density trajectory and should lift, not dilute, the surrounding streetscape.
  • Apartments / use – Rooming accommodation neutralA two-year clock extension on a long-stalled character-house conversion to rooming accommodation: too small and too slow to move the surrounding Kelvin Grove market either way on current evidence.
  • New lots 4 lots 29 Broadhurst St & 45 Vale St, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
  • Apartments / use 4 units Townhouses accretiveA sensitively handled small infill: a tired pre-1946 character home is kept and renovated at the street while four modest units are tucked underneath and behind, which lifts streetscape quality on a Tait Street that is already largely subdivided.
  • Apartments / use – Material Change of Use (Development Permit) + Carry Out Building Work (Preliminary Approval under s241) — specifics not in this extension packet neutralAn extension-of-time decision only — it keeps an existing inner-city LMR redevelopment approval alive to June 2025, but this packet carries none of the design detail needed to call the directional impact.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Kelvin Grove 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 Kelvin Grove safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
200
Unlawful Entry
87
Traffic and Related Offences
62
Drug Offences
57
Other Property Damage
50
Assault
24
Good Order Offences
22
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
20
Fraud
14
Trespassing and Vagrancy
10
Other Offences Against the Person
10
Weapons Act Offences
4
Robbery
4
Miscellaneous Offences
3
Handling Stolen Goods
3
Arson
3
Homicide (Murder)
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 21 Sep 2026.

Schools & value

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

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

Schools in Kelvin Grove

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Compass Independent Schoolindependent · 47 students
Kelvin Grove State Collegegovernment · 3,617 students
Queensland Academy for Creative Industriesgovernment · 436 students

Value & yield

House sales in Kelvin Grove, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (44 sales)As at Sep 2026
$1.3M
2024 median house only (23 sales)As at Sep 2026
$1.4M
2025 median house only (13 sales)As at Sep 2026
$1.6M
2026 median house only (11 sales)As at Sep 2026
$1.6M
3BR house rent (asking, 21 live listings)As at Oct 2026
$900/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Oct 2026
2.9%
Is Kelvin Grove a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Kelvin Grove.

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

Is Kelvin Grove a good suburb?

What catches the eye in Kelvin Grove is the yield, about 2.9% gross on a house. It reads as a steady, settled suburb. The typical house runs $1.59M, roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. Distance-wise it sits roughly 3 km north-west 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.

What is the median house price in Kelvin Grove?

A typical house in Kelvin Grove sits around $1.59M (2026), roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. That is up roughly 27% over two years.

Does Kelvin Grove flood?

Flood risk in Kelvin Grove 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 Kelvin Grove a good place to invest?

Kelvin Grove's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 2.9%, right around the Brisbane house average of about 2.6%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Kelvin Grove a safe suburb?

Across Kelvin Grove, police recorded about 574 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.

What is being built in Kelvin Grove?

Kelvin Grove had 26 development applications on the council register in the past year, 20 of them approved. That includes 1 lot subdivision and 2 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.

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