PROPERTY X-RAY
Lutwyche · 4030 · Brisbane

Lutwyche, 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, 22 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads tight, in the buyer's favour.

Buyer signal: favourable
For sale now
41
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
1.0%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
19days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 5 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
2
Asking-price cuts
A few vendors trimming. Watch if the count keeps climbing.
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
Lutwyche in four numbers

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

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

+13%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at May 2026
Median pace
2026 (3 sales)
PXR sales
As at May 2026
3
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.3%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Lutwyche as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 22 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 2 Shops, services & community 1 Site works & minor 16
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 3 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.
5 New houses
3 Lot subdivision
2 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
1 Retail / shopfront
17 of 22 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 4 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 2 lots 53 Bradshaw Street, Lutwyche
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Food and drink outlet (drive-through fast food, two tenancies) mixedA genuinely minor servicing and layout tweak to an already-approved twin drive-through fast-food pad — broadly neutral for the Lutwyche Road District Centre corridor, with a small, localised amenity cost to the single eastern residential neighbour now backing onto the relocated bin store, largely offset by the long-vacant corner finally being built out.
  • Apartments / use 4 units Apartments accretiveA modest, well-resolved 4-unit infill that under-uses an 8-storey allowance and slots into an already-densifying creek-side street near the busway, so it lifts rather than dilutes the surrounds.
  • New lots 2 lots 37 & 39 Damon Road, Lutwyche
  • Apartments / use 45 units Apartments (mixed use - residential apartments + ground-floor retail/commercial + office) neutralA paperwork catch-up on an already-built office inside a finished apartment block - effectively zero new impact on the surrounding street.
  • Apartments / use 34 units Apartments mixedExpected, code-consistent urban renewal for an inner-north corridor suburb: positive for the streetscape and area trajectory overall, but a real overshadowing and amenity trade-off for the handful of low-rise homes immediately abutting the 6-storey wall.
  • Apartments / use 4-storey Shopping centre neutralMarcus Reid: a routine internal tenancy reshuffle and Chalk Street facelift inside an established triple-supermarket centre — negligible directional effect on surrounding home values, marginally positive if it keeps the centre tenanted and tidy.
  • Apartments / use 29 units Apartments neutralThis is a ~22 m2 patio roof bolted onto one ground-floor unit of an existing 29-unit block. For the street and the neighbours it is a non-event.
  • Apartments / use 16 units Apartments accretiveA genuine, high-amenity infill apartment building on a busway-doorstep site that is already surrounded by 6-8 storey product — this lifts the street rather than blights it, with the main near-term cost being a deep-basement construction period.
  • Apartments / use 16 units Apartments accretiveA modest, code-compliant six-storey infill that simply completes the density already zoned and built around this Lutwyche block — net positive for surrounding values, with the only real cost being a finite construction-disruption window.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Lutwyche 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 Lutwyche safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
182
Drug Offences
53
Unlawful Entry
44
Other Property Damage
27
Traffic and Related Offences
22
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
20
Good Order Offences
20
Fraud
18
Assault
18
Handling Stolen Goods
13
Weapons Act Offences
5
Arson
4
Trespassing and Vagrancy
4
Other Offences Against the Person
3
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Robbery
2
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
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 Lutwyche? 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
45%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
37%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$1,105/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
405
a typical parcel here, across 4,167 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
17%
Owned with a loan
28%
Rented
53%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 45% of dwellings in Lutwyche. 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
37%
Managers
14%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
11%
Technicians and Trades Workers
9%
Sales Workers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 37% of workers in Lutwyche. 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 Lutwyche.
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 Lutwyche? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Lutwyche

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
No school ICSEA data held for this suburb yet.

Value & yield

House sales in Lutwyche, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (16 sales)As at May 2026
$1.2M
2025 median house only (17 sales)As at May 2026
$1.4M
2026 median house onlyAs at May 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 3 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 4 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$850/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.3%
Is Lutwyche a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Lutwyche.

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

Is Lutwyche a good suburb?

Over two years Lutwyche's house median has moved up roughly 13%, marking it as a steady, settled suburb. The typical house runs $1.35M, roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. Distance-wise it sits roughly 5 km north 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. None of this is a rating. Every street tells its own story, so run the specific address before you commit.

What is the median house price in Lutwyche?

A typical house in Lutwyche sits around $1.35M (2026), roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. That is up roughly 13% over two years.

Does Lutwyche flood?

Flood risk in Lutwyche 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 Lutwyche a good place to invest?

Lutwyche's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 3.3%, 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 Lutwyche a safe suburb?

Across Lutwyche, police recorded about 438 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 Lutwyche?

Lutwyche had 22 development applications on the council register in the past year, 17 of them approved. That includes 3 lot subdivisions 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.

Now make it about your street

Check any Lutwyche 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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