Newstead, 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.
A thin read on supply and demand.
The counts (listings, stock, cuts) include every property type: houses, townhouses, units, land. Days on market is houses only, because a median across different property types describes none of them. The buyer signal reads both. 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). Days on market and cuts cover the trailing window noted on each.
By the numbers, drawn from our own data.
Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.
2023 to 2025
2025 (3 sales)
last 12 months
3BR house
You can inspect the house. You can't inspect the street's future.
Every buyer judges Newstead as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 51 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 →The use fingerprint
What's arriving
What's coming: the approved projects
- Apartments / use25-storeyApartments (mixed-use residential tower with podium retail/commercial)neutralA cosmetic, internally-installed balcony-shutter retrofit on four units of an already-built, fully-occupied Newstead tower — no measurable effect on the desirability of surrounding property.
- Apartments / use9-storeyCommercial office toweraccretiveReplacing a fenced surface car park on an EMR-listed former servo corner with a 9-storey Hutchinson-built office tower, a shopfront-activated lobby and widened footpaths is a clear win for this pocket of the Valley Gateway.
- Apartments / use15-storeyApartments (residential tower / multiple dwelling)accretiveA premium rooftop wellness upgrade to an already-approved 15-storey Newstead tower — reinforces the precinct's high-end trajectory without adding bulk, traffic or overshadowing for neighbours.
- New lots3 lots8 & 14 Maud St
- Apartments / use103 unitsApartments (high-rise residential tower with ground-floor retail/commercial)accretiveA high-quality 15-storey residential-led tower replacing tired trade-supply and warehouse uses is exactly the renewal Newstead's Mixed Use Transition Precinct was zoned for - a clear net positive for surrounding amenity and values.
- Apartments / use65 unitsApartmentsaccretiveQuality residential renewal of a cleared industrial allotment in a corridor already approved for 25-33 storey towers — directionally supportive of surrounding values, with the live-music venue next door the one genuine friction point.
- New lots2 lots57 Skyring Tce, Newstead QLD 4006
- Apartments / use124 unitsApartmentsaccretiveA premium riverfront tower already locked into a proven master-planned precinct; this particular change tweaks it slightly downward in density and is immaterial to neighbours.
- Apartments / use19-storeyOffice tower (commercial; high-impact-industry component + dedicated generator rooms + air-quality assessment strongly suggest a data-centre / digital-infrastructure use behind the office envelope)accretiveA premium 19-storey office tower with an activated F&B ground plane on a prominent Valley corner - net positive for the surrounding precinct, though the high-impact-industry/generator component is the one thing to watch.
- Apartments / use23750 m²Mixed use master-planned precinct (podium + towers)accretiveA decade-long framework approval that re-codes a tired Newstead industrial parcel into a master-planned mixed-use precinct — directionally accretive to surrounding residential amenity once built, but it is an enabling approval on a 10-year clock, not an imminent build.
Flood is 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.
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 →The numbers, plainly.
643 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 15 June 2026.
The school picture and the yield.
Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.
Schools in Newstead
Value & yield
The questions buyers ask about Newstead.
Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.
Is Newstead a good suburb?
Right now Newstead is a suburb being actively reshaped: 51 development applications landed in the last twelve months. It is about 3 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. None of this is a rating. Every street tells its own story, so run the specific address before you commit.
Does Newstead flood?
Flood risk in Newstead 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 Newstead a safe suburb?
Over the past year there were roughly 643 recorded offences in Newstead, 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 Newstead?
In the last twelve months the council logged 51 applications around Newstead, 32 of them approved. That includes 2 lot subdivisions and 1 townhouse or multi-dwelling project, a clue to how the streetscape is slowly changing. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.
Check any Newstead address.
Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.