PROPERTY X-RAY
South Brisbane · 4101 · Brisbane

South Brisbane, 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, 105 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
235
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
18.3%
Stock on market
Above the healthy band. Buyers have more choice and leverage.
to go under offer
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Median days on market · houses
Not enough recorded house sales yet to time the market here.
last 90 days
42
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
South Brisbane in four numbers

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

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

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House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Apr 2026
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Median pace
2026 (1 sales)
PXR sales
As at Apr 2026
6
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Oct 2026
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Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Oct 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges South Brisbane as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 105 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 5 Shops, services & community 10 Site works & minor 42
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 6 lots being subdivided · 9 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.
15 Earthworks / site prep
14 Retail / shopfront
9 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
6 Lot subdivision
2 New houses
1 Park / recreation
70 of 105 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 206 units Apartments mixedA genuine renewal of a tired eight-unit walk-up into a well-parked, heavily landscaped 206-apartment tower that lifts the quality ceiling on Manning Street, but the three-sided built-to-boundary podium and a multi-year deep-basement build on a narrow neighbourhood road will cost the immediate neighbours amenity for years before anyone sees the benefit.
  • Apartments / use 31-storey Apartments (high-rise residential tower with ground-level retail and food and drink tenancies) accretiveThis is not really a rooftop application, it is the paper trail of a stalled receivership tower on Merivale Street being bought, redesigned and pushed toward completion, and for the neighbours that is the best news on the block.
  • Apartments / use 288 units Apartments mixedFor South Brisbane generally this is a clear upgrade - a union office block on a hard corner becomes 288 owner-occupier sized apartments, a rebuilt verge and a 24 hour public corner - but for the ten storey building directly on the eastern boundary it is a genuine loss, because Council asked for the podium to come down and it did not.
  • Apartments / use 224 units Apartments (high-rise residential tower with ground-floor retail/food-and-drink) accretiveCompleting a stalled, receivership-bound 30-storey tower on a designated growth-precinct site is a net positive for the surrounding South Brisbane streetscape, with the only real caveat being added small-unit rental stock into an already apartment-dense pocket.
  • Apartments / use 286 units Apartments accretiveA 30-storey Build-to-Rent tower in the heart of South Brisbane's high-rise precinct is exactly the product this zone was written for, and the s81 change makes it marginally better for neighbours, not worse.
  • Apartments / use 110 units Apartments mixedA 110-unit, 13-storey luxury tower replacing two tired walk-up blocks is textbook expected renewal for high-density South Brisbane; the only thing being decided here is an acoustic screen, which is purely a positive for the closest neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 26 units Apartments mixedA quality 9-storey, 26-unit owner-occupier building on an up-zoned South Brisbane/West End pocket — accretive to the precinct's long-run renewal, but with real near-term construction pain and a built-to-boundary western wall that bears down on the low-rise neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 493 units Student accommodation tower (PBSA / rooming accommodation) accretiveA minor design refinement to an already-approved, near-term Scape student tower in the Kurilpa growth precinct — net positive for the surrounding streetscape, with the only real neighbour-facing trade-offs being a tighter laneway wall and 527 beds delivered with zero on-site car parking.
  • Apartments / use 755 m² Shopping centre mall refurbishment accretiveA modest, well-mannered streetscape and accessibility upgrade to an established district-centre mall — mildly positive for the immediate public domain, with no density, height or traffic downside to worry the neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 3-storey Adaptive reuse commercial / mixed centre activities (hospitality + retail + office/indoor recreation) accretiveA genuine renewal play: a blank, utilitarian Fish Lane frontage becomes an activated hospitality-and-retail edge in an already-commercial City Centre block, which lifts the desirability of the surrounding precinct rather than burdening it.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does South Brisbane 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 South Brisbane safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

2,599 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
995
Drug Offences
257
Unlawful Entry
227
Good Order Offences
223
Assault
208
Other Property Damage
178
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
85
Fraud
82
Traffic and Related Offences
80
Trespassing and Vagrancy
58
Weapons Act Offences
56
Handling Stolen Goods
55
Robbery
39
Other Offences Against the Person
33
Miscellaneous Offences
13
Arson
6
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
4
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.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in South Brisbane? 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
28%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
38%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$888/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
555m²
a typical parcel here, across 1,282 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
13%
Owned with a loan
15%
Rented
70%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 28% of dwellings in South Brisbane. 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
38%
Managers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
12%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
11%
Sales Workers
8%
Technicians and Trades Workers
8%
Professionals are the largest group at 38% of workers in South Brisbane. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Oct 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering South Brisbane.
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 South Brisbane? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in South Brisbane

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Somerville Houseindependent · 1,377 students
Brisbane State High Schoolgovernment · 3,594 students
St Laurence's Collegecatholic · 2,033 students

Value & yield

House sales in South Brisbane, and the rent it returns.
2025 median house onlyAs at Apr 2026
Not enough house sales in 2025 to publish a median. 4 sold.
2026 median house onlyAs at Apr 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 1 sold.
3BR house rent (RTA bonds (postcode))As at Oct 2026
$950/wk
Is South Brisbane a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about South Brisbane.

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

Is South Brisbane a good suburb?

Right now South Brisbane is a suburb being actively reshaped: 105 development applications landed in the last twelve months. It is about 1 km south-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. None of this is a rating. Every street tells its own story, so run the specific address before you commit.

Does South Brisbane flood?

Flood risk in South Brisbane 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 South Brisbane a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 2,599 recorded offences in South Brisbane, 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 South Brisbane?

In the last twelve months the council logged 105 applications around South Brisbane, 70 of them approved. That includes 6 lot subdivisions and 9 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 South Brisbane address.

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

Houses across Queensland · informational, not advice