PROPERTY X-RAY
Wavell Heights · 4012 · Brisbane

Wavell Heights, 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, 78 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
50
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
22days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 22 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
23
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
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
Wavell Heights in four numbers

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

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

+24%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
$1.7M
Median pace
2026 (42 sales)
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
10
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.6%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Wavell Heights as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 78 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 7 Site works & minor 53
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 10 lots being subdivided · 0 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
10 Lot subdivision
2 Earthworks / site prep
51 of 78 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 14 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 5 units Rooming accommodation (purpose-built 2-storey rooming house) mixedA modest, purpose-built 5-room rooming house on a freshly cut corner lot at a busy arterial. Quality new stock and Council-forced character detailing lift the streetscape, but the rooming-accommodation use, two-space parking and subdivision-led intensification keep immediate neighbours cautious.
  • New lots 2 lots 1 Taylor Street, Wavell Heights
  • New lots 3 lots 10 Abbey Street, Wavell Heights QLD 4012
  • New lots 2 lots 234 Rode Road, Wavell Heights
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Childcare mixedA sympathetically-scaled expansion of an already-established child care centre that adds genuine local family amenity, but it absorbs a second residential lot into the centre and lifts peak drop-off traffic on quiet streets, so the read is net mixed rather than clearly accretive.
  • New lots 2 lots 62 Aveling Street, Wavell Heights
  • New lots 2 lots Lawnmower Cottages
  • New lots 2 lots 26 Calga Street, Wavell Heights QLD 4012
  • Apartments / use 7 units Townhouses accretiveMarcus Reid: seven on-zone two-storey townhouses replacing a cleared lot in an established 8km-from-CBD suburb is gentle, code-compliant renewal that sits with the area's grain rather than against it — directionally a small positive for the street.
  • Apartments / use 16 units Apartments neutralThis is a homeowner enclosing one balcony in an established 16-unit block to keep the arterial-road noise out, not a new development, so it moves nothing for the neighbours.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Wavell Heights 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 Wavell Heights safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
74
Unlawful Entry
45
Traffic and Related Offences
31
Drug Offences
25
Other Property Damage
24
Assault
19
Good Order Offences
16
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
15
Fraud
14
Other Offences Against the Person
12
Trespassing and Vagrancy
10
Weapons Act Offences
7
Handling Stolen Goods
5
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Arson
2
Robbery
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.

Schools & value

What are the schools like in Wavell Heights? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Wavell Heights

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Our Lady of the Angels' Schoolcatholic · 606 students
Wavell State High Schoolgovernment · 1,522 students
Wavell Heights State Schoolgovernment · 398 students

Value & yield

House sales in Wavell Heights, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (171 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.2M
2024 median house only (211 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.4M
2025 median house only (191 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.5M
2026 median house only (42 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.7M
3BR house rent (asking, 30 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$760/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.6%
Is Wavell Heights a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Wavell Heights.

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

Is Wavell Heights a good suburb?

Right now Wavell Heights is a suburb being actively reshaped: 78 development applications landed in the last twelve months. The typical house runs $1.51M, roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. Distance-wise it sits roughly 9 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 Wavell Heights?

A typical house in Wavell Heights sits around $1.51M (2026), roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. That is up roughly 24% over two years.

Does Wavell Heights flood?

Flood risk in Wavell Heights 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 Wavell Heights a good place to invest?

Wavell Heights's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 2.6%, 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 Wavell Heights a safe suburb?

Across Wavell Heights, police recorded about 302 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 Wavell Heights?

Wavell Heights had 78 development applications on the council register in the past year, 51 of them approved. That includes 10 lot subdivisions, 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 Wavell Heights 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