PROPERTY X-RAY
Woolloongabba · 4102 · Brisbane

Woolloongabba, 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, 45 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
58
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
26days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 5 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
4
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
Woolloongabba in four numbers

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

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

+21%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Mar 2026
Median pace
2026 (3 sales)
PXR sales
As at Mar 2026
4
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.9%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Woolloongabba as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 45 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 4 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 3 Shops, services & community 7 Industry 2 Site works & minor 29
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 4 lots being subdivided · 3 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.
6 New houses
5 Earthworks / site prep
4 Lot subdivision
3 Park / recreation
3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
2 Retail / shopfront
28 of 45 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 6 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 2 lots 26 Merton Road, Woolloongabba
  • New lots subdivision 44 BROADWAY ST WOOLLOONGABBA QLD 4102
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Detached dwelling house accretiveA well-resolved, character-sympathetic two-storey home filling a vacant infill lot in a tightly-held inner-city pocket — a net positive for the street, though it is one half of a small-lot densification that subtly resets the block's grain.
  • Apartments / use 1125 units Apartments + student accommodation (PBSA rooming) + affordable-housing towers (mixed-use, ground retail) accretiveConverting a stalled commercial-office TOD approval into ~1,125 dwellings on top of Buranda station is, on balance, accretive for surrounding Woolloongabba property — it locks in the precinct's growth trajectory — but the heavy under-parking and loss of public permeability are real watch-items.
  • Apartments / use 15-storey Apartments accretiveA genuine, already-under-construction 15-storey (heading to 17) apartment and short-stay tower on a high-density-zoned Woolloongabba site is the intended built form for this renewal corridor, not an out-of-place imposition on its neighbours.
  • Apartments / use Mixed use tower (rooftop bar / hotel addition within an existing precinct) accretiveA public rooftop bar with skyline views, bolted onto the top of an already-approved tower in a maturing inner-city precinct, lifts the amenity and address-value of everything around it without adding real bulk.
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Dwelling house mixedA single quality two-storey home filling a vacant subdivided lot in a renewing Woolloongabba pocket: mildly accretive to the streetscape, with the usual narrow-infill bulk and privacy trade-offs for the immediate side neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 373 units Apartments (twin residential towers over podium, mixed-use) accretiveA transit-oriented, 373-unit twin-tower renewal inside the Woolloongabba PDA next to the Gabba and Cross River Rail — directionally accretive for the precinct, though this particular packet is only a minor basement-services tweak that changes nothing a neighbour would notice.
  • Apartments / use Multi dwelling neutralMarcus Reid: this is a paperwork extension only — the underlying approval stays alive to Feb 2028 — and the notice gives me nothing on what is actually being built, so I can't read the directional impact yet.
  • New lots 2 lots 44 Broadway Street, Woolloongabba (1-into-2 reconfiguration)
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Woolloongabba 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 Woolloongabba safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

1,933 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
709
Drug Offences
267
Unlawful Entry
204
Good Order Offences
134
Other Property Damage
124
Traffic and Related Offences
120
Assault
119
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
59
Fraud
56
Handling Stolen Goods
36
Weapons Act Offences
34
Trespassing and Vagrancy
20
Other Offences Against the Person
18
Robbery
14
Miscellaneous Offences
9
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
7
Arson
3
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 Woolloongabba? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Woolloongabba

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Buranda State Schoolgovernment · 226 students
Narbethong State Special Schoolgovernment · 53 students

Value & yield

House sales in Woolloongabba, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (15 sales)As at Mar 2026
$1.2M
2024 median house onlyAs at Mar 2026
Not enough house sales in 2024 to publish a median. 1 sold.
2025 median house only (22 sales)As at Mar 2026
$1.5M
2026 median house onlyAs at Mar 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 3 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 11 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$800/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.9%
Is Woolloongabba a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Woolloongabba.

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

Is Woolloongabba a good suburb?

There is plenty of change underway in Woolloongabba, 45 applications on the register over the past year. Median house sits at $1.46M, roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. It is about 3 km south-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. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you, because the suburb average is never the whole picture. Check the exact address.

What is the median house price in Woolloongabba?

The median house in Woolloongabba is about $1.46M (2026), roughly in line with the Brisbane house median. Over two years that is a rise of about 21%.

Does Woolloongabba flood?

Flood risk in Woolloongabba 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 Woolloongabba a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 2.9% in Woolloongabba, 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 Woolloongabba a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 1,933 recorded offences in Woolloongabba, 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 Woolloongabba?

In the last twelve months the council logged 45 applications around Woolloongabba, 28 of them approved. That includes 4 lot subdivisions and 3 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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Check any Woolloongabba address.

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