The Top 20 Most Expensive Suburbs in Brisbane

Inner city favourite New Farm is officially Brisbane’s most expensive suburb, with a median house price of $1.7 million.

Recent figures from the Domain Group have revealed the top 20 most expensive suburbs, ranked according to median house price.  With Brisbane’s property market now in the ascent as the best performing capital city in Australia, it paints a strong picture of where the city’s wealthiest residents are willing to park their cash.

New Farm topped the list with its $1.7 million median house price, followed by neighbouring Teneriffe with a median of $1.65 million.

Acreage hot spot Chandler, in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs, took out third place with a median house price of $1.585 million.

These houses sit in Brisbane’s most expensive suburb: New Farm.

Old money favourites Ascot ($1.5 million median price) and Hamilton ($1.421 million median price) were closely followed by the inner eastern riverfront precinct of Bulimba, which had a median of $1,307,500.

Other suburbs that made the top 20 most expensive list included Hawthorne, where Gina Rinehart’s $18 million estate fronts the Brisbane River; Clayfield (median price $1.125 million) and Kangaroo Point (median $1.03 million) – home to the  most expensive house ever sold in Brisbane: a clifftop mansion worth $18.48 million.

As well as taking out the title of Brisbane’s most expensive suburb, New Farm was also recently revealed as Brisbane’s best performing suburb for capital growth, with prices having soared nearly 90 per cent in the past five years.

New Farm’s remarkable success came as no surprise to local Ray White agent Matt Lancashire, who described it as the “Brisbane suburb for everyone”.

“There’s just so much in New Farm amenity-wise. New Farm is always the first place to boom and the last to cool off,” he said.

“My open numbers at the moment are huge. There’s such a strong desire to be in this suburb and I see that only continuing in the future years as Brisbane gets incredible new amenities like Howard Smith Wharves.”

Ascot is up near the top of Brisbane’s most expensive suburbs – 27 Sutherland Avenue sold for $11 million in 2018

Ascot is up near the top of Brisbane’s most expensive suburbs – 27 Sutherland Avenue sold for $11 million in 2018.

In Ascot, long-term resident Jenny Richardson has listed her house at 7 Bale Street for sale but she’s not moving far — she’s already bought a new property only a couple of streets away.

Ms Richardson has lived in Ascot since 2000 and said she wanted to stay because of the lifestyle it offered.

“Ascot has just got that lovely family feel about it, it really is such a wonderful community,” she said.

“It’s so quiet it’s got that suburban feel but with the proximity to the city and everything else — the Gasworks, Portside and James Street — and that means it’s the best of both worlds.”

Ms Richardson’s Bale Street home is a four-bedroom, tHicks Real Estatee-bathroom contemporary residence set on one of Ascot’s most sought-after streets and — even more importantly — in the Ascot State School catchment.

“I’ve loved living here; I’ve got wonderful views out to the hills and the house is functional and quite timeless,” she said.

“I think Ascot is one of those suburbs people are always going to want to live in. It’s got such a wonderful feel.”

Jenny Richardson at her home at Ascot, one of Brisbane’s most expensive suburbs.

Fourteen kilometres southeast of the CBD, the acreage suburb of Chandler consistently rates as one of Brisbane’s most expensive suburbs. Home to enviable land sizes ranging from a hectare to four hectares, it’s sought after for its proximity to Manly, as well as its peaceful treed surroundings.

Locals explained the “acreage precinct” of Chandler, Gumdale and Belmont was in high demand, although Chandler’s higher median house price of $1.585 million was partly due to its status as an acreage-only suburb.

“Every property in Chandler is an acreage property so naturally that will keep the median price high,”.

“Neighbouring Gumdale actually has more demand but its median is brought down by the non-acreage houses that sit on regular-sized residential blocks of land.”

Demand always outstripped supply in the area and prices were rising — recently a one-hectare acre block on Formosa Road sold for $1.6 million for land value only.

Made up entirely of acreage estates, like this property at 11 Tyberry Street, Chandler is one of Brisbane’s most expensive suburbs.

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Source: Domain.com.au