Best Suburbs to Invest in Brisbane 2026: Rental Yield

On the medians their own pages publish and their latest bond-data rents, the highest gross rental yields in Greater Brisbane are in Beenleigh (5.3%), Kilcoy (5.2%) and Eagleby (5.2%). Gross yield is the median weekly house rent times 52 divided by the median house price, so it counts none of the costs of holding a property; net yield is usually one to one and a half percentage points lower. The ranking is drawn from 102 suburbs.

None of the 15 Greater Brisbane suburbs at the top of this ranking has a published median house price under $500,000. The lowest among them is Bundamba at $530,750 (the ABS statistical-area median for the area that carries its name). Prices for Queensland are ABS statistical-area (SA2) medians: each is the median for the area that carries the suburb's name. An SA2 can take in surrounding localities, so a figure can differ from sales in the suburb itself. A median is the middle sale, so some houses in these suburbs sold for less than it.

We do not label a suburb undervalued: that is a judgement about the future, and this page prints only what is measured. A high gross yield means the rent is high relative to the price, which is the nearest measured thing to it, and the ten suburbs above are where that ratio is highest among the 102 Greater Brisbane suburbs with a published median and a bond-data rent, led by Beenleigh at 5.3% gross. Among the ten on this page the published medians run from $530,750 in Bundamba to $705,444 in Mount Warren Park. Whether a price is low for what it buys depends on the street, the block and the house, so read the suburb's own page and the sales it lists.

We do not predict which suburbs will boom, and we hold no growth figure to rank Brisbane suburbs on: the medians we publish for Queensland are ABS statistical-area (SA2) medians for 2024, and they come without a 12-month change. A figure beside a suburb here is a median, a rent, a yield, a walk score or a school ICSEA, each measured and sourced, never a forecast. Each suburb's own page shows its published median and says where it comes from.

The ten suburbs on this page yield between 5.0% and 5.3% gross, the ten highest of the 102 Greater Brisbane suburbs with a published median and a bond-data rent. Gross yield leaves out council rates, insurance, management fees, maintenance and vacancy, which together usually take one to one and a half percentage points off it, and a high yield often goes with slower capital growth. Run the net figure on the rental yield calculator before deciding.