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Hinchinbrook (QLD) property development snapshot

GoSiteHunt Research · Queensland · sales Dec 2025 quarter · rents Mar 2026 quarter (new tenancies)

$345,000
Median house price · Dec 2025 quarter
+13.1%
Median change, year on year
63
House sales in the period
$400/wk
Median rent · 3-bed houses
6%
Indicative gross yield
#4
of 33 · Queensland Opportunity Index

Median rents by bedroom — Hinchinbrook (S) rental area

Type1-bed2-bed3-bed4+ bedAll
House$400/wk (25 bonds)
Unit$350/wk (17 bonds)

Bond-lodgement medians from the © The State of Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority (CC BY 3.0 AU), Mar 2026 quarter (new tenancies). "Low sample" = the count is masked or small at source; treat those medians with care.

What the data suggests for developers.

A gross yield around 6% is unusually strong for Hinchinbrook to be showing on bond-median rents — rental demand does a lot of the heavy lifting here, which is what makes hold-based schemes (dual occupancy, build-and-retain townhouses) easier to pencil than in yield-thin markets. Median growth of +13.1% year-on-year on 63 sales reads as steady rather than speculative — a reasonable backdrop for a scheme that still has to work at today's end values. Hinchinbrook currently ranks #4 of the 33 areas in the Queensland Opportunity Index — the yield, movement and developer buy-box demand mix lines up better here than in most of the state's qualifying areas. All of the above is area-level screening, not advice: a specific parcel lives or dies on zoning, overlays, frontage, and the end value of what it can actually carry.

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State-wide ranking: Queensland Opportunity Index · all covered areas: suburb data hub

Granularity & method.

Council (LGA) level — Queensland does not publish suburb-level sale prices as open data. Sale medians are detached-house sales on a QVAS contract-date basis; rents are RTA new-tenancy medians for the LGA. Indicative gross yield = headline weekly bond median × 52 ÷ sale median — a screening ratio, not a valuation input.

Sources: Residential Land Development Activity, Queensland Government Statistician's Office, Queensland Treasury (CC BY 4.0) · © The State of Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority (CC BY 3.0 AU) · Indicative screening data — not financial, investment, valuation or planning advice. Area medians can move sharply between periods, especially on thin samples. © Madison Jade Pty Ltd.