Bayview Heights vs Earlville

The median house price is $740K in Bayview Heights and $745K in Earlville, so Bayview Heights is the cheaper entry point, with Earlville houses about 1% dearer.

For units, Bayview Heights sits at a median of $610K against $370K in Earlville, which makes Earlville the more affordable unit market and Bayview Heights the pricier one.

On cash flow, Earlville leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 5.14%, compared with 4.99% in Bayview Heights, a gap of 0.15 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +12.9% in Bayview Heights (an estimate) and +13.3% in Earlville, so recent momentum favours Earlville, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.4% in Earlville and 1.5% in Bayview Heights, so landlords in Earlville face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Earlville is the bigger suburb, with a population of 4,200 against 4,175, larger than Bayview Heights; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Earlville for rental income, Bayview Heights for a lower purchase price, Earlville for recent price momentum, Earlville for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.