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Bellevue Heights vs Northern Heights

Property investment comparison - Bellevue Heights, SA 5050 vs Northern Heights, SA 5253

Head-to-head across core investment metrics: Bellevue Heights wins 0, Northern Heights wins 2. The better choice depends on whether you're optimising for cash flow, growth, affordability, or liquidity, the table below highlights the winner on each metric.

MetricBellevue HeightsNorthern Heights
Median house price$1.2M-
Median unit price--
Gross rental yield (houses)3.00%5.37%
Gross rental yield (units)2.50%-
1-year house growth+15.9%-
3-year house growth+35.0%-
Vacancy rate1.6%1.6%
Population2,712305

Bellevue Heights vs Northern Heights: what the numbers say

On cash flow, Northern Heights leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 5.37%, compared with 3.00% in Bellevue Heights, a gap of 2.37 percentage points.

Rental vacancy is the same in both, at 1.6%.

Bellevue Heights is the bigger suburb, with a population of 2,712 against 305, roughly 9 times the size of Northern Heights; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Northern Heights for rental income. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.

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