Bellevue Heights vs Trott Park

On cash flow, Trott Park leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.62%, compared with 3.00% in Bellevue Heights, a gap of 0.62 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +15.9% in Bellevue Heights and +12.4% in Trott Park, so recent momentum favours Bellevue Heights, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Bellevue Heights houses are +35.0% and Trott Park houses +45.8%, so Trott Park has compounded faster than Bellevue Heights over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.7% in Trott Park and 1.6% in Bellevue Heights, so landlords in Trott Park face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Trott Park is the bigger suburb, with a population of 3,124 against 2,712, larger than Bellevue Heights; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Trott Park for rental income, Bellevue Heights for recent price momentum, Trott Park for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.