Bonville vs Doonside

The median house price is $1.1M in Bonville and $1.1M in Doonside, so Doonside is the cheaper entry point.

On cash flow, Bonville leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.78%, compared with 2.89% in Doonside, a gap of 0.89 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +9.0% in Bonville and +7.0% in Doonside, so recent momentum favours Bonville, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Bonville houses are +13.1% and Doonside houses +17.6%, so Doonside has compounded faster than Bonville over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.9% in Bonville and 1.2% in Doonside, so landlords in Bonville face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Doonside is the bigger suburb, with a population of 13,614 against 2,939, roughly 4.6 times the size of Bonville; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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