Bonville vs Dunmore

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $1.1M in Bonville and $1.1M in Dunmore.

On cash flow, Dunmore leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.90%, compared with 3.78% in Bonville, a gap of 0.12 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +9.0% in Bonville and +10.0% in Dunmore, so recent momentum favours Dunmore, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Bonville houses are +13.1% and Dunmore houses +3.2%, so Bonville has compounded faster than Dunmore over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.9% in Bonville and 5.3% in Dunmore, so landlords in Bonville face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Bonville is the bigger suburb, with a population of 2,939 against 318, roughly 9 times the size of Dunmore; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Dunmore for rental income, Dunmore 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.