Cabarlah vs Dayboro

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $1.3M in Cabarlah and $1.3M in Dayboro.

For units, Cabarlah sits at a median of $365K against $705K in Dayboro, which makes Cabarlah the more affordable unit market and Dayboro the pricier one.

On cash flow, Cabarlah leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.33%, compared with 3.16% in Dayboro, a gap of 0.17 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +14.3% in Cabarlah and +15.9% in Dayboro (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Dayboro, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.8% in Dayboro and 2.1% in Cabarlah, so landlords in Dayboro face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Dayboro is the bigger suburb, with a population of 2,376 against 1,307, larger than Cabarlah; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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