Collingwood Park vs Nambour

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $900K in Collingwood Park and $900K in Nambour.

For units, Collingwood Park sits at a median of $615K against $670K in Nambour, which makes Collingwood Park the more affordable unit market and Nambour the pricier one.

On cash flow, Nambour leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 4.01%, compared with 3.80% in Collingwood Park, a gap of 0.21 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +19.2% in Collingwood Park and +12.8% in Nambour, so recent momentum favours Collingwood Park, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Collingwood Park houses are +55.9% and Nambour houses +33.8%, so Collingwood Park has compounded faster than Nambour over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.5% in Nambour and 2.1% in Collingwood Park, so landlords in Nambour face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Nambour is the bigger suburb, with a population of 12,145 against 9,246, larger than Collingwood Park; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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