Coomba Park vs Tinonee

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $560K in Coomba Park and $560K in Tinonee.

For units, Coomba Park sits at a median of $550K against $345K in Tinonee, which makes Tinonee the more affordable unit market and Coomba Park the pricier one.

On cash flow, Tinonee leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 4.81%, compared with 4.18% in Coomba Park, a gap of 0.63 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +7.2% in Coomba Park and -18.2% in Tinonee (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Coomba Park, while Tinonee went backwards.

Looking back three years, Coomba Park houses are +9.0% and Tinonee houses +100.0%, so Tinonee has compounded faster than Coomba Park over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 1.2% in Coomba Park and 1.6% in Tinonee, so landlords in Coomba Park face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Tinonee is the bigger suburb, with a population of 1,202 against 691, larger than Coomba Park; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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