Doonside vs Dunmore

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

On cash flow, Dunmore leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.90%, compared with 2.89% in Doonside, a gap of 1.01 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +7.0% in Doonside and +10.0% in Dunmore, so recent momentum favours Dunmore, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Doonside houses are +17.6% and Dunmore houses +3.2%, so Doonside has compounded faster than Dunmore over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 1.2% in Doonside and 5.3% in Dunmore, so landlords in Doonside 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 318, roughly 43 times the size of Dunmore; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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