Edgeworth vs Hill Top

The median house price is $875K in Edgeworth and $880K in Hill Top, so Edgeworth is the cheaper entry point, with Hill Top houses about 1% dearer.

On cash flow, Edgeworth leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 4.17%, compared with 4.00% in Hill Top, a gap of 0.17 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +14.9% in Edgeworth and +8.5% in Hill Top, so recent momentum favours Edgeworth, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Edgeworth houses are +25.8% and Hill Top houses +20.0%, so Edgeworth has compounded faster than Hill Top over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.7% in Hill Top and 1.2% in Edgeworth, so landlords in Hill Top face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Edgeworth is the bigger suburb, with a population of 6,401 against 2,792, roughly 2.3 times the size of Hill Top; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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