Louth Park vs Tweed Heads

The median house price is $1.6M in Louth Park and $1.6M in Tweed Heads, so Louth Park is the cheaper entry point, with Tweed Heads houses about 1% dearer.

For units, Louth Park sits at a median of $525K against $945K in Tweed Heads, which makes Louth Park the more affordable unit market and Tweed Heads the pricier one.

On cash flow, Tweed Heads leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.51%, compared with 2.12% in Louth Park, a gap of 1.39 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +10.9% in Louth Park (an estimate) and +2.0% in Tweed Heads (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Louth Park, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.7% in Tweed Heads and 1.3% in Louth Park, so landlords in Tweed Heads face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Tweed Heads is the bigger suburb, with a population of 9,176 against 922, roughly 10 times the size of Louth Park; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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