Mardi vs Windsor

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $1.1M in Mardi and $1.1M in Windsor.

For units, Mardi sits at a median of $700K against $535K in Windsor, which makes Windsor the more affordable unit market and Mardi the pricier one.

On cash flow, Mardi leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.80%, compared with 3.51% in Windsor, a gap of 0.29 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +8.0% in Mardi and +8.2% in Windsor, so recent momentum favours Windsor, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Mardi houses are +20.9% and Windsor houses +27.9%, so Windsor has compounded faster than Mardi over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 1.4% in Mardi and 2.0% in Windsor, so landlords in Mardi face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Mardi is the bigger suburb, with a population of 3,598 against 1,915, larger than Windsor; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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