Pokolbin vs Tweed Heads

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $1.6M in Pokolbin and $1.6M in Tweed Heads.

For units, Pokolbin sits at a median of $345K against $945K in Tweed Heads, which makes Pokolbin 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 2.40% in Pokolbin, a gap of 1.11 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +7.9% in Pokolbin (an estimate) and +2.0% in Tweed Heads (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Pokolbin, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.7% in Tweed Heads and 2.1% in Pokolbin, 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 1,049, roughly 9 times the size of Pokolbin; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Tweed Heads for rental income, Pokolbin 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.