Roseworthy vs Sellicks Beach

The median house price is $900K in Roseworthy and $880K in Sellicks Beach, so Sellicks Beach is the cheaper entry point, with Roseworthy houses about 2% dearer.

For units, Roseworthy sits at a median of $780K against $1.4M in Sellicks Beach, which makes Roseworthy the more affordable unit market and Sellicks Beach the pricier one.

On cash flow, Roseworthy leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.80%, compared with 3.46% in Sellicks Beach, a gap of 0.34 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +12.1% in Roseworthy and +14.0% in Sellicks Beach, so recent momentum favours Sellicks Beach, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Roseworthy houses are +34.4% and Sellicks Beach houses +36.5%, so Sellicks Beach has compounded faster than Roseworthy over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.9% in Sellicks Beach and 6.0% in Roseworthy, so landlords in Sellicks Beach face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Sellicks Beach is the bigger suburb, with a population of 2,705 against 1,041, roughly 2.6 times the size of Roseworthy; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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