Windsor vs Yeerongpilly

The median house price is $1.7M in Windsor and $1.7M in Yeerongpilly, so Windsor is the cheaper entry point, with Yeerongpilly houses about 2% dearer.

For units, Windsor sits at a median of $820K against $940K in Yeerongpilly, which makes Windsor the more affordable unit market and Yeerongpilly the pricier one.

On cash flow, Windsor leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 2.54%, compared with 2.18% in Yeerongpilly, a gap of 0.36 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +12.4% in both suburbs.

Looking back three years, Windsor houses are +40.4% and Yeerongpilly houses +59.5%, so Yeerongpilly has compounded faster than Windsor over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.2% in Yeerongpilly and 1.0% in Windsor, so landlords in Yeerongpilly face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Windsor is the bigger suburb, with a population of 7,811 against 2,033, roughly 3.8 times the size of Yeerongpilly; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

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