37% in 12 Months — Which of These 4 Suburbs Wins?

One of these four suburbs grew 37% in 12 months — more than three times the slowest of the group. In this video, we run Moe, Bukasia, Mowbray and Wandina through Ripehouse Advisory’s four-layer property selection process to find out which suburb actually stacks up. → Moe (VIC): $168,000 in 2016 to $515,000 today, plus 207% over 10 years, but vacancy has lifted to 5.2% → Bukasia (QLD): 2016 median $300,000 to $735,000 today, plus 145% over the decade, with 5% yield and 2.4% vacancy → Mowbray (TAS): $195,000 in 2016 to $560,000 today, plus 187%, with 2% vacancy and tight street-by-street differences → Wandina (WA): up 80% in five years to $775,000, with R-Score at 99, vacancy at 0.9% and $123 million of tracked infrastructure spend around it → Street spreads matter: Moe ranged from $267,000 on Service Road to $770,000 on Parkside Drive → In Mowbray, Janefield Street carried 22.6% social housing, while some pockets were effectively zero What this means for you: the best suburb is not always the best entry point. Price, vacancy, tenure and street-level data can completely change the answer, which is why professional research matters. Download our no-cost Top Five Markets Report 2026 → https://ripe.house/five-markets Subscribe for more data-led Australian property analysis from Ripehouse Advisory. #AustralianProperty #PropertyInvesting #BuyersAgent #PropertyMarketAustralia #RipehouseAdvisory #RealEstateData This video is general information only and not financial or investment advice. Consider your own circumstances and seek professional advice.

Yesterday, one of you dropped four suburbs in the comments. Four suburbs, four different states. Moe in Victoria, Bukaja in Queensland, Mowbray in Tasmania and Wundina in WA. I said we'd have a video out the next day. So here it is. And straight away, one number. One of these four grew 37 percent in 12 months at more than three times the slowest of them. Let's find out which one and whether it's already too late. Here's the spread. Moe, 90 minutes east of Melbourne in the Latrobe Valley. Bukaja on Mackay's northern beaches in Queensland. Mowbray, three kilometres from Launceston, CBD in Tassie and Wundina on the coast at Geraldton in WA. Medians run from 515,000 up to 775. Four completely different economies. One identical test. Before the towns, the method, because we don't guess. Property selection is a science. Demand drivers on one side, employment projects, lifestyle, population, supply on the other, subtract supply from demand. And what's left is opportunity. Moe rides the valley's energy economy. Bukaja rides Mackay's mining services. Mowbray rides the university. Wundina rides Geraldton's port. Same equation across all 15,286 suburbs in the country every single month. And we go four layers deep. Layer one, the LGA, the economy underneath the suburb. Layer two, the suburb itself. R-score, yield, vacancy, safer. Layer three, the street. We map every single sale from raw coordinates because the street decides more than the suburb does. And layer four, the property, real listings, pressure tested against our own valuation. All four suburbs get the full treatment. Then we rank them. And I'll tell you which one we'd actually put money into. Moe first, Latrobe Valley, Victoria, 75,500 people in the LGA. Unemployment, 6%. In 2016, the median house here was $168,000. Today, it's $515,000. That's plus 207% over 10 years in the town. Everyone rode off when the power stations got their closure dates. Here's the whole story on one chart. On the left, the median grinds sideways for years, then goes vertical. $375,000 in June last year, $515,000 now, plus 37% in 12 months. You know, the fastest of our four. And on the right, this is why you watch to the end. Our R-score had Moe in the mid 90s, month after month. And then in April, the model cut it to around 60. So the scorecard is genuinely split. Yield is still four and a half percent. But vacancy just spiked to 5.2, the loosest rental market of the four by a mile. CIFA, Decile One, the most disadvantaged band in the country. And here's a twist. Moe is the only one of these four on our client approved list. But it was approved when the median was around $365,000. That's the point. List date, prices move. Now, layer three. And this is the map that matters. Every house sale in Moe over 24 months, 246 of them plotted from raw coordinates. Green is expensive. Red is cheap. Parkside Drive, median $770,000. Service Road, $267,000. Same suburb at a 2.9 times spread. The widest of any town in this video. In Moe, the street is the decision. And here's why. This is the social housing layer. Moe averages 6.5% public housing. But Langford Street runs at 25%. We're away at 20. Meanwhile, 29% of the suburbs pockets have essentially none. Two streets apart, completely different investments. And a no portal will ever show you this. Layer four. What's actually for sale? 44 Elizabeth Street, a three bedder listed at $299 to $319. Over 7% gross yield on the asking price. And 12 Monte Crescent, four bed, two bat