Evanston Park vs Proserpine vs Lakes Entrance: One Scores 98/100

You asked us to run the numbers on Evanston Park, Proserpine and Lakes Entrance — here's what the data says. One of them scores 98/100. Evanston Park → $785,000 house median, up 9% in 12 months; 3.71% gross yield and 0.9% vacancy. → 58 sales in 12 months, versus 57 the year before; 65% owner occupied. Proserpine → $710,000 house median, up 36.5% in 12 months; 5.27% gross yield and 0.5% vacancy. → 37 sales in 12 months, down from 56; rent rose 22% to $720 per week. Lakes Entrance → $515,000 house median, 13.4% below its peak; 5.05% gross yield. → 136 sales in 12 months, up from 97; rent rose 11.1% and vacancy was 2.9%. Requested by our community — keep them coming. Download our no-cost Top Five Markets Report 2026 → https://www.ripehouseadvisory.com.au/lp/26/02/2026-boom-locations/access-report?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=showdown_promised&utm_content=showdown-promised Want your suburb in the next Showdown? Drop it in the comments. Subscribe for daily suburb ratings using street-level property data. #EvanstonPark #Proserpine #LakesEntrance #AustralianProperty #PropertyInvesting #SuburbShowdown This video is general information only and not financial or investment advice. Consider your own circumstances and seek professional advice.

136 houses sold in one of tonight's suburbs in 12 months, up 40.2% on the year before, and it scores 98. 37 sold in another, down from 56, while its price ran 36.5% to a record. It scores 52. Evanston Park, Proserpine Lake's entrance. And the winner is the cheapest of the three by $195,000. Its price sits 13.4% below its own peak, and it is the only one of the three whose score rose in the August print. The biggest price run on the card did not win. The deepest market did. Welcome, I'm Jacob from Ripe House Advisory. Property investment is a science, and tonight's experiment tests one idea. A price is a splash, a market is depth. You can make a very big splash in shallow water as a handful of sales in a quiet month will do it. The score measures the water, not the splash. How many homes actually changed hands at what price against what rent? Tonight, the biggest splash on the card landed in the shallowest water. Same four layers every time. Macro, council, suburbs, street. And tonight, all three suburbs are real requests, and all three were promised. Orby asked for Evanston Park twice, and we said it was on the list. Jake asked for Proserpine, and we said we would do it. Peter asked for Lake's entrance, and I said, Tonight, I keep that three promises, three ratings. Subscribe if you want your suburb rated with the same street-level intelligence the professionals pay for. Three get rated every day, and hold one number until the second scoreboard, 114. Two of tonight's suburbs are 114 raw points apart. A photo finish, the third, is nearly 3,000 points clear of both. Tonight's fight is for second. By the podium, you'll know why. Suburb number three, Evanston Park, South Australia, postcode 5116, in the town of Gawler on Adelaide's northern edge. Orby's request asked twice, 5.16 square kilometres, a house median of $785,000, up 9% in 12 months, and unchanged for five straight prints. 65% owner occupied, the highest on the card. Public housing at 0.66%, the lowest, and it scores 49, still water. Watch the asking price. One sentence on the council on the same four layers. Here's what changed. Gawler is growing fast and building faster. Five-year population growth of 11.28%. The 88th percentile against 343 dwelling approvals in a year, 33.31 per 1,000 existing homes. The eighth percentile, one of the heaviest pipelines in the country. The council's average suburb score sits at the 73rd percentile. Demand is arriving, so is supply. The fundamentals, houses tonight and all night, and honesty first. No census record exists for this suburb, so no population and no income figure tonight, tenure only. Median sold, 785,000 at its peak. Asking median, 695,000, down 16.7% from 834,000 in January, and now $90,000 below what buyers are paying. Rent, 560 a week, up 1.8% in a year. Gross yield, 3.71, down 26 basis points, equal to its series low, the lowest on the card. Vacancy, 0.9%, 18 days on market, 58 sales in 12 months against 57 the year before, flat. 65% owner occupied, 20% investor. The buy side chart is the tell. Two lines, the sold line steps up from 720,000 last August to 785,000 and holds. The asking line runs above it to 834,000 in January, then falls every month to June and crosses underneath. Since April, the asking median has sat below the sold median. Tonight, the gap is $90,000. Listing mix, or sellers stepping back, the data does not say, it is the number to watch. The rent side shows the squeeze. Rent peaked at 600 in April last year a