Waikiki vs Berserker vs West Ulverstone: One Scores 99/100

You asked us to run the numbers on Berserker — here's what the data says. It scored 99 out of 100, ranked 644th nationally, and delivered the best yield of the three at 5.01%. → Median house price: $550,000 (June 2026) → 12-month growth: 22.2% → Gross rental yield: 5.01% → Vacancy: 2.0% (12-month average 1.75%) → Asking price: $539,000 vs $550,000 median → R-Score: 99 (12-month mean 98) Berserker is the strongest all-round buy of the three for investors who can tolerate the social disadvantage profile and tenant-risk complexity. The data supports it as a yield-first, growth-capable market, but the street-by-street split matters here. Download our no-cost Top Five Markets Report 2026 → https://ripe.house/showdown-ep3 Want your suburb checked next? Drop it in the comments. Subscribe for more Suburb Check episodes. #Berserker #QueenslandProperty #AustralianProperty #PropertyInvesting #SuburbCheck This video is general information only and not financial or investment advice. Consider your own circumstances and seek professional advice.

Three suburbs, three states, one viewer asked for all of them, Waikiki on the Perth coast, Berserka in Rockhampton and West Alverston on the northwest coast of Tasmania. One of them scores 99 out of 100 and ranks 644th in the country out of 15,286 suburbs. One of them has a street where 58% of the homes are social housing and it is not the one you are expecting and one of them has just had 1,821 new dwellings approved across its council area in 12 months, while its rental yield fell to 3.8%. The lowest of the three, worst to first, let's rate them. Here is how we do this and it is not vibes, property investment is a science, we treat a suburb the way a chemist treats a compound, we break it into its elements and we measure each one. Employment, projects, lifestyle, population supply, subtract supply from demand and what is left is opportunity. Every number you see today came out of a database query this morning, not a feeling about a place, not a headline, a query and we run it in four layers. Macro, the national picture, LGA, the council area where the jobs and the building approvals live, suburb, the actual market you are buying into and street because two houses 800 metres apart can be completely different investments. Most people stop at layer three, the money is in layer four. All three of today's suburbs were requested by one viewer at Gunsnamo and it is a genuinely good set. Let's start at the bottom of today's leaderboard. West Alveston, Tasmania, postcode 7315 in the Central Coast Council area on Bass Strait, 2,384 addresses in the national address file, 1,893 dwellings counted at the last census. This is a small, quiet coastal country town and it finishes third today but the reason it finishes third is not the reason you would guess. Layer two, the Central Coast Council area in northwest Tasmania. Employment first and this is the good news. Employment diversity here sits at the 87th percentile nationally, the strongest of the three council areas today. Healthcare and social assistance at 12%, retail at 12%, manufacturing at 10% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10%. That is a genuinely broad base. No single industry can take this town down on its own. Supply 59th percentile, 76 dwelling approvals in 12 months against 9,869 existing dwellings. Almost nothing is being built. For an investor, that is a tick. Population is the problem. 35th percentile, 2.11% growth over five years to 23,378 people. That is close to flat and projects 24th percentile. $11.8 million of non-residential building approvals in 12 months. $504 per person. The weakest pipeline of the three today by a distance. So good jobs mix, no new supply, but nobody moving in and nobody investing. That flows down to the suburb as a market that cannot fall over and cannot accelerate either. Layer three, the suburb itself, median house $645,000 as of June 2026, up 9.3% over 12 months. Real growth, but the slowest of the three today. Gross rental yield, 3.95%. Rent, $490 a week, and that number needs a warning label because it was $650 a week in January and it has fallen four times since. That is a rent line going the wrong way. Vacancy, 0.6%, and that is not a fluke. The 12-month average is 0.58%. This is the tightest rental market on the show today. By a wide margin, days of supply, 37. Nine houses on the market, nine. That is the entire visible supply of this suburb. Owner occupiers, 59%. Investors, 16. Social housing, 8.77%. The highest of the three. Safer disa