Glenella vs Claremont vs Atwell: One Scores 100/100

Three suburbs. Three states. One scores a perfect 100 out of 100 — and it is not the million-dollar one. The most expensive suburb tonight finishes last, and it is not close. Tonight's matchup, revealed worst to first: • Atwell, WA 6164 — $1.02M median, 4.03% yield, sales volume down 40% • Claremont, TAS 7011 — $680K median, rent up 17.6%, tightest days of supply • Glenella, QLD 4740 — $860K median, 4.69% yield, 0.9% vacancy Every suburb is run through the same four-layer filter — Macro, LGA, Suburb, Street — because the best street in a bad LGA is still a bad buy. We go all the way down to individual street heat maps: sold prices, rental yield, owner-occupier concentration and social housing. Get the full research method behind tonight's ratings: ripe.house/showdown-ep5 Drop your suburb in the comments — three rated every day, worst to best, no sugar-coating. CHAPTERS 00:00 The matchup 00:21 Property selection is a science, not a guess 00:31 The 4 layers of research 01:01 #3 Atwell, WA — the million-dollar disappointment 07:35 #2 Claremont, TAS — the supply squeeze 14:23 #1 Glenella, QLD — a perfect 100 21:48 The final podium & who should buy what Ripehouse Advisory — data-driven property research. General information only, not personal financial advice.

Glenella in Queensland, Claremont in Tasmania, Atwell in Western Australia. Three suburbs you asked for, three very different price tags and one of them ranks 28th out of 15,286 suburbs in this country. It is not the million dollar one, in fact the most expensive suburb here finishes last and it is not even close. If you have watched this channel before, you know the rule. Property investment is a science, not a feeling. Nobody here is telling you a suburb feels like it is going to grow. We rate every suburb through four layers, the macroeconomy, then the LGA, then the suburb, then the individual street. Today's three came from you. Glenella from Jeremy, Claremont from Mert and Atwell from Kat. If you want yours rated, the comments are how it happens. And if you subscribe, you will see these before anyone else because this data comes out of our own research platform, not a press release. Let's start with the one that finished third. Atwell Western Australia postcode 6164 in the city of Cockburn. Kat asked for this one and I understand why. It is the most expensive suburb in today's episode. The median house sold for $1.02 million in June. Hold that number in your head because everything that follows is about whether it was worth it. Number two, the LGA Cockburn is on paper a genuinely strong council area. Employment diversity sits in the 91st percentile nationally. Population growth is in the 96th. The population went from 115,577 to 139,499 in five years. That is 17.2% growth and most of it is overseas arrivals. That's plus 1,742 from overseas in the latest year. Non-residential building approvals run at $3,600 per person, which puts the investment pipeline in the 85th percentile. And then there is the bar that matters. Supply pressure, eighth percentile. Cockburn approved 1,405 new dwellings in 12 months against 42,856 existing ones. That is 32.8 approvals for every thousand homes that already exist, close to the highest new supply pressure of any council area in Australia. Here is how that flows down to Atwell. Atwell is full, three and a half square kilometres, 3,453 addresses, 71% owner occupied. It is not where the new houses go, they go next door and then they compete with it. Layer three, the suburb itself. In-house sold $1,020,000 up 20% in 12 months. Gross yield 4.03%, vacancy 1.1%, 11 days to rent a house, 62 days of supply, 71% owner occupied, 18% investors and just 1% social housing. Rent is $790 a week. On SAFAR, Atwell sits in the ninth decile on all four measures, advantage, disadvantage, economic resources and employment and education. And the sales count, which we always give you as an actual count and never an estimate. 77 houses sold in the 12 months to June, ranging from $488,000 to $2.05 million. That is a nice suburb. Now let me show you why it came third. Chart one is the yield, month by month for 21 months, 4.52% down to 3.78 by April, sitting at 4.03 now and here is the thing people get wrong about a falling yield. The rent is not the problem. Rent went from $730 to $790 a week over that period, up 8.2%. The yield fell because the price ran away from it, nothing else. Chart two is what the price actually did. The asking price, what sellers wanted went from $829,000 in January last year to 1.125 million by March this year. That is up 35.7% in 14 months and then it retreated back to 1.05 million. The sold price did the same thing. It peaked at 1.06 million in April and it is 1.02 million now. Both lines have roll