Wangaratta Property Market: 98th Percentile Momentum | Suburb Check

Wangaratta, you asked us to run the numbers — and this one just hit the 98th percentile nationally for momentum. On our data, it’s a genuine buy, but only if you get the stock and street right. → Median house price: $595,000 (June 2026) → Recovered from $520,000 in early 2025, after a 12.5% drawdown → Up 7.2% in the last 12 months → Gross rental yield: 4.5% → Vacancy rate: 2% → Houses rent for around $520 a week and sell in 40 days on market → R-Score moved from the 85th percentile in April to 98th in June The verdict: Wangaratta has the right mix of momentum, yield and tight vacancy, with an owner-occupier-heavy base that supports the market. It’s a buy for investors who want a regional city recovery story, but this is a thin market, so discipline matters more than chasing the headline. Download our no-cost Top Five Markets Report 2026 → https://ripe.house/five-wangaratta Want your suburb checked next? Drop it in the comments. Subscribe for more Suburb Check videos. #Wangaratta #VICProperty #AustralianProperty #PropertyInvesting #SuburbCheck This video is general information only and not financial or investment advice. Consider your own circumstances and seek professional advice.

Two days ago, a bloke named Daniel dropped one word in our comments, Wangaratta, so we pulled the data and Wangaratta just scored in the 98th percentile in the country for momentum, top 2%. A quiet regional town, most people drive straight past on the Hume and on our numbers, it's outrunning 98% of Australia right now. This is Suburb Check. You ask, we pull the real data, we give you an honest verdict. Buy, watch or avoid. No hype. So here's the deal with Wangaratta in the next four minutes. The median, the growth, the yield, the vacancy and the one catch you need to hear before you get excited because the momentum is real, but there's a nuance underneath it that changes how you'd buy here. Stick around for the verdict. It's a buy, but only if you do one thing right. First, the lay of the land, Wangaratta, northeast Victoria on the Hume Highway, 236 kilometres from Melbourne, 73 from Albury, population about 29,000. This is a proper regional city. The administrative and service hub for the whole Ovens Valley, not a satellite suburb. Unemployment sits around 3%. And critically, its owner-occupier country, roughly 56% owner-occupied, only 20% investors. Remember that number, it matters for how stable this market is. Now the price. Here's the median house prices and watch the shape. June 2024, 595,000. Then it fell down to 520,000 by early 2025, a 12.5% drawdown. But then look what happens. It climbs back 555,570. And by June 2026, it's back to 595,000, up 7.2% in the last 12 months. It round-tripped a correction and broke back to its old high. That's not a market drifting sideways. That's a recovery with momentum behind it. And that momentum shows up somewhere even clearer. This is our R score, our proprietary momentum ranking. Every suburb in the country, zero to 100. In April, Wangaratta sat at the 85th percentile. May, 97th. June, 98th. It didn't drift up, it launched. 98th percentile means only two suburbs in every 100 nationwide are showing stronger momentum right now. A regional town on the Hume beating almost the entire country. But momentum without cash flow is just a number. So here's the cash flow. This is where regional earns its keep. Gross rental yield on a Wangaratta house, four and a half percent. Try getting that in outer Melbourne. You can't. You're closer to three. Vacancy rate, 2%. That's a tight rental market. Houses rent for around $520 a week and they don't sit empty. And homes are selling 40 days on market fast for a regional town. Strong yield, tight vacancy, quick sales at a 595 entry price. That's the case for now the catch, you know, because there's always a catch. And this one's important. Running this exact screen, momentum, yield, vacancy, supply across every suburb in the country is literally what we do. The five markets that pass it right now are in a free report at ripe dot house slash Wangaratta. The link's in the description. Grab it because Wangaratta's numbers are strong, but they're not the whole national picture. Now, the catch. Here's the honest part. Nobody selling you a hotspot will say. Zoom out two years and the median is basically flat. 595 down to 520 back to 595. So this is a breakout, not a decade long boom. The last 12 months are genuinely strong, but you're buying a recovery that's just cleared its old high, not a proven multi-year trend. And it's a thin market. A regional town has a handful of sales a month. So a couple of big houses can swing the median. The 98th percentile is real. But