A Cairns investment property works for one simple reason. More people want to rent in Cairns than there are homes to rent. The region's rental vacancy rate was 0.76% in March 2026, according to Realestate Investar, and in the beachside suburb of Palm Cove it was 0.85%. This article explains what sits behind those numbers, why Palm Cove units have moved so fast, and how to tell whether a unit or a house...
A Townsville investment property gets you into a city where rentals are scarce and prices still sit far below South-East Queensland. The jobs behind that demand come from Defence, health, education and the Port, so the city does not lean on any single employer. This article goes through the numbers behind each of those. At the end there is a short list of Townsville properties we like right now. Key...
A DHA investment property is a home leased to Defence Housing Australia, the government body that houses Defence force families. You own it. DHA rents it from you on a long, fixed lease, pays a set rent that rises with inflation, and looks after the tenant and the home the whole time. For an investor, that turns a rental into something closer to a fixed income. The rent is guaranteed by your contract with...
A half duplex is one side of a building that holds two homes. It sits on its own title, with its own front door and one tenant paying one rent. You own your half outright and someone else owns the other. It is the quieter cousin of the dual occupancy, and it gets overlooked for a simple reason. Most investors hear "duplex" and picture two incomes. A half duplex gives you one. This week we look at why that...
The Central Coast has quietly become one of the tightest industrial markets in New South Wales. The sheds fill about as fast as they go up, and a small unit at Warnervale is one of the few ways an everyday investor gets a foot in a market like that.They are commercial property, too, which means you can buy one through your self-managed super fund. More on that further down.This week we look at what is...