South Side Cairns Property Market Report — August 2026

The Report

How I read a market before I price a house

I use a framework borrowed from Ray Dalio, the investor who spent forty years arguing that an economy is not a mood — it's a machine. Prices are not set by headlines or confidence. They are set by the total amount of money and credit being spent on housing, divided by the quantity of housing available. Change the spending or change the supply, and the price moves. Nothing else matters nearly as much.

Applied to the South Side, that gives three questions:

How much money and credit is chasing housing here? That's population, employment, wages and interest rates.
How much housing is there to chase? That's building approvals, new listings and rental vacancy.
Where are we in the cycle, and what happens next as cause flows through to effect?

The August data answers all three, and it answers them in a way that is more interesting than either "the boom continues" or "the market is turning." What we actually have is a two-speed market. Let me show you.

Part 1 — The headline finding: strong year, softer month

Two things are true at the same time in the August 2026 numbers, and you need to hold both.

The first truth: every South Side suburb is substantially stronger than a year ago. Cotality's reported change in median house value at July 2026:

Mount Peter — up 24.4%
White Rock — up 17.0%
Mount Sheridan — up 16.5%
Gordonvale — up 16.5%
Edmonton — up 15.6%
Woree — up 14.4%
Bentley Park — up 13.9%
Bayview Heights — up 12.6%

Not one suburb below double digits. Four above 16%. That is an exceptional twelve months by any national standard.

The second truth: every single one of those eight suburbs eased in the month of July. Comparing Cotality's June 2026 and July 2026 median value figures:

Bayview Heights — down approximately 2.9%, from $812,613 to $788,975
White Rock — down approximately 1.7%, from $697,195 to $685,010
Gordonvale — down approximately 1.5%, from $778,051 to $766,376
Woree — down approximately 1.4%, from $674,448 to $664,847
Bentley Park — down approximately 1.3%, from $789,646 to $779,766
Edmonton — down approximately 1.3%, from $763,188 to $753,507
Mount Peter — down approximately 1.0%, from $917,955 to $909,063
Mount Sheridan — down approximately 0.9%, from $793,079 to $785,684

Eight out of eight moving the same direction in the same month is not random noise across a single suburb. It is a signal — but it is one month, and one month does not erase a year in which values rose between 12.6% and 24.4%.

My honest read. This is what the moderation phase of a cycle looks like. Not a fall. A change in the rate of change. The extraordinary pace of growth through the earlier part of this cycle is beginning to slow, and it is slowing across the whole corridor at once, which tells you the cause is region-wide rather than suburb-specific. The obvious candidate is borrowing capacity — and I'll come to interest rates shortly.

What it is emphatically not is the national price falls making landfall here. The Cairns Economic Monitor is explicit that while there are clear signs of property prices falling across the nation, there is scant evidence of any such reversal in the Cairns market. The Monitor attributes that to a severe shortage of supply, continued economic robustness and population growth. Those three forces have not changed.

Part 2 — Why the shortage is doing the heavy lifting

Here is the mechanical reason the South Side has held while other markets have not, and it is the single most important thing a seller in White Rock or Bentley Park should understand.

The supply side has failed to respond to demand, and it isn't close.

From the August 2026 Cairns Economic Monitor:

Trend building approvals for Cairns came in at 96 in May 2026 — down 21.6% year on year, and the lowest reading since November 2024.
Strip out the extraordinary one-off 468 Woree units approved in mid-2025, and the adjusted Trend sits at 105 — still down 1.3% on a year ago.
Monthly Trend approvals today are at very similar levels to where they sat a decade ago, when the region was much smaller and growing more slowly.
In 2016 the region's population grew by roughly 2,500 a year. It is now more than 3,500 a year. Those extra 1,000 arrivals need about 400 extra dwellings annually, meaning approvals should be running roughly 33 per month higher than 2016. Instead there has been no increase at all.
This is not a national pattern. Trend approvals are running up 13.6% across Queensland and up 8.8% nationally over the same period. Only three of Queensland's nineteen SA4 regions are declining faster than Cairns.

And the rental market confirms the shortage is real:

The Cairns rental vacancy rate was 0.8% in June — the fifth consecutive month below 1%.
It has now been 66 months, five and a half years, in which vacancy has sat between 1.2% and 0.5%.
Regional median rents are up 8% to 9% over the year, and have risen more than 50% across that five-year stretch.

You cannot have a shortage this severe and a genuine price collapse at the same time unless spending collapses. Spending is not collapsing. Employment is growing. So the shortage gets expressed as rising rents and firm prices — which is exactly what the data shows.

What that means if you own on the South Side: the competing supply that would undercut your sale is not being built. Every month approvals stay near 100, the scarcity value of an established, well-presented house in White Rock, Mount Sheridan, Bentley Park or Edmonton goes up.

Part 3 — Suburb by suburb, in detail

White Rock property market — my core patch

White Rock is the fastest-moving housing market of the eight suburbs reviewed. If you want one number that captures the suburb, it's nine days.

Houses:

Median house value — $685,010
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 17.0%
July monthly movement — down approximately 1.7%, from $697,195 in June
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 84
Median sale price — $662,000
Lower quartile sale price — $610,000
Upper quartile sale price — $739,000
Median days on market — 9 days, the quickest of the eight suburbs reviewed
New house listings over 12 months — 78
Median asking rent — $630 per week

Units:

Unit sales over 12 months — 18
Median unit sale price — $540,000
Median asking rent — $550 per week
Median days on market — 24 days

What I take from this. White Rock carries the lowest median house value of the eight suburbs and the fastest selling time. That combination is not a coincidence — it is the definition of a market where demand comfortably exceeds supply at the current price point. Buyers priced out of Mount Sheridan, Bentley Park and Edmonton land in White Rock, and they land quickly. With only 78 new listings against 84 sales over the year, White Rock is absorbing more stock than it is generating.

The gap between the lower quartile at $610,000 and the upper quartile at $739,000 is $129,000. That's a meaningful spread for a suburb this size, and it tells you presentation, land size, renovation level and position within the suburb move the needle considerably. A suburb median is a starting point for a conversation about your home, not an answer.

One postcode trap worth knowing: 4868 covers both White Rock and Woree, and they are genuinely different markets with different buyer pools. Don't let a portal estimate or an out-of-area agent price your White Rock house against unit-heavy Woree comparables.

Mount Sheridan property market

Mount Sheridan is the busiest housing market on the South Side by a clear margin.

Median house value — $785,684
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 16.5%
July monthly movement — down approximately 0.9%, from $793,079 in June, the smallest easing of the eight suburbs
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 192, the highest volume of the eight suburbs reviewed
Median sale price — $736,250
Lower quartile sale price — $679,625
Upper quartile sale price — $810,000
Median days on market — 10 days
New house listings over 12 months — 159
Median asking rent — $670 per week
Unit sales — only two over the year, far too thin to draw any conclusion from

What I take from this. 192 sales in twelve months with a ten-day median selling time is a deep, liquid market. High volume plus short days on market plus 16.5% annual growth is about as healthy a combination as a residential market produces. Mount Sheridan also had the smallest July easing of the eight, which is consistent with depth of demand cushioning the move.

The Cairns Economic Monitor notes that the pace of growth among younger and middle-aged workers in the Cairns labour force has picked up significantly, with middle-aged workers closing the gap on the over-45 cohort. Middle-aged workers with growing families are precisely the buyer for a four-bedroom house in Mount Sheridan.

Bentley Park property market

Median house value — $779,766
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 13.9%
July monthly movement — down approximately 1.3%, from $789,646 in June
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 167
Median sale price — $720,000
Lower quartile sale price — $660,000
Upper quartile sale price — $789,500
Median days on market — 12.5 days
New house listings over 12 months — 118
Median asking rent — $680 per week
Unit sales — only three over the year, with a $201,000 median sale price that should not be treated as representative of the suburb

What I take from this. Bentley Park is one of the South Side's largest family housing markets, and 167 sales against only 118 new listings tells you stock is being absorbed faster than it is being replaced. That is a seller's supply position.

The rent-versus-buy maths matters here more than anywhere. At $680 per week asking rent and a 0.8% regional vacancy rate, tenants have very little choice and rising costs. A meaningful share of Bentley Park buyers are tenants who have simply run out of reasons to keep renting.

Edmonton property market

Median house value — $753,507
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 15.6%
July monthly movement — down approximately 1.3%, from $763,188 in June
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 177, the second-busiest of the eight suburbs
Median sale price — $725,000
Lower quartile sale price — $648,000
Upper quartile sale price — $790,000
Median days on market — 11 days
New house listings over 12 months — 131
Median asking rent — $655 per week

Edmonton also has a more established unit market than most of its neighbours:

Unit sales over 12 months — 23
Median unit sale price — $375,000
Median unit asking rent — $435 per week
Median days on market for units — 12.5 days
Median unit value — $354,871
Reported change in median unit value — down 15.3%

What I take from this. Edmonton is the clearest illustration in this entire report of why houses and units must be analysed separately. Houses up 15.6%. Units down 15.3%. Same suburb, same month, opposite directions. If you own an Edmonton house and someone quotes you a "suburb" figure that blends the two, you are being misled.

Edmonton is also the gateway to the southern growth corridor, which means it competes directly with new estate product. Established Edmonton homes have mature streets, mature landscaping and established amenity that new stock cannot replicate for a decade — but only if the presentation does that justice. This is the suburb where marketing quality separates a good result from an average one.

Gordonvale property market

Median house value — $766,376
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 16.5%
July monthly movement — down approximately 1.5%, from $778,051 in June
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 151
Median sale price — $700,000
Lower quartile sale price — $642,500
Upper quartile sale price — $786,250
Median days on market — 14 days
New house listings over 12 months — 112
Median asking rent — $680 per week
Unit sales — only three over the year, not enough activity to draw conclusions

What I take from this. 16.5% annual growth on 151 sales is a strong combination — this isn't growth on thin volume, it's growth confirmed by genuine transaction depth. Gordonvale functions as its own southern town with its own buyer pool and its own lifestyle appeal, and its rent of $680 per week now matches Bentley Park despite a lower median sale price. That's a yield story investors will notice.

Mount Peter property market

Mount Peter is the standout growth market of the eight, on both value and rate of change.

Median house value — $909,063, the highest of the eight suburbs reviewed
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 24.4%, the strongest of the eight
July monthly movement — down approximately 1.0%, from $917,955 in June
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 49
Median sale price — $795,000
Lower quartile sale price — $755,000
Upper quartile sale price — $810,000
Median days on market — 10 days
New house listings over 12 months — only 19
Median asking rent — $700 per week, equal highest with Bayview Heights
Unit data — insufficient transactions to form a meaningful assessment

What I take from this. Look at the quartile spread: $755,000 to $810,000 is only $55,000 between the lower and upper quartile, by far the tightest range of any suburb here. That reflects young, homogeneous housing stock — homes built to similar specifications in similar condition. It makes Mount Peter easier to price with confidence than any other South Side suburb, and it means small differences in presentation and inclusions translate directly into position within a narrow band.

Nineteen new listings against 49 sales is the tightest supply-to-demand ratio on the South Side. Mount Peter and the Mount Peter PDA corridor are also the structural answer to the region's approvals shortfall — the dwellings Cairns needs but is not approving have to go somewhere, and the southern corridor is where the land is. That pulls the geographic centre of Cairns southward over time, which is the same trend that has driven South Side outperformance for a decade.

Woree property market

Woree is the most interesting suburb in this report because its house and unit sectors behave almost independently.

Houses:

Median house value — $664,847
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 14.4%
July monthly movement — down approximately 1.4%, from $674,448 in June
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 50
Median sale price — $700,500
Lower quartile sale price — $625,500
Upper quartile sale price — $776,875
Median days on market — 15 days
Median asking rent — $610 per week

Units — the most active unit market on the South Side:

Unit sales over 12 months — 85
Median unit sale price — $300,000
Median unit asking rent — $440 per week
Median days on market — 22 days
Median unit value — $359,282
Reported change in median unit value — up 21.8%

What I take from this. Note something unusual in the house numbers: Woree's median sale price of $700,500 sits above its median house value of $664,847. That gap usually means the homes actually transacting are at the better end of the suburb's stock — buyers are paying up for the right property rather than buying the average one.

Woree also carries the region's largest single supply event. The Cairns Economic Monitor confirms 468 units were approved in Woree in the middle of 2025 — a figure so large it is still distorting the entire regional approvals series a year later. Two honest readings:

The measured view. An approval is not a completion. Approvals lag construction by 12 to 24 months, and with construction cost inflation and finance stress, a meaningful share never complete on schedule. The detached, land-backed family stock in White Rock and Bentley Park is not what those units compete with.
The cautious view. If a large share do complete, they land squarely in a South Side suburb and will absorb entry-level rental and investor demand across the southern corridor. Unit yields would feel it first. Detached houses would feel it least.

My read: it is a unit-market event, not a house-market event. But if you own a Woree unit as an investment, it is the single most important thing on your horizon, and 21.8% growth in unit values gives you a genuine decision to make about timing.

Bayview Heights property market

Median house value — $788,975, second highest of the eight suburbs
Reported change in median value at July 2026 — up 12.6%, the softest annual growth of the eight
July monthly movement — down approximately 2.9%, from $812,613 in June, the largest easing of the eight
House sales over the rolling 12 months — 51
Median sale price — $730,000
Lower quartile sale price — $673,500
Upper quartile sale price — $902,500
Median days on market — 21 days, the longest of the eight suburbs
Median asking rent — $700 per week, equal highest with Mount Peter
Unit sales — one over the period, far too thin to use

What I take from this. Bayview Heights is the exception in this dataset, and it's worth understanding why rather than reading it as weakness. Look at the quartile spread: $673,500 to $902,500 is a $229,000 range, more than four times the spread in Mount Peter. Bayview Heights contains genuinely diverse housing — elevated blocks, larger allotments, homes at very different levels of renovation.

Wide dispersion mechanically produces slower selling times and choppier median readings, because each sale is less comparable to the last and the median jumps around depending on which end of the market transacted that month. A 21-day median is still a fast market by any national standard. But it does mean Bayview Heights is the suburb where a generic suburb median is least useful and an individual appraisal matters most. The $700 per week rent, equal highest of the eight, confirms underlying demand is intact.

Part 4 — Reading the whole corridor at once

Where buyers are most active — house sales over 12 months:

Mount Sheridan — 192
Edmonton — 177
Bentley Park — 167
Gordonvale — 151
White Rock — 84
Bayview Heights — 51
Woree — 50
Mount Peter — 49

How fast homes are selling — median days on market:

White Rock — 9 days
Mount Sheridan — 10 days
Mount Peter — 10 days
Edmonton — 11 days
Bentley Park — 12.5 days
Gordonvale — 14 days
Woree — 15 days
Bayview Heights — 21 days

Where the rent sits — median asking rent, houses:

Mount Peter — $700 per week
Bayview Heights — $700 per week
Bentley Park — $680 per week
Gordonvale — $680 per week
Mount Sheridan — $670 per week
Edmonton — $655 per week
White Rock — $630 per week
Woree — $610 per week

Stock coming on versus stock being absorbed — new house listings against house sales:

Mount Sheridan — 159 new listings, 192 sales
Edmonton — 131 new listings, 177 sales
Bentley Park — 118 new listings, 167 sales
Gordonvale — 112 new listings, 151 sales
White Rock — 78 new listings, 84 sales
Mount Peter — 19 new listings, 49 sales

Every one of those suburbs sold more houses than it listed over the rolling twelve months. That is the entire market in one line: the South Side is consuming its own inventory. It's why days on market are in single and low double digits, and it's why the July value easing has not translated into homes sitting unsold.

Part 5 — The demand side: jobs, people and money

Prices need buyers with income and access to credit. Cairns has them.

From the August 2026 Cairns Economic Monitor:

Cairns Trend employment reached 145,200 in June, up another 300 in the month and up 1.1% over the year.
Cairns Trend unemployment held stable at 4.6%. Queensland sits at 4.1%, Australia at 4.4%.
Across Queensland this year, 11 regions saw their unemployment rate move higher, 4 were unchanged, and just 4 — including Cairns — moved lower.
Online job vacancies are up 0.8% in Cairns SA4, while vacancies fell 3.6% nationally and 2.9% across Queensland. Cairns has outperformed both state and national averages for seven years.
Cairns JobSeeker numbers rose just 1.2% over the year, against 3.1% in Queensland and 5.2% nationally.

Tourism, the regional engine, is running at two speeds:

Total Cairns Airport passengers are down 1.0% year on year on Trend.
International passenger numbers are at their strongest since August 2019, up 5.9% for the year.
Domestic is the drag — down 2.4%, a seventh consecutive annual decline, and still almost 7% below the mid-2019 peak.
Total overnight tourism expenditure is holding at around $4.1 billion, with international spend estimated at $1.15 billion and domestic overnight at $2.96 billion.

Tourism matters to South Side property because it employs South Side people. The international recovery is genuinely good news. The domestic softness, driven by cost-of-living and fuel prices, is the thing to keep watching.

Part 6 — Interest rates: the most likely explanation for the July easing

This is where I won't tell you what you want to hear.

The cash rate sits at 4.35%.
Quarterly headline CPI fell from 4.1% in March to 3.9% in June — but the Trimmed Mean, which is what the RBA actually watches, edged up from 3.5% to 3.6%. That's the less dovish reading.
Cash rate futures out to mid-2027 imply rates staying at or slightly above 4.35%. Not falling.
The Monitor's assessment is that the June data eased expectations for a further hike, but the chance of another hike by early 2027 is still about 50%.
Two fresh inflationary pressures have landed since. The collapse of the Iran peace deal and Houthi threats to blockade Saudi Arabian exports through the Red Sea have pushed oil sharply higher. A renewed round of tariffs threatened by the Trump administration is adding to global trade stress. Neither shows up in the June inflation data yet. Both will worry central banks about the second half of the year.

Connect that to the July easing. Eight suburbs moving down in the same month points to a region-wide cause, and the most obvious region-wide cause is borrowing capacity. Buyers are not disappearing — days on market of nine to fifteen days across most of the corridor proves that. What is happening is that the ceiling on what each buyer can bid has stopped rising. In Dalio's framework, that is the tightening phase of the short-term debt cycle doing exactly what it is designed to do: constrain the growth in credit-funded spending.

The cycle turns when the central bank eases. Easing is what lifts asset prices — it lowers debt service costs, lowers the effective monthly cost of anything bought on credit, and raises the present value of income-producing assets. We are not there yet, and the futures market does not expect us to be for some time.

The practical implication for a seller: waiting for rate cuts to lift your price is a bet on a scenario the market currently does not price. And when cuts do eventually arrive, every hesitant seller lists at once and you compete with all of them. Right now, you compete with very few.

Part 7 — The uncertainty problem, and the opportunity inside it

Two local voices in the August Cairns Economic Monitor said the quiet part out loud.

Nadine Edwards, Director of LJ Hooker Cairns Edge Hill, noted that for the first time in a long while buyers are saying they'll wait and see what the market does — and that potential sellers are saying exactly the same words. Her conclusion: the old principle of supply and demand will dictate the outcome, and if both sides wait, prices will generally hold, with only those who need to transact doing so.

Michael Wilson, Partner at PVW Partners, observed that while the Cairns economy remains resilient, confidence is becoming an increasingly important issue. Business owners and investors are adopting a more cautious approach, and local brokers are reporting a noticeable reduction in property investor enquiries despite otherwise favourable market conditions.

Read those alongside the listing data above and you get the most actionable insight in this report:

Buyer demand has not disappeared. Seller supply has thinned. Both sides are frozen by the same uncertainty — and every South Side suburb sold more houses than it listed.

Dalio's entire method is built on separating what people feel from what the machine is actually doing. Right now South Side sentiment is cautious while South Side fundamentals — 0.8% vacancy, growing employment, 3,500 new residents a year, approvals going backwards, homes selling in nine to fifteen days — remain strong.

When listings thin out and committed buyers stay in the market, the seller who lists gets the undivided attention of the entire buyer pool. That advantage disappears the moment confidence returns and everyone lists at once.

Part 8 — Straight answers to what South Side sellers are actually asking

"Prices dipped in July. Have I missed the top?" Your suburb is up between 12.6% and 24.4% over the year. One month of easing across all eight suburbs looks like moderation in the rate of growth, not a reversal — and homes are still selling in nine to fifteen days in most of the corridor. Nobody rings a bell at the top, and I won't pretend to know where it is. What I will say is that if your reason for selling is a life reason — upsizing, downsizing, relocating, an estate, a separation — then waiting for another 2% is a bet rather than a plan.

"Should I wait for interest rates to fall so buyers can pay more?" Futures imply the cash rate at or above 4.35% through mid-2027, with roughly a 50% chance of another hike. That's potentially eighteen months of waiting for something that may not arrive. And when cuts do come, listing volumes surge as every hesitant owner moves at once.

"Aren't prices falling everywhere?" Nationally there are clear signs of prices falling. In Cairns there is scant evidence of any such reversal, and the reason is mechanical: severe supply shortage, population growth and a robust regional economy. The Cairns median combined price also remains around $254,000 below the national average, and Cairns has compounded at 17.1% a year over three years against a national 8.1%. Overvalued markets fall first. Cairns is not one of them.

"Investors have gone quiet — does that hurt me?" It depends entirely on what you own. Investor enquiry has softened per PVW Partners, and that matters most in the unit sector — Woree units, Edmonton units. South Side detached houses sell primarily to owner-occupiers, families, upgraders and first-home buyers, and that demand is underwritten by the strongest regional labour market in Queensland.

"My neighbour's place sold for X. Is mine worth the same?" Look at the quartile spreads above. Bayview Heights ranges $673,500 to $902,500. White Rock ranges $610,000 to $739,000. Within a single suburb, condition, presentation, land size, renovation level, position within the suburb, existing rental arrangements and competing listings all produce results significantly above or below the median. A suburb figure tells you the weather. It does not tell you what your house is worth.

"What actually gets me the highest price in this market?" When buyers are cautious, they pay for certainty. Professional presentation, professional photography and video, honest pricing, and broad targeted digital exposure to the specific buyers who want the South Side. In a market where listings are thinner than sales, the property that looks the best commands the entire buyer pool's attention.

Part 9 — What I'm watching before the next update

Whether the July easing extends into August and September. One month is moderation. Three consecutive months across all eight suburbs would be a genuine turn, and I'd tell you so.
The RBA's next moves and the Trimmed Mean. Whether it holds at 3.6% or drifts higher.
Cairns building approvals. Whether they break above 105, or stay stuck at a decade-old level.
The 468 Woree units. Approvals versus actual construction starts.
The rental vacancy rate. If it drops below 0.8% again, rent growth accelerates and the rent-versus-buy maths tips further toward purchase.
Days on market. This is the earliest warning indicator in the whole dataset. Values are reported with a lag; selling times are not. If White Rock's nine days starts drifting toward fifteen, that's the real signal — and I'll see it before it appears in anyone's published data.
Domestic airport passenger numbers. An eighth consecutive annual decline would be the first genuine concern in the tourism data.

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About Jeff Rufino — South Side Cairns Real Estate Agent

Jeff Rufino — Property Sales Agent

Jeff Rufino has called Cairns home since 1992. He does not simply work here, he lives here, invests here, and is deeply connected to the South Side communities he serves, especially White Rock and the surrounding suburbs.

Jeff believes Cairns is one of the best places in Australia to build a life, raise a family, and invest in property. That belief drives the way he works with sellers. His focus is simple: help homeowners maximise their value and move forward with confidence.

Before real estate, Jeff built a strong background in marketing and business. That experience now gives his clients a clear advantage. He approaches every property with a strategic mindset, strong digital marketing, high quality presentation, and targeted buyer exposure. The goal is always the same — create demand and deliver the strongest possible result.

Jeff has become known for his local knowledge, honest communication, and hands on approach. Clients value the fact that he is accessible, proactive, and committed to protecting their interests throughout the entire process.

Outside of real estate, Jeff is deeply involved in the local community. He regularly supports local groups, attends community events, and believes strongly in giving back to the area that has given him so much.

He also lives an active lifestyle, enjoys boxing and fitness, and values time with his wife Dixie and the people closest to him.

If you are looking for an agent who genuinely understands the South Side market and will work tirelessly to achieve the best outcome for your property, Jeff Rufino is someone you can trust to represent you.

Servicing: White Rock · Mount Sheridan · Bentley Park · Edmonton · Mount Peter · Gordonvale · Woree · Bayview Heights · Wrights Creek · Mooroobool

Data sources: Cotality Suburb Statistics Reports prepared 14 August 2026. Median value data is reported to July 2026. Sales, new listings, days on market and median asking rents are based on rolling 12-month statistics. Monthly movement figures have been calculated by comparing Cotality's June 2026 and July 2026 median value figures. Regional economic data from The Cairns Economic Monitor, August 2026, published by the Cairns Chamber of Commerce with data analysis and commentary by Pete Faulkner of Conus Business Consultancy Services, drawing on the Australian Bureau of Statistics, SQM Research, Cairns Airport, Jobs and Skills Australia and the Department of Social Services. Economic framework drawn from Ray Dalio, "How the Economic Machine Works: Leveragings and Deleveragings." Interpretation and suburb commentary are Jeff Rufino's own.

Statistics quoted are suburb-level indicators and should not be treated as an individual property valuation. This report is general information only and does not take account of your personal circumstances, objectives or financial situation. It is not financial, legal or taxation advice. Property values can fall as well as rise. Please seek independent advice from a qualified professional before making any property or financial decision.