Bulimba

Bulimba is Brisbane riverside living at its most charming. Oxford Street, its village spine, is among the city's best strips, cafes and restaurants, boutiques and the heritage Balmoral cinema, all a short walk from two CityCat ferry wharves that glide into the CBD. Behind it, leafy streets mix classic timber Queenslanders with newer riverside apartments, and parks line the foreshore. That lifestyle has made Bulimba one of Brisbane's strongest-growing premium suburbs, with houses pushing past AUD 2 million on near-double-digit annual growth. The trade-off is yield, houses return under 3%, so investors here buy for capital appreciation and scarcity. Overseas buyers can't access the Queenslanders under the 2025 established-dwelling ban; their route in is the FIRB-approved new apartment stock rising near Oxford Street and the river.

Bulimba in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia