The Sunshine Coast Property Market

Most property market pages summarise somebody else's data. This one reports ours.

Every rent figure below was read from our own live rentals feed on 18 August 2026, at street address level, de-duplicated by street rather than by listing. Fourteen managed properties, seven of them on the Sunshine Coast.

Fourteen properties is not a market survey and we are not going to dress it up as one. It is a census of one agency's rent roll on one day. What it is good for is showing what real properties are actually letting for right now, which is different from a median that is three months old by the time it is published.

We have also not published a vacancy rate, a days-on-market figure or a rent growth number, because we do not hold data that would support any of them honestly.

Seven properties, six of them whole dwellings. Read on 18 August 2026.

The three-bedroom houses run from $660 a week in Baringa to $770 in Peregian Springs. The four-bedroom ones run from $720 in Maroochydore to $860 in Mountain Creek.

One listing is excluded from those ranges and it is worth naming rather than quietly dropping: a Sippy Downs property advertised at $330 a week is a room in shared accommodation, not a whole dwelling. Counting it alongside houses would drag the figure down and describe something that does not exist.

The spread across a single agency's roll is about $200 a week between comparable three-bedroom homes. That gap is the argument against relying on any single median: two three-bedroom houses fifteen minutes apart are not the same product.

We manage outside the Sunshine Coast too, which lets us do something a purely local agency cannot: compare like for like on our own roll.

A four-bedroom house on our Sunshine Coast roll is at $720 and $860. Four-bedroom houses we manage elsewhere are at $730 in Logan Reserve, $700 in Jimboomba, $670 in Gympie and $625 in Scarness, which is Hervey Bay.

So the top of our Sunshine Coast range is around $135 a week above the strongest of the others and $235 above the weakest. Over a year that is roughly $7,000 to $12,200 of gross rent on an otherwise similar house.

Two honest qualifications. These are advertised rents rather than achieved rents, and the sample is one property per suburb in most cases. Read it as a directional signal from real stock, not as a regional index.

The signal it does support: the Sunshine Coast premium over regional south-east Queensland is real and it is visible in our own book, not just in commentary.

Three of our seven Sunshine Coast rentals are in the Caloundra area: Caloundra West at $680, Meridan Plains at $720 and Baringa at $660. Our four properties for sale are in Meridan Plains, Battery Hill, Nirimba and Caloundra West.

That is worth flagging because our own records said otherwise as recently as 5 August 2026, when we had no managed rental anywhere in the Caloundra area. Thirteen days later there are three.

The corridor running from Caloundra West through Baringa and Nirimba into Aura is where most of the new residential land on the Sunshine Coast is being released, and it is where our own stock has moved.

What we will not claim is that we manage property in Caloundra itself. We do not, on the current feed. Caloundra West, Baringa and Meridan Plains are distinct suburbs, and saying otherwise would be the kind of small imprecision that turns into a false claim.

Four properties, all in the Caloundra corridor: Meridan Plains, Battery Hill, Nirimba and Caloundra West.

That is a sourcing footprint rather than a market picture, and it reflects what we do rather than what is happening. We source new-build and house-and-land investment property, so our sales stock clusters where land is being released.

It is not evidence about established house prices anywhere on the Sunshine Coast, and we are not going to present it as such.

If you want established market data, the portals and the state statistician publish it. What we can add is what our own properties are letting for, which is the part of the picture they do not have.

Three things worth checking about any rent number you are given, including ours.

Advertised or achieved. An advertised rent is an asking price. What a property actually lets for can be lower, and the gap widens when the market softens. Every figure on this page is advertised.

Whole dwelling or not. A room, a granny flat and a house are different products, and mixing them produces a number that describes nothing. This is why the Sippy Downs listing is separated out above.

How old the figure is. Ours is dated to the day it was read and the feed syncs every fifteen minutes, so it can be re-read at any time. A quarterly median is a description of the past.

None of that makes medians useless. It makes them a different instrument, better for trend and worse for what a specific property will do this month.

We manage residential investment property on the Sunshine Coast from one office, in Maroochydore. We have no branch in any other suburb and nothing on this page should be read as suggesting otherwise.

Our managed properties on 18 August 2026 sat in Maroochydore, Sippy Downs, Mountain Creek, Peregian Springs, Caloundra West, Meridan Plains and Baringa on the Sunshine Coast, and in Gympie, Kallangur, Lawnton, Logan Reserve, Jimboomba and Scarness beyond it.

A tenanted property is not advertised, so that list is a floor rather than a complete roll. Presence on it proves we manage there. Absence from it proves nothing either way.

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