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25 properties secured for clients in Bulimba since 2024. What we bought, what we paid where the buyer agreed to say, and who did the buying.

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25

purchases in Bulimba

2024 to 2026

years we have bought here

$550,000 to $5,050,000

published prices (25 of 25)

Hunter Gather has bought 25 properties in Bulimba for clients since 2024, and the list below is every one we are able to show. Of the purchases where the property type is on record, that is 2 houses and 1 townhouse. Bulimba sits inside our Brisbane buying area, which our agents cover street by street rather than from a desk.

Where the buyer agreed to publish the price, Bulimba purchases ranged from $550,000 to $5,050,000 (25 of 25 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

The buying in Bulimba was done by Jacob Butler, Chavonne Olivier and David Thomas. Whoever you speak to first, the search runs on the same shared database and the same weekly cadence.

We also wrote up Bulimba in our guide to the best Brisbane suburbs: read the Bulimba section.

Where Bulimba sits

Bulimba is the tip of the peninsula: about 4 kilometres from the CBD as the CityCat travels and 9 by road, on the southern bank with the river wrapping the north and west. Oxford Street runs from the ferry terminal at the water up to the roundabout at Riding Road and Hawthorne Road, and almost everything a family does in a week happens along it. Hawthorne sits to the south, Balmoral to the south-east, Morningside to the east at Lytton Road, and Teneriffe, Newstead and Hamilton face it across the water.

Boundaries
The Brisbane River on two sides. Lytton Road marks the eastern edge toward Morningside, and the Riding Road and Hawthorne Road roundabout at the top of Oxford Street is where Bulimba turns into Hawthorne and Balmoral.
The roads
Oxford Street (the strip, the ferry and the school). Riding Road (the buses and the run to Balmoral and Norman Park). Lytton Road (the eastern edge, the trucks and the route to the Gateway). Apollo Road (the quiet end, the second ferry and the Barracks site)
Next door
HawthorneBalmoralMorningsideTeneriffe (across the river)Newstead (across the river)Hamilton (across the river)

The pockets

The suburb street by street: who each pocket suits and what to check there.

The numbers on the map above mark each pocket.

1Oxford Street and the grid

Oxford Street from the river to the roundabout, and the flat grid of Cambridge, Taylor, Duke, Stuart, Godwin and Barramul Streets either side

Flat, walkable and busy in the good way. Bulimba State School sits at the top of the strip, Memorial Park at the middle and the ferry at the bottom, so a child can grow from the pram to the school run to the CityCat without the family moving. Blocks are 400 to 600 square metres and the older houses carry the character overlay.

Suits Families who want the school, the kindy, the supermarket, the cinema and the ferry on foot. The reason people shortlist Bulimba first.

2The riverfront

Byron Street, Quay Street, Addison Avenue and Love Street around Bulimba Riverside Park, and the short streets running to the water either side of the ferry terminal

Absolute riverfront and the streets just behind it, a few minutes on foot from Il Molo and the terminal. These are the low streets, so floor heights and the FloodWise report matter more here than anywhere else in 4171.

Suits Families buying for the long term who want the river at the end of the street and the golf club and Riverside Park as the backyard. The dearest addresses in the suburb.

The Balmoral end

The streets climbing off Riding Road and Bulimba Street toward Balmoral Recreation Reserve

The rise at the back of the suburb. Quieter than the grid, above the flood line, and the 230 bus stops at the bottom of the hill. Post-war houses here sit outside the strictest character rules more often than the grid does, so check the overlay before you assume either way.

Suits Buyers who want the breeze, a glimpse of the city from the deck, junior rugby league at the end of the street and Oxford Street still a ten-minute walk.

4The Apollo Road end

Apollo Road, Kenbury Street and the streets between the Barracks site and Vic Lucas Park

The downstream end, where Bulimba House (1850s, heritage-listed, on Kenbury Street) sits among the newer homes and the Apollo Road terminal picks up the CityCat before it reaches Oxford Street. The 21-hectare former Bulimba Barracks is being redeveloped in stages: houses and low-rise units, the heritage fabrication shed reused for shops and cafes, and a riverfront park with a Riverwalk. Ask what stage is approved before you buy.

Suits Families who want a quieter riverfront address with the Apollo Road CityCat at the door and are happy to live next to a construction site for a few years.

Schools and catchments

Bulimba State School sits on Oxford Street itself, and its catchment takes in essentially every Bulimba home, so the primary decision is simpler here than in Hawthorne or Balmoral. The north-eastern edge, mostly non-residential land and a few Taylor Street addresses, falls to Murarrie State School on the catchment map. Balmoral State High is the state secondary for the suburb. Both run enrolment management plans, so the guarantee only holds for an in-catchment address: check the exact lot on EdMap before you count on either school.

Primary catchment, most of the suburbBulimbaState school, enrolment capped at 973
Secondary catchmentBalmoral SHSEnrolment capped at 1,023

State primary

Bulimba State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 973

Prep to Year 6 at 261 Oxford Street, teaching since 1866 and heritage-listed for its interwar buildings. It runs enrolment management with a negotiated catchment, a reported cap of 973 students and a Prep intake of 125 in five classrooms, and keeps a waitlist: only in-catchment families are guaranteed a place. The school itself calls it highly sought-after and asks you to lodge an enrolment enquiry as early as you can.

261 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

State secondary

Balmoral State High SchoolYears 7 to 12 · Cap 1,023

Years 7 to 12 on ten hectares at the Lytton Road and Thynne Road corner in Morningside, the state high school for all of Bulimba. It runs an enrolment management plan with a cap of 1,023 students and an equidistant catchment, gazetted 24 October 2025, so out-of-catchment places are tight and the in-catchment address is the whole game. A Bulimba primary child does not automatically get a place here; the address does.

271 Lytton Road, Morningside QLD 4170MapWebsite

Catholic and independent

Lourdes Hill CollegeYears 5 to 12

Girls, Years 5 to 12, on Hawthorne Road in the next suburb: a walk or a short drive from the grid, and the reason many Bulimba families never need a second school run.

86 Hawthorne Road, Hawthorne QLD 4171MapWebsite

Cannon Hill Anglican CollegePrep to 12

Co-educational, Prep to Year 12, on Krupp Road at Cannon Hill, about ten minutes east along Wynnum Road. The all-through option for families who want one campus from Prep to graduation.

Krupp Road, Cannon Hill QLD 4170MapWebsite

Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie)

Boys, Reception to Year 12, on Oaklands Parade in East Brisbane: a ten-minute drive or the 232 bus along Wynnum Road.

Oaklands Parade, East Brisbane QLD 4169MapWebsite

Sts Peter and Paul's SchoolPrep to 6

Co-educational Catholic primary, Prep to Year 6, on Alexandra Street a few minutes' walk from Oxford Street. The second school named on every Bulimba shortlist.

33 Alexandra Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Early learning

Bulimba Community Kindergarten

The not-for-profit community kindy at 231 Oxford Street, run with Lady Gowrie: two units for three to five year olds, 8am to 4.30pm most weekdays, rated Exceeding the National Quality Standard in December 2025. Two doors from the school gate. Plan a year ahead.

231 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Bulimba Child Care Centre

The community long day care next door to the kindy at 235 Oxford Street, so the drop-off for a toddler and a kindy child is the same kerb.

235 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Harmony Early Education Bulimba

Long day care on Godwin Street beside Memorial Park, 107 approved places, the biggest centre in the suburb and the one most likely to have an under-two spot.

31-35 Godwin Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Bulimba State School's negotiated catchment and waitlist are what make a Bulimba address worth more than a Balmoral one two streets away. We pull the EdMap for the exact lot before every inspection, and we ring the school about the waitlist before a client makes an offer.

Check the exact address on the Queensland EdMap. Early learning ratings on StartingBlocks.

Daily life in Bulimba

The places the week runs on: coffee and the school run, the evening out, the big shop, the pool and the GP.

Mornings

Bellissimo Coffee BulimbaIn the suburb

The all-day cafe at the river end of Oxford Street, 6am to 5pm seven days, breakfast until 2pm. Where the school run ends.

35 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Riverbend BooksIn the suburb

The independent bookshop on the Cambridge Street corner, open seven days from 8.30am, with the cafe out on the deck and a 1000 Books Before Five program for the preschoolers.

4/77 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Wholly CrumpetsIn the suburb

House-made crumpets and coffee mid-strip. The Saturday treat with the kids.

140 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Willes Fine FoodsIn the suburb

Breakfast, the deli counter and the bakery at the top end of the strip, near the school.

153 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Nom Nom Natural GelatoIn the suburb

The gelato stop on the walk home from Memorial Park.

139 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Evenings

Oxford 152In the suburb

The pub: share plates, steaks and parmis from 11.30am, a dog-friendly gin garden, live music. The Friday night that needs no booking.

152 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Il Molo Italian Kitchen and BarIn the suburb

Riverfront Italian on the boardwalk beside the ferry terminal, with a bambino menu for the kids and the CityCats going past the table. The Bulimba birthday dinner.

1B Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

MelroseIn the suburb

Pan-Asian on a rooftop at the river end of Oxford Street with a retractable roof; the unmarked glass door is beside the patisserie.

Level 1, 37 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Balmoral CineplexIn the suburb

Six screens in the middle of the strip, with undercover parking on Oxford Street and a second car park off Pine Street. Cheap enough that a wet-Sunday movie with three kids is not a decision.

168 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Sugo ITIn the suburb

Sugo-base pizza and polenta bites at the top of the strip. The takeaway the kids vote for.

3/190 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

The big shop

Woolworths BulimbaIn the suburb

The everyday supermarket at the corner of Oxford and Duke Streets, 7am to 9pm Monday to Saturday, a walk with a trolley bag from most of the grid.

Corner Oxford Street and Duke Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Harris Farm Markets at LuaIn the suburb

The anchor of the new Lua development at 187 to 193 Oxford Street: produce, deli and grocer under a three-storey building with basement parking. It was slated for 2025; confirm it is trading before you tell a client it is.

187-193 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Cannon Hill Kmart Plaza10 min drive

Kmart, Coles and Aldi on Pickwick Road, ten minutes down Wynnum Road for the once-a-month run.

Pickwick Road, Cannon Hill QLD 4170Map

Health and fitness

Colmslie Aquatic Centre5 min drive

Council pool five minutes east at Morningside: a heated 50-metre outdoor pool, a 25-metre indoor pool, a water play park and learn-to-swim. Bulimba Cricket Club is next door.

400 Lytton Road, Morningside QLD 4170MapWebsite

Sustain On OxfordIn the suburb

The 24-hour gym on the strip, so one parent can train at 5.30am while the other does breakfast.

180 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

Bulimba Pharmacy and the Oxford Street clinicsIn the suburb

The chemist at 200 Oxford Street sits in a run of dentists, physios and specialists between Memorial Park and the school. Mater at South Brisbane and Greenslopes Private are fifteen to twenty minutes by car.

200 Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171Map

Getting around

CBD by CityCat25 to 30 minBulimba terminal to Riverside, 28 on the current weekday timetable
CBD by car15 to 20 minOutside the peak, via Lytton Road or the Story Bridge
Central by trainAbout 15 minFrom Morningside station, a five-minute drive

Ferry

Two terminals. The CityCat from Bulimba terminal at the bottom of Oxford Street reaches Riverside in the CBD in 25 to 30 minutes (28 on the current weekday timetable), with Teneriffe, New Farm Park and Howard Smith Wharves on the way. The Bulimba to Teneriffe cross-river ferry (F21) leaves every 15 minutes and takes a few minutes, which puts James Street and the Gasworks closer than Carindale. Apollo Road terminal at the Barracks end is one CityCat stop downstream. The 1922 Oxford Street wharf is heritage-listed and was back in service within weeks of the 2011 flood.

CityCat and ferry timetables

Train

No station in the suburb. Morningside station on the Cleveland line is about two kilometres south of the Oxford Street roundabout, a five-minute drive or the 230 bus, and Cannon Hill station is the alternative from the Lytton Road end. Roughly fifteen minutes to Central; check the timetable for the express pattern.

Train timetable

Bus

Route 230 runs Balmoral to the City via Riding Road and Oxford Street, through Hawthorne, Norman Park and East Brisbane, roughly every half hour on weekdays. Route 232 runs Cannon Hill to the City through Bulimba along Riding Road, Lytton Road, Hawthorne Road and Wynnum Road. The P231 is the peak-hour express. Off-peak frequency is thin, so check the timetable for the street you are looking at rather than the suburb.

Route 230 timetableRoute 232 timetable

Road

Fifteen to twenty minutes to the CBD by car via Lytton Road and Wynnum Road or the Story Bridge outside the peak, though Bulimba is nine kilometres by road for four across the water. The airport is about the same via Lytton Road and the Gateway Motorway, a toll each way. Carindale in ten to fifteen minutes.

Bus routes

230232

Route numbers named in the bus notes above. Timetables on Translink.

Pinch points Oxford Street parking is gone by 9am on a Saturday and the roundabout at the top of the strip queues at school pick-up. Riding Road and Wynnum Road back up toward the Gabba from 7.30am. Lytton Road carries trucks to the Gateway all day. Inspect a Lytton Road or Riding Road house at 5.30pm and on a Saturday morning before you decide the traffic does not bother you.

Weekends

Bulimba Memorial ParkIn the suburb4.6 hectares in the middle of Oxford Street, heritage-listed since 1992: the avenue of honour figs and palms planted after the First World War, the wrought-iron memorial gate, the 1923 grandstand, the playground and the open fields where Southside Eagles play their soccer. The pool of shade every Bulimba family ends up in.Bulimba Riverside ParkIn the suburbThe riverfront park on Love Street: a sand-based playground with a boat fort for the little ones and a big slide tower for the bigger ones, electric barbecues, shelters, a fenced off-leash area and a real jetty for fishing and watching the CityCats. Flat paths for scooters.Bulimba Community MarketIn the suburbSecond Sunday of every month, 8am to 1pm, at the Bulimba Community Centre on Barramul Street beside Memorial Park: makers, food, music, dogs welcome. Back for 2026 from 8 February.Junior sportIn the suburbBulimba Valleys Bulldogs play rugby league from the junior grades at Balmoral Recreation Reserve on Bulimba Street. Bulimba Cricket Club runs Saturday juniors, girls' Heat League and Cricket Blast from 400 Lytton Road next to Colmslie pool. Southside Eagles soccer is based at Memorial Park. All three draw from Bulimba, Hawthorne and Balmoral.Bulimba Bowls Club10 min driveFree barefoot bowls on Quinn Street at the Balmoral end, family-friendly and the easy Sunday afternoon with grandparents.Vic Lucas ParkIn the suburbThe riverfront park at the Apollo Road end near the second ferry terminal. Quieter than Riverside Park, and it will connect to the new Barracks parkland and Riverwalk when that stage opens.Across the water10 min driveThe F21 puts Teneriffe, the Gasworks and James Street a few minutes away, and one CityCat stop upstream is New Farm Park with the jacarandas in October and the Powerhouse shows and markets. Most Bulimba families treat the north bank as their own.

  • Bulimba Golf ClubIn the suburb

    A nine-hole par-3 course on Quay Street at the river end, with junior lessons and casual play. The place a ten-year-old learns to hit a ball without a two-hour round.

    105 Quay Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

The houses

A renovated or lifted house
What is here
Renovated Queenslanders and interwar homes through the grid, post-war cottages waiting for a second storey, new builds and townhouses behind the strip, apartments along Oxford Street and toward the Barracks, and a handful of riverfront homes that set the suburb's ceiling. More units than Hawthorne, which is why the published purchases here start so much lower.
Block sizes
400 to 600 square metres is normal in the grid, smaller on the subdivided lots near the strip, bigger on the riverfront and up the Balmoral end. The same budget buys very different houses two streets apart.
Character overlays
Most of the pre-1947 houses sit under the traditional building character overlay, and Bulimba is one of three suburbs (with Hawthorne and Balmoral) where some streets fall in the stricter local character significance sub-category. Pre-1911 houses cannot be demolished. The Bulimba District Neighbourhood Plan keeps Oxford Street low and human-scale and protects the clusters of pre-1911 and post-war houses around it. Check the overlay on City Plan before you plan a lift and build.
How it was built
  1. 1850sBulimba House on Kenbury Street went up at the Apollo Road end, now heritage-listed among newer homes.
  2. Pre-1911 to interwarQueenslanders and interwar homes filled the flat grid off Oxford Street, most now under the character overlay.
  3. 1922The Oxford Street wharf went in at the bottom of the strip, now heritage-listed and still the CityCat stop.
  4. Post-warPost-war cottages filled the remaining streets, many now waiting for a second storey.
  5. NowNew builds and townhouses behind the strip, apartments along Oxford Street, and the 21-hectare Barracks site being redeveloped in stages.

What the money buys

Around $1m

A two-bedroom unit or a townhouse behind the strip, walk to the ferry. Our published Bulimba purchases start at $550,000.

$2m to $3m

A renovated Queenslander on 400 to 600 square metres in the grid, or an unrenovated one on a full block toward the Balmoral end. The house median sits here.

$3m and above

The riverfront streets, a big block with the city across the water, or a house that never reached the portals. Our published Bulimba purchases run to $5,050,000.

25 purchases since 2024, all 25 with published prices from $550,000 to $5,050,000. Live grid on the page.

See the homes we have secured here

What to check before you buy in Bulimba

Flood

The flats between Riding Road and the river went under in 2011 and again in 2022, and the 2011 peak list ran to most of the streets north of Oxford Street: Byron, Quay, Godwin, Love, Addison, Barramul, Stuart, Duke, Bulimba Street, Kenbury and Apollo Road among them. Council has since fitted backflow devices in Bulimba streets. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, ask for the floor levels, and get an insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Since the parallel runway opened in 2020, parts of Bulimba hear aircraft they did not before, especially in the evening. Type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight tracker, then stand in the yard at 7am and again around 7pm. Lytton Road carries trucks and Riding Road carries the buses; the grid itself is quiet.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Traditional building character and pre-1911 on most of the older stock, plus the Bulimba District Neighbourhood Plan. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows the Barracks approvals and what the neighbours have been approved to build behind the strip.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

One primary catchment for almost all of the suburb and one secondary, both with enrolment management and a waitlist at the primary. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A low block north of Oxford Street with no floor-height survey and no recent flood insurance quote. The finish upstairs does not tell you what happened downstairs in 2022.
  • A character house that has been lifted and built in underneath without the approvals on file, or a small lot sold as a family home that leaves no yard once the car is parked.
  • A townhouse or unit behind the strip where you have not read the body corporate minutes, checked the visitor parking, or stood on the balcony on a Saturday morning when Oxford Street is full.

Where the value sits

  • A post-war cottage on a full 600 square metre block in the grid that the family can live in now and lift later, inside the Bulimba State School catchment.
  • The Balmoral end, where the price is lower, the house is above the flood line and the strip is still ten minutes on foot.
  • The Apollo Road end while the Barracks is still a building site: a family that can live with a few years of trucks gets the riverfront park, the Riverwalk and the shops in the old fabrication shed when they open.

Photos: Oxford Street, Bulimba, Shiftchange, CC0; Bulimba ferry terminal, Oxford Street, John Robert McPherson, CC0; Ferry, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; Morningside station, TravellerQLD, CC BY-SA 3.0; Brisbane Transport bus, BrisbaneBuzSpotter, CC BY-SA 4.0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Bulimba Memorial Park, Avenue of Honour, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Bulimba Riverside Park, Brisbane Kids, used with permission; Bulimba Community Market, Brisbane Kids, used with permission; Bulimba Memorial Park grandstand, Shiftchange, CC0; Bulimba Bowls Club, used with permission; Vic Lucas Park, Brisbane Kids, used with permission; Bulimba State School, Shiftchange, CC0; Balmoral State High School, Reubot, CC BY-SA 4.0; Lourdes Hill College, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Cannon Hill Anglican College, courtesy of the school; Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie), W108, CC BY-SA 3.0; Oxford 152, Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0; A renovated or lifted house, Wade Johanson from Canberra, Australia, CC BY 2.0.

Bulimba purchases we can show

Every card is a real settlement for a Hunter Gather client. Prices appear where the buyer agreed to publish them.

Bulimba

Townhouse

3 bed2 bath3 car 249m²
$1,545,000 David Thomas
18 May 2026

Bulimba

4 bed3 bath2 car 225m²
$1,720,000 Jacob Butler
27 Mar 2026

Bulimba

3 bed2 bath2 car 124m²
$1,295,000 Chavonne Olivier
12 Jan 2026

Bulimba

House

4 bed2 bath2 car 340m²
$2,300,000 Jacob Butler
24 Nov 2025

Bulimba

House

5 bed3 bath4 car 1012m²
$5,050,000 Jacob Butler
17 Sep 2025

Bulimba

3 bed2 bath2 car
$1,350,000 Jacob Butler
20 May 2025

Bulimba

4 bed2 bath1 car 405m²
$1,600,000 Jacob Butler
11 Apr 2025

Bulimba

2 bed1 bath1 car
$775,000 Jacob Butler
18 Mar 2025

Bulimba

3 bed2 bath2 car
$2,445,000 Jacob Butler
13 Mar 2025

Bulimba

N/A bedN/A bathN/A car
$810,000 Jacob Butler
3 Feb 2025

Bulimba

4 bed3 bath2 car 167m²
$4,300,000 Jacob Butler
10 Dec 2024

Bulimba

3 bed2 bath2 car
$1,106,500 Jacob Butler
1 Oct 2024

Bulimba

3 bed2 bath2 car
$1,300,000 Jacob Butler
30 Sep 2024

Bulimba

4 bed2 bath2 car 405m²
$2,270,000 Jacob Butler
21 Jun 2024

Bulimba

1 bed1 bath1 car
$550,000 David Thomas
21 Jun 2024

Bulimba

2 bed1 bath2 car
$610,000 Jacob Butler
3 Jun 2024

Bulimba

3 bed2 bath2 car 190m²
$1,190,000 Jacob Butler, Chavonne Olivier
23 Apr 2024

Bulimba

2 bed2 bath2 car
$840,000 Jacob Butler
12 Apr 2024

Bulimba

3 bed1 bath2 car 405m²
$1,730,000 Jacob Butler, Chavonne Olivier
28 Mar 2024

Bulimba

2 bed1 bath1 car
$585,000 Jacob Butler
29 Feb 2024

Bulimba

5 bed3 bath2 car 810m²
$2,800,000 Jacob Butler

Bulimba

4 bed3 bath2 car 414m²
$1,815,000 Jacob Butler

Bulimba

4 bed2 bath2 car 230m²
$1,000,000 Jacob Butler

Bulimba

4 bed1 bath2 car 810m²
$1,350,000 Jacob Butler

Bulimba

4 bed2 bath2 car 305m²
$2,000,000 Chavonne Olivier

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Buying in Bulimba: the questions we get

Bulimba State School for primary, on Oxford Street itself, and Balmoral State High for secondary. Both run enrolment management plans, and the primary keeps a waitlist, so only an in-catchment address is guaranteed a place. We check the exact lot before every inspection.

The low streets between Oxford Street and the river did in 2011 and 2022, and the ferry terminal went under both times. The grid south of Oxford Street and the Balmoral end sit higher. Every Bulimba purchase we make starts with the FloodWise report and the floor levels.

The CityCat from the bottom of Oxford Street reaches Riverside in 25 to 30 minutes, and the cross-river ferry puts you in Teneriffe in a few minutes. Route 230 runs along Riding Road and Oxford Street to the CBD, and Morningside station is a five-minute drive. By car it is fifteen to twenty minutes outside the peak.

It depends on the street, the runway mode and the time of day. Since the parallel runway opened in 2020, parts of Bulimba hear aircraft in the evening that they did not before. Check the address on the Brisbane Airport flight tracker and inspect around 7pm.

In 2026, a renovated Queenslander on 400 to 600 square metres in the grid, within walking distance of the school and the ferry, or an unrenovated house on a full block toward the Balmoral end. The riverfront starts well above that; our published Bulimba purchases run from $550,000 to $5,050,000.

Bulimba has the strip, the school on the strip and the ferry at its front door, and the second child fits without moving. Hawthorne has bigger blocks, more hill and the cinema, with the same ferry a few streets south. Families who want everything on foot end up in Bulimba; families who want a yard usually end up in Hawthorne. It is the suburb our clients shortlist first and the one they most often lose at auction.

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