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

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10

purchases in Moorooka

2024 to 2026

years we have bought here

$455,000 to $1,510,000

published prices (8 of 10)

Hunter Gather has bought 10 properties in Moorooka 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 1 house and 1 apartment. Moorooka 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, Moorooka purchases ranged from $455,000 to $1,510,000 (8 of 10 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

The buying in Moorooka was done by Jacob Butler, Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson, David Thomas and Alannah Sanjurjo. Whoever you speak to first, the search runs on the same shared database and the same weekly cadence.

Where Moorooka sits

Moorooka is the inner south's last big grid of post-war family streets before the city gives way to Rocklea's sheds and the Brisbane Markets. It sits 7.4 kilometres from the CBD, 9 by road down Ipswich Road, with Annerley to the north, Yeronga and Yeerongpilly to the north-west, Tarragindi to the east, Salisbury to the south and Rocklea to the south-west. Ipswich Road runs the lower western side as the Magic Mile of car yards, Beaudesert Road splits off it inside the suburb and carries the Moorvale shops south, and behind both the ground rises east through 4.1 square kilometres of highsets and Queenslanders to Toohey Mountain and the forest.

Boundaries
Ipswich Road enters from Annerley and leaves toward Rocklea along the low western side, with the Beenleigh rail line beside it on part of the western boundary. Beaudesert Road forks off Ipswich Road inside the suburb and runs south through Moorvale to Salisbury. Toohey Forest and Toohey Mountain close the eastern edge at the top of Mayfield Road and Madang Street. Two creeks shape the low ground: Moolabin Creek runs west from Mayfield Gardens through Clifton Park and under Ipswich Road to Yeerongpilly, and Rocky Water Holes Creek wraps the south-western corner past Veterans Park and Tonks Street Park toward Rocklea.
The roads
Ipswich Road (the Magic Mile, the 100 and 110 buses, the noise to check). Beaudesert Road (the Moorvale strip, Woolworths, the 125 bus, the pub and the gym). Mayfield Road (east from Moorvale to the forest, the mosque and the George Bridges Park end). Tarragindi Road (the eastern edge shared with Tarragindi and Vizzeto). Hamilton Road and Sherley Street (the station grid, the state school and the Rocklea end)
Next door
AnnerleyYerongaYeerongpillyTarragindiSalisburyRocklea

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.

1Moorvale and the Mayfield Gardens grid

Beaudesert Road between Koala Road and Mayfield Road, and Vendale Avenue, Koala Road, Blomfield Street, Sherley Street and Delville Avenue behind it

The 1927 Mayfield Gardens Estate laid 490 allotments around Vendale Avenue between Beaudesert Road, Mayfield Road and Tarragindi Road, and the grid is still the heart of the suburb. City Plan zones Vendale Avenue, Koala Road and Delville Avenue as character residential with the traditional building character overlay, so the interwar and post-war houses here keep their street. The Moorvale strip on Beaudesert Road has the Ethiopian and Middle Eastern restaurants, the halal butcher, the chemist, the physio and the Woolworths at the Koala Road end, and The Clubhouse on Koala Road is a five minute walk from most of it.

Suits Families who want the Moorooka State School catchment, coffee at the old bowls club and the Woolworths on foot, in a character house on a real block.

2The Toohey Forest edge

The top of Mayfield Road, Madang Street, Northview Outlook, Fegen Drive and the Tarragindi Road frontage

Toohey Mountain rises on the eastern side of Moorooka and the Fimbriata walking track enters the forest from Madang Street. Mayfield Road climbs east past the mosque, Mayfield Gardens and George Bridges Park to the forest gate, and the side streets off it are the ones that catch the breeze. Fegen Drive and the streets off Tarragindi Road carry the character overlay; Mayfield Road itself is plain low density residential, which makes it the easier place to extend.

Suits Buyers who want the forest at the end of the street, the highest and quietest ground in the suburb, and Vizzeto for Friday pizza.

3The station grid and the Magic Mile

Hamilton Road, Michlin Street, Anson Street, Hawtree Street, Tonks Street and the streets between Ipswich Road and Beaudesert Road around the state school

Flat streets between the two arterials with Moorooka State School on Sherley Street and St Brendan's on Hawtree Street in the middle. The Ipswich Road frontage is car yards and the Sanitarium factory, and the Beenleigh line runs behind them, so the value here is one street back from either. Moorooka station closed on 2 March 2026 for the Cross River Rail rebuild and is due back in late 2027, which is either the reason to buy here now or the reason to wait, depending on the commute. The Hamilton Road and Anson Street corner nearest Rocklea falls in the Rocklea State School catchment on the 2026 map.

Suits Families buying their first Moorooka house within a walk of the state school, St Brendan's, Shapland's pool and the station once it reopens.

4Clifton Hill, the Yeronga border

Delville Avenue, Clifton Street, Eric Crescent, Beverley Hill Street and the streets around Clifton Park, Poinciana Park and Stimpson Park at the Annerley end

The northern end sits above Moolabin Creek with Clifton Park and Poinciana Park in the middle and the Moorooka Lions Bicentennial Picnic Grounds beside Ipswich Road. City Plan carries a Clifton Hill War Service Homes Estate precinct in the Moorooka-Stephens neighbourhood plan here, which tells you the age and the shape of the houses. On the 2026 catchment map the northernmost streets fall in Yeronga State School rather than Moorooka, and a few lots on Northview Outlook fall in Wellers Hill, so the exact lot on EdMap matters more here than anywhere else in 4105.

Suits Families who want to be closest to Yeronga, Annerley Junction and the PA Hospital, and who are happy to trade a little block size for it. The dearest end of the suburb.

5The Rocklea side

Muriel Avenue, Nettleton Crescent, Gainsborough Street and the Beaudesert Road frontage south of Alexander Park

The southern streets around Alexander Park, the Moorooka Community Centre and Muriel Avenue Park are flatter and cheaper, with Rocky Water Holes Creek along the edge toward Rocklea and Salisbury. City Plan puts 22 Muriel Avenue in Brisbane River flood planning area 5, the lowest band, with a low creek likelihood on top, while the Nettleton Crescent and Tonks Street lots we checked show no flood overlay at all. Two houses a street apart can read very differently here, so this is the pocket where the report is pulled before the inspection, not after.

Suits Families who want the biggest house for the money and are buying with the FloodWise report open.

Schools and catchments

Moorooka State School takes about 85 per cent of the suburb's area, nine in ten addresses, and sits in the middle of it on Sherley Street. Three other primary catchments reach in at the edges: Yeronga State School across the northern streets, Rocklea State School at the Hamilton Road corner, and Wellers Hill State School on a handful of lots on Northview Outlook in the north-east. Every one of them runs an enrolment management plan with a Prep cap. Yeronga State High is the state high school for every address in the suburb and has no plan, so it still takes out-of-catchment students with the principal's approval. Ask us which side of the primary line a house sits on before you inspect.

Primary catchment, most of the suburbMoorookaState school, enrolment capped at 734
Secondary catchmentYeronga SHSNo enrolment cap published
Catchments touching the suburb4 primary, 1 secondaryDrawn street by street. Check the lot on EdMap.

State primary

Moorooka State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 734

Prep to Year 6 on 5.1 hectares at Sherley Street, open since January 1929 and on the Queensland Heritage Register since 2015 for its 1929 to 1956 buildings, with the school pool built in 1963. Equidistant catchment under an enrolment management plan gazetted 29 August 2025: a cap of 734 students and 100 Prep places in four classrooms unless more in-catchment children apply. Out-of-catchment families go on an expression of interest list. The children come from more than 50 countries, and Jabiru has run before and after school care on site since 9 March 2026.

1 Sherley Street, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Yeronga State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 926

Prep to Year 6 on Park Road in Yeronga, heritage listed and open since 1871. Its catchment reaches south across the Annerley end of Moorooka on the 2026 map: about one address in twenty, on the northernmost streets around Clifton Hill. Equidistant catchment, enrolment management plan gazetted 22 August 2025: a cap of 926 and 125 Prep places in five classrooms.

122 Park Road, Yeronga QLD 4104MapWebsite

Rocklea State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 96

A very small Prep to Year 6 school on Elmes Road at Rocklea. Its catchment takes the south-western corner of Moorooka around Hamilton Road and Anson Street, about one address in twenty-five. Equidistant catchment, enrolment management plan gazetted 24 July 2026: a cap of 96 students and 25 Prep places in one classroom, so the whole school is smaller than one year level at Moorooka.

19 Elmes Road, Rocklea QLD 4106MapWebsite

Wellers Hill State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 941

Prep to Year 6 on the Toohey Road and Weller Road corner at Tarragindi, with the Japanese bilingual pathway. The 2026 catchment layer clips a few lots at Moorooka's north-eastern corner, on the low numbers of Northview Outlook. Equidistant catchment, enrolment management plan gazetted 22 August 2025: a cap of 941 and 125 Prep places in five classrooms.

190 Toohey Road, Tarragindi QLD 4121MapWebsite

State secondary

Yeronga State High SchoolYears 7 to 12

Years 7 to 12 on Villa Street at Yeronga, open since 1960, about ten minutes up Ipswich Road or Fairfield Road. The catchment covers every Moorooka address on the 2026 map. No enrolment management plan is listed as at September 2026, and the school accepts out-of-catchment enrolments with the principal's approval.

159 Villa Street, Yeronga QLD 4104MapWebsite

Catholic and independent

St Brendan's School, MoorookaPrep to 6

Co-educational Catholic primary, Prep to Year 6, on Hawtree Street in the station grid, founded by the Sisters of St Joseph in January 1929, the same month the state school opened. A small school with its own outside school hours care. The reason many station-grid families never look at the state catchment line.

17 Hawtree Street, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Mary Immaculate Primary SchoolPrep to 6

Catholic primary, Prep to Year 6, on Ipswich Road at Annerley, five minutes from the Clifton Hill end. The alternative to St Brendan's for the northern streets.

616 Ipswich Road, Annerley QLD 4103MapWebsite

Our Lady's College, AnnerleyYears 7 to 12

Catholic secondary for girls, Years 7 to 12, on Chester Road at Annerley, five to ten minutes up Ipswich Road. The college has announced a move to co-education with the first Year 7 boys in 2030, pending approvals, which changes the picture for families with sons now in Prep.

15 Chester Road, Annerley QLD 4103MapWebsite

St Laurence's CollegeYears 5 to 12

Boys, Years 5 to 12, Catholic and independent, in South Brisbane. Fifteen minutes up Ipswich Road, or the 100 bus to the Cultural Centre, and the usual next step for St Brendan's boys.

South Brisbane QLD 4101MapWebsite

Brisbane Christian CollegePrep to 12

Co-educational, Pre-Prep to Year 12, a ministry of Life Church. The primary campus is on Golda Avenue and the middle and secondary campus on Fairlie Terrace, both in Salisbury five minutes south down Beaudesert Road, with the Pre-Prep centre at Coopers Plains.

63 Fairlie Terrace, Salisbury QLD 4107MapWebsite

Early learning

Jabiru OSHC at Moorooka State School

Before and after school care and vacation care on the school grounds at Sherley Street, run by Jabiru since 9 March 2026. Book when you enrol, not when term starts.

1 Sherley Street, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Sunkids Yeronga

Long day care on Querrin Street off School Road at Yeronga, open in 2026 and taking tours. Five minutes up Ipswich Road from the Clifton Hill end, and the convenient drop-off for a family with one at Yeronga State School and one not yet.

11 Querrin Street, Yeronga QLD 4104MapWebsite

C&K Yeronga Park Kindergarten

Community kindy on School Road beside Yeronga Memorial Park for three-and-a-half to five year olds, rated Meeting under the National Quality Framework. Two-day groups with extended hours to 5.30pm. Put your name down the year before.

15 School Road, Yeronga QLD 4104MapWebsite

Edge Early Learning Tarragindi

Long day care from six weeks to school age on Pope Street at Tarragindi, 6.30am to 6.30pm weekdays with a government-approved kindergarten program. Five minutes east along Mayfield Road and Tarragindi Road from the forest edge.

43 Pope Street, Tarragindi QLD 4121MapWebsite

Tarragindi War Memorial Kindergarten

C&K-affiliated community kindy on Newington Street for three-and-a-half to five year olds, rated Exceeding under the National Quality Framework. Two-day groups, 8am to 3.30pm, plus a Wednesday pre-kindy.

31 Newington Street, Tarragindi QLD 4121MapWebsite

The Moorooka State School boundary is the one to check. On the 2026 catchment layer Moorooka State School covers nine in ten Moorooka addresses, Yeronga State School the northern streets, Rocklea State School the Anson Street and Hamilton Road corner and Wellers Hill a few lots on Northview Outlook; Salisbury State School (cap 404, 75 Prep places, gazetted 19 June 2026) borders the suburb on the south but does not reach in. Every address sits in Yeronga State High. The Prep caps are the numbers that matter: 100 places at Moorooka, 25 at Rocklea, and in-catchment children come first. We pull the EdMap for the exact lot before every inspection.

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

Daily life in Moorooka

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

Mornings

Bean on the GreenIn the suburb

The cafe at The Clubhouse on Koala Road, the old bowls club: Renegade coffee, cakes and muffins, ice blocks for the kids, 6.15am to noon seven days. The school-run stop for the Mayfield Gardens grid, with the green to run on while you wait.

76 Koala Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Renegade RoastersIn the suburb

The roastery behind the Magic Mile on Michlin Street, turn off Ipswich Road at the servo: beans, cold brew and a chat while they roast, 8am to 3pm weekdays and Saturday mornings. The coffee that half the suburb's cafes pour.

6/25 Michlin Street, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

BotanicaféIn the suburb

The cafe beside the Woolworths at the Koala Road end of Beaudesert Road, the easy coffee on the way to the big shop.

Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105Map

Billykart Kitchen10 min drive

The neighbourhood kitchen on Eric Crescent, just over the Annerley line from Clifton Hill: brunch, bread and a proper coffee in a converted corner shop. The weekend breakfast for the northern streets.

1 Eric Crescent, Annerley QLD 4103MapWebsite

Evenings

Vizzeto WoodfireIn the suburb

Brazilian, Italian and Australian wood-fired pizza on Tarragindi Road at the forest edge, Tuesday to Sunday, lunch and dinner most days. Casual, loud and happy to have kids. The Friday night for the eastern half of the suburb.

398 Tarragindi Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

ArhibuIn the suburb

Ethiopian on the Moorvale strip: injera, wat and the shared platter that feeds a table. The reason the strip is called the most multicultural on the south side, and the easiest introduction to it.

Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105Map

ZeitoonIn the suburb

Middle Eastern on Beaudesert Road a few doors from Arhibu, with Baba Burger and Istanbul Kebabs alongside for the nights nobody wants to sit down.

Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105Map

The Clubhouse MoorookaIn the suburb

The community-run bar in the 1968 bowls club on Koala Road: craft beer, food trucks on the weekend, bingo on the first Friday and trivia on the third. Bar hours are Wednesday 5.30pm to 8pm, Friday from 3pm, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Kids on the green, parents on the deck.

76 Koala Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

The Willow HotelIn the suburb

The Beaudesert Road pub at the Moorvale end, with a beer garden. Confirm it is trading under this name before you tell a client about it.

215 Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105Map

The big shop

Woolworths Moorooka, Moorooka CentralIn the suburb

The everyday supermarket at the Koala Road end of Beaudesert Road, with the chemist, the medical hub and the dentist in the same block. Walkable from the Mayfield Gardens grid.

Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105Map

Fairfield Gardens5 min drive

Coles, Aldi, the chemist and the services cluster on Fairfield Road, five minutes north through Yeronga. The once-a-week run for most of the suburb.

180 Fairfield Road, Fairfield QLD 4103MapWebsite

Woolworths Annerley5 min drive

The second supermarket, five minutes up Ipswich Road at Annerley Junction, for the northern streets.

504 Ipswich Road, Annerley QLD 4103Map

Health and fitness

Moorooka Medical HubIn the suburb

General practice on the Moorvale strip beside the Woolworths: GPs, child health, antenatal shared care, vaccinations and on-site pathology, bulk billed for eligible patients. After-hours calls go to the home doctor service from Friday evening to Monday morning.

Shop 10/125 Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Playful PaediatricsIn the suburb

Children's therapy hub in a converted Queenslander on Beaudesert Road: speech pathology, occupational therapy and psychology for kids, play-based and by online booking. Rare to have this within walking distance of home.

94 Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Shapland Swim School MoorookaIn the suburb

Indoor learn-to-swim on Anson Street in the station grid, heated to 32 degrees all year, three children to a class from five months old, weekday mornings and afternoons and Saturday mornings.

31 Anson Street, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Yeronga Park Memorial Swimming Pool10 min drive

The council pool on the School Road edge of Yeronga Memorial Park, ten minutes north: a heated 50 metre outdoor pool, a 25 metre pool, an enclosed learn-to-swim pool and a water play area. The indoor pool opens at 5am on weekdays.

55 School Road, Yeronga QLD 4104MapWebsite

Snap Fitness MoorookaIn the suburb

24-hour gym on Beaudesert Road at the Moorvale end, with a Pilates studio, free weights and on-site parking.

210-212 Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

Princess Alexandra Hospital10 min drive

The public hospital with the emergency department, ten minutes up Ipswich Road at Woolloongabba, and the end of the line for the 110 bus. Mater at South Brisbane is a few minutes further.

199 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba QLD 4102MapWebsite

Getting around

CBD by carAbout 15 minUp Ipswich Road outside the peak
Roma Street by trainAbout 12 minOff peak, once the station reopens in late 2027
AirportAbout 30 minClem7 and Airport Link, tolled

Train

Moorooka station sits on Ipswich Road on the T6 Beenleigh line, 10.55 kilometres by rail from Central and open since 1887, but it closed on Monday 2 March 2026 for the Cross River Rail accessibility rebuild and is not expected back until late 2027. The rebuild adds a new overpass with a lift and stairs to each platform, a third platform, platform canopies, accessible parking and a kiss and ride on Ipswich Road and storage for 40 bikes. While it is closed, StationLink route 19 runs between Rocklea station and the PA Hospital busway every 15 minutes in the weekday peak and every 30 minutes otherwise, and Yeerongpilly and Rocklea stations are open with full access. Once it reopens, all-stops Beenleigh line services run through the city to Ferny Grove; the guide's twelve minutes to Roma Street is the off-peak figure, so check the timetable for the address.

Train timetable

Bus

Route 100 is the commute while the station is closed: Forest Lake and Inala to Queen Street via Ipswich Road, an express with stops at Moorooka station, Ipswich Road near Michlin Street and Ipswich Road at Clifton Hill, running about every 15 minutes into the evening. Route 125 runs the length of Beaudesert Road through Moorvale and Salisbury to Garden City one way and the City and the Valley the other, also about every 15 minutes. Route 110 from Inala runs up Ipswich Road to the PA Hospital and Boggo Road busway, hourly in the evening, and StationLink 19 links Rocklea station to the PA Hospital while the rebuild is on. For most of the suburb the bus is the whole answer until late 2027.

Route 100 timetableRoute 125 timetable

Road

Fifteen minutes to the CBD by car up Ipswich Road outside the peak, ten to the PA Hospital and the Gabba. The Ipswich Motorway starts at the suburb's south-western edge, so the run west to Ipswich and south to the Logan Motorway is quick. Griffith University's Nathan campus is on the far side of the forest, about ten minutes by car, and Garden City is fifteen down Beaudesert Road. The airport is about half an hour on the Clem7 and Airport Link tolls; check a toll route before you rely on the time.

Bus routes

10012511019

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

Pinch points Ipswich Road crawls through Annerley Junction in both peaks and the Moorooka stretch fills with car yard traffic on a Saturday. Beaudesert Road at Moorvale is slow on Saturday mornings and the Rocklea markets push traffic onto Sherwood Road and Ipswich Road from 6am. The school zones on Sherley Street and Hawtree Street back up at 8.30am and 3pm. Until late 2027 the station is a construction site, so inspect anything on Ipswich Road or Hamilton Road on a weekday morning and listen for the work, not just the trains.

Weekends

Toohey ForestIn the suburb260 hectares of remnant bushland at the back door. Toohey Mountain is on the eastern side of Moorooka and the Fimbriata walking track enters from Madang Street; the Toohey Road car parks at Nathan open onto the Sandstone Circuit, the Nathan and Toohey Ridge loop and the 5 kilometre return Toohey Ridge Track that takes prams and bikes. Dogs on leash. Brushtail possums most nights, the odd koala if you are lucky.The Toohey picnic grounds10 min driveMayne Estate and Toohey picnic areas, off Toohey Road at Nathan, with barbecues under the trees, open 6am to 7pm daily. Ten minutes from the Mayfield Road end and the Sunday afternoon that costs nothing.

  • The Clubhouse MoorookaIn the suburb

    The former Moorooka Bowls Club on Koala Road, built by the council in 1968, host to the Queen during the 1982 Commonwealth Games and in receivership by 2019, run since 2022 by the not-for-profit Third Place Group as a community club. Two bowling greens, sports courts, an arcade, function rooms, the Bean on the Green cafe every morning and food trucks on the weekend. The suburb's living room.

    76 Koala Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

  • Alexander Park and junior sportIn the suburb

    The Moorooka Recreation Reserve on Beaudesert Road at the southern end, with the Peter Mastin Oval. The Moorooka Roosters are relaunching junior Australian football here in 2026 for 8 to 16 year olds, registrations through PlayHQ. Yeronga Devils and Olympic FC at Yeronga and the Tarragindi Tigers are all within ten minutes for football and league.

    334 Beaudesert Road, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

  • Saturday Fresh Market, Rocklea5 min drive

    The Brisbane Markets' public market on Sherwood Road, five minutes down Ipswich Road, every Saturday 6am to noon: fruit and veg from the growers, bakery, meat and deli, plants, and a food court for breakfast. Undercover parking for a couple of dollars, children free.

    385 Sherwood Road, Rocklea QLD 4106MapWebsite

  • Clifton Park, Poinciana Park and the Moolabin Creek parksIn the suburb

    The string of local parks along Moolabin Creek at the northern end: Clifton Park on Delville Avenue, Poinciana Park behind it, Stimpson Park and the Moorooka Lions Bicentennial Picnic Grounds beside Ipswich Road, and Moolabin Park on Vendale Avenue. Playgrounds and shade within a walk of the Clifton Hill and Mayfield Gardens streets. Confirm the facilities at each before publish.

    35 Delville Avenue, Moorooka QLD 4105MapWebsite

  • Yeronga Memorial Park and the pool10 min drive

    22 hectares on the heritage register ten minutes north, with the pool on its School Road edge, cricket ovals, tennis, croquet and a playground on the bikeway side. The Yeronga-Moorooka Bikeway runs from the park toward Moorooka along the creek line, so the ride there is flat.

    Honour Avenue, Yeronga QLD 4104MapWebsite

  • Queensland Tennis Centre10 min drive

    Pat Rafter Arena and 23 courts at Tennyson, ten minutes north-west: Hot Shots coaching, junior fixtures, court hire and the Brisbane International in January.

    190 King Arthur Terrace, Tennyson QLD 4105MapWebsite

The houses

What is here
Post-war timber and brick highsets on the grid streets either side of Beaudesert Road, most on stumps and many lifted and built under. Interwar houses and workers cottages on the 1927 Mayfield Gardens Estate around Vendale Avenue and on the older streets near the station, and the Clifton Hill War Service Homes Estate at the Annerley end. A run of 1950s and 60s streets south of Mayfield Road that the builder Brian O'Neill named for his children: Timothy, Rachael, Sharon and Charmaine Streets are all his. Townhouses and unit blocks along Ipswich Road, Beaudesert Road, Mayfield Road, Koala Road and Hamilton Road where the zoning allows two and three storeys, which is why Moorooka carries a real unit market beside the houses: about 1,500 of the suburb's 4,850 dwellings.
Block sizes
600 to 800 square metres is normal on the grid: the lots we checked on Sherley Street, Mayfield Road, Fegen Drive, Beverley Hill Street, Delville Avenue and Muriel Avenue ran 597 to 835 square metres, with 400 to 450 square metre halves where a block has been split. A family gets a yard, and on the older streets a pool-sized one.
Character overlays
City Plan zones a large share of the grid as character residential with the traditional building character overlay: Vendale Avenue, Koala Road, Delville Avenue, Fegen Drive, Beverley Hill Street and Tonks Street all came back character on the lots we checked, which protects the streetscape and steers extensions on the pre-1947 houses. Sherley Street and Hamilton Road near the centres are low-medium density residential, two or three storeys, and Sherley Street also carries the character overlay next to the heritage-listed state school. Mayfield Road and Muriel Avenue are plain low density residential with no overlay. The Moorooka-Stephens district neighbourhood plan applies across the suburb and includes the Clifton Hill War Service Homes Estate precinct. Check the lot on City Plan before you plan a lift and build under.
How it was built
  1. 1887Moorooka station opened on Ipswich Road, and workers cottages gathered on the older streets around it.
  2. 1927The Mayfield Gardens Estate laid out 490 allotments around Vendale Avenue, still the heart of the suburb.
  3. Post-warTimber and brick highsets filled the grid either side of Beaudesert Road, most on stumps and many since built under.
  4. 1950s and 60sBuilder Brian O'Neill laid out the streets south of Mayfield Road and named them for his children.
  5. NowTownhouses and unit blocks line Ipswich, Beaudesert, Mayfield and Hamilton Roads, about 1,500 of the suburb's 4,850 dwellings.

What the money buys

Around $800,000

A two-bedroom unit or townhouse near Beaudesert Road, Ipswich Road or Koala Road. Our $455,000 Moorooka purchase sits below this band, and units in the suburb have sold between about $520,000 and $935,000 over the past year.

$1.1m to $1.6m

A three or four bedroom post-war highset on 600 square metres on the grid, unrenovated at the bottom of the band and lifted and built under at the top. The median house is around $1.38m, so this is where most Moorooka family buying happens, including most of ours.

$1.6m and above

A renovated four or five bedder on the forest edge, a character house on the Mayfield Gardens grid with the pool already in, or a new build on a full block. Houses in the suburb have sold to $2.8m over the past year; our published Moorooka purchases run to $1,510,000.

10 purchases from 2024 to 2026, 8 with published prices from $455,000 to $1,510,000. Live grid on the page.

See the homes we have secured here

What to check before you buy in Moorooka

Flood

Moorooka's flood question is creek and overland flow, not the river. Rocky Water Holes Creek wraps the south-western corner past Veterans Park, Tonks Street Park and Muriel Avenue Park toward Rocklea, which was Brisbane's worst-hit suburb in January 2011, and Moolabin Creek runs west through Mayfield Gardens, Moolabin Park, Clifton Park and Poinciana Park to Ipswich Road. The guide's line stands: the low ground toward Rocklea and Salisbury went under in 2011 and 2022, so check anything flat near either creek or south of Beaudesert Road. On City Plan, 22 Muriel Avenue sits in Brisbane River flood planning area 5, the lowest band, with a low creek and waterway likelihood on top; the Nettleton Crescent, Tonks Street, Delville Avenue, Koala Road, Sherley Street, Mayfield Road and Fegen Drive lots we checked show no flood overlay at all. Before you offer: pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, look at the overland flow layer and not just the creek layer, ask the seller in writing what happened in 2011 and 2022, and get an insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Ipswich Road is the loud edge: the Magic Mile car yards, the express buses and the Ipswich Motorway on-ramp at the Rocklea end, with the Beenleigh line and the station works behind it until late 2027. Beaudesert Road is busy through Moorvale but settles a street back. The Sanitarium factory on Ipswich Road and the Rocklea industrial area to the south-west are the industry to stand near at 7am. Aircraft pass over the south side in some runway modes, and Archerfield's light aircraft use the Rocklea side, so type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight path tool, then stand in the yard at 7am and again at 9pm.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Character residential zoning and the traditional building character overlay across much of the grid, low-medium density residential near the centres on Sherley Street and Hamilton Road where a neighbour can build to three storeys, the Moorooka-Stephens district neighbourhood plan with its Clifton Hill War Service Homes Estate precinct, and the creek and overland flow layers on the low ground. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what the neighbours, and the car yards on Ipswich Road, have been approved to build.

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Catchments

Four primary catchments touch the suburb and every one has a Prep cap: Moorooka for most of it, Yeronga across the northern streets, Rocklea at the Hamilton Road corner, Wellers Hill on a few north-eastern lots. One secondary, Yeronga State High, with no cap. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A house on Ipswich Road, Hamilton Road or the Beaudesert Road frontage inspected only on a Sunday. Come back on a weekday morning with the car yards open and the station works running.
  • A lifted post-war house with bedrooms built in underneath and no council approvals on file, especially on the creek side of the grid where the floor height is the whole question.
  • A Clifton Hill or Northview Outlook address bought for Moorooka State School without the EdMap check. The northern streets are Yeronga's and the north-eastern corner is Wellers Hill's, and both have Prep caps.

Where the value sits

  • An unrenovated highset on 600 to 800 square metres on the Mayfield Gardens grid, within a walk of the state school, the Woolworths and The Clubhouse. Buying the block and the catchment, then renovating, is how most Moorooka families get the house they wanted.
  • The forest edge off Mayfield Road, where the ground is highest, the flood question does not arise and the character overlay stops at the plain low density streets.
  • The station grid while the station is closed. The rebuild delivers lifts, a third platform and a kiss and ride in late 2027, and a house bought on Anson Street or Michlin Street in 2026 is bought before the platform reopens, not after.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moorooka Central, Beaudesert Road, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Toohey Forest trails, Lyle Radford http://www.lyleradford.com.au, CC BY 2.0; Ipswich Road at sunset, Chris Olszewski, CC BY-SA 4.0; Rocklea station, John Robert McPherson, CC0; Brisbane Transport bus, BrisbaneBuzSpotter, CC BY-SA 4.0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Toohey Forest picnic ground, Lyle Radford http://www.lyleradford.com.au, CC BY 2.0.

Moorooka purchases we can show

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

Moorooka

Apartment

2 bed2 bath1 car 96m²
$890,000 David Thomas
11 Feb 2026

Moorooka

House

2 bed1 bath1 car 640m²
$1,025,000 Alannah Sanjurjo
22 Dec 2025

Moorooka

4 bed5 bath2 car 660m²
$1,510,000 Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson
12 May 2025

Moorooka

3 bed2 bath1 car 164m²
$818,000 Kate Wilson, Jillian Breen
20 Nov 2024

Moorooka

2 bed2 bath1 car 405m²
$890,000 Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson
30 Sep 2024

Moorooka

2 bed1 bath1 car 607m²
$1,005,000 David Thomas
4 Mar 2024

Moorooka

2 bed1 bath1 car 653m²
$1,005,000 Jacob Butler

Moorooka

3 bed1 bath1 car 832m²
Undisclosed Jacob Butler

Moorooka

4 bed2 bath3 car 337m²
Undisclosed Jacob Butler

Moorooka

3 bed2 bath1 car 145m²
$455,000 Jacob Butler

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Buying in Moorooka: the questions we get

Yeronga State High for secondary across the whole suburb. Primary is mostly Moorooka State School on Sherley Street, but the northern streets around Clifton Hill fall in Yeronga State School, the Hamilton Road corner near Rocklea falls in Rocklea State School and a few north-eastern lots on Northview Outlook fall in Wellers Hill. All four primary schools have Prep caps. Check the exact address on EdMap and ask us which side of the line a house sits on.

Parts of it, from the creeks rather than the river. The low ground along Rocky Water Holes Creek at the Rocklea end and along Moolabin Creek through the middle of the suburb carries creek and overland flow overlays, and the flats toward Rocklea and Salisbury went under in 2011 and 2022. The grid streets and the forest edge do not. Every Moorooka purchase we make starts with the FloodWise report for the lot.

Not until late 2027. It closed on 2 March 2026 for the Cross River Rail rebuild, which adds lifts, a third platform and a kiss and ride on Ipswich Road. In the meantime the 100 bus runs up Ipswich Road to the city about every 15 minutes, the 125 runs along Beaudesert Road, and Yeerongpilly and Rocklea stations are open.

By car it is about fifteen minutes up Ipswich Road outside the peak. The 100 bus from Ipswich Road reaches Queen Street in the city and the 125 from Beaudesert Road reaches the City and the Valley, both about every 15 minutes. Once the station reopens in late 2027 the train is around twelve minutes to Roma Street off peak.

In 2026, a three or four bedroom post-war highset on around 600 square metres on the grid between Beaudesert Road and Tarragindi Road, usually lifted and built under, sometimes with a pool. The median house is around $1.38m and most of our Moorooka purchases have landed between $1.1 million and $1.6 million.

Yeronga has the river, the memorial park and the pool, and a station that is open. Moorooka has bigger blocks, the forest, a lower price for the same post-war house and a station that reopens in late 2027. Families who want a yard and a pool on a family budget usually end up in Moorooka, and Yeronga's primary catchment reaches into its northern streets anyway.

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