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3 properties secured for clients in Newstead since 2026. What we bought, what we paid where the buyer agreed to say, and who did the buying.

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3

purchases in Newstead

2026

years we have bought here

$755,000 to $1,250,000

published prices (3 of 3)

Hunter Gather has bought 3 properties in Newstead for clients since 2026. Of the purchases where the property type is on record, that is 1 apartment. Newstead 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, Newstead purchases ranged from $755,000 to $1,250,000 (3 of 3 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

The buying in Newstead was done by Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson, Jacob Butler and Chavonne Olivier. Whoever you speak to first, the search runs on the same shared database and the same weekly cadence.

Where Newstead sits

Newstead is the riverside wedge between Fortitude Valley and Breakfast Creek, about three and a half kilometres north-east of the CBD, with the Brisbane River along its eastern edge and the creek along its northern one. What was timber yards, wharves, woolstores and the city's second gasworks is now apartment towers, the Gasworks precinct and a strip of cafes and restaurants from Longland Street to Commercial Road. It is an apartment suburb in the honest sense: of close to five thousand dwellings at the 2021 census, about ten were houses. Families come for the river walk, Newstead Park and a CBD they can reach in fifteen minutes by bus, and they buy a large apartment rather than a yard.

Boundaries
Breakfast Creek to the north and the Brisbane River to the east. Teneriffe starts at the woolstores and Skyring Terrace to the south, and Fortitude Valley and Bowen Hills sit across Wickham Street and Ann Street to the west.
The roads
Breakfast Creek Road (the run north to Kingsford Smith Drive, the airport and the 300-series buses). Ann Street and Wickham Street (the western edge and the way into the Valley and the city). Commercial Road (the southern spine toward Teneriffe and the ferry). Skyring Terrace (the Blue CityGlider route past Gasworks)
Next door
TeneriffeFortitude ValleyBowen HillsAlbionHamiltonBulimba 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.

1Newstead Park and the hill

Newstead Terrace, Newstead Avenue, Halford Street and Durong Street around Newstead House and the park

The rise at the creek mouth where Newstead House has stood since 1846. The few older houses left in the suburb are here, including a heritage-listed Victorian Queenslander at 40 Newstead Terrace, alongside low-rise blocks and Mariners Reach on the river. On the council's flood layers these streets stayed dry in 2011 and 2022. This is also the Ascot State School end of Newstead, not New Farm.

Suits Families who want the quietest streets in the suburb, the park at the end of the road and a house or a low-rise apartment above the flood line.

2Gasworks and the riverfront towers

Skyring Terrace, Longland Street, Waterloo Street, Evelyn Street and Doggett Street between Gasworks and the river

The new Newstead: Gasworks Plaza under the old gasholder frame, towers along Waterloo Street and the riverfront, Waterfront Park and its off-leash area. Everything is on foot, including the Blue CityGlider to the city. It is also the low ground. Most of Longland Street and Waterloo Street went under in 2011 and again in February 2022, so the building's basement, lifts and flood record matter more than the view.

Suits Families buying a three-bedroom apartment with the supermarket downstairs, the dog park across the road and the river walk out the front gate.

3Commercial Road and the Teneriffe edge

Commercial Road, Ella Street, Chester Street, Kyabra Street, Stratton Street and Proe Street

The warehouse conversions and newer townhouse and apartment blocks between Ann Street and the woolstores, with Industry Beans, Nodo and the Triffid all within a few streets. Ella Street is one of the few places in the suburb where a three-bedroom townhouse with its own courtyard comes up. Parts of it flooded in 2011 and 2022, so check the exact lot.

Suits Families who want townhouse-style living with a front door on the street and the cafes of Commercial Road on the corner.

4The Breakfast Creek Road side

Breakfast Creek Road, Ross Street, Maud Street, Edmund Street, Wickham Grove and Austin Street

The older commercial end of the suburb, now mixed with apartment buildings and the Austin Street strip of Single O, Rogue Bistro and Bosco. Breakfast Creek Road carries the northside traffic. Ross Street and Wickham Grove sit low toward the creek and flooded in both 2011 and 2022; check every lot.

Suits Buyers who want the northern cafes on Austin Street and the quickest run to the airport, and will take a busier road for it.

Schools and catchments

No school sits inside Newstead, and the suburb is split between two state primary catchments and one secondary. On the Queensland Government catchment layer New Farm State School takes most of the suburb, about two thirds of it from Commercial Road north to Austin Street, and Ascot State School takes the northern hill around Newstead Park: Newstead Avenue, Halford, Durong, Maud, Ross and Edmund Streets and the upper end of Newstead Terrace. Fortitude Valley State Secondary College is the high school for every address. All three run enrolment management plans. Check the exact address on EdMap before you count on a school, and ask us which side of the line a building sits on before you inspect.

Primary catchment, most of the suburbNew FarmState school, enrolment capped at 745
Secondary catchmentFortitude Valley State Secondary CollegeEnrolment capped at 1,134
Catchments touching the suburb2 primary, 1 secondaryDrawn street by street. Check the lot on EdMap.

State primary

New Farm State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 745

Prep to Year 6 on the corner of James and Heal Streets in New Farm, heritage-listed, and the catchment school for most of Newstead from Commercial Road to Austin Street. An equidistant catchment with an enrolment management plan gazetted 22 August 2025: a cap of 745 students and a Prep intake held to 100 in four classrooms unless more in-catchment children enrol. The address is what gets the place.

Corner James and Heal Streets, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

Ascot State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 807

Prep to Year 6 in Ascot, the catchment school for the northern hill around Newstead Park and Newstead House. An equidistant catchment with an enrolment management plan gazetted 30 September 2022: a cap of 807 students and Prep held to 125 in five classrooms unless more in-catchment children enrol.

Pringle Street, Ascot QLD 4007MapWebsite

State secondary

Fortitude Valley State Secondary CollegeYears 7 to 12 · Cap 1,134

Years 7 to 12 in a vertical campus on St Pauls Terrace, opened in 2020 for the Valley, Newstead, Teneriffe and Bowen Hills, and the high school for all of Newstead on the catchment layer. A negotiated catchment with an enrolment management plan gazetted 20 February 2026 and a cap of 1,134 students, so the in-catchment address is what counts. The Blue CityGlider runs past.

585 St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Catholic and independent

Holy Spirit School, New FarmPrep to 6

Co-educational Catholic primary, Prep to Year 6, on Villiers Street in New Farm since 1930. A short drive or a long walk from the Commercial Road end.

36 Villiers Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

All Hallows' SchoolYears 5 to 12

Girls, Years 5 to 12, at the Valley end of Ann Street and the oldest secondary school in Queensland. One CityGlider ride from Gasworks.

547 Ann Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000MapWebsite

St Joseph's College, Gregory TerraceYears 5 to 12

Boys, Years 5 to 12, on Gregory Terrace at Spring Hill, ten minutes by car through the Valley.

285 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill QLD 4000MapWebsite

Early learning

Guardian Childcare and Education Newstead

Long day care and kindergarten on level three of 639 Wickham Street, at the Gasworks end of the Valley. Rated Meeting the National Quality Standard on StartingBlocks. Inner-city waitlists for under-twos are long, so put your name down when you sign the contract, not when you settle.

Level 3, 639 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Avenues Early Learning Centre Bowen Hills

Long day care and kindergarten on Jordan Terrace, a few minutes west across Breakfast Creek Road. Rated Exceeding the National Quality Standard on StartingBlocks. Its sister centre, Avenues Montessori Children's House on Folkestone Street, is also rated Exceeding.

30 Jordan Terrace, Bowen Hills QLD 4006MapWebsite

Papilio Early Learning Bowen Hills

Long day care on Thompson Street in Bowen Hills, close to the Breakfast Creek Road bus stops.

31 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills QLD 4006MapWebsite

Goodstart Early Learning Fortitude Valley

Nursery, toddler and kindergarten rooms on Brookes Street, six weeks to school age.

95 Brookes Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

The primary line is the one that matters in Newstead, and it runs across the suburb rather than around it. Most apartment buildings sit in New Farm State School's catchment, where Prep is held to 100 a year; the hill around Newstead Park sits in Ascot State School's. Breakfast Creek Road and Newstead Terrace are split between the two. We pull the EdMap for the exact building before every inspection.

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

Daily life in Newstead

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

Mornings

Single O NewsteadIn the suburb

The Brisbane outpost of the Sydney roaster on Austin Street, at the northern end of the suburb. Coffee and breakfast on the way to the Breakfast Creek Road bus.

16 Austin Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Toby's Estate Brisbane flagshipIn the suburb

The roaster's Brisbane flagship on Longland Street, open from 6.30am every day, a block from Gasworks.

33 Longland Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Industry Beans NewsteadIn the suburb

Roaster and all-day brunch on Proe Street, off Commercial Road, open from 7.30am.

18 Proe Street, Newstead QLD 4006Map

Nodo NewsteadIn the suburb

Baked doughnuts and brunch on Ella Street, the easy Saturday treat.

1 Ella Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

DrzleIn the suburb

A neighbourhood cafe on Evelyn Street among the riverfront towers, open 7.30am to 2.30pm.

43 Evelyn Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Evenings

Breakfast Creek HotelIn the suburb

The Brekky Creek, across the creek bridge in Albion: a pub since 1889, the steakhouse where you choose your own steak, and the beer garden that brought the idea to Queensland. The family Sunday lunch.

Kingsford Smith Drive, Albion QLD 4010MapWebsite

Italian Street Kitchen, GasworksIn the suburb

Pizza and pasta to share at Gasworks, the easy weeknight with children.

76 Skyring Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Salt Meats Cheese, GasworksIn the suburb

Pasta and pizza on Skyring Terrace beside the gasholder.

63 Skyring Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Waterloo Hotel

The heritage-listed corner pub at Ann Street and Commercial Road, with a restaurant serving from 11.30am to 9pm.

Corner Ann Street and Commercial Road, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Rogue BistroIn the suburb

The long-running Austin Street restaurant for the night the grandparents are babysitting.

14 Austin Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

The big shop

Woolworths and The Standard Market Company, GasworksIn the suburb

The everyday supermarket and a produce and deli grocer under one roof at Gasworks Plaza, with parking underneath. Most of the suburb walks to it.

76 Skyring Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Aldi Fortitude ValleyIn the suburb

On Wickham Street at the western edge of the suburb, for the cheaper weekly shop.

650 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

James Street MarketIn the suburb

The produce and deli market at the James Street end of Teneriffe, a walk down Commercial Road.

James Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Health and fitness

Valley Pool5 min drive

Council's 50-metre heated outdoor pool on Wickham Street, with learn-to-swim, five minutes from Gasworks.

432 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Urban Climb NewsteadIn the suburb

Indoor bouldering on Morse Street with a kids' area, the rainy-Saturday answer.

5 Morse Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Studio Pilates NewsteadIn the suburb

Reformer classes at Gasworks, next door to the supermarket.

63 Skyring Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

GPs and the hospitalIn the suburb

A medical centre and pharmacy at Gasworks and the specialist cluster at The Banyans on Breakfast Creek Road. The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital at Herston is about ten minutes by car.

Breakfast Creek Road, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Getting around

CBD by busAbout 12 minBlue CityGlider from Gasworks to Adelaide Street, morning timetable
CBD by CityCatAbout 30 minTeneriffe terminal to Riverside
Airport by carAbout 20 minAlong Kingsford Smith Drive, no toll

Ferry

No terminal inside Newstead. The Teneriffe terminal at the end of Commercial Road is a walk from the southern streets: CityCat upstream through New Farm Park and Howard Smith Wharves to Riverside in about half an hour, and the F21 cross-river ferry to Bulimba every fifteen minutes for Oxford Street. From the Newstead Park end it is closer to twenty minutes on foot.

CityCat and ferry timetablesSecond route timetable

Train

No station in the suburb. Bowen Hills station is the closest from the Breakfast Creek Road side and Fortitude Valley station from the Ann Street side, and every Citytrain line runs through both, including the Airport line.

Train timetable

Bus

The Blue CityGlider, route 60, starts at Teneriffe ferry and runs up Skyring Terrace past Gasworks to the Valley, the city and West End, about twelve minutes from Gasworks to Adelaide Street in the morning on the current timetable. Along Breakfast Creek Road and Ann Street the 300, 305, 306 and 322 run to the city in about fifteen to twenty minutes, and the 309 loops through Commercial Road to Teneriffe and on to the hospital at Herston.

Bus timetableSecond route timetable

Road

Ten minutes to the CBD by car outside the peak, and about twenty to the airport along Kingsford Smith Drive with no toll. The Inner City Bypass and the Airport Link are a few minutes west at Bowen Hills for the rest of the north and the western suburbs.

Bus routes

60300305306322309

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

Pinch points Breakfast Creek Road and the Breakfast Creek bridge carry the Kingsford Smith Drive traffic from 7am, and Ann Street and Wickham Street back up into the Valley. Gasworks car park and the Skyring Terrace kerb fill on a Saturday morning. Visitor parking in most apartment buildings is a handful of bays, so ask how many before grandparents are coming for Christmas.

Weekends

Newstead Park and Newstead HouseIn the suburbThe park on the rise above the creek mouth, with the Australian American Memorial and Brisbane's oldest surviving house. The grounds are open every day; the house opens for tours on Friday from 10am to 2pm and Sunday from 10am to 4pm.

  • Waterfront Park and the dog parkIn the suburb

    The riverfront park off Waterloo Street with a fenced off-leash area, the everyday walk for the towers around it.

    35 Waterloo Street, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

  • The river walkIn the suburb

    The riverside path from Newstead Park south past the towers and the Teneriffe woolstores to New Farm Park. Flat all the way, which is what you want with a scooter.

    Newstead Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006Map

  • Booroodabin Bowls ClubIn the suburb

    The Boo, Queensland's oldest bowls club still operating, established 1888 and heritage-listed, on the corner of Breakfast Creek Road and Edmonstone Street. Barefoot bowls with the family.

    126 Breakfast Creek Road, Newstead QLD 4006Map

  • Teneriffe ParkIn the suburb

    The hilltop park one suburb south, with the view down the Bulimba Reach and room to kick a ball.

    33 Teneriffe Drive, Teneriffe QLD 4005MapWebsite

  • New Farm Park and the Powerhouse10 min drive

    A ferry stop or a long walk south: the playground under the trees, the jacarandas in October and the Saturday farmers market at the Powerhouse.

    119 Lamington Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

The houses

What is here
Apartments, almost entirely. The 2021 census counted about ten houses among close to five thousand dwellings, and nearly every sale in the suburb is a unit or a townhouse: towers from the 2000s onward along the river and around Gasworks, warehouse conversions and low-rise blocks between Commercial Road and Ann Street, and a small number of townhouses with a street door on Ella Street and in the Longland Street complexes. The few freestanding older houses left, such as the heritage-listed Victorian Queenslanders at 40 Newstead Terrace and 22 Kyabra Street, rarely trade.
Block sizes
Think floor area, not land. A family-sized three-bedroom apartment in Newstead is usually 120 to 170 square metres internally with a large balcony; the townhouses add a courtyard. Car parks, storage cages and visitor parking are the questions to ask, not the yard.
Character overlays
Newstead has no traditional building character overlay on City Plan. The heritage that remains is individually listed: Newstead House, the Waterloo Hotel, Booroodabin Bowls Club and a handful of houses and warehouses. The planning question for a family is the neighbourhood plan and what is approved on the next site, so read Development.i before you buy an apartment with a view.
How it was built
  1. 1846Newstead House went up on the rise at the creek mouth, where it still stands.
  2. Victorian eraVictorian Queenslanders went up; the heritage-listed ones at 40 Newstead Terrace and 22 Kyabra Street survive.
  3. 2000s onTimber yards, wharves, woolstores and the city's second gasworks gave way to apartment towers along the river and around Gasworks.
  4. 2011 and 2022The river floods covered Longland, Waterloo and Ross Streets and Wickham Grove; the hill around Newstead Park stayed dry.
  5. NowAn apartment suburb: about ten houses among close to five thousand dwellings at the 2021 census.

What the money buys

Under $1m

A one or two-bedroom apartment. One-bedroom units sold at a median of about $736,000 in the year to September 2026, and older or smaller two-bedders start under $1m.

$1m to $2m

A two or three-bedroom apartment with two car parks, or a townhouse on Ella Street. Two-bedroom units sold at a median of about $1.15m and three-bedroom units at about $1.8m.

$2m and above

A large three-bedroom apartment on the river or a sub-penthouse at Gasworks; the year's top unit sale reached $6.6m. A freestanding house, when one does come up, is a private conversation rather than a listing.

3 purchases since 2026, all 3 with published prices, from $755,000 to $1,250,000. Live grid on the page.

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What to check before you buy in Newstead

Flood

Newstead is river and creek flats at its lowest and it flooded in both 2011 and February 2022. On the council's flood layers Longland Street, Waterloo Street, Gordon Street, Ann Street, Ross Street and Wickham Grove went under in both events, and about half the suburb sits inside the 2011 extent. The hill around Newstead Park, Newstead Avenue, Halford Street and Dunlop Street stayed dry. For an apartment the question is the building, not just the lot: basement car park, lifts, switchboards and the body corporate's claims history. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact address, read the last two years of body corporate minutes and get the insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Breakfast Creek Road, Ann Street and Wickham Street are the traffic noise lines, and the weekend crowds around the Triffid, the Waterloo and the Austin Street restaurants carry into nearby bedrooms. Newstead also sits under some Brisbane Airport approach and departure paths depending on runway mode: type the address into the flight path tool, then stand on the balcony at 7am and again at 9pm.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

City Plan's interactive mapping shows the zone, flood overlays and heritage listings for the lot, and Development.i shows what has been approved on neighbouring sites. In a suburb still being built, that approval next door decides whether your view and your afternoon light last.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

Two primary catchments, one secondary, all with enrolment management. The New Farm and Ascot line runs across Newstead Terrace and Breakfast Creek Road. Check the building on EdMap, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A building with its car park and switchboards below the 2011 flood line and no record of what was done after 2022. Ask the body corporate manager for the flood and insurance history before you make an offer.
  • A sinking fund that looks too healthy for a building that has had defect or waterproofing work. Read the minutes, the sinking fund forecast and any defect claims.
  • An apartment whose outlook depends on the empty site next door. Check Development.i for what is approved or lodged there.

Where the value sits

  • A three-bedroom apartment on the Newstead Park hill, above the flood line and in the Ascot State School catchment. They are few and they are the family buy in the suburb.
  • A townhouse with its own street door and courtyard on Ella Street or in the Commercial Road complexes, the closest thing to a house most Newstead families will find.
  • Larger older apartments from the 2000s along the river, with more floor area per dollar than the new towers and an established body corporate.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teneriffe ferry terminal, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 3.0; Bowen Hills 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.

Newstead purchases we can show

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

Newstead

2 bed2 bath1 car
$1,175,000 Jacob Butler
17 Jul 2026

Newstead

Apartment

1 bed1 bath1 car 104m²
$755,000 Chavonne Olivier
27 Feb 2026

Newstead

2 bed2 bath1 car
$1,250,000 Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson

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Buying in Newstead: the questions we get

Fortitude Valley State Secondary College for the whole suburb. Primary splits two ways: New Farm State School for most of Newstead, from Commercial Road to Austin Street, and Ascot State School for the hill around Newstead Park. The line crosses Newstead Terrace and Breakfast Creek Road, so check the exact address on EdMap.

Barely. About ten houses stood among close to five thousand dwellings at the 2021 census, and nearly every sale is an apartment or a townhouse. The family buy here is a three-bedroom apartment or a townhouse with a courtyard. If a yard is the brief, we will talk about Ascot, Albion or New Farm instead.

The low streets do. Longland Street, Waterloo Street, Ross Street and Wickham Grove went under in 2011 and again in 2022, while the hill around Newstead Park stayed dry. For an apartment, ask about the basement, the lifts and the body corporate's flood claims as well as the FloodWise report.

The Blue CityGlider from Gasworks reaches Adelaide Street in about twelve minutes, and the buses along Breakfast Creek Road take fifteen to twenty. The CityCat from Teneriffe is slower, about half an hour to Riverside, but it is the nicest way in. By car it is about ten minutes outside the peak.

In 2026, a two-bedroom apartment with a river or city outlook, or a smaller three-bedroom apartment or townhouse. Three-bedroom units sold at a median of about $1.8m in the year to September.

Teneriffe has the woolstores, the hill park and more of New Farm's feel. Newstead has Gasworks, Newstead Park, the newer towers and the quicker run to the airport. Both are apartment suburbs, both sit mostly in the New Farm State School catchment, and both have low ground to check.

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