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Our area guide to Paddington for families buying a home: the pockets, the schools and their catchments, daily life, getting around, the houses and what to check before you buy.

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Paddington is the first proper suburb west of the city: 2.8 kilometres from the CBD, a valley of steep ridges in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha, with Suncorp Stadium at its eastern gate and Government House on its western hill. Milton and Auchenflower sit below it to the south, Red Hill across Enoggera Terrace to the north, Bardon further up the hill to the west and Petrie Terrace between it and the city. Rosalie, the second village around Baroona Road, has been part of Paddington since 1975.

Hunter Gather has bought 1 property in Paddington for clients since 2025. Where the buyer agreed to publish the price, it settled at $2,000,000.

Where Paddington sits

Paddington is the first proper suburb west of the city: 2.8 kilometres from the CBD, a valley of steep ridges in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha, with Suncorp Stadium at its eastern gate and Government House on its western hill. Milton and Auchenflower sit below it to the south, Red Hill across Enoggera Terrace to the north, Bardon further up the hill to the west and Petrie Terrace between it and the city. Rosalie, the second village around Baroona Road, has been part of Paddington since 1975.

Boundaries
Enoggera Terrace along the ridge to the north, Hale Street and the Inner City Bypass on the city side, Milton Road and the railway line below it to the south. Given Terrace and Latrobe Terrace run the length of the spine, and the cottages fall away down the gullies on both sides.
The roads
Given Terrace (the pub, the cafes, the CityGlider). Latrobe Terrace (Paddington Central, the antique centre, the run to Bardon). Enoggera Terrace (the ridge, the war memorial, the Red Hill line). Baroona Road (Rosalie Village, Milton State School, the way down to Milton). Hale Street and the Inner City Bypass (the through traffic, on the suburb's edge)
Next door
Red HillBardonMiltonAuchenflowerPetrie Terrace

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.

The Terraces

Given Terrace from The Paddo to the Latrobe junction, Latrobe Terrace up to the Ithaca War Memorial, and the short steep streets that drop off either side, Hayward Street among them

The spine of the suburb. Renovated cottages and Queenslanders one street back from the cafes, the antique centre and Paddington Central, with the 61 CityGlider every ten minutes. The trade-off is parking and the slope: most of these blocks are small, and the driveway is often the steepest part of the house.

Suits Couples and young families who want the strip at the top of the street and the city skyline from the back deck. The most walkable pocket in the inner west.

2Rosalie

Baroona Road, Nash Street, Elizabeth Street, Beck Street and the flat grid around Rosalie Village down to Gregory Park

A second village with its own cinema, the gourmet market, gelato and a dozen restaurants. It is also the low ground: Rosalie flooded in 1974, 2011 and 2022, when water reached more than a metre in the lowest streets around Elizabeth Street, and flood insurance here is now hard to get. The streets that rise toward Fernberg Road stay dry. Floor levels decide everything in this pocket.

Suits Families who want the village, Milton State School and Gregory Park on foot, and a flat street for the bikes and the pram.

The Fernberg Road hill

Fernberg Road up past Government House, Garfield Drive around the water tower, and the streets that run off Latrobe Terrace toward Bardon

The highest, quietest and most expensive ground in the suburb, with the 1927 water tower as the landmark and the Governor's 15 hectares of gardens and bushland as the neighbour. The blocks get bigger up here and the cottages become full Queenslanders. Government House opens its gates for free guided tours and open days through the year.

Suits Families trading up for a bigger house on a bigger block, a quieter street, and Milton or Ithaca Creek State School depending on the side of the hill.

The Enoggera Terrace ridge

Enoggera Terrace from the war memorial toward Red Hill, and the streets that climb to it from Latrobe Terrace

The northern ridge is the suburb's high line: cooler in February, with the skyline from the front steps and Red Hill's cafes as close as Paddington's. The houses on the high side of the terrace do the best; the ones that back down toward the creek lines on the Red Hill side need the flood check like Rosalie does.

Suits Buyers who want the breeze, the view back over the city and a faster run out to the Inner City Bypass, and who are happy to be a longer walk from the strip.

5The stadium end

Caxton Street, Moreton Street, Caroline Street, Chrystal Street and the streets between Given Terrace and Hale Street

Neal Macrossan Park, Ithaca Pool, the skate bowl and the fenced dog park sit here directly opposite Suncorp Stadium. Home to the smallest state school in the suburb, capped at 332 students. Event days bring the Lang Park Traffic Area: fifteen-minute parking limits from two hours before the gates until two hours after, unless you hold the resident permit.

Suits Buyers who want to walk to work, Petrie Terrace State School at 40 Moreton Street, and Ithaca Pool at the end of the street. Families who like a game night, not families who dread one.

Schools and catchments

Four state primary catchments meet inside Paddington and every one of them runs an enrolment management plan with a cap. No one school takes most of it: by area Milton State School has about 36 percent (Rosalie, most of Fernberg Road and the south), Petrie Terrace State School about 29 percent (the city end), Ithaca Creek State School about 27 percent (the north-west toward Bardon, Kennedy Terrace and Garfield Drive), and Rainworth State School a corner in the south-west around the top of Fernberg Road with very few homes in it. Kelvin Grove State College is the state secondary for the whole suburb. The boundaries are drawn street by street, so check the exact address on EdMap and ask us which side of the line a house sits on before you inspect.

Primary catchments, splitMilton and Petrie TerraceBy homes, about 39% Milton and about 34% Petrie Terrace
Secondary catchmentKelvin Grove State CollegeEnrolment capped at 3,644
Catchments touching the suburb4 primary, 1 secondaryDrawn street by street. Check the lot on EdMap.

State primary

Milton State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 781

Prep to Year 6 on Bayswater Street beside Gregory Park, which doubles as the school oval. The catchment for Rosalie, most of Fernberg Road and the southern streets, about 36 percent of the suburb's area. Equidistant catchment, cap of 781 students and 150 Prep places, gazetted February 2026.

Bayswater Street, Milton QLD 4064MapWebsite

Petrie Terrace State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 332

Prep to Year 6 on Moreton Street, inside Paddington despite the name, a short walk from the stadium end and the Terraces. The smallest school in the suburb, with an equidistant catchment and a cap of 332 students and 45 Prep places, gazetted August 2025. In-catchment addresses have a right to enrol; nobody else is guaranteed a seat.

40 Moreton Street, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Ithaca Creek State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 784

Prep to Year 6 in a heritage-listed 1930s building on Lugg Street, Bardon. The catchment for the north-west of the suburb toward Bardon: Kennedy Terrace, Garfield Drive and Latrobe Terrace past about number 134. Equidistant catchment, cap of 784 students and 100 Prep places, gazetted August 2025.

49 Lugg Street, Bardon QLD 4065MapWebsite

Rainworth State SchoolPrep to 6 · Cap 648

Prep to Year 6 on Boundary Road, whose catchment clips the south-western corner of Paddington around the top of Fernberg Road. Equidistant catchment, cap of 648 students and 75 Prep places, gazetted September 2022. Only a handful of Paddington addresses fall inside it, so treat it as an edge case.

185 Boundary Road, Bardon QLD 4065MapWebsite

State secondary

Kelvin Grove State CollegePrep to 6 · Cap 3,644

Years 7 to 12 for every address in Paddington, three kilometres away beside the QUT campus, with around 3,700 students across its junior, middle and senior schools. A negotiated catchment with a college-wide cap of 3,644 and a waiting list for out-of-catchment applicants, gazetted September 2026. The 200 Program of Excellence places open to out-of-catchment students only after in-catchment demand is met. The Prep to Year 6 catchment does not reach Paddington.

Kelvin Grove QLD 4059MapWebsite

Catholic and independent

St Joseph's School, BardonPrep to 6

Co-educational Catholic primary, Prep to Year 6, on The Drive in Bardon around the 1863 Bardon House. The nearest Catholic primary to the Fernberg Road side and Rosalie.

41 The Drive, Bardon QLD 4065MapWebsite

Stuartholme SchoolYears 5 to 12

Catholic girls' school, Years 5 to 12, on Birdwood Terrace in Toowong on the Mount Coot-tha side, five minutes by car from the Fernberg Road end.

365 Birdwood Terrace, Toowong QLD 4066MapWebsite

Brisbane Boys' CollegePrep to 12

Independent boys' school, Prep to Year 12, on 19 hectares in Toowong. A five to ten minute drive down Milton Road or Coronation Drive.

Toowong QLD 4066MapWebsite

Brisbane Grammar School and Brisbane Girls Grammar SchoolYears 5 to 12

The two Gregory Terrace schools in Spring Hill, boys and girls, Years 5 to 12, a ten-minute drive across the Inner City Bypass or a bus along Given Terrace and Petrie Terrace. Girls Grammar opened its Years 5 and 6 junior school in 2026.

Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill QLD 4000MapWebsite

Early learning

Avenues Early Learning Centre Paddington

A purpose-built 140-place centre on Kennedy Terrace for babies through to kindergarten, 6.30am to 6pm weekdays. Waitlists for under-twos run long across the inner west, so put your name down when you sign the contract, not when you settle.

123 Kennedy Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064Map

C&K Rosalie Community Kindergarten and Preschool

The heritage-listed 1935 community kindy on Elizabeth Street in Rosalie, for three to five year olds, running a five-day-fortnight kindergarten program with optional extended hours to 6pm and a holiday program. Rated Exceeding under the national framework.

57 Elizabeth Street, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

The Petrie Terrace and Milton boundaries are the ones that move prices, and they run through the middle of the suburb. Two houses on the same Paddington street can sit in different primary catchments, and all four schools cap out-of-catchment enrolments. 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 Paddington

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

Mornings

Sassafras of PaddingtonIn the suburb

The suburb's breakfast institution since 1997: a converted cottage on Latrobe Terrace with a leafy courtyard, ricotta hotcakes and the dog under the table. Wednesday to Sunday, 7am to 2pm.

88 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Chapter IVIn the suburb

All-day breakfast in a big old Queenslander at the top of Latrobe Terrace, seven days from 8am, with a kids' playroom and a back deck that looks out over the whole suburb.

180 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

AnoukIn the suburb

Big hearty breakfasts on Given Terrace for more than twenty years. The school-run stop at the Terraces end.

212 Given Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064Map

Paddington SocialIn the suburb

A cafe by day on Given Terrace with fresh pastries, and a pop-up Thai kitchen by night.

167 Given Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Eighty Six CafeIn the suburb

Coffee, pastries and banh mi on Baroona Road in Rosalie Village, eaten under the awnings or carried down to Gregory Park.

146 Baroona Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Smoked PaprikaIn the suburb

Hungarian-Australian brunch on Nash Street, the corner that Rosalie Village is built around. Cakes worth the walk up the hill afterwards.

2/5 Nash Street, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Evenings

The PaddoIn the suburb

Paddington's pub on Given Terrace: a big leafy beer garden, Sunday roasts from 11.30am, a bistro that takes a table of six with kids, and the drive-through bottle shop on the way home.

186 Given Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Patio by RangeIn the suburb

A neighbourhood craft beer and wine bar in Rosalie Village with ten taps, pizza and a garden to sit in. The Friday night that ends by 8.30pm.

146 Baroona Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Cinebar Rosalie VillageIn the suburb

A licensed boutique cinema on Baroona Road with semi-reclining seats and waiter service, early sessions for the kids and late ones for the parents.

151 Baroona Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Gelateria CremonaIn the suburb

Italian gelato made the traditional way, next door to the cinema. The reason a Rosalie evening ends on the footpath.

5/151 Baroona Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Caxton Street5 min drive

The pubs and restaurants at the bottom of the hill, from the 1864 Caxton Hotel to the newer bars, and the Seafood and Wine Festival every Labour Day weekend. Loud on game nights, easy the rest of the week.

Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace QLD 4000Map

The big shop

Paddington CentralIn the suburb

Woolworths, Australia Post, the pharmacy, a dentist and the medical centre under one roof on Latrobe Terrace, with undercover parking. The everyday shop, seven days.

107 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Rosalie Gourmet MarketIn the suburb

The family-run food hall on Baroona Road since 1997: cheese, bread, cured meats, fresh produce, flowers and take-home dinners.

164 Baroona Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Toowong Village10 min drive

Coles, Woolworths, Kmart and TK Maxx, five to ten minutes down Milton Road, with three hours of free parking for the once-a-month run.

9 Sherwood Road, Toowong QLD 4066MapWebsite

Health and fitness

Ithaca PoolIn the suburb

Council's 25-metre heated saltwater pool inside Neal Macrossan Park: six lanes, a separate heated learn-to-swim pool, a shaded shallow end, squads and aqua classes, open year-round from 5.30am on weekdays. Family pass for one adult and two children.

14 Caroline Street, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Paddington Medical CentreIn the suburb

General practice, childhood immunisations, travel clinic and allied health on level 4 of Paddington Central, weekdays to 6pm and Saturday mornings.

Level 4, 107 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

The Wesley Hospital5 min drive

The private hospital on Coronation Drive at Auchenflower, with an emergency centre, five minutes down the hill. The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital at Herston is ten to fifteen minutes across the Inner City Bypass.

451 Coronation Drive, Auchenflower QLD 4066MapWebsite

Witness the FitnessIn the suburb

Personal and small-group training above Rosalie Village, mobility, strength and conditioning in every session.

Level 1, 8/155 Baroona Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

Getting around

CBD by CityGlider10 to 15 minRoute 61 from the Terraces to King George Square
CBD by car5 to 10 minVia Given Terrace or Milton Road, outside the peak
CBD on foot25 minFrom the stadium end

Bus

The Maroon CityGlider (route 61) runs along Given Terrace, Latrobe Terrace and Caxton Street every ten minutes through the day to Roma Street, King George Square, the Cultural Centre and South Bank: about ten to fifteen minutes to the city from the Terraces. Route 375 from Bardon follows the same terraces to Wickham Terrace roughly every fifteen minutes, and the 385 from The Gap stops at Paddington Central and Given Terrace on its express run to Queen Street. The 385N NightLink brings the teenagers home from the Valley.

Bus timetableSecond route timetable

Ferry

The Milton CityCat terminal sits at the bottom of Park Road on Coronation Drive, about a kilometre and a half from Rosalie Village and a twenty-minute walk from most of the south side. Upstream to Toowong and UQ, downstream to North Quay, Riverside and New Farm. Free on game days for ticket holders heading to Suncorp Stadium.

CityCat and ferry timetables

Train

Milton station on the Ipswich and Springfield lines is 2.25 kilometres from Central and a fifteen-minute walk from the Rosalie end of Paddington, with Auchenflower station a similar walk from the Fernberg Road side. Trains run to Central in a handful of minutes and are free on stadium event days with a match ticket.

Train timetable

Road

Five to ten minutes to the CBD by car via Given Terrace or Milton Road outside the peak. The Inner City Bypass starts at the bottom of the hill and puts the airport about twenty to twenty-five minutes away via Airport Link, a toll each way. Toowong in five, Mount Coot-tha in ten.

Bus routes

61375385385N

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

Pinch points Given Terrace and Latrobe Terrace crawl from 7.30am as the whole of Bardon comes down the hill, and Hale Street backs up at the Inner City Bypass ramps. On stadium event days the Lang Park Traffic Area covers all of Paddington and Rosalie: fifteen-minute parking limits from two hours before the gates until two hours after, resident permit or a fine, and Caxton Street closed to cars around the game. Saturday brunch parking on Latrobe Terrace is gone by 8.30am. Inspect a Given Terrace house on a Friday at 5.30pm before you decide the traffic does not bother you.

Weekends

Neal Macrossan Park and Ithaca PoolIn the suburbThe heritage-listed 1918 playground opposite the stadium: two playgrounds under century-old figs, the skate bowl, a tennis court, barbecues, a fully fenced off-leash dog park with double gates off Moreton Street, and Ithaca Pool in the middle of it. The Saturday morning for most of the suburb.

  • Gregory ParkIn the suburb

    The fully fenced playground beside Milton State School and Rosalie Village: slides, swings, climbing nets, sand play, a half-court and shade sails, with toilets and barbecues. It is the school oval in term time, so go after 3pm on a weekday.

    Baroona Road, Milton QLD 4064Map

  • Frew Park10 min drive

    The old Milton Tennis Centre reborn: the Arena playground built for ten to fifteen year olds with the big slide and the climbing walls, a gentler lower section for the little ones, the Roy Emerson Tennis Centre with six courts, a cafe and a loop path for scooters. Ten minutes on foot from Rosalie.

    315 Milton Road, Milton QLD 4064MapWebsite

  • Suncorp StadiumIn the suburb

    52,500 seats at the bottom of Caxton Street: Broncos, Dolphins, Reds and Roar home games, the big concerts, and the 2032 Olympic sevens and football finals. Walk down, and the ticket covers the train or ferry home. There is no public parking, by design.

    40 Castlemaine Street, Milton QLD 4064MapWebsite

  • Empire RevivalIn the suburb

    The 1929 Plaza Theatre on Latrobe Terrace, an antique centre since 1985 and now fifty merchants of antiques, jewellery, furniture and homewares under the old atmospheric ceiling. Ten to five, seven days.

    167 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

  • Government House open daysIn the suburb

    Fernberg, the Governor's residence on 15 hectares of formal gardens and bushland at the top of Fernberg Road, runs free guided tours of the house and grounds through the year, opens for Brisbane Open House in October and hosts picnic Sundays on the lawn.

    168 Fernberg Road, Paddington QLD 4064MapWebsite

  • Mount Coot-tha10 min drive

    Ten minutes up the hill: the summit lookout and cafe, the Brisbane Botanic Gardens with the Japanese garden and the planetarium, and more than 1,500 hectares of walking and mountain-bike trails with the J C Slaughter Falls picnic ground.

    Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mount Coot-tha QLD 4066MapWebsite

  • Junior sport5 min drive

    Bardon Latrobe FC, one of Brisbane's oldest football clubs with more than 800 players and boys' and girls' junior teams, at Bowman Park in Bardon. Wests Junior Rugby League at Purtell Park on Carwoola Street with around 300 juniors. West Brisbane Cricket Club shares Bowman Park in summer. All five minutes up Latrobe Terrace.

    Bowman Park, Simpsons Road, Bardon QLD 4065MapWebsite

The houses

What is here
Workers' cottages from the 1880s to the 1910s on the steep small lots, larger Queenslanders on the Fernberg Road hill and the ridges, interwar homes around Rosalie, and a run of renovated character houses along and just off the terraces. Almost the whole suburb is freestanding character housing; the units that exist sit along Given Terrace, Latrobe Terrace and Baroona Road.
Block sizes
Small and steep is normal: 400 to 600 square metres in the Terraces and the stadium end, some cottages on less, and bigger blocks up to around 800 square metres on the Fernberg Road side. Two houses on the same street can sit on completely different terrain, so the site plan matters as much as the floor plan.
Character overlays
Most of the pre-1947 housing sits under the traditional building character overlay, which protects the streetscape and steers extensions, and the oldest cottages carry the pre-1911 overlay, which keeps the original house intact and rules out demolition. Check both on City Plan before you plan a lift and build, and check the neighbourhood plan for the terraces before you assume a corner site can become anything else.
How it was built
  1. 1880s to 1910sWorkers' cottages go up on the steep small lots, the oldest of them now under the pre-1911 overlay.
  2. InterwarInterwar homes fill the streets around Rosalie, and the 1927 water tower goes up on the Fernberg Road hill.
  3. 1974Rosalie's low streets go under in the 1974 flood, and again in 2011 and 2022.
  4. 1975Rosalie, the second village around Baroona Road, becomes part of Paddington.
  5. NowRenovated character houses line the terraces, and the only units sit along Given Terrace, Latrobe Terrace and Baroona Road.

What the money buys

Around $1.5m

A two or three bedroom workers' cottage on a small steep lot, usually unrenovated, or a renovated one with a terrace or Hale Street frontage.

$2m to $3m

A renovated Queenslander or a rebuilt cottage on 400 to 600 square metres one street back from the terraces, often with the skyline from the deck. Our published Paddington purchase, a five-bedroom house on 379 square metres, settled here at $2,000,000.

$3m and above

The Fernberg Road hill: a full Queenslander on a bigger block, a quiet street, views, and Milton or Ithaca Creek State School depending on the street. Most of these change hands before they reach the portals.

1 purchase since 2024, with a published price of $2,000,000 (five bedrooms on 379 square metres, settled October 2025). Live grid on the page.

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What to check before you buy in Paddington

Flood

Rosalie is the flood pocket. The old creek that drained it to the river runs in culverts under the streets now, and it backed up through the drains in 1974, 2011 and 2022: more than a metre through the lowest streets around Elizabeth Street in 2022, and higher in 2011. Insurers have been withdrawing flood cover there. The creek lines on the Red Hill side need the same look. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, ask for the floor levels, and get a flood insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Three sources. Suncorp Stadium on game nights and concert nights, loudest at the stadium end and on the eastern slope of the Terraces. Hale Street and the Inner City Bypass ramps along the city edge. And the bus corridors on Given and Latrobe Terraces, where the CityGlider runs every ten minutes. Aircraft are a smaller issue this far west, but type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight path tool anyway, then stand on the deck at 7am, 5.30pm and on a Friday game night.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Traditional building character and pre-1911 on most of the older stock, and steep sites almost everywhere. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what the neighbours have been approved to build and whether the retaining walls and the build-under below you were ever approved.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

Four primary catchments and one secondary, all with enrolment caps. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school and ask about Prep places for the year you need.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A low block in Rosalie with no floor-level survey and no current flood insurance quote. If the insurer will not quote, that is your answer.
  • A steep lot where the retaining walls, the build-under or the carport have no approvals on file. Ask for the Council records and the engineering before you fall for the finish.
  • A Given Terrace, Latrobe Terrace or Hale Street frontage with single-glazed bedrooms at the front, or a stadium-end house inspected only on a quiet Tuesday.

Where the value sits

  • An unrenovated cottage on the high side of a quiet street between the terraces, with the skyline from the back and a level yard behind the house. They are rarer than they sound and they go quietly.
  • Rosalie above the flood line: the streets that climb from Baroona Road toward Fernberg Road keep the village, Gregory Park and Milton State School on foot without the water.
  • The Fernberg Road side, where the blocks are bigger, the streets are quieter and the same bus is still at the bottom of the hill.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Hayward Street, Paddington, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; A Paddington Queenslander, Chris Olszewski, CC BY-SA 4.0; Paddington water tower, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; The city from Paddington, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; CityCat on the Brisbane River, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Queensland Rail train at Brisbane Airport, Figaro at en.wikipedia, Public domain; Brisbane Transport bus, BrisbaneBuzSpotter, CC BY-SA 4.0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Paddington purchases we can show

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

Paddington

5 bed3 bathN/A car 379m²
$2,000,000 Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson
14 Oct 2025

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Buying in Paddington: the questions we get

Kelvin Grove State College for secondary across the whole suburb. Primary splits four ways: Petrie Terrace State School at the city end, Milton State School for Rosalie, most of Fernberg Road and the south, Ithaca Creek State School for the north-west toward Bardon, and Rainworth State School for a small corner around the top of Fernberg Road. Every one of them has an enrolment cap, so check the exact address on EdMap and ask us which side of the line a house sits on.

Rosalie does. The low streets around Elizabeth Street and Baroona Road went under in 1974, 2011 and 2022 through the drains that carry the old creek, and flood insurance there is now hard to get. The Terraces, the Fernberg Road hill and the Enoggera Terrace ridge sit well above it. Every Paddington purchase we make starts with the FloodWise report and the floor levels.

The Maroon CityGlider along Given and Latrobe Terraces every ten minutes, about ten to fifteen minutes to King George Square. Milton station is a fifteen-minute walk from Rosalie and a few minutes to Central by train. By car it is five to ten minutes outside the peak, and from the stadium end you can walk it in twenty-five.

Fine, if you know what you are buying. Game nights and concerts bring crowds down Caxton Street and the Lang Park Traffic Area parking rules across the whole suburb, with fifteen-minute limits unless you hold the resident permit. Most families here treat it as walking to the footy. Inspect on an event night before you commit, and ask about the permit.

In 2026, a renovated Queenslander or a rebuilt cottage on 400 to 600 square metres a street back from the terraces, often with the city from the deck. Our published Paddington purchase, a five-bedroom house on 379 square metres, settled at exactly that figure in October 2025.

They share the ridge along Enoggera Terrace and a lot of the same cottages. Paddington has the two villages, the pool, the park and the CityGlider at the top of the street. Red Hill is a touch cheaper for the same house and closer to Kelvin Grove State College. Families who want to walk to everything usually end up on the Paddington side of the terrace.

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