Buyers agent in Tarragindi

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

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7

purchases in Tarragindi

2024 to 2025

years we have bought here

$655,000 to $3,500,000

published prices (6 of 7)

Hunter Gather has bought 7 properties in Tarragindi 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. Tarragindi 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, Tarragindi purchases ranged from $655,000 to $3,500,000 (6 of 7 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

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

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

Where Tarragindi sits

Tarragindi is a valley suburb 6.6 kilometres south of the CBD, boxed in by the Pacific Motorway on its eastern edge and the 260 hectares of Toohey Forest along its southern one. Annerley, Greenslopes and Moorooka sit to the north and west, Holland Park West across the motorway to the east, Nathan and Salisbury beyond the forest. Nothing passes through on the way to somewhere else, which is why 79 per cent of the houses are owner-occupied and the streets feel the way they do.

Boundaries
The Pacific Motorway (the old South East Freeway, opened 1977) to the east, Toohey Forest to the south, Ekibin Road and the Tarragindi Reservoir hill to the west, Prior Street and Mayfield Road at the southern end. Two creeks shape the ground: Sandy Creek runs north down the main valley and Ekibin Creek drains the eastern Wellers Hill ridge toward Greenslopes.
The roads
Toohey Road (the spine, the school, the shops and the 120 bus). Weller Road (over the ridge to Holland Park West and the motorway). Tarragindi Road and Ekibin Road (the western side, the 114 express). Cracknell Road (the run north-west to Annerley and Ipswich Road)
Next door
AnnerleyGreenslopesMoorookaHolland Park WestNathanSalisbury

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.

1Wellers Hill

Toohey Road around Weller Road and Denham Terrace, and the ridge streets climbing off it

The heart of the suburb: the state school on the Toohey Road and Weller Road corner since 1926, the Toohey Road shops at Denham Terrace with the SPAR, Umu Kitchen and Oh Monk, and the 120 express at the school gate. The ridge streets pick up breeze and glimpses of the city. The dearest post-war houses in 4121 are up here.

Suits Families who drew their boundary around Wellers Hill State School and want the school, the corner grocer and the bus within a few hundred metres.

2The Toohey Forest edge

Toohey Road south of Monash Road, Gapap Street, Madang Street and the streets that end in bushland

Streets that stop at the tree line. The Toohey Road car parks, the Mayne Estate picnic ground and the Madang Street track entrance are all a walk away, the 114 express turns around at Monash Park and Tarragindi Thai sits on the Gapap Street corner. Quietest pocket in the suburb, and the one where a forest-edge block needs the bushfire overlay checked.

Suits Families with kids who need to burn energy and parents who run before work. Buyers who will trade the walk to the shops for a forest at the back fence.

3The Tarragindi Road side

Tarragindi Road, Andrew Avenue, Newington Street, Fernvale Road and the streets down to the recreation reserve

The western half, below the heritage-listed 1923 reservoir on Tarragindi Hill. Vaiola on Andrew Avenue, the war memorial kindergarten on Newington Street, the recreation reserve and the Souths juniors fields on Shaftesbury Street. The 114 express runs along Tarragindi Road and Andrew Avenue, Yeronga station is a five-minute drive, and the secondary catchment here is Yeronga State High rather than Holland Park. The noise to check on this side is Ipswich Road traffic, not the motorway.

Suits Families buying their first Tarragindi house. The best value in the suburb, the recreation reserve and the 1932 memorial hall in the middle of it.

4Ekibin, the Esher Street end

Esher Street, Cracknell Road, Effingham Street and the streets between Ekibin Road East and Toohey Road

The oldest corner of the suburb, subdivided in the 1910s and 20s before the rest filled in after the war, so this is where the pre-war timber houses are. The Esher Street strip has the cafe and deli, the Tigers play on Esher Street and the bowls club is at number 34. The north-western corner falls into the Junction Park State School catchment rather than Wellers Hill, so check the line before you count on the school.

Suits Families who want St Elizabeth's or the kindy on foot, the bowls club on a Friday and the shortest run to Annerley and the city.

5The motorway edge

Kuring-Gai Avenue, Nurinda Lane and the streets east of Toohey Road toward Bapaume Road and the Pacific Motorway

The south-eastern streets between Toohey Road and the M3. Black Lab Coffee is at the top, the busway is a short drive or a walk, and Marshall Road State School takes most of these addresses rather than Wellers Hill. Road noise depends on the street, the fall of the land and the fence line, so inspect at peak hour and check the catchment on the exact lot.

Suits Families who want Holland Park West busway station and the eastern schools close, and who have listened from the back deck at 7.30am before deciding.

Getting around

CBD by busAbout 25 minRoute 120 express along Toohey Road to Queen Street
CBD by car15 minOn the Pacific Motorway, outside the peak
Yeronga station5 minBy car from the Tarragindi Road side

Bus

Route 120 is the express along Toohey Road, Garden City to Queen Street via the Wellers Hill School stop, every fifteen minutes in the afternoon peak and about 25 minutes to the city. Route 114 is the western express from Monash Park via Prior Street, Windmill Street, Bramston Street, Andrew Avenue, Tarragindi Road and Ekibin Road to Adelaide Street, half-hourly in the peak and about 38 minutes end to end. Routes 112 and 113 loop the same streets roughly hourly to PA Hospital busway station. Holland Park West busway station on Sterculia Avenue and Greenslopes station on Barnsdale Place are the South East Busway options for the eastern streets, both open since 2001, with the M1, 77, 137, 139 and 555 inbound.

Route 120 timetableRoute 114 timetable

Train

Yeronga station on the T6 Beenleigh line is a five-minute drive west of the Tarragindi Road side, on Fairfield Road, rebuilt with lifts and a new footbridge in 2022 and 8.5 kilometres by rail from Central. All-stops services run through to Bowen Hills and Ferny Grove. Moorooka station is the alternative for the forest end. Check the timetable for the journey time to Central.

Train timetable

Road

Fifteen minutes to the CBD on the Pacific Motorway outside the peak, or up Ipswich Road from the western side. Garden City in ten minutes, the Princess Alexandra Hospital in ten, Griffith University at Nathan in five. The airport is about half an hour via the motorway and the Airport Link and Clem7 tolls; check the toll route before you rely on the time.

Bus routes

120114112113M177137139555

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

Pinch points The motorway northbound backs up from the Klumpp Road and Marshall Road on-ramps from 7am, and Ipswich Road crawls through Annerley Junction in both peaks. Toohey Road is a school-zone crawl at 8.15am and 3pm around Weller Road. Saturday mornings in the season, Esher Street and Shaftesbury Street fill with junior sport parking. Inspect a motorway-edge house at 7.30am on a weekday before you decide the noise does not bother you.

The houses

What is here
Post-war timber and brick from the 1950s to the 1970s on stumps, most of it unrenovated or half done, with the War Service and Housing Commission estates of the late 1940s in among it. The Ekibin end has the pre-war timber houses from the 1914 to 1924 subdivisions. Renovated highsets and knockdown-rebuilds on the ridges pick up city views. Units and townhouses are rare; this is a house suburb.
Block sizes
600 to 800 square metres is normal, with forest-edge and ridge blocks bigger. A family gets a yard, a shed and room for the trampoline.
Character overlays
Most of Tarragindi was built after 1946, so the traditional building character overlay touches far fewer lots here than in the inner east. The pre-war houses at the Ekibin end and along the older Wellers Hill streets can carry it, and forest-edge lots carry the bushfire hazard overlay. Check City Plan for the exact lot before you plan a lift and build under.
How it was built
  1. 1914 to 1924The Ekibin end was subdivided first, and its pre-war timber houses are still the oldest in the suburb.
  2. 1923The reservoir on Tarragindi Hill was built; it is heritage-listed today.
  3. 1926Wellers Hill State School opened on the Toohey Road and Weller Road corner.
  4. Late 1940sWar Service and Housing Commission estates went in as the rest of the valley started to fill.
  5. 1950s to 70sPost-war timber and brick houses on stumps filled the valley, most still unrenovated or half done.
  6. NowRenovated highsets and knockdown-rebuilds on the ridges pick up city views; units stay rare in a house suburb.

What the money buys

Around $1.5m

A renovated post-war three-bedder on 600 square metres on the Tarragindi Road side or the flatter valley streets, or an unrenovated one in the Wellers Hill catchment. Our $1,440,000 Tarragindi purchase sits here.

$1.7m to $2.5m

A fully renovated highset with the yard and the pool on a Wellers Hill or forest-edge street, or a well-built newer home on a flat block. The median house is around $1.66m, so this is where most of the finished stock trades.

$2.5m and above

A rebuilt or architect-designed home on the ridge with city views, or a big forest-edge block. Our published Tarragindi purchases run to $3,500,000.

7 purchases in 2024 and 2025, 6 with published prices from $655,000 to $3,500,000. Live grid on the page.

See the homes we have secured here

What to check before you buy in Tarragindi

Flood

Tarragindi is creek and overland flow country, not river. Sandy Creek runs down the main valley along the bikeway and the recreation reserve, and Ekibin Creek drains the eastern flank toward Greenslopes and the Norman Creek system. The low blocks along both lines need the FloodWise Property Report, the overland flow path on the Flood Awareness Map and an insurance quote before the building and pest.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Three sources, three different sides. The Pacific Motorway runs along the eastern edge, so listen from the back deck of any house east of Toohey Road at 7.30am. Ipswich Road traffic reaches the western streets. Aircraft on approach to Brisbane Airport pass over the suburb in some runway modes, so type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight tracker and stand in the yard early and late.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Traditional building character on the pre-war lots at the Ekibin end, bushfire hazard on the forest edge, overland flow along the creek lines and steep land on the ridges. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what the neighbours have been approved to build.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

Three primary catchments and two secondary, all but Yeronga State High under enrolment management. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A low block on the Sandy Creek or Ekibin Creek line with no FloodWise report and no overland flow check, sold on a dry August afternoon.
  • A half-done post-war renovation, lifted and built in underneath, with no council approvals on file. Ask for the records before you fall for the new kitchen.
  • A motorway-edge or Ipswich Road-side house inspected only on a Sunday morning.

Where the value sits

  • An unrenovated post-war house on a quiet Wellers Hill catchment street. Buying the block and the catchment, then renovating, is how most of our Tarragindi clients have got the house they wanted.
  • The streets that end in Toohey Forest, where the block is bigger, the neighbours are trees and the price does not yet reflect it.
  • The Tarragindi Road side, where the same 600 square metres costs less, the 114 express runs past the door and Yeronga station is five minutes away.

Photos: Tarragindi from the air, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Toohey Forest picnic area, Lyle Radford http://www.lyleradford.com.au, CC BY 2.0; The Tarragindi Road side, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; Yeronga station, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Brisbane Transport bus, BrisbaneBuzSpotter, CC BY-SA 4.0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Toohey Forest walking track, Brizpom, CC BY-SA 4.0; Toohey Forest, Lyle Radford http://www.lyleradford.com.au, CC BY 2.0; Mount Gravatt Lookout, MustdoBrisbane, used with permission; Junction Park State School, Junction Park State School (Commons: unknown author), CC BY 4.0; Holland Park State High School, State of Queensland (Department of Education), CC BY 4.0; Villanova College, Commander Keane, CC0; The Learning Sanctuary Tarragindi, courtesy of the school; Tarragindi Child Care and Development, courtesy of the school; Coles Greenslopes, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0; Westfield Mt Gravatt (Garden City), Shiftchange, CC0; Yeronga Park Swimming Complex, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Greenslopes Private Hospital, Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Buying in Tarragindi: the questions we get

Wellers Hill State School for about four fifths of the suburb, with Marshall Road State School taking the south-eastern streets near the motorway and Junction Park State School the north-western corner at the Ekibin Road end. Secondary splits between Holland Park State High for the eastern three quarters and Yeronga State High for the western streets. Every one of them except Yeronga has an enrolment cap, so check the exact lot on EdMap and ask us which side of the line a house sits on.

Not from the river. The risk here is creek and overland flow along Sandy Creek down the main valley and Ekibin Creek on the eastern flank. The ridges and most of the Wellers Hill streets are clear. Every Tarragindi purchase we make starts with the FloodWise report and the overland flow map for the exact lot.

The 120 express along Toohey Road takes about 25 minutes to Queen Street, and the 114 express runs from the Tarragindi Road side to Adelaide Street. Holland Park West busway station is a short drive for the eastern streets and Yeronga station a five-minute drive for the western ones. By car it is fifteen minutes on the motorway outside the peak.

Only on the eastern edge, and it depends on the street, the fall of the land and the fence line. West of Toohey Road you will not hear it. Inspect any house between Toohey Road and the motorway at 7.30am on a weekday, and check the flight tracker as well, because aircraft on approach pass over the suburb in some runway modes.

In 2026, a renovated post-war three-bedder on 600 square metres on the Tarragindi Road side or in the valley, or an unrenovated house in the Wellers Hill catchment that you finish yourself. The median house is around $1.66 million, and finished homes on the ridge or the forest edge run from $2 million up.

Holland Park has the Seville Road shops, the busway at its door and flatter streets. Tarragindi has Toohey Forest at the back fence, the Wellers Hill catchment and the highest owner-occupier share of the twelve at 79 per cent, which is why the streets are so quiet. Families who want the bush and the settled neighbours usually end up in Tarragindi.

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