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

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4

purchases in Teneriffe

2024 to 2025

years we have bought here

$860,000 to $1,231,000

published prices (2 of 4)

Hunter Gather has bought 4 properties in Teneriffe for clients since 2024. Of the purchases where the property type is on record, that is 1 apartment. Teneriffe 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, Teneriffe purchases ranged from $860,000 to $1,231,000 (2 of 4 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

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

Where Teneriffe sits

Teneriffe is the woolstore precinct on the northern bank, 2.5 kilometres north-east of the CBD, with the Bulimba Reach of the river along its whole eastern edge. New Farm sits to the south, Newstead to the north and Fortitude Valley to the west. Teneriffe Hill rises to 45 metres in the middle of it, which is why a suburb of less than one square kilometre has both a riverside boardwalk and a park with a view of the whole reach. It was absorbed into Newstead in 1975 and only became a suburb in its own right again in 2010.

Boundaries
The Brisbane River to the east. Commercial Road runs through the middle from the ferry terminal toward the Valley; Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street follow the river past the woolstores; Skyring Terrace marks the Newstead end at Gasworks.
The roads
Commercial Road (the ferry, the CityGlider, the run to the Valley). Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street (the woolstores and the river). Skyring Terrace and Wickham Street (the Newstead end, Gasworks and the way to the airport)
Next door
New FarmNewsteadFortitude ValleyBulimba (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.

1The woolstores

Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street, from Mactaggarts and Winchcombe Carson at the Florence Street end to Goldsbrough Mort and Dalgety toward Newstead

Nine heritage-listed woolstores converted to apartments between 1995 and 2006: brick, hardwood, high ceilings and windows that look straight down the Bulimba Reach. The riverside boardwalk runs along the front. The trade-off is that every building is its own body corporate with its own levies and its own flood history, so the records matter more than the finish.

Suits Families with older children, and couples, who want the river at the door and the city on foot. The most recognisable addresses in the suburb.

2The Commercial Road end

Commercial Road, Florence Street, Dath Street and the streets back toward New Farm

The ferry terminal, the Blue CityGlider stop and the gym on Commercial Road, with the Winchcombe Carson woolstore on Dath Street and the cafes at the bottom of Florence Street. The walk to New Farm Park and Merthyr Village starts here.

Suits Families who want the ferry, the New Farm State School walk and a quieter street behind the strip.

3Teneriffe Hill

Teneriffe Drive, Mackellar Street, Little Chester Street, Chester Street and Beeston Street around Teneriffe Park

The ridge James Gibbon bought in 1854, with Teneriffe House of 1865 still on top and the old orchard now Teneriffe Park. Steep streets, big trees, and the view over the river to Bulimba. The few houses here rarely reach the portals.

Suits Families who want a house rather than an apartment and are prepared to wait for one. The dearest homes in the suburb and among the dearest in Brisbane.

4The Gasworks end

Skyring Terrace, Wyandra Street and the blocks around the old gasholder toward Newstead

The newest part of the precinct. Towers and mid-rise buildings around Gasworks Plaza, the Woolworths and the restaurants, with James Street ten minutes on foot. Newer stock means lower maintenance and newer lifts, and a bigger body corporate than the woolstores.

Suits Buyers who want a newer building, a supermarket underneath and the bus at the door.

Schools and catchments

No school sits inside Teneriffe. The suburb runs on one state primary and one state secondary, both with enrolment management plans, both a walk or a short bus from most addresses. The Catholic and independent options are the inner-city schools along Ann Street and Gregory Terrace. Check the exact address on EdMap before you count on a school.

Primary catchment, most of the suburbNew FarmState school
Secondary catchmentFortitude Valley State Secondary CollegeEnrolment capped at 1,134

State primary

New Farm State SchoolPrep to 6

Prep to Year 6 on the corner of James and Heal Streets, open since 1901 and heritage-listed. An equidistant catchment with an enrolment management plan gazetted 22 August 2025: the cap is 745 students and Prep is held to 100 places in four classrooms unless more in-catchment children enrol, so out-of-catchment places are not something to plan around. A flat walk from the Commercial Road end.

Corner James Street and Heal Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

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. 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 gets a place. The Blue CityGlider runs past the door.

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. About 260 students, so the smaller of the two primary options and a fifteen-minute walk from the woolstores.

36 Villiers Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

All Hallows' SchoolYears 5 to 12

Girls, Years 5 to 12, the oldest secondary school in Queensland, at the Valley end of Ann Street. A CityGlider ride or a twenty-minute walk.

547 Ann Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000MapWebsite

St Joseph's College, Gregory TerraceYears 5 to 12

Boys, Years 5 to 12, in Spring Hill. Ten minutes by car or the CityGlider to the Valley and a walk up the hill.

285 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill QLD 4000MapWebsite

Early learning

Guardian Childcare and Education Newstead

Six weeks to six years across four rooms, 6.30am to 6.30pm weekdays, on Wickham Street at the Newstead end. 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, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Goodstart Early Learning Fortitude Valley

Nursery, toddler and kindergarten rooms on Brookes Street, 6.30am to 6.30pm weekdays, six weeks to school age.

95 Brookes Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Jack and Jill Child Care Centre

Long day care on Brunswick Street at the New Farm end, the closest centre to the Commercial Road side on foot.

955 Brunswick Street, New Farm QLD 4005Map

Little Ducks Childcare New Farm

Long day care on McLachlan Street, a few minutes up Commercial Road toward the Valley.

55 McLachlan Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Two catchments, both capped. New Farm State School is the one families move for and it is held to 100 Prep places, so an in-catchment address is the whole game. We pull the EdMap for the exact lot before every inspection and confirm the Newstead end of the suburb sits inside both catchments rather than assuming it.

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

Daily life in Teneriffe

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

Mornings

Musk Cafe and BarIn the suburb

All-day breakfast and coffee in the Goldsbrough Mort woolstore on Macquarie Street, from 6am weekdays and 7am weekends. The woolstore end's kitchen table.

108 Macquarie Street, Teneriffe QLD 4005MapWebsite

Samson and SophieIn the suburb

All-day breakfast at the Vernon Terrace end of Macquarie Street, from 6am weekdays and 7am on the weekend. The pram-and-dog stop on the way to the boardwalk.

2 Macquarie Street, Teneriffe QLD 4005Map

Powerhouse Farmers Market10 min walk

Jan Powers' market at the Brisbane Powerhouse every Saturday, 6am to midday: fruit and veg, bread, coffee and breakfast on the river. A ten-minute walk along the water from the woolstores.

Brisbane Powerhouse, Lamington Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

Merthyr Village cafesIn the suburb

Village Bakes, New Farm Deli and Savour Cafe under the Coles on Merthyr Road, for the school-run coffee on the New Farm side.

85 Merthyr Road, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

Evenings

BeccofinoIn the suburb

The neighbourhood pizzeria on the corner of Vernon Terrace and Florence Street since 2004. Pizza and pasta the children will eat, at the bottom of the woolstores.

10 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005MapWebsite

Vernon TerraceIn the suburb

The restaurants and bars under the woolstores along Vernon Terrace: Italian, Japanese, Mexican and Indian a short walk from every apartment in the precinct. Busy on a Friday, quiet by ten.

Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005Map

Gasworks PlazaIn the suburb

Italian Street Kitchen, Ping Pong, Mecca Bah, Reef Seafood and the pizza slice shop around the old gasholder, with the Woolworths for the last-minute run. The easy family dinner at the Newstead end.

76 Skyring Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Brisbane Powerhouse10 min drive

Comedy, theatre and music in the old power station at the end of New Farm Park, with the riverside bars for a drink before the show. Walkable from the woolstores along the river.

119 Lamington Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

The big shop

Woolworths GasworksIn the suburb

The full-line supermarket under Gasworks Plaza on Skyring Terrace, with more than 300 car parks off Skyring Terrace and Longland Street. The everyday shop for the whole precinct.

76 Skyring Terrace, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

Coles Merthyr Village5 min drive

Coles until 10pm, Ramsay Pharmacy, the butcher, the fruit shop, the post office and the Merthyr 7 Day Medical Centre in one centre on Merthyr Road. Five minutes by car from the woolstores, a walk from the Commercial Road end.

85 Merthyr Road, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

James Street10 min drive

More than a hundred retailers in fashion, homewares, food and beauty along James Street in the Valley, ten minutes on foot from the Gasworks end. Where the suburb buys everything that is not groceries.

James Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

Health and fitness

Club Lime TeneriffeIn the suburb

The gym on Vernon Terrace beside the river with a multi-lane pool, a cycle studio, group classes and a sauna. The closest lap pool to the woolstores.

1/39 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005MapWebsite

Teneriffe Athletic ClubIn the suburb

A 24-hour gym on Commercial Road with strength and conditioning classes, a run club, yoga and infrared saunas.

76 Commercial Road, Teneriffe QLD 4005MapWebsite

Valley Pool20 min walk

The council pool on Wickham Street: a heated 50-metre outdoor pool with lap lanes and learn-to-swim, open from 5am on weekdays. A twenty-minute walk from the ferry or a few minutes by car.

432 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006MapWebsite

GPs and the hospitals10 min drive

The Merthyr 7 Day Medical Centre at Merthyr Village and the general practices around Commercial Road and Gasworks. The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital at Herston is ten minutes by car, the Mater at South Brisbane fifteen.

Merthyr Road, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

Getting around

CBD by CityGlider15 minBlue CityGlider from the ferry terminal, every five minutes in the peak
Bulimba by ferry5 minF21 cross river ferry, every fifteen minutes
Airport by car20 minKingsford Smith Drive, no toll

Ferry

CityCat from the Teneriffe terminal on Commercial Road, downstream to Bulimba and Hawthorne, upstream to New Farm Park, Howard Smith Wharves and Riverside in the CBD. The all-stops timetable puts Teneriffe to Riverside at about half an hour, so most people use it for the river rather than the commute. The F21 cross river ferry shuttles to Oxford Street, Bulimba every fifteen minutes and takes five, which puts a second suburb of cafes, the Balmoral cinema and Bulimba State School within reach of the pram. The terminal was rebuilt after the 2011 flood and reopened in January 2012.

CityCat and ferry timetablesSecond route timetable

Train

No station in the suburb. Fortitude Valley station on Brunswick Street is about two kilometres from the ferry end and every line on the network runs through it. Bowen Hills station is a fifteen-minute walk from Gasworks and is the one to use for the airport line.

Train timetable

Bus

The Blue CityGlider, route 60, starts at the Teneriffe ferry terminal and runs up Skyring Terrace past Gasworks, through the Valley and Adelaide Street to the Cultural Centre and West End. Every five minutes in the peaks, every ten to fifteen otherwise, and 24 hours on Friday and Saturday nights. About fifteen minutes to the CBD. Routes 425 and 453 also stop at Gasworks.

Route 60 timetable

Road

Ten minutes to the CBD by car outside the peak, and nowhere to park when you get there, which is why most of the suburb walks or takes the CityGlider. About twenty minutes to the airport via Kingsford Smith Drive, with no toll. Bulimba is five minutes by ferry and twenty by road around the Story Bridge.

Bus routes

60425453

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

Pinch points Commercial Road and Wickham Street back up toward the Valley from 7.30am, and Skyring Terrace clogs around Gasworks on a Saturday morning. Street parking along Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street is gone by breakfast on the weekend, so an apartment's car spaces matter as much as its bedrooms. Inspect a Commercial Road or Skyring Terrace apartment at 5.30pm and again at 11pm on a Saturday before you decide the noise does not bother you.

Weekends

Teneriffe ParkIn the suburbThree hectares of steep parkland on Teneriffe Drive, the old orchard of Teneriffe House: a shaded playground, a barbecue and a picnic rotunda, a bushland track and the best view of the Bulimba Reach in the suburb. The scout hall is here too.

  • New Farm Park10 min drive

    Fifteen hectares at the end of the river walk: the big playground in the banyan trees, the rose gardens, more than a hundred jacarandas in October, tennis courts, a half court and the library. Most Teneriffe families treat it as their backyard.

    137 Sydney Street, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

  • The river walkIn the suburb

    A flat boardwalk runs along the front of the woolstores from Newstead to New Farm Park and the Powerhouse, and from Merthyr Road the New Farm Riverwalk carries you to Howard Smith Wharves and the city. Prams, bikes and scooters the whole way.

    Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005Map

  • Teneriffe FestivalIn the suburb

    One Saturday each July since 2010, Vernon Terrace and Ethel Street close for the day: music, food stalls, children's entertainment and the historical society's bus tours of the woolstores, around 50,000 people from morning to 9pm.

    Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe QLD 4005MapWebsite

  • Newstead House and Newstead Park10 min drive

    Brisbane's oldest surviving house, 1846, on the point where Breakfast Creek meets the river, with lawns to the water and guided tours on Fridays and Sundays. Ten minutes on foot from the Gasworks end.

    Corner Breakfast Creek Road and Newstead Avenue, Newstead QLD 4006MapWebsite

  • Merthyr Bowls Club10 min drive

    Barefoot bowls and the riverside bistro on Oxlade Drive beside New Farm Park. The Sunday afternoon with the kids on the green.

    60 Oxlade Drive, New Farm QLD 4005MapWebsite

  • Oxford Street, Bulimba5 min drive

    Five minutes across the water on the cross river ferry: the strip, the Balmoral Cineplex, Bulimba Memorial Park and its playground, and fish and chips on the way back to the terminal.

    Oxford Street, Bulimba QLD 4171MapWebsite

The houses

What is here
Converted woolstore apartments along Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street, the biggest of them in Goldsbrough Mort, Winchcombe Carson and Mactaggarts. Newer towers and mid-rise buildings around Gasworks and along Skyring Terrace. A handful of houses on Teneriffe Hill, from Teneriffe House of 1865 to interwar homes and contemporary rebuilds on the ridge. Houses are scarce and among the dearest in Brisbane; most of what trades is apartments.
Block sizes
Block size is the wrong question for most of the suburb. For an apartment the numbers that matter are the floor area, the ceiling height, the number of car spaces and the levies. On the hill, the blocks are steep and the houses sit high; a 600 square metre block with a view is a rare thing here.
Character overlays
Eighteen heritage-listed sites, most of them woolstores, so the exterior of a woolstore apartment is protected and internal changes go through the body corporate first. The whole precinct sits under the Newstead and Teneriffe waterfront neighbourhood plan. The older houses on the hill carry the traditional building character overlay where they are pre-1947. Check the overlay on City Plan before you plan a lift, an extension or a new balcony.
How it was built
  1. 1854James Gibbon bought the ridge that became Teneriffe Hill.
  2. 1865Teneriffe House went up on top of the hill; its old orchard is now Teneriffe Park.
  3. 1920s to 30sInterwar homes joined the handful of houses on the ridge.
  4. 1975Teneriffe was absorbed into Newstead, and only became a suburb again in 2010.
  5. 1995 to 2006Nine heritage-listed woolstores along Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street were converted to apartments.
  6. NowTowers and mid-rise buildings around Gasworks are the newest stock, and most of what trades is apartments.

What the money buys

Around $900,000 to $1.2m

A two-bedroom apartment in a newer building at the Gasworks end or an older walk-up on the New Farm side, usually with one car space. This is where our published Teneriffe purchases have landed.

$1.5m to $3m

A two or three bedroom woolstore conversion with the high ceilings and the river, or a townhouse on the hill. The buildings and the levies vary widely, so the records decide it.

$4m and above

A house on Teneriffe Hill, which is where the suburb's house median of about $4.25 million comes from. They rarely reach the portals.

4 purchases since 2024, 2 with published prices from $860,000 to $1,231,000. Live grid on the page.

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What to check before you buy in Teneriffe

Flood

The riverside streets, the boardwalk and the low ground along Vernon Terrace and Macquarie Street sit inside the river flood overlay and the 2011 and 2022 extents. The woolstore floors sat above the 2011 peak, but basements, car parks and lifts are another matter. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, read the body corporate's flood and insurance record for 2011 and 2022, and get the insurance quote before the building and pest, not after.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Three kinds. Commercial Road and Skyring Terrace carry the buses and the Gasworks traffic. The Powerhouse, the Vernon Terrace bars and the festival fill the riverfront on weekends. And the flight path: type the address into the Brisbane Airport flight path tool, then stand on the balcony at 7am and again at 11pm on a Saturday.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Heritage on the woolstores, the neighbourhood plan across the precinct and traditional building character on the older houses on the hill. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what is approved to go up next door, which in Teneriffe can be a tower that takes the view.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

One primary and one secondary, both with enrolment management plans and caps. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A woolstore or riverside apartment whose body corporate records do not answer two questions: what happened to the basement and the lifts in 2011 and 2022, and what the sinking fund looks like now. Levies in the heritage conversions and the newer towers are a long way apart.
  • A view that is not protected. A river outlook from the Gasworks end or Skyring Terrace can be built out; check Development.i for the approved towers on the neighbouring lots before you pay for the view.
  • A Commercial Road or Skyring Terrace frontage with single-glazed bedrooms on the road, or a Vernon Terrace balcony above the bars.

Where the value sits

  • A woolstore apartment with two car spaces and a river-facing living room, held for twenty years and never advertised. They come up rarely and go quietly.
  • A house on Teneriffe Hill, which is the only way to get a yard, a view and the CityCat in the same purchase in 4005. Patience and someone watching the off-market stock.
  • The New Farm side of the Commercial Road end, where an older walk-up or small building costs less than the woolstores and the school, the park and the ferry are all still on foot.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Woolstores from the river, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Winchcombe Carson woolstores, Dath Street, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Teneriffe ferry terminal, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 3.0; Fortitude Valley station, Chris Olszewski, 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; Teneriffe Park, Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Teneriffe purchases we can show

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

Teneriffe

Apartment

2 bed2 bath1 car 135m²
$1,231,000 Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson
7 Nov 2025

Teneriffe

2 bed2 bath1 car
$860,000 Jacob Butler
26 Apr 2024

Teneriffe

4 bed3 bath2 car
Undisclosed Jacob Butler

Teneriffe

2 bed2 bath2 car
Undisclosed Jacob Butler

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Buying in Teneriffe: the questions we get

New Farm State School for primary, Prep to Year 6, and Fortitude Valley State Secondary College for Years 7 to 12. Both run enrolment management plans with caps, so an in-catchment address is what gets a place. Check the exact address on EdMap and ask us which side of the line a building sits on.

The riverside streets and the boardwalk sit inside the river flood overlay and went under in 2011 and 2022. The woolstore floors were above the 2011 peak, but basements and car parks were not always. The hill does not flood. Every Teneriffe purchase we make starts with the FloodWise report and the body corporate's flood record.

On foot along the river in about half an hour, or the Blue CityGlider from the ferry terminal in about fifteen minutes, every five minutes in the peak. The CityCat is the scenic option at about half an hour to Riverside. By car it is ten minutes and no parking.

Yes, and plenty do. The bigger conversions have three bedrooms, high ceilings and a boardwalk at the front door, with New Farm Park, the pool at Club Lime and the Saturday market on foot. What to check is the car spaces, the levies and the flood record for the building, and whether the body corporate allows the changes you have in mind.

In 2026, a two-bedroom apartment in a newer building at the Gasworks end or an older walk-up on the New Farm side, usually with one car space. Our published Teneriffe purchases have landed between $860,000 and $1,231,000. A woolstore conversion with the river starts higher, and a house on the hill starts above $4 million.

New Farm has more houses, the park at its front door and Merthyr Village. Teneriffe has the woolstores, the boardwalk, the ferry to Bulimba and the shortest walk to the Valley and James Street. A house brief usually ends up in New Farm; an apartment brief with the river in it usually ends up in Teneriffe.

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