Only one in five Brisbane properties sold under the hammer over the weekend, according to Realestate.com.au data. The city's preliminary clearance rate was 22 per cent, down from 30 per cent a week earlier. Regional Queensland fell to 18.9 per cent. Realestate.com.au economist Luc Redman said clearance rates are likely to stay low until sellers lower price expectations or demand returns. A riverfront Newstead penthouse sold for $5.825m, the biggest Brisbane auction sale, while a Daisy Hill property sold for $2.3m.
Only one rental market in Queensland is classed as healthy, according to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland's September quarter vacancy report. The Bay Islands, near Redland, recorded a vacancy rate of 3.5 per cent. Forty-eight of the 50 regions tracked remain tight, with vacancy rates of 2.5 per cent or below. Thirty-four regions recorded rates of 1 per cent or less. Antonia Mercorella, the institute's chief executive, said the shortage was changing how Queenslanders live, with more multigenerational households forming and more friends sharing homes to split costs.
Police say they do not believe there will be a retaliatory attack after a drive-by shooting outside a pub south of Brisbane left four people injured. Two masked men opened fire on a crowd at a boxing night at Fitzys on Bryants Road at Loganholme on Saturday. A 19-year-old woman from Jimboomba is in a critical condition, while three men are stable after surgery. Chief Superintendent Mel Adams said the attack was not targeted but was not random, and police are asking the community for information. The hunt for the offenders continues.
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The first apartment development in the $600m Serenity 4212 community on the northern Gold Coast has topped out. Lakeside at Helensvale is being built by joint venture partners Keylin and Kinstone Group. Developers say 70 per cent of buyers so far are aged over 50. A new collection of top floor residences, with two and three-bedroom homes starting at $1.22m, has been released. Residents are expected to move in by spring 2027.
Four people were seriously injured in a drive-by shooting at Fitzy's pub in Loganholme on Saturday night. Police say the gunmen wore balaclavas and fired at least six bullets into the hotel while more than 100 people were inside watching a boxing event. A 19-year-old woman from Jimboomba remains in critical condition in hospital. Three men, aged 27, 37 and 38, are in serious but stable condition. A witness, Stephen March, said he narrowly avoided being near the doorway when the shots were fired. The gunmen later fled in a burnt-out Mitsubishi, and no arrests have been made.
Yarrabilba resident Jan Ebbers has been playing Pokémon GO since it launched 10 years ago, and now leads a local community. She is a Community Ambassador, a volunteer role run by the game's developers, and was accepted after an extensive background check. The Yarrabilba group has about 800 members on the Campfire app and 300 on Facebook. Meet-ups are held several times a week, often at Darlington Parklands. Ms Ebbers says the group welcomes players of all ages and experience levels.
Shop owners on Gallery Walk were left shocked after a plant was stolen from outside their business on September 23. Kenneth Veitch, who owns A Wee Bit o' Scotland with his wife Laura, saw a woman take the plant and walk away up the road. Laura said the shop has often had cuttings taken from its plants, but removing a whole plant was different. Volunteers from the Tamborine Mountain Garden Club had recently revitalised the gardens ahead of Springtime on the Mountain. Kenneth said the theft has made him reconsider replacing the plant.
Shontae Iafeta is building practical experience while she studies journalism. She feels a strong commitment to regional reporting and believes it matters to the communities it serves. Iafeta is known for forming genuine relationships with the people she interviews. She holds the view that everyone deserves a chance to have their experiences shared publicly, and she often points to the idea that everyone has a story worth telling.
A 19-year-old woman is in a critical condition and three men are seriously injured after shots were fired from a car outside a Loganholme pub on Saturday night. Police say a silver Mitsubishi stopped near people standing outside during an intermission at a boxing event and fired multiple shots. Police believe the woman was an innocent bystander. The Mitsubishi was later found burnt out at Waterford West, and police are investigating a possible link to a second vehicle fire. Police are appealing to the public for information.
A 19-year-old woman is in a critical condition after a drive-by shooting outside Fitzys Loganholme, a pub in Logan, on Saturday night. Police say four people were shot as crowds left a boxing event. Detective Inspector Ian Galpin says he believes she was an innocent bystander and was not the intended target. Two men and another man were also shot and are in hospital. Police are urging anyone with information to contact them.
Four people were shot from a passing vehicle outside The Fitzy Hotel in Loganholme on Saturday night. Police say the shots were fired around 8.15pm during a boxing event. A 19-year-old woman is in a critical condition after surgery, and police believe she was an innocent bystander. Three men are in stable or serious condition. The getaway vehicle was later set alight nearby, and police are appealing for information.
Four people have been shot in a drive-by attack at Fitzy's pub in Loganholme, Queensland, on Saturday night. A 19-year-old woman is in a critical condition after emergency surgery. Three men, aged 38, 37 and 27, are in a serious but stable condition. Police say two men in balaclavas fired from a car at a crowd gathered outside the pub, where a boxing event was being held. The gunmen fled, and a burnt-out car was later found in Waterford. Police are appealing for information and say no arrests have been made.
First-home buyers have been locked out of 169 previously affordable Queensland property markets since the federal 5 per cent deposit scheme was expanded a year ago. An analysis of Realestate.com.au data found that 852 of 890 house and unit markets have risen in value. Deagon houses jumped 31.2 per cent to $1.187 million. Since October, new Queensland mortgage lodgements have fallen 30 per cent, with first-home buyer applications down 18 per cent, according to Loan Market. Buyer's agent Lauren Jones said rising interest rates and living costs have cut borrowing power, leaving young buyers largely absent from the market.
Police are searching for at least three people after a drive-by shooting outside Fitzy's Hotel in Loganholme, south of Brisbane, on Saturday night. A 19-year-old woman was critically injured and is fighting for her life, and three men aged 27, 37 and 38 are in hospital in serious but stable condition. Shots were fired from a vehicle near a boxing event at about 8.15pm. Both vehicles used in the attack were later found set alight, and detectives are still working to establish a motive. Queensland Premier David Crisafulli called the attack a horrendous crime.
