Just thought I'd quickly introduce myself to start off:
My husband and me are first home buyers, planning on buying a PPOR and living in it to pay a good deal of it off and getting the first home owners grant then turning it into an IP. At the moment we're looking to spend about 400k (hopefully a bit less) we've got about 72k saved as a deposit and have been pre approved for $550 k Certainly not planning on spending all that!
Unfortunately we've got some personal criteria we need to take into account when looking- want to be within about 10km or so of Herston where I work- nurse, crazy hours, couldn't handle travelling much more than that but don't want to leave that job as I love it!
We've been looking mainly around the south side of Brisbane and have sort of narrowed in on Moorooka:
Positives:
-train line
-good bus services
-supermarket and shopping strip in suburb
-close to Ipswich motorway - about 10min drive to Pacific motorway
-less than 10kms to CBD
-lots of parks, schools in suburb
-close proximity to PA hospital (pity I don't work there but they don't do my speciality)
-surrounded by Annerley/ Tarragindi both suburbs which have higher house prices than Moorooka so that might mean Moorooka could be on the way up too?
-close proximity to Green Bridge (about 3km- good for Uni of Qld students)
Negatives
-Ipswich Rd can be a nightmare at the moment because of all that construction- hopefully that's temporary though
-Area around train station dodgy- adult shop, still some car yards left on Ipswich Rd
The other problem with Moorooka is that most places are just out of what we'd like to spend. We were also looking at Salisbury the next suburb out which seems to be ok but a bit isolated- it's sort of hard to get into by car for a start (if you miss the one little road leading into it you're not going to be able to get into it!) and there are no supermarkets or anything there, the little 'shopping centre' they have is just a couple of small shops. It is however close to Griffith Uni and Garden City mall is a few km's away. Prices are much cheaper there but I'm not sure about the growth potential of the suburb.
Any comments about any of these would be much appreciated. Also, if I've missed something glaringly obvious that would be great if you could point it out. If you can think of any other suburbs about 10km from Herston that would be great too, we're not that keen on going too far out on the north side though.
Thanks and sorry for the long post!
My husband and me are first home buyers, planning on buying a PPOR and living in it to pay a good deal of it off and getting the first home owners grant then turning it into an IP. At the moment we're looking to spend about 400k (hopefully a bit less) we've got about 72k saved as a deposit and have been pre approved for $550 k Certainly not planning on spending all that!
Unfortunately we've got some personal criteria we need to take into account when looking- want to be within about 10km or so of Herston where I work- nurse, crazy hours, couldn't handle travelling much more than that but don't want to leave that job as I love it!
We've been looking mainly around the south side of Brisbane and have sort of narrowed in on Moorooka:
Positives:
-train line
-good bus services
-supermarket and shopping strip in suburb
-close to Ipswich motorway - about 10min drive to Pacific motorway
-less than 10kms to CBD
-lots of parks, schools in suburb
-close proximity to PA hospital (pity I don't work there but they don't do my speciality)
-surrounded by Annerley/ Tarragindi both suburbs which have higher house prices than Moorooka so that might mean Moorooka could be on the way up too?
-close proximity to Green Bridge (about 3km- good for Uni of Qld students)
Negatives
-Ipswich Rd can be a nightmare at the moment because of all that construction- hopefully that's temporary though
-Area around train station dodgy- adult shop, still some car yards left on Ipswich Rd
The other problem with Moorooka is that most places are just out of what we'd like to spend. We were also looking at Salisbury the next suburb out which seems to be ok but a bit isolated- it's sort of hard to get into by car for a start (if you miss the one little road leading into it you're not going to be able to get into it!) and there are no supermarkets or anything there, the little 'shopping centre' they have is just a couple of small shops. It is however close to Griffith Uni and Garden City mall is a few km's away. Prices are much cheaper there but I'm not sure about the growth potential of the suburb.
Any comments about any of these would be much appreciated. Also, if I've missed something glaringly obvious that would be great if you could point it out. If you can think of any other suburbs about 10km from Herston that would be great too, we're not that keen on going too far out on the north side though.
Thanks and sorry for the long post!