Brisbane Southside · QLD 4120
Greenslopes
Greenslopes is the inner south’s apartment suburb: five kilometres from the CBD, denser than anything around it, with a busway station instead of a train, a war hospital at its centre, and two markets running at completely different speeds.
An inner-southern suburb of Brisbane bounded to the west by the Pacific Motorway and the South East Busway and to the north by Cornwall Street, with Norman Creek through it and Logan Road as its spine, neighbouring Stones Corner, Coorparoo, Holland Park, Holland Park West and Annerley.
“Greenslopes is two markets wearing one postcode. Underneath sits the deepest unit tier in the inner south: two-bedroom dwellings are four in every ten sales, and the cheap ones clear in under a month. By contrast, above it sits a house market of seventy-five sales a year on medium confidence, and right now it is not moving. In fact, stock listed above nine hundred thousand has been sitting for roughly eight months. Same suburb, same week, two completely different conversations. Which one you are in decides everything about how you bid.“
A Local’s Week
How Greenslopes Actually Lives
Forget the brochure version. This is what a week here actually looks like.
The busway, not the train
Greenslopes has no railway station, and for the city run it does not need one. Instead, the South East Busway runs the whole western edge with Greenslopes busway station on Barnsdale Street. It shows: bus and ferry carry 10.7%, the highest of any suburb in this pocket, against 1.4% on the train. Even so, cars carry 56.9%, the lowest car dependency we have profiled around here, and 22.6% work from home. Another 4.5% walk and 2.4% ride.
Transport & timetables ↗Logan Road, and the corner next door
Greenslopes Mall on Logan Road, open since 1986, is the local shop: a supermarket and roughly three dozen others. The Logan Road strip carries the rest. Meanwhile, Stones Corner is immediately north with its own eating and factory-outlet strip, and it was actually part of Greenslopes from 1975 until it got its own name back in 2017.
Greenslopes Mall ↗Creek at the bottom, hills at the top
The land here tells you the market before the data does. Low hills across the east and south fall away to the Norman Creek floodplain in the west and north. In between, Stephens Mountain, fifty-five metres and still scrub on top, sits in the south-west between the hospital ridge and the motorway. As a result, Henzell Terrace along the high ground carries the concentration of the suburb’s dearer houses.
Stephens Mountain ↗Dense, professional, renting
Greenslopes is the densest suburb in this pocket by a distance: 2,913 people per square kilometre against 140 across Brisbane. Notably, apartments are 48.7% of occupied dwellings, ahead of separate houses at 42.6%, and it is the only suburb around here where that is true. Likewise, professionals are 36.9% of the workforce, the highest we have seen. Owner-occupation runs at 65%.
Around the suburb ↗Logan Road is not a plan, it is a bullock track. John Slack cut it in the 1850s to link the Logan River settlements to Brisbane, it largely followed an existing Aboriginal pathway, and for years people simply called it Slack’s Track. As a result, Greenslopes grew along it. In fact, the suburb takes its name from Frederick Wecker’s 1857 estate, named for the green pastures, and the name only spread to the whole district after 1914, when the tram branch up Logan Road terminated at Upper Cornwall Street. More suburb history ↗
Slack’s Track, Trams And A War Hospital
The Suburb That Grew On A Bullock Track
Land here first came up for sale in December 1857, in large portions, at a reserve of a pound an acre. Frederick Wecker bought one of them that year and called his estate Greenslopes, for the green pastures. In July 1887 the Baynes’ Paddock estate went under the hammer in 471 allotments along Logan Road and Cornwall Street. As a result, the shape of the modern suburb was set before anyone had built much on it.
The trams made the name stick. In 1914 a branch line ran out from Stones Corner along Logan Road and Chatsworth Road and stopped at Upper Cornwall Street, and from that point the district was Greenslopes. Housing then followed, including war service homes on the Dunellan Estate, and by the outbreak of the Second World War most of the residential land was built on. Meanwhile, shops filled the Logan Road strip through the twenties, along with the Hollywood Theatre in 1926. The trams ran until April 1969.
Thirty Acres Become A Hospital
What stayed unbuilt was thirty acres at the foot of Stephens Mountain, and in 1940 the Commonwealth took it. Construction started in May 1941 and the 112th Australian General Hospital opened on 3 February 1942: Brisbane’s first purpose-built military base hospital and Queensland’s main one for the war. It then grew again after the Centaur was torpedoed off Moreton Bay in 1943, and by 1946 it had nine hundred staff and over eleven hundred patients. It became the Repatriation General Hospital in 1947, a University of Queensland teaching hospital in 1970, opened to the public in 1974, and went to Ramsay Health Care in 1995. The administration block and the chapel are heritage-listed. Eventually, by 2003 it was the largest private hospital in Australia, and eighty years on it is still the biggest single thing in Greenslopes.
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Now For The Practical Bit
A small, medium-confidence house market sitting on top of a very deep unit market. The house median of $1.48M comes off just 75 sales in twelve months, the thinnest base in this pocket, and houses have run 74.1% over five years and 16.1% in the past year. On paper, the headline reads tight: 24 days on market, 0.5% stock, 0.5% discounting. Yet the live listings say something else entirely.
House · median
$1.48M
Medium confidence, 75 sales
3 bed house · median
$1.35M
Pre-war character stock
4 bed house · median
$1.78M
Renovated & rebuilt
Unit · all beds
$780k
Where the volume actually is
Cumulative price growth (house)
A decade of compounding almost identical to Cannon Hill’s, off a very different market. What separates Greenslopes is the mix underneath: it is the only suburb in this pocket where apartments outnumber houses, so the house median moves on a thin slice of what actually trades.
First, what the headline hides. The house median rests on 75 sales at medium confidence, the thinnest base of any suburb in this pocket and a third of Carina’s. Underneath it sits the real volume: two-bedroom dwellings are 40.2% of everything that trades here and three-bedrooms another 32.6%, and the all-property comparable median is $1.05M against a house median of $1.48M. Similarly, apartments are 48.7% of occupied dwellings, ahead of houses at 42.6%. Therefore, this is a unit suburb with a house market sitting on top of it, and quoting the house median to someone buying a flat is meaningless.
Second, the thing the sold data will not tell you. Sold days on market reads 24. The stock currently listed averages 136, and it splits hard by price: everything from $600k to $900k is clearing in 27 to 44 days, while everything above $900k has been sitting for roughly 239 to 250 days. That is eight months. In short, the bottom of this market is moving and the top of it has stopped, and that gap is where the negotiation lives. Yields near 3% and rent growth near 6.7% support the unit tier. However, they do not rescue a house that has been listed since last year.
Why Buyers Keep Choosing Greenslopes
Five Kilometres Out, On The Busway
Greenslopes offers the inner-city trade at inner-south money: five kilometres from the CBD, a busway station on the western edge running express to town, the largest private hospital in the country inside the boundary, and a genuine two-bedroom market starting well under a million. Overall, it is the densest suburb in this pocket and the only one where apartments outnumber houses.
An inner-southern suburb of Brisbane bounded to the west by the Pacific Motorway and the South East Busway and to the north by Cornwall Street, with Norman Creek through it and Logan Road as its spine, neighbouring Stones Corner, Coorparoo, Holland Park, Holland Park West and Annerley.
Who Lives Here
The Widest Split In The Inner South
Greenslopes ranks 95 on education and occupation and 22 on economic resources. That is the widest gap of any suburb in this pocket, wider even than Carina’s, and it is what a dense professional rental suburb looks like in the data. Indeed, professionals are 36.9% of the workforce, the highest in the group. Owner-occupation runs at 65%. Meanwhile, only 64.1% of residents were born in Australia against a national 69.8%, with India the largest single source after Australia, and the population density of 2,913 per square kilometre runs against a Brisbane figure of 140.
Occupation
Commute
Recent Sales
Proof Points From The Last Quarter
A sample of what’s actually traded in Greenslopes: public sale-record data, not agent marketing. In fact, every recent sale in the record is a unit or a townhouse, which is the clearest statement anyone can make about this market. Watch what happens to days on market as the price climbs.
$710k
Greenslopes, QLD · Unit, 2 bed / 1 bath / 1 car
$850k
Greenslopes, QLD · Unit, 2 bed / 2 bath / 1 car, 137m²
$1.05M
Greenslopes, QLD · Townhouse, 3 bed / 2 bath / 4 car, 180m²
*The detached-house median of $1.48M is medium confidence, based on just 75 house sales over 12 months, with a low-to-high band of roughly $1.3M to $1.8M; treat it as indicative rather than precise. A broader comparable set of 133 sales shows a $1.05M median, an average of 26 days on market, and prices from about $544k to $3.1M; that set is dominated by units and townhouses, which is why it sits so far below the house median. By-bedroom figures are house-only. Properties are shown by suburb, type and attributes only, never by address. Sourced from public sale records, suburb report compiled July 2026.
Before You Fall In Love With A Greenslopes Home
Greenslopes’ first check is flood, and the geography makes it easy to understand and easy to get wrong. Norman Creek enters from Annerley in the south-west and leaves north into Stones Corner, and the council’s mapping shows a substantial creek and overland flood corridor tracking it down the western and northern side of the suburb. The land reads the same way: low hills across the east and south fall away to the Norman Creek floodplain, so the high ground along Henzell Terrace and the eastern streets is a genuinely different proposition from the low ground near the creek and the motorway. In other words, two streets apart here is two different risk profiles. Greenslopes is City of Brisbane, so the Brisbane City Council flood maps and City Plan are the reference.
The second check is what you are allowed to do with it, and in Greenslopes that cuts both ways. For instance, much of the housing stock is pre-war, and the council’s character controls restrict demolition and shape what a replacement may look like. If you are buying a house to knock down and start again, that overlay decides whether you have a project or a problem. Meanwhile the suburb is heading the other way underneath: two and three storey walk-ups are increasingly the norm, and most of the current applications are for a material change of use rather than a simple rebuild, several with planning consultants attached. Whether that is your upside or your lost view depends entirely on the block, and it is exactly the work we run for our clients.
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