Redlands Coast, Moreton Bay · QLD 4160
Wellington Point
An established, blue-chip family suburb on a peninsula reaching into Waterloo Bay, around twenty-five kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD, where a sand causeway to King Island, a foreshore reserve and some of the bay’s most tightly held family homes draw long-term owners.
Fronting Waterloo Bay in the Redlands, defined by King Island and its low-tide sand causeway, the Wellington Point Reserve and jetty, the grand old Whepstead Manor and the Main Road village, with strong schools and Norfolk pines throughout.
“Wellington Point is one of the Redlands’ blue-chip family addresses: an affluent, leafy, owner-occupied suburb on a peninsula into Waterloo Bay, anchored by the famous low-tide sand causeway out to King Island. Prices have nearly doubled over five years, homes sell in barely a fortnight, and with no real development pipeline the supply of good family homes is genuinely scarce. The skill here is winning the right home in a tightly held market and reading the flood, storm-tide and bushland-edge layers around the bay and wetlands.“
A Local’s Week
How Wellington Point Actually Lives
Forget the brochure version. This is what a week here actually looks like.
The reserve, the jetty and King Island
Mornings belong to the point: a walk out to King Island across the sand causeway when the tide is low, a lap of the Wellington Point Reserve under the Norfolk pines, a line cast off the jetty, and the flat foreshore paths that wrap the headland.
Wellington Point Reserve ↗The line and the home office
Wellington Point is car-led, but with one of the bay’s highest work-from-home rates, more than one in five residents. For those heading in, the Wellington Point and Ormiston stations on the Cleveland line run to the city, with Main Road the local spine.
Wellington Point station ↗The village, the bay and the manor
Weekends lean to the water and the village: brunch along the Main Road strip, sailing and kite-surfing off the point, a wander past the historic Whepstead Manor, and the foreshore parks and playgrounds that fill with families through the Redlands summer.
Main Road village ↗A settled, tightly held family suburb
Wellington Point is leafy, established and overwhelmingly owner-occupied, a suburb of larger family homes on good blocks with strong schools close at hand. With almost no new development underway, streets stay settled and turnover is low, so good homes are keenly contested.
Wellington Point streets ↗At low tide you can walk straight out to King Island, a small conservation and recreation reserve off the point, across a natural sand causeway uncovered twice a day by the bay. Crowned by towering Norfolk pines and ringed by mangroves and seagrass, it is one of Moreton Bay’s most photographed spots and a defining part of life at Wellington Point. More suburb history ↗
An Established Blue-Chip Bayside Suburb
From Strawberry Farms And A Seaside Resort To The Bay’s Family Address
Named in honour of the Duke of Wellington, the point was farmed through the nineteenth century, with strawberries, sugar and orchards worked across the peninsula. The grand Whepstead Manor, built in the late 1880s, still stands as a reminder of the early estate era, and a jetty and rail connection later opened the area as a popular seaside resort for day trippers from Brisbane.
Over the following decades Wellington Point settled into a leafy, established family suburb of larger homes on generous blocks, with the Wellington Point Reserve, King Island, the foreshore and strong local schools at its heart. It has become one of the most sought-after addresses in the Redlands, affluent and overwhelmingly owner-occupied, where households tend to buy and stay.
What sets it apart today is scarcity. Unlike many bay suburbs, Wellington Point carries almost no active development pipeline, with no current development applications or major projects in the report. Supply of good family homes is genuinely tight, turnover is low, and with prices up sharply over five years, competition for the right home in the right pocket is strong.
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Now For The Practical Bit
Based on a deep, high-confidence sample of 199 house sales over the past 12 months. Here’s what it costs to buy in.
All beds · median
$1.33M
199 sales, high confidence
4 bed · median
$1.46M
Most common, ~48% of sales
3 bed · median
$1.18M
Family homes
5 bed · median
$1.86M
Larger & premium homes
Cumulative price growth
Annualised, not on the same scale as the bars at left.
First, demand and supply. Wellington Point is tightly held and fast-moving. Stock on market sits at just 0.9% of the suburb, the market absorption rate is around 40%, and well-presented homes sell in barely a fortnight, around 16 days, with discounting effectively nil. Crucially, the report shows no current development applications and no major project pipeline, so new supply is genuinely scarce and the contest is for existing family homes. A high-confidence sample of 199 sales a year makes this a deep, liquid market despite that scarcity.
Second, what you are actually buying. This is a blue-chip family market, dominated by four-bedroom homes on good blocks, with a clear ladder from an entry house near $1M, through the roughly $1.46M four-bedroom heart of the market, to larger five-bedroom and near-waterfront homes well past $2M and beyond $3M on the prime foreshore. We help clients judge which homes and pockets hold value, weigh proximity to King Island, the reserve and the better school catchments, and read the flood, storm-tide and bushland-edge overlays around Waterloo Bay, the Geoff Skinner Wetlands and the western creek corridors. Rent runs around $795pw, though the rental side is a touch softer than the tightest Redcliffe suburbs, with vacancy near 2.7%.
Why Buyers Keep Coming Back
Blue-Chip Family Living On The Bay
Wellington Point is an affluent, established family suburb that is around 82% owner-occupied, one of the highest rates on the bay. It draws professional and managerial households on strong incomes, with a notably large share of school-age families, who come for the reserve, King Island, the village and some of the Redlands’ most sought-after school catchments. Households here tend to buy and stay, which is exactly why turnover is low and good homes are so keenly contested.
An established blue-chip bayside suburb on a peninsula into Waterloo Bay in the Redlands, around twenty-five kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD, with King Island, the Wellington Point Reserve, the jetty and the Main Road village on the doorstep.
Who Lives Here
Professionals, Managers, Families And Long-Term Owners
Wellington Point is built around established, affluent family living. Median household income sits around $2,197 a week, well above the national average, the suburb is overwhelmingly owner-occupied at 82%, and it is car-led, though a very high one in five residents now works from home.
Occupation
Commute
Recent Sales
Proof Points From The Last Quarter
A sample of what’s actually traded in Wellington Point, drawn from 197 recent comparable sales with a median of $1.33M, an average of just 23 days on market and four-bedroom homes dominant: public sale‑record data, not agent marketing.
$1.775M
Wellington Point, QLD · House, 5 bed / 3 bath / 2 car, 761m²
$1.70M
Wellington Point, QLD · House, 5 bed / 2 bath / 2 car, 782m²
$980k
Wellington Point, QLD · House, 3 bed / 2 bath / 2 car, 455m²
*Comparable medians are drawn from a 12‑month sample (197 sales, median $1.33M, average 23 days on market, range $677k to $5.3M). Four‑bedroom homes are the dominant type at around 48% of sales, with the heart of the market near $1.46M; the detailed sales shown here span an entry‑level home through to larger premium residences. Properties are shown by suburb, type and attributes only, never by address. Sourced from public sale records, suburb report compiled June 2026.
Before You Fall In Love With An Address
Flood and storm tide are the first things to check in Wellington Point. This is a low peninsula reaching into Waterloo Bay, and the foreshore, the King Island causeway flats, the Geoff Skinner Wetlands to the south‑east and the Hilliards Creek corridor all carry storm‑tide, creek and overland‑flow flood overlays. Any foreshore, wetland‑adjacent or creek‑corridor lot deserves a careful look at the current flood and storm‑tide mapping before you offer, because near the bay the difference of a street can change the flood category.
Beyond water, two things matter here. First, bushfire is a genuine secondary risk, with mapped bushfire‑prone areas along the western bushland and the Hilliards Creek and Ormiston‑border vegetation corridors, so blocks near that bushland fringe warrant a bushfire and vegetation check. Second, the Geoff Skinner Wetlands, the Moreton Bay Marine Park and the creek corridors bring biodiversity, koala and wetland overlays. On the upside, with no current development applications or major project pipeline in the report, new‑supply risk is low. None of this rules a property out, but flood, storm‑tide and bushfire checks belong before contracts, not after, which is exactly the due diligence we run for our clients.
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Useful Places To Start Looking
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