Brisbane Southside · QLD 4122
Wishart
Wishart is a large, leafy, tightly held family suburb about fifteen kilometres south-east of the city, wrapped along its southern and eastern edge by the Bulimba Creek bushland, where generous blocks, sought-after school catchments and a genuinely multicultural community draw families who settle in for the long haul.
On Brisbane’s south-east between Mount Gravatt East, Upper Mount Gravatt, Mansfield, Mackenzie and Rochedale, bounded to the south and south-east by Bulimba Creek and to the east by the Gateway Motorway, with Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road running through the middle.
“Wishart is one of the southside’s big, settled family suburbs: an established, multicultural pocket of houses on generous blocks where the demand engine is space, schools and scarcity, not a train line. Its southern and eastern edge dissolves into the Bulimba Creek bushland, and for a lot of buyers here the two questions that matter most are which school catchment a home sits in, and which side of the creek line it falls on.“
A Local’s Week
How Wishart Actually Lives
Forget the brochure version. This is what a week here actually looks like.
The bush track and the creek
Mornings lean on the green edge of the suburb, with Wishart Community Park and the wide Bulimba Creek bikeway good for a walk, run or ride through the bushland, and a Saturday Park Run that starts from the Greenwood Street entrance.
Wishart Community Park ↗Car country, close to the motorways
This is a drive-to-work suburb with no train of its own, and the location earns it: the Gateway and Pacific Motorways are on the doorstep for the city, airport and both coasts, buses run to Garden City and the CBD, and one in five residents now works from home.
Bus routes & timetables ↗Local shops and the big centres
Weekends run on junior sport, the creek parklands and the everyday shop at Wishart Shopping Village, with Westfield Mt Gravatt at Garden City and Westfield Carindale both a short hop away for the bigger trip.
Wishart Shopping Village ↗Quiet, leafy family streets
Evenings here are settled and green, with established brick-and-tile homes on good blocks, a stable and diverse community, and some of Brisbane’s best Asian dining a few minutes away at Sunnybank when you want to eat out.
Local parks & dining ↗Wishart was known as Mount Gravatt South until it was renamed in 1967 after the Wishart family, early European settlers in the area. Before the houses arrived this was farming and grazing country on the ridges above Bulimba Creek, and Newnham Road began life as a stock route driving cattle from farms south of Brisbane up to the Cannon Hill saleyards. Much of the suburb was first built as Queensland Housing Commission estates, steadily rebuilt over the decades into modern private family homes. The bushland along the creek is a genuine local cause: the volunteer-run Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, known as the B4C, helped save the Wishart Bushlands from development. More suburb history ↗
A Suburb On The Edge Of The Bush
From Stock Route And Housing Estates To A Leafy Family Suburb
Wishart began as farming and grazing country on Brisbane’s south-east, worked ridges above Bulimba Creek where cattle were driven along what is now Newnham Road, once a stock route running to the saleyards at Cannon Hill.
Known then as Mount Gravatt South, the area was renamed Wishart in 1967 after the Wishart family, early settlers in the district. Much of the early suburb was built as Queensland Housing Commission estates, and over the following decades those estates were progressively rebuilt into private family homes.
The creek edge shaped the rest. A strip of parkland and bushland follows Bulimba Creek along the southern and eastern boundary, and the community-led B4C landcare group later helped save the Wishart Bushlands from development, giving the suburb a genuine green lung rather than a hard motorway edge.
Today Wishart is a large, settled, tightly held family suburb of houses on generous blocks, wrapped around its creek bushland and sitting inside sought-after school catchments, about fifteen kilometres from the CBD.
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Now For The Practical Bit
A high-confidence house market: the median rests on a strong 102 sales over 12 months. What sets Wishart apart is the breadth of it, a genuinely wide price spread from original homes to large rebuilt family houses, sitting on top of steady long-run growth of 86.7% over five years.
House · median
$1.52M
High confidence, 102 sales
3 bed house · median
$985k
Original & entry stock
4 bed house · median
$1.7M
Family & renovated
Unit · all beds
$747k
Limited stock
Cumulative price growth (house)
A steady, sustained run rather than a single spike, driven by school-catchment demand and a tightly held market with very little new supply.
First, the shape of this market. Wishart is a large, high-owner-occupation family suburb at around 74%, with a high-confidence $1.52M house median on a strong 102 sales, a fast market at roughly 20 to 23 days and 1.4% vacancy, and steady long-run growth of 86.7% over five years. It is overwhelmingly a house market, but the spread is unusually wide, with an interquartile range near 50% of the median, reflecting a real split between original lower-set homes and the large rebuilt four and five-bedroom houses that now sell well above $1.7M.
Second, what drives value. Two things sit above the rest here: schools and the creek. Wishart sits inside sought-after state catchments, including Mansfield State High, and adds Wishart State School and Brisbane Adventist College, so buyers pay to sit in the right zone. Supply is genuinely scarce, with building approvals near zero and almost nothing in the development pipeline. The two variables that move price the most are the school catchment and where a home sits relative to the Bulimba Creek flood line, and confirming both is the work we do for our clients.
Why Buyers Keep Choosing Wishart
Space, Schools And A Green Edge
Wishart is one of the southside’s benchmark family suburbs: houses on generous blocks inside sought-after state school catchments, backed onto the Bulimba Creek bushland, with quick motorway access to the city, airport and coasts. It offers settled, space-rich family living in a large and diverse community, rather than a churn-and-rent apartment market.
A family suburb about fifteen kilometres south-east of the Brisbane CBD, between Mount Gravatt East, Upper Mount Gravatt, Mansfield, Mackenzie and Rochedale, bounded to the south and south-east by Bulimba Creek and to the east by the Gateway Motorway.
Who Lives Here
A Large, Settled, Multicultural Family Community
Wishart skews strongly to families. School-age children make up almost 23% of residents and the 45 to 64 bracket another 23%, while the young-adult and renter cohort is comparatively small, the clear signature of a suburb people buy into for the schools and stay in for the long haul. It is also genuinely multicultural, with established Chinese, Greek, Indian and Korean communities among its residents. Owner-occupation is high at around 74%, and the community is settled, established and well-educated.
Occupation
Commute
Recent Sales
Proof Points From The Last Quarter
A sample of what’s actually traded in Wishart: public sale-record data, not agent marketing. This is a house market, so the sales cluster around the family homes that define the suburb.
$1.831M
Wishart, QLD · House, 4 bed / 2 bath / 2 car, 546m²
$1.704M
Wishart, QLD · House, 4 bed / 2 bath / 2 car, 640m²
$1.41M
Wishart, QLD · House, 4 bed / 2 bath / 2 car, 621m²
*The detached-house median of $1.52M is high confidence, based on 102 house sales over 12 months. A broader comparable set of 106 sales across all types shows a median of about $1.50M with an average of 23 days on market, and sale prices ranging from roughly $395k to $3.32M, a wide band that reflects everything from units and smaller homes to large family houses. 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 Wishart Home
In Wishart, two questions matter more than almost anything on the floor plan. The first is the school catchment. Because so much of the demand here is driven by the state school zones, including Mansfield State High, a property’s exact position relative to a catchment boundary can materially affect both price and resale, and zones are redrawn from time to time, so current boundaries should be confirmed rather than assumed. The second is scarcity: with building approvals near zero and almost nothing in the development pipeline, competition for the right home is intense, and moving quickly with clear due diligence is often the difference.
The physical overlay to check is flood, and it follows Bulimba Creek. The creek forms the southern and south-eastern boundary and threads a strip of bushland and parkland through the edge of the suburb, which is a genuine lifestyle asset, but the lower streets near the creek, its gullies and the Gateway corridor carry creek and overland-flow exposure. The higher, inner-western parts of the suburb sit clearer, and there is a lighter bushfire and vegetation consideration along the eastern and southern creek reserves. None of this rules a property in or out, but in Wishart the catchment check and the creek check belong at the very start of your due diligence, which is exactly the work we run for our clients.
Explore Wishart
Useful Places To Start Looking
A few of the spots and resources worth knowing before your first inspection.
Schools & Catchments
Getting Around & Shops
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