Our patch / Hawthorne 4171
Hawthorne carries the highest median of the six and, in this release, the flattest growth: Cotality has the valuation series at zero over the year while the median sale price moved. Those are two different measures, and the gap between them is usually telling you something about what sold rather than what happened to values.
The numbers
Every figure on this page is Cotality's, for the twelve months to June 2026, and we have left it as published rather than rounding it into a nicer shape. The median is the middle sale price, not an average, and not a valuation.
Kaló haus found here
10
Median house price
$2,340,000
Houses sold, 12 months
82
Days on market
31
Median unit price
$1,010,000
Cotality, data to June 2026. Brisbane is the whole council area.
Cotality, data to June 2026. Brisbane is the whole council area.
Median house, a year earlier
$2,180,000 in the twelve months to June 2025
Change in median value
0.0% over twelve months. This is Cotality's valuation series, which runs on a different base from the median sale price above, so the two will not agree and are not meant to.
Vendor discount
-2.0% from the asking price, typically
Units
$1,010,000 median, 51 sales, 17 days to sell
In context
Cotality, data to June or July 2026 depending on the suburb. The periods are not identical, so read this as the order rather than the gap.
The rest of the patch
We have bought right across Brisbane, 306 kaló haus in 108 suburbs, and we will happily work anywhere in the city. This patch is simply where we have done it most often, and the whole of it is on Our patch.
Who lives here
62%
Owner occupied
38%
Rented
$1,150
Median weekly rent, house
$675
Median weekly rent, unit
2.6%
Gross yield, house
3.5%
Gross yield, unit
5,090
Population
37
Median age
$158K
Median household income
Tenure, population, age and household income are ABS Census 2021. Rents are the Cotality median weekly asking rent, read November 2026, with periods running from June to October 2026 depending on the suburb. Gross yield is the annualised rent against the median sale price on this page, before costs, so it is a comparison between suburbs rather than a forecast of your return. A thin rental market moves these figures around, and where a suburb has too few sales to mean anything the line is left out rather than filled in.
Before you buy here
Hawthorne has a flood history that is unusually well documented, and worth reading properly rather than skimming. In 2011 the water settled in an arc from Hawthorne Road south west to Lindsay Street, and the northern end is exposed where water backs up Pashen Creek as far as Barton Road. In February 2022 the Brisbane City gauge peaked at 3.85 metres AHD. None of that tells you about a particular house, which is the point: we pull the report.
Brisbane City Council publishes flood risk address by address through the FloodWise Property Report. There is no suburb level answer, and anyone who gives you one is guessing. Council's creek mapping was last updated in September 2024, so older advice may be out of date.
Roads, rail and river
Ferry
Hawthorne terminal on Gordon Street, 0.6km, on the F11 CityCat
Train
Morningside station, 2.3km, Cleveland line
Road
7.1km to the CBD
State school catchments
Primary
Morningside State School and Norman Park State School
Secondary
Balmoral State High School
Catchments follow streets, not suburb boundaries, and Hawthorne falls across more than one. Confirm your exact zone by street address on EdMap before you let a catchment decide anything. We do this on every property.
The river that makes it desirable is also the river that makes the flood question real, so this is a suburb where the due diligence has to be done properly rather than quickly. Thirty one days to sell, and a vendor discount of only -2.0%, which is the tightest of the six.
The market now
The medians above cover the twelve months to June 2026, and Brisbane has turned since. Cotality has the city down 1.5 per cent in September 2026 and 4.7 per cent across the quarter, a sixth consecutive monthly fall, leaving values close to 6 per cent below the peak they reached in May. Annual growth was revised down from 10.8 per cent to 5.9 per cent in a single release.
Here is the clearest measure of how far it has turned. A year ago a house in Brisbane sold in a median 17 days. It now takes 38. The figure for Hawthorne above is a median across the twelve months to June 2026, not today, which is exactly why a twelve month median is the wrong thing to buy off on its own. Total listings are up more than 60 per cent while new listings have fallen, sales are down about 27 per cent on the same quarter last year, and in the week to 24 October only 21 per cent of Brisbane auctions sold under the hammer. A hundred and seventeen passed in. Every one of those is a conversation rather than a contest.
Two other things are shaping who you are bidding against. The cash rate has been at 4.6 per cent since the end of September, and from July 2027 negative gearing on residential property is limited to new builds while the fifty per cent capital gains discount is replaced by indexation plus a minimum tax. Both are law, neither touches the main residence exemption, and your accountant is the right person to advise you on your own position. The effect we see at inspections is fewer investors in the room.
What all of that means for a buyer here: a twelve month median is a rear view mirror, and right now it is flattering. There is more stock, more time, and more room to negotiate than there has been in four years.
Cotality Monthly Housing Chart Pack, October 2026; Domain auction results, week to 24 October 2026, preliminary; Reserve Bank of Australia; Australian Taxation Office. Read on 27 October 2026 and superseded by the November release.
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