Calamvale rents and property management
Brisbane property management
If you own a rental in Calamvale, it most likely has three or four bedrooms: more than eight in ten homes in the suburb do. Calamvale is a Brisbane City Council suburb about 20 km south of the CBD by road, with Calamvale Community College and the Golden Pond wetlands inside its boundary. This guide covers what Calamvale rents for, what it is like to live in, and how we would manage your property here.
Your property in Calamvale
More Calamvale rentals are townhouses than houses
Of Calamvale’s 2,003 rented homes in the 2021 Census, 1,140 were townhouses and 844 were houses, and only 10 were units. Homes with three people in them on average get steady use, and you may not see yours between tenancies. Every commitment below holds in Brisbane, inspections included. Routine inspections every 14 to 17 weeks, with a detailed report and quality photos sent to you, so you know your property’s condition.
When an inspection turns up something to fix, the decision stays with you. No money is spent on repairs or maintenance without your approval, except emergency repairs the law allows. Grant Drennan, our founder and Director, is an investor himself and the constant behind every property we manage. Start with a free Investor Portfolio Review: a look at your whole portfolio, not just the one property. Rental appraisals are free, with no obligation.
Nearby guides: Sunnybank Hills, Runcorn.
You want to know what Calamvale rents for before you decide anything. Here are the RTA’s median weekly rents for new tenancies in Calamvale, for the homes with enough new leases to rely on.
| Type and bedrooms | Median weekly rent | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | $720 | September 2026 |
| Townhouse, 3 bedrooms | $680 | September 2026 |
| House, 4 bedrooms | $860 | September 2026 |
Three-bedroom houses are left out: their median rests on 13 new leases and has moved from quarter to quarter. 34 of 171 new bonds were in the RTA’s ‘other’ group, which has no published median.
Source: Residential Tenancies Authority (Queensland), median weekly rents for new bonds, September quarter 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
A median is the middle of every new lease across the suburb, not a figure for your home. Rental appraisals are free, with no obligation.
Living in Calamvale
Calamvale's housing went up in stages from the early 1990s
Calamvale is named after James Calam, an early settler and landowner, whose family homestead stood near Calam Road and Beaudesert Road. It was listed as a suburb in 1972, and its housing went up in stages from the early 1990s. Calamvale State School opened in 1955, and secondary years were added in 2002, making it Calamvale Community College.
Calamvale Central on Compton Road and Calamvale Marketplace on Nottingham Road are both inside the suburb, and so are the Calamvale Hotel and Calamvale District Park. The Golden Pond wetlands sit among dozens of smaller parks across the suburb. Sunnybank Plaza is about 9 minutes away by road.
Calamvale at the 2021 Census
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census.
Schools
Most of Calamvale is in Calamvale Community College's secondary catchment
State primary schools: about half the suburb is in the Calamvale Community College catchment, and the rest is split between the Stretton State College, Runcorn Heights State School and Algester State School catchments, with a very small part in Sunnybank Hills State School’s.
State secondary schools: most of Calamvale is in the Calamvale Community College catchment for Years 7 to 12, and the rest is in the Stretton State College catchment. Calamvale Special School is also in the suburb.
Non-state schools in Calamvale: Wisdom College, an independent school established in 2011. Nearby: St Stephen’s School in Algester (Catholic, Prep to Year 6) and the Autism Queensland Education and Therapy Centre in Sunnybank Hills.
Catchments change, and the boundary follows streets, not suburbs. Check any address on the Queensland Government’s school catchment map before you rely on it.
Getting around
Calamvale has no station, so the roads do the work
There is no train station in Calamvale. Beaudesert Road and Compton Road carry its traffic, and the Logan Motorway runs to the south. Translink’s journey planner shows the current bus routes for any address. By road and without traffic, the CBD is about 23 minutes away (20.0 km), Griffith University’s Nathan campus about 14 minutes (10.4 km), the QEII Jubilee Hospital about 13 minutes (9.2 km) and Brisbane Airport about 32 minutes (34.5 km).
Worth knowing
Three things a Calamvale owner can look up
- Flood information: Brisbane City Council’s Flood Awareness Map gives general flood awareness information for an address, and its FloodWise Property Report is the technical report for building and planning.
- Townhouses: 2,094 of Calamvale’s 5,839 homes are townhouses, and 1,964 of those have two storeys or more.
- Zoning: Brisbane City Council’s minor amendment package U, adopted in August 2025, moved several Calamvale sites out of the emerging community zone, mostly into residential zones and one into the district centre zone, to match development approvals already given.
How much rent can I get for a townhouse in Calamvale?
The RTA's median for three-bedroom townhouses is in the table above, for new tenancies across the suburb. What yours would rent for depends on the property. Rental appraisals are free, with no obligation.
Do you manage properties in Calamvale?
Yes. Your Property Team manages investment properties across the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Logan. We take on properties in any Brisbane suburb.
What happens if my tenant falls behind on rent?
If rent falls behind, your tenant hears from us every day from day 1, and on day 8 we issue the breach notice the legislation allows.
How do I switch property managers?
When you appoint us, we give your current agent 30 days' notice for you, and the handover happens during those 30 days. Your tenant's lease carries on unchanged.
Where we work
The Gold Coast, Brisbane and Logan.
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