Property management in West End, Brisbane
Brisbane property management
Whether you own a unit or a house in West End, Brisbane, you are renting into a mixed suburb: 414 of its rented homes are houses and 177 are townhouses, beside 3,139 units. West End is an inner-city Brisbane suburb next to South Brisbane and Highgate Hill, about 2.3 km in a straight line from Queen Street Mall. This guide covers what West End rents for, what it is like to live in, and how we would manage your property here.
Your property in West End
West End's residents work more than they study
Professionals are the largest group of West End’s working residents, at 43.4%, while 11.9% of residents are at university. Couples with children make up one West End family in three, and one-parent families one in eight. With houses in the mix and families renting them, there is more to look after than in a one-bedroom unit, and you may not see it 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.
Between inspections, you should not have to ask how things stand. Your own owner portal, showing your statements, bills, inspection reports and repair jobs at any time. 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: South Brisbane, Woolloongabba.
Average rent in West End, Brisbane
What new West End tenancies were signed at last quarter
You want to know what West End rents for before you decide anything. Here are the RTA’s median weekly rents for new tenancies in Brisbane’s West End, postcode 4101, not the Townsville suburb of the same name.
| Type and bedrooms | Median weekly rent | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | $715 | September 2026 |
| Unit, 1 bedroom | $650 | September 2026 |
| Unit, 2 bedrooms | $850 | September 2026 |
Three-bedroom units and houses are left out: both medians have moved too much from quarter to quarter to rely on.
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 West End
West End centres on Boundary Street, with the river on two sides
West End, South Brisbane and Highgate Hill together are Kurilpa, the "place of the water rat", and the area around upper Musgrave Park was an important Aboriginal camp. Settlers named the suburb after London’s West End and farmed it with orchards, and a tram line ran from 1885, electrified in 1897. Tristram’s Drink Factory at 79 Boundary Street, built in 1928 in the Mission Revival style, became a market in the 1990s.
The Brisbane River runs along West End’s western and southern sides, with Toowong, St Lucia and Milton across the water. Boundary Street is the centre of its cafés and restaurants, and Davies Park, where the Souths Logan Magpies play at the Bill Tyquin Oval, holds a big Saturday market. The suburb’s parks include Orleigh Park, Bunyapa Park, Boundary Street Park and People’s Park, and Kurilpa Library, Metro Arts and Urban Climb are all here.
West End at the 2021 Census
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census.
Schools
Almost all of West End is in the West End State School catchment
State primary schools: almost all of the suburb is in the West End State School catchment, and the school is in the suburb, on Vulture Street. A tiny part is in the Ironside State School catchment.
State secondary schools: almost all of West End is in the Brisbane State High School catchment for Years 7 to 12, and a small part is in the Indooroopilly State High School catchment. Brisbane State High School is just east, in South Brisbane.
Non-state schools in West End: Arethusa College (Years 7 to 12), on Montague Road. Nearby: Somerville House and St Laurence’s College in South Brisbane, and St Ita’s Regional Primary School in Dutton Park.
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
West End's train is next door, and its ferry is at Orleigh Street
There is no train station in West End; the nearest are South Brisbane and South Bank stations, next door. The West End CityCat terminal is on Orleigh Street, and the Cultural Centre and South Bank busway stations are in South Brisbane. Bus routes changed when Brisbane Metro began in 2025, so check TransLink for the current ones. By road and without traffic, Queen Street Mall is about 8 minutes away (4.3 km), the University of Queensland at St Lucia about 16 minutes (9.0 km) and Brisbane Airport about 23 minutes (19.7 km).
Worth knowing
Four things a West End owner can look up
- Flood information: Brisbane City Council’s FloodWise Property Report and its Flood Awareness Map show flood information for an address.
- Heritage: West End has a number of heritage-listed places, and the council’s City Plan mapping shows whether a heritage overlay applies to an address.
- Units: 2,190 of West End’s 4,880 units are in blocks of nine storeys or more.
- A bridge to Toowong: the council’s planned walking and cycling bridge from Toowong to West End is on hold, subject to funding availability.
What is the average rent in West End, Brisbane?
The RTA publishes a median for new tenancies every quarter, and the latest for West End are in the table above. What yours would rent for depends on the property. Rental appraisals are free, with no obligation.
Do you manage properties in West End, Brisbane?
Yes. Your Property Team manages investment properties across the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Logan. We take on properties in any Brisbane suburb.
How do you choose a tenant?
Every rental application is reviewed in detail and checked for accuracy: identity, references and tenancy databases, following Queensland's legislation. If we wouldn't put them in our own home, we won't put them in yours.
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.
We manage properties in every suburb of the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Logan, not only those listed here. These are the suburbs we've written guides for.
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