Logan property surge as Brisbane and Gold Coast families hunt for affordable homesites

Nawshad and Farjana Ali, along with their fifteen-year-old daughter Nameera, are among those moving to Logan to build a new home. Brisbane and Gold Coast buyers are bypassing their own backyards for Logan, where land prices undercut both cities by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Homehunters are taking advantage of land prices that are up to 61 per cent cheaper, according to the latest land sales data by Oliver Hume. It comes as more than half (51.3 per cent) of land sales at Mirvac’s Everleigh community in Greenbank over the past year have been to Brisbane and Gold Coast purchasers, while the figure is over a third (35.5 per cent) at its Kindira community in Monarch Glen, since its March (2026) launch. Brisbane and Gold Coast buyers are bypassing their own backyards for Logan. MORE NEWS: Brisbane property prices fall for sixth straight month Burleigh boss drops $27m on NSW beach club clone “Work of art” home sells with $14m price tag Oliver Hume data reveals Logan’s median price for a block of land is $484,950, significantly more affordable than Brisbane’s median of $1.26m and the Gold Coast’s of $820,000. Nawshad and Farjana Ali, along with their fifteen-year-old daughter Nameer...