Rockhampton seems to be doing well at the moment, although Gracemere has significant oversupply.
I only hear bad things on Gladstone as far as prices and vacancies go.
15km out.
When I was renting many moons ago and we looked at moving from Kangaroo Point to Coorparoo my girlfriend and I at the time had a serious discussion as to whether we were moving too far out.
I agree that it has the ingredients to be Blue Chip,hey said that in Manly 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and 5 years ago.
Blue Chip in 20 years maybe. The state schools in the area are still dodgy and there is a lot of low SES people around.