Regional Queensland Property Investment in Toowoomba

Toowoomba ... Why we love QLD’s largest inland city for regional property investment in Queensland!

It is a city known for its country charm, heritage buildings, stunning escarpment

views and its iconic Carnival of Flowers🪻🍂 The city of Toowoomba offers its residents a unique lifestyle combining the ease of living in town with a small community feel and slower pace of living in the country. Overflowing with parks, tree-lined avenues and English style cottage gardens, beautiful Toowoomba is often dubbed the ‘Garden City’.

Located in the Southern Downs, Toowoomba is a the region's major employment hub and regional centre for commerce, agriculture, industry, energy, transport, medicine, education and has its own military base 'Boneo Barracks'. This means that the number of people who want and need to live in Toowoomba is steadily increasing.

A few major infrastructure projects in the city have really peaked our interest with huge investment in the area showing just how important a role the city will play in the future of QLD. The Bailie Henderson Hospital Precinct, the privately funded Wellcamp Airport and its Qantas Pilot Training Centre, the Inland Rail project and the recently completed 2nd Range Crossing are just a few examples getting us excited about future growth in the region 🏘

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Location

Located in a region of South-East QLD called the Southern Downs, Toowoomba is Queensland’s largest inland city. About 1.5hrs drive West from Brisbane CBD and 2hrs drive from the Gold Coast, with its own ‘Wellcamp Airport’ servicing domestic and select international flights, the city is conveniently accessible.

Situated almost 700m above sea level on the Great Dividing Range, the city experiences a more temperate climate to coastal regions of SE QLD and has four distinct seasons. Overflowing with parks, tree-lined avenues and English style cottage gardens Toowoomba has been dubbed the ‘Garden City’. It is a city known for its country charm, heritage buildings, stunning escarpment views and its iconic Carnival of Flowers.

Lifestyle

The city of Toowoomba offers its residents a unique lifestyle combining the ease of living in town with the small town community and slower pace of living in the country. Many farming families use Toowoomba as a base for education, medicine and shopping, having a large home in town that the whole family can use as well as their home on the land.

Why buy an investment property in Toowoomba?

Demand for housing in the area is increasing with more and more people wanting and needing to live in Toowoomba. With a diverse range of commercial interests, a good sized population (>178,000 in 2022), recent and upcoming large scale infrastructure projects and history of solid capital growth, this town shows every hallmark of an excellent opportunity for property investment in regional Queensland.

Employment Hub

Toowoomba is a major regional centre & employment hub for south western QLD for commerce, industry, agriculture, the energy sector, professionals and consultants, education and retail as well as the military base, ‘Borneo Barracks’.

Affordability

Many are attracted to Toowoomba due to its affordability. Numbers from June 2025 show Toowoomba’s average asking house price to be around $680k which is almost $320k cheaper than Brisbane’s median house price of just over $1million.

Medicine & Aged care

Toowoomba is the region's centre for medical care. There are four hospitals in Toowoomba

and approximately 16 aged care facilities.

Education

Toowoomba is a well known regional hub for high quality education. There is a huge selection of primary and secondary schools in Toowoomba both private and State. Eight of these offer boarding facilities for domestic and international students. The city also boasts The University of Southern Queensland campus, the University of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School teaching facility as well as the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE among numerous other colleges and specialised learning facilities.

Ease of Access

Infrastructure projects completed in recent years mean that Toowoomba has great accessibility to the rest of Australia (and the world).

1. Toowoomba Bypass & second range crossing ($1.6b project finished 2019)

2. Wellcamp Airport offers regular domestic and a limited number of weekly international

passenger flights. It is also home to the Regional Trade Distribution Centre & Qantas Pilot Academy. The airport was the first major greenfield public airport project in Australia since the 1950s and is the first privately funded airport in the country.

Major Infrastructure Projects underway in Toowoomba

1.Ballie Henderson Hospital Precinct

Works for the new $1.3b hospital precinct have begun with expected completion in 2027. $17m upgrade to the existing Toowoomba Base Hospital Emergency Department is being constructed concurrently. This project is expected to bring more than 3,100 jobs during construction.

2.Inland rail

1,700km rail project connecting Melbourne → Brisbane is currently in construction with progress reaching the Growrie Plains/Toowoomba section of the railway. The railway will provide primarily freight transport with the potential for passenger trains in the future. This project is expected to bring >16,000 jobs to Toowoomba during its construction. Toowoomba to become major freight distribution centre upon completion.