This, has been going on since about March this year ~ out this way (roughly 65klm south from Brissy CBD), the big winners are owners of pastoral land, who sub-divide and sell to developers to create housing estates. The goggle-sat image below, is around a year old, but that said to estate being seen in the image being developed, is now all sold out, and construction of houses is almost complete.
About 15klms further north, 2 years ago this suburb wasn't there, you see it here a year ago ~ it's now pretty much all filled;
About 10klms west of the above, another new suburb in the last 2 years, and another planned for that vacant land to right of image center;
Yes, you can get houses on acreage as close as 18klms from the CBD, but you'll pay through the nose for the privilege, and essentially that's not what ppl are buying -- they're buying into housing developments like that above.
The real hotspot, is the Sunshine Coast up north -- a real buying frenzy happening there right the now -- our response to this, was to move ~25klms further south, to avoid the perils of massed humanity;
We reckon we're 'safe' here for another 10 or so years =)
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