r/MovingToBrisbane

Hey folks, my friend and I are med students coming over for a hospital placement, roughly mid November until mid January. Looking for a place for the two of us.

Sharing a house is fine, honestly do not care about having our own spot, just would rather not end up somewhere gross or falling apart.🙃

Curious what locals actually recommend:

• Any decent groups or sites for this, ideally nothing that turns into a nightmare to use?
• Are we way too early asking now, or is the rental situation over there bad enough that we should already be on it?
• Suburbs worth looking at for two people, close ish to a hospital would be nice?
• Anything sketchy we should watch out for with short term rentals in Brisbane?

Thanks heaps, keen to hear from anyone who has been through something similar.😁❤️

We’ve got a fun, welcoming group playing both rebound beach and indoor volleyball each week. It’s a great fit if you want to stay active, meet some genuinely lovely people, and play a social sport that still gives you a bit of an adrenaline hit.

We play:
🏖️** Rebound Beach Volleybal**l– Mondays at Coorparoo
🏐 **Indoor Volleyball** – Tuesdays at Kedron
• Division 2 – competitive
• Division 3 – more social
And for anyone who also plays **netball**, our Thursday night team at South Bank is looking for one extra girl who can play C or **GA** and help out in the shooting circle when needed 🏐

**The vibe:**
✨ Friendly mixed teams with a good balance of laughs and competitiveness
✨ Experienced players are very welcome — we have higher-division teams for people who have played plenty of volleyball
✨ Also beginner-friendly, especially if you’re sporty, active, coordinated, or just keen to learn
✨ Ages range from around 16–50, with a genuinely easygoing and inclusive group
✨ Volleyball is $17.50 per game, with start times between 6–9pm
✨ Flexible attendance — life happens, so missing the occasional week is completely fine and we usually have enough players to cover

We also catch up outside sport from time to time, so it’s a nice way to meet new people as well as get moving during the week.
If you’ve been thinking about getting back into a team sport, trying something new, or finding a fun and social way to be active during the week, send me a DM 😊🏐

I moved to brisbane from Melbourne and have a full time job. I want to move in a share house because i find the livng env better.

I inspected over 8 places for shared housing and most of the them just have informal agreements rather than updating the lease. I find this peculiar as this as adding to the lease is the first step when moving in to a shared house in Melbourne. Im slightly worried about being kicked out for no reason and bond issues if not on the lease. I read that informal agreemets alos hold up legally but it seems peculiar.

What shared house experience/ dvice do you have that woudl help?

I have been offered a decent job in construction, one that I can’t really turn down as it’s more than double what I earn here in the UK.

The works office is in slacks creek but I imagine the work will be all over and mainly where the Olympics will be, I am looking to narrow down my options on places to live.

Probably max a week would be 700-750 and looking for lively places with decent pubs, cafes, gyms, etc.
Try and live a healthy fitness lifestyle as much as I can so somewhere with a decent gym and good social life would be perfect.

Also what is the best way/first things I should be doing to get set up with rentals, car, bank, etc.
Any info or help is much appreciated.

Hi guys! I'm a 24F from Italy, and I'll be spending six months in Brisbane starting late October to write my Master's thesis at UQ. I don't know anyone in the city yet, so I'd love to connect with fellow students or locals around my age to chat, exchange tips, and grab a drink or coffee when I land. If you're down to chat send me a message!!!

Hello me and my girlfriend both 21 are moving to Brisbane on August 4th from Ireland. We have got most things sorted to do with travelling over but when we get there all we have is 10 days of an air b&b booked and we’re not sure if that will be long enough to get a job and apartment sorted. Is there anyone on here in a flat with a spare room or anything of that kind that would take 2 people in. Happy to pay money for the room weekly or even daily depending on how long. Also if anyone knows mechanicing or construction jobs needing people happy to hear about that. Appreciate it guys. Just send a message for a chat about anything would also like to meet up with people around same age or area or anyone at all to make some new friends and get some new connections. Cheers guys

I’m cancelling my fitness cartel membership because I don’t use it. It’s $19.45 pw. If you’re interested dm me #brisbane #gym

Recently moved to AU/Brisbane. I have been desperately searching for a house rental for a month. been applying for all available ads and attending many inspections. But I have always been unsuccessful.

I know there is no housing shortage, but property managers are playing it smart just to show that there are few houses available on the market, creating scarcity and driving prices up like hell.

I've lived my whole life in Townsville and considering moving down to Brisbane soon. For context I'm 20, work at a bottle shop, do ubereats on the side and will be moving into another random share house when I go. So just wanted to ask for any sort of advice anyone may have as I don't know much at all about where would be a good areas to move to, where should be avoided as well as stuff like the traffic as I've heard that its pretty terrible and that I'll need to pay tolls but I also feel like it can be avoided if I choose to go around those specific roads, honestly don't know much about what its like there, have only visited a couple times for vacations with family and now I just want to leave Townsville for a big city. Any advice at all is appreciated, thankyou.

Hi,

I am out of options and need advice please. I have provided false street numbers and names.

Last month, we secured a rental as first-time renters. It is a new build property with its own mailbox and driveway, on sub-divided land. The land is on the corner of two roads - Fairybread St & Fantasy Lane. The principal property - #12, faces Fantasy Lane whilst ours - #12A, faces Fairybread St.

Everything was fine until it wasn’t and before I knew it, things began not to add up.

It was time to connect our internet and after searching the house up and down, I realised there was no NBN. To confirm this, I reached out to an ISP who advised me that “12A Fairybread St” did not exist in their database and therefore, raised a ’missing address’ ticket with the NBN. ISP then advised me that I had two options: 

1. Complete a ‘new build‘ application and lodge it with the NBN, to install our own NBN. This would incur a $300 initial connection fee and a $400-$600 developer contribution fee.

2. Connect to the principal property’s NBN and have the connection extended to our property

They also advised me to contact my property manager to discuss the next steps.

To exhaust all possible options, I called Vodafone because I wanted to explore their 5G Wireless Broadband options. Unfortunately, I was advised the same thing - 12A Fairybread St could not be located in their system and that I was required to register it through a “government portal”.

After that, I thought installing our NBN was my only hope. After contacting my property manager, of the two options provided to me by my ISP, he advised me that installing our own NBN would be the best option. He also advised me to have this arranged through my ISP as it would take less time. I asked him if the landlord would be willing to cover the initial connection fee of $300, to which the landlord agreed. 

I proceeded with the ‘new build’ application. The very next day NBN themselves withdrew it on the grounds that secondary dwellings did not require a ‘new build’ application. I would have to request a ‘Subsequent Connection’ through my ISP which will be sourced from the principal property - 12 Fairybread St. My issue with this is I don’t want to impose on my neighbours. It’s awkward to think about waltzing over there and asking if I connect to their NBN. 

I have sent two emails to my property manager about the issue, in which I am still awaiting a response. I am beginning to think my landlord may have cut some corners and is a bit dodgy for the following reasons:

• The principal property - 12 Fairybread St is listed as such across all databases. Make sense right? Especially if we are 12A Fairybread St. Welp tell me why their street number is 2 Fantasy Lane. 

• Upon searching both addresses using my local council’s website, 2 Fantasy Lane does not exist. Guess what else doesn’t exist? Yup you guessed it! 12A Fairybread St. At this point, it was safe for me to assume that the land was not sub-divided with council approval.

• I read something where if the property hasn’t been registered with the appropriate authorities, landlords will pocket the bond themselves. I decided to look for the email confirming my bond had been lodged with the RTA. After inspecting the email, the email address seems correct - “noreply@rta.qld.gov.au”, and I was provided a bond number. However, what caught my eye was the RTA stamps on the bottom of the email which looked like someone screenshotted the logo off Google and did a poor job at erasing the white background. The stamps were fringed and were in poor quality. The confirmation email also failed to include the address it is for. Is this normal? I’ve never dealt with the RTA before so I don’t know what a normal RTA receipt/confirmation email should look like.

I can’t help but feel like we were deceived and taken advantage of as first-time renters. If I had possessed the knowledge that I have now, back before I applied, I definitely would have proceeded with more caution. Don’t get me wrong, I am truly grateful that we have been entrusted to rent this place as first-time renters, I just don’t know how to move forward with getting wifi/internet to our home. I am also scared to keep asking questions or get the landlord in trouble, in case we end up with nowhere to stay. I don’t want to report any of this because I’m grateful for the opportunity, I just feel stuck. 

Please let me know if you have any advice. 

We are a family of three. Combined income approx 160k per year. one child.

Be brutally honest. How much should we expect to pay? How easy would it be for us to find a place? We just started looking.

We don’t mind going to outer suburbs and we don’t really care about living in a nice area. What suburbs are easiest to find a place?

Hi all,

I’m looking to move from UK to Brisbane in January with my wife, two kids, and dog (we’ve started the vaccine/quarantine process).

Just looking for some advice on suburbs. I’ll be working remotely, so I don’t need to be too close to CBD.

Most important aspects are safety, schools, and house for money.

Ideally I’m looking to rent for 2-3 years, get my kids into school as soon as possible, then buy a house in the same area so the kids don’t have to change school again. Looking at a budget of ~$1k a week then, when we come to buy, a budget of ~$2M.

I’ve mostly been looking at Kenmore, The Gap, Ferny Hills, and Bridgeman Downs from all the research I’ve done.

Would be grateful for any suggestions in other suburbs to consider over the above, or any thoughts on the ones I’ve been considering.

Thanks in advance!

Hi!!

I am moving to Brisbane from Melbourne through work and looking to find somewhere to rent.
Single girl in my early 30s looking to rent a one bedroom alone. Before I accept this offer at work to move I want to know what’s the rental market like? I’ve heard it’s hard to get rentals?

I’ve been wanting to move to Brisbane for the last 3 years and I have accepted rent will be a lot more than what I pay in Melbourne. I am currently paying $500 however in Brisbane I would rather be closer to the city so my max would be $650 a week.

Keen to hear thoughts!

Hey r/MovingToBrisbane ,

I'm a SEQ local and recently built a tool called CommuteIQ after spending way too much time trying to compare where I could realistically live versus where I could realistically work.

One thing I've noticed in this subreddit is that people often ask questions like:

• Is Ipswich too far from the CBD?
• How bad is the commute from Logan?
• Is North Lakes realistic for daily commuting?
• Would I be better off paying more rent to live closer in?

The answers are usually "it depends", and I found it surprisingly difficult to compare the options properly.

Google Maps is great for showing a route, but I wanted something that compared different commuting strategies and showed the impact on the whole day.

So I built a tool that compares:

• driving the whole way
• park-and-ride options
• train and bus combinations

and shows things like:

• total time away from home
• daily driving distance
• different commute options
• how changing your willingness to drive to a station affects the results

It's currently focused on Greater Brisbane and uses around 70+ major park-and-ride locations across SEQ.

I'm not selling anything. I'm just trying to work out whether this is actually useful for people making decisions about where to live and work.

If you're considering a move to Brisbane, I'd be interested to know:

• whether the results seem realistic
• whether it helps compare suburbs
• whether it changes how you think about a particular area

https://commuteiq.com.au

Happy to answer questions or take feedback if anything looks wrong.

I’m going to study at UQ for Semester 2 on an exchange, but im struggling to find a proper place to stay. I’m only looking for smth from mid july till end of november.

I need:
- own bathroom
- own kitchen/kitchenette
- max $580 aud per week
- not too far from UQ (less than 40 mins with public transport)

Everywhere I look the stay has to be for 6 months or a year, or the student accommodations like Unilodge have hella bad reviews, apparently crackheads, not allowed to cook in ur kitchenette etc.

It cant be that hard to find a reasonable studio 😭

left this rental barely in one piece. Full of black mould, rats and even a dead possum. All of which was reported to the realestate to which they didn’t believe. It took them weeks to have pest control for the rats. Then when we left (or fled), they took most of our bond (still fighting this battle). It’s an awful unsanitary place and I don’t want anyone to fall for it. There’s so many examples I could give but please just save yourself now. Your health is worth it. I could give you all the whole story but for mental health reasons I’ve had to let it go. Just please don’t rent here. There’s a reason it’s “cheap”
https://www.realestate.com.au/property/4-loowa-st-kallangur-qld-4503/