Demand 6/10: major northern hub, but oversaturated with established chains (The Coffee Club, Dome, Gloria Jean's).
Demand 6/10 · Rent 3/10 · Competition 8/10
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Demand 6/10: major northern hub, but oversaturated with established chains (The Coffee Club, Dome, Gloria Jean's).
Demand 6/10 · Rent 3/10 · Competition 8/10
Demand 4/10: commercial vacancy on Great Northern Highway exceeds 18% — a clear signal of foot traffic below the threshold for new hospitality entrants.
Demand 4/10 · Rent 2/10 · Competition 5/10
Demand 6/10: transport-linked convenience plus local family repeat demand.
Demand 6/10 · Rent 4/10 · Competition 6/10
Demand 7/10: an affluent established riverside suburb (7,456 residents; median age 43; household income $2,401/week) anchored at its northern edge by the Canning Bridge activity centre — a high-rise apartment-and-dining precinct around Canning Bridge station on the Mandurah line — over quiet riverside residential streets.
Demand 7/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 6/10
Demand 7/10: an affluent heritage riverside suburb (7,819 residents; household income $2,288/week) wrapped around the Swan River bordering Fremantle, with the George Street strip — cafés, antique dealers, bars and the landmark Royal George Hotel — a genuine destination hospitality precinct riding Fremantle tourism spill.
Demand 7/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 6/10
Demand 7/10: an inner-coastal, gentrifying suburb (9,205 residents; median age 37, the youngest of the belt; household income $2,305/week; 31.6% rented) whose slice of Scarborough Beach Road has become a café-and-small-bar strip drawing established families and younger renters between Scarborough Beach and the Mitchell Freeway.
Demand 7/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 6/10
Demand 7/10: a gentrified, arty heritage suburb immediately south of central Fremantle (3,398 residents; median age 48; highest personal income of its belt at $963/week) with the South Terrace and Wray Avenue café-and-bar strips, the South Beach foreshore and the South Fremantle precinct — a high-spend, walkable, culturally-oriented market.
Demand 7/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 6/10
Demand 6/10: the most affluent and family-dominated of the belt (6,020 residents; 88.8% family households; 54.4% owned outright; median rent $545/week) with the strongest Asian-Australian profile here (Chinese the #1 ancestry at 29.0%; a distinctive Indonesian/Malaysian community), beside Murdoch University, Fiona Stanley Hospital and Murdoch station, served locally by Winthrop Village.
Demand 6/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 5/10
Demand 6/10: a small, affluent-leaning riverside suburb near the Canning River and Curtin University (2,460 residents; household income $2,301/week, the highest of its belt; ~82% owned; very diverse — Chinese the leading ancestry at 29.4%, English-only-at-home 55.7%) anchored by the Waterford Plaza shopping centre.
Demand 6/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 5/10
Demand 5/10: a quieter foothills suburb between Forrestfield and the Kalamunda hills (4,499 residents; household income $1,977/week; 80.0% family households), semi-rural in feel with larger blocks transitioning into bushland and no commercial centre of its own.
Demand 5/10 · Rent 5/10 · Competition 4/10
Demand 5/10: a quiet, leafy, affluent riverside peninsula suburb on the Canning River near Como (2,913 residents; median age 47, the oldest; highest incomes of its belt; only 12.2% rented) — but with NO retail centre of its own, residents use Manning Rd/Waterford Plaza and the river foreshore defines its edges.
Demand 5/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 4/10
Demand 5/10: a small, highly multicultural 1970s-era value pocket in the City of Canning (3,541 residents; household income $1,482/week; 46.5% Australian-born, English-only-at-home 56.3%; Chinese 14.7% ancestry) built around the small Lynwood Village centre and the Bannister Creek parks; no rail.
Demand 5/10 · Rent 5/10 · Competition 4/10
Demand 5/10: a small, affluent, leafy inner-north pocket between Yokine and Mount Lawley (1,751 residents; highest household income of its area at $3,229/week; 83% owner-occupied; English-only-at-home 85.2%) prized for its school catchment but with almost NO local retail.
Demand 5/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 4/10
Demand 5/10: a small, affluent, quiet leafy suburb between Yokine and Mount Lawley (2,691 residents; median age 57, the oldest of its pocket) distinguished by its long-established Jewish community (Judaism ~8.2%, the Perth Hebrew Congregation synagogue and nearby Carmel School) — a settled, older residential enclave with little local retail.
Demand 5/10 · Rent 5/10 · Competition 4/10
Demand 6/10: a prestige, low-turnover riverside suburb (3,638 residents; median age 48; median mortgage $2,741/month) on the Canning River whose defining driver is the Rossmoyne Senior High School catchment — one of WA's elite public-school zones — fuelling very high Chinese-Australian (and growing Indian) family demand and premium prices.
Demand 6/10 · Rent 6/10 · Competition 4/10
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