RWC’s Commercial Property Update reported Queensland’s colossal surge in total commercial sales in 2025. With $21.35 billion in total transaction value across 9,015 sales, marking a 61% increase year-on-year (Radar, 2026). Unseating Victoria as the second largest State in Australia for commercial transactions, Queensland now represents close to 25% of national commercial sales (Radar, 2026). But are Regional Queensland’s commercial property markets seeing the same extraordinary growth?
The warm glow of the New Year sun marks another golden year for commercial property on the Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Gympie regions. Contrasting to the tumultuous international influences vexing global markets, we’ve seen extraordinary stability and growth in property prices in 2025, with over $1.15 billion dollars in sales, an increase of 40% from 2024 (RWC Northern Corridor Group, 2026).
Interestingly, this soaring increase was not mirrored in the total number of sales up only 5% from 2024 to a total of 674 (RWC Northern Corridor Group, 2026). This paradox, the Price of Paradise, simply means there are far more people who want to buy on the Coast than there are properties to be bought. A shortage felt most acutely on the Sunshine Coast where commercial land is increasingly rare. Aspiring developers seeking to profit from the Coast’s skyrocketing property prices would do well to get in now before the last lots are gone for good.
Diving deeper into the composition of commercial sales activity, Industrial continues to outperform other assets holding a 31.1% share of total transactions at the national level, up from 27% in 2024 (Radar, 2026). Industrial’s dominance only strengthens at the Regional level, representing 48% of all commercial sales across Gympie, Noosa, and the Sunshine Coast (RWC Northern Corridor Group, 2026). Emphasising the strength investors and owner occupiers continue to see in the regional industrial market.
While there were a handful of superlative off-market medical and retail sales in these regions, including 5 Discovery Court, Birtinya, a colossal healthcare facility that sold for $35,200,000, the bulk of this year’s sales were in the $1-5 million dollar range to a total of 270 sales cumulatively worth over $530 million dollars (RWC Northern Corridor Group, 2026). Owners of such assets should feel emboldened as more Victorians move to the Sunshine State, their troves of capital are following them, seeking the fertile yields and stable regulatory environment their home state let slip away.