Starting to look at QLD

Hi all

My family are considering buying a place in QLD, that can function as our “holiday home” for the moment, but can become our “future home” as prospect of us relocating to QLD is on the cards. My wife thinks VIC winter is too cold for her liking and she has some good impressions with QLD.

Anyway, we don’t necessarily want to buy a house with big blocks of land as a glance at various locations seems to suggest a house with big land would cost at the very least some $600K and more.

I do notice between Sunshine cost and Brisbane Metro and Gold Coast, if I look at say, Morrayfield or Caboolture or Coomera, Beenleigh…. I do notice that Townhouses are still advertized for below 350K (and can rent for between $320- high 300 per week for the time being).

The reason for looking into those areas is mainly because they are not too far away from Brisbane, and at the same time, within 1 hour drive from one of the “Coast” locations, and their pricing aren’t as crazy as Brisbane city itself.

My question though is since I have very little knowledge of QLD market…. are there any gotchas for those areas? such as: too dependant on seasonal traffic? natural disasters? any other quirks I need to be aware of?