Industrial property — Airport & Inner North, Brisbane

The corridor

Why this corridor matters

No corridor in Queensland fuses gateway infrastructure with infill scarcity quite like Brisbane's inner north. Wrapped around Australia TradeCoast — home to roughly 1,500 businesses and more than 60,000 workers, with employment forecast to push beyond 110,000 — the precinct sits at the meeting point of the Port of Brisbane and Brisbane Airport. It is the second-largest concentration of economic activity in the state after the CBD itself. For an occupier moving freight, servicing aviation, manufacturing food or distributing to South-East Queensland's millions, there is simply no better-connected industrial address in the city.

The road and rail spine is exceptional. The 23-kilometre Gateway Motorway threads the corridor north to south, crossing the Brisbane River on the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges and linking the Pacific and Bruce highways without touching the city grid. The AirportlinkM7 tunnel connects the precinct directly to the Clem7, Legacy Way and the inner-city tunnel network, putting the CBD minutes away. Kingsford Smith Drive, Nudgee Road, Sandgate Road and the East-West Arterial complete a dense arterial mesh, while the Shorncliffe and North Coast rail lines run through Banyo and Northgate.

What makes the corridor strategically rare is not just connectivity but constraint. These are mature, built-out suburbs hemmed in by the airport, the river, residential edges and the port — there is no greenfield release valve. Knight Frank has named the TradeCoast among its national industrial hotspots, recording vacancy near 3 per cent against double-digit rental growth, while broader Brisbane vacancy has drifted higher as outer estates complete. Land that already carries industrial zoning, hardstand and service infrastructure cannot be replicated, and that scarcity underwrites both occupancy and long-run value.

Walter Taylor was built for exactly this kind of market. As a private, permanent-hold investor in business-critical industrial real estate, it acquires, develops and holds single-tenant assets across the corridor — through sale-and-leaseback with established operators, purpose-built and build-to-suit development, and selective acquisition. The strategy is deliberately patient: own well-located, functional buildings serving genuine occupier needs, manage them actively, and never become a forced seller. Working alongside the commercial agents who know these streets, Walter Taylor offers landowners and tenants a counterparty whose horizon is measured in decades.