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Airport & Inner North corridor

Industrial property in Banyo, Brisbane — lease, sale & leaseback and build-to-suit

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Banyo is a dual-character northern suburb roughly 14 kilometres north-east of Brisbane's CBD — part established residential, part fast-growing industrial — drawn into the orbit of Australia TradeCoast by its proximity to the airport and port. Nudgee Road has become its industrial spine, lined with modern estates and freestanding warehouses. Walter Taylor invests in and holds single-tenant industrial assets in Banyo for the long term.

Banyo — at a glance

Precinct
Dual residential-industrial northern suburb on the TradeCoast fringe
Key access
Gateway Motorway via Nudgee Road; Shorncliffe rail line and Banyo station
Major estates / occupiers
Banyo South Industrial Estate (50 Raubers Rd); Triple Eight Race Engineering; ACU McAuley campus
Proximity
~14 km NE of CBD; ~5 km to Brisbane Airport; ~20 km to Port of Brisbane
Typical stock
Modern freestanding warehouse-and-office facilities and mid-sized estate units with hardstand
Why strategic
Gateway-connected logistics with deep heritage and genuine labour-market depth

Local context

Why Banyo is strategic

Banyo wears two hats. Settled from 1849 and named in 1897, it grew up around the Shorncliffe railway line and Banyo station as a residential community — and much of it still is, anchored by the Australian Catholic University's McAuley campus at 1100 Nudgee Road. But over recent decades the suburb has rapidly expanded its business and industrial parks, drawn by the same logic that built the rest of the corridor: easy access to Brisbane Airport, the Port of Brisbane and the Gateway Motorway.

Banyo's industrial DNA runs surprisingly deep. During the Second World War the US Army built a sprawling general depot of some 75 buildings off Earnshaw Road. After the war the site fed the region's industrial base — part became the Golden Circle cannery, part transferred to the Australian Army as an ordnance depot, and another part was reserved as a railways engineering workshop. That legacy of large, well-serviced industrial parcels shaped the land pattern today's logistics and manufacturing occupiers have inherited.

Nudgee Road is the suburb's industrial backbone, progressively becoming a commercial hub through its connection to the Gateway Motorway, and it is here that modern estates concentrate. The Banyo South Industrial Estate at 50 Raubers Road is representative: around 2.9 hectares facing Nudgee Road, comprising roughly eight modern freestanding warehouse-and-office buildings totalling about 13,000 square metres. Its institutional pedigree is telling — it was developed by Goodman and traded to Hale Capital Partners for around $28 million, a fund-grade transaction signalling the suburb's arrival.

Banyo also carries high-profile occupiers that speak to its capabilities. Triple Eight Race Engineering — one of Australia's most successful Supercars teams — is headquartered in the suburb, a reminder that Banyo supports precision engineering and advanced fabrication, not just storage. The transport credentials are first-rate: roughly 5 kilometres to Brisbane Airport, around 20 kilometres to the Port of Brisbane, and direct Gateway access. With the Shorncliffe line and a skilled workforce drawn by the university, Banyo offers a rare combination of gateway logistics, industrial heritage and genuine labour-market depth.

Typical asset types here

Banyo's industrial stock is led by modern freestanding warehouse-and-office facilities and small-to-mid-sized estate units with hardstand and container access, alongside larger legacy industrial parcels along the Earnshaw Road and Nudgee Road corridors. Both multi-tenant estates and single-tenant freestanding assets are well represented.

What drives demand

  • Approximately 5 kilometres to Brisbane Airport with direct Gateway Motorway access via Nudgee Road.
  • Nudgee Road's emergence as a commercial-industrial spine concentrating modern estates and freestanding warehousing.
  • A legacy of large, well-serviced industrial parcels from wartime depot, ordnance and railway-workshop uses.
  • Rail connectivity via the Shorncliffe line and a skilled younger workforce drawn by the ACU campus.
  • Proven institutional appeal, evidenced by the Goodman-to-Hale Banyo South transaction.

How we partner

Three ways we partner in Banyo

Sale & leaseback

Own your premises here? Release the capital and lease it straight back on a long-term basis.

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Build / develop-to-suit

Need a facility that doesn't exist yet? We fund, build and hold it — then lease it to you.

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Acquire-to-suit & lease

Outgrowing your space? We acquire the building that fits your requirement and lease it to you.

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Banyo — questions

What companies and industries are based in Banyo?
Banyo hosts a mix of logistics, light manufacturing and precision-engineering occupiers, concentrated along the Nudgee Road and Earnshaw Road corridors. Its highest-profile tenant is Triple Eight Race Engineering, one of Australia's leading Supercars teams, which underlines the suburb's capacity for advanced fabrication. Modern estates such as Banyo South Industrial Estate house a range of smaller-to-mid-sized warehouse and distribution users. The Australian Catholic University's McAuley campus anchors the education side, while the broader area supports transport, trade-services and food-related businesses drawn by airport and port proximity.
How far is Banyo from the airport, the port and the city?
Banyo is well placed within the gateway corridor. Brisbane Airport is approximately 5 kilometres away via Nudgee Road and the Gateway Motorway, while the Port of Brisbane lies around 20 kilometres to the south-east via the same motorway spine. The Brisbane CBD is roughly 14 kilometres south-west. The suburb is also served by the Shorncliffe railway line through Banyo station, giving both freight context and a passenger link for the workforce. For occupiers balancing airport access, port reach and proximity to a residential labour pool, Banyo's positioning is genuinely strong.
What kind of industrial property is available in Banyo?
Banyo's offering centres on modern freestanding warehouse-and-office facilities and small-to-mid-sized estate units, typically with hardstand, on-site parking and container-height access — well suited to logistics, trade-services and light-manufacturing occupiers. The Banyo South Industrial Estate on Raubers Road, with around eight modern buildings totalling roughly 13,000 square metres across 2.9 hectares, is a representative example. Alongside this newer product, the suburb retains larger legacy parcels along Earnshaw Road and Nudgee Road — a remnant of its depot and railway-workshop history — which periodically offer repositioning potential for longer-term owners.
Is Banyo a good location for industrial investment?
Banyo has matured into credible industrial investment territory, and institutional capital has taken notice — the Banyo South Industrial Estate was developed by Goodman and sold to Hale Capital Partners for around $28 million, a clear marker of fund-grade interest. The investment case rests on durable fundamentals: roughly 5 kilometres to the airport, direct Gateway access, a deepening cluster of modern estates along Nudgee Road, and a skilled local workforce supported by the nearby university. As a permanent-hold owner, Walter Taylor sees Banyo as exactly the kind of well-connected, supply-constrained location where business-critical single-tenant assets reward patient, active ownership.
What is the difference between Banyo and the rest of the TradeCoast corridor?
Banyo is more genuinely dual-purpose than the corridor's industrial core. Where Eagle Farm is almost wholly industrial, Banyo balances established residential neighbourhoods, the university campus and retail with its industrial estates — which sits it slightly further out, around 14 kilometres from the city. That blend is an advantage for occupiers: it brings a resident workforce close to the front gate and a more diversified local economy. Industrially, Banyo plays to logistics, light manufacturing and engineering on Gateway-connected land, complementing rather than duplicating the heavier freight and aviation-services concentration deeper inside Australia TradeCoast.

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