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

Local context

Why Eagle Farm is strategic

Eagle Farm is industrial almost to the exclusion of everything else. The 2021 census recorded a resident population of just eleven people across nearly six square kilometres — a statistic that captures the suburb's character better than any description. Apart from the Royal Queensland Golf Club on Curtin Avenue, the land is given over to warehouses, distribution facilities, workshops and corporate-industrial campuses. This is not a suburb that industry moved into; it is a suburb that industry built.

The defining estate is TradeCoast Central, a 120-hectare masterplanned industrial community at 87 Schneider Road, developed on the site of Brisbane's original airport, which served the city until the current airport opened in 1988. It sits hard against the Gateway Motorway with direct links to the airport, the port and Kingsford Smith Drive. Occupiers span logistics, freight and manufacturing — automotive group AutoNexus across roughly five hectares, freight specialist Pentagon Freight, contract electronics maker Nautech, Neta Tyre & Auto on a long lease of around 8,600 square metres, and garden-and-plumbing supplier Holman Industries on a 7,500-square-metre pre-commitment.

Connectivity is the suburb's organising principle. Kingsford Smith Drive runs west to east; the Gateway Motorway passes through from south to north and crosses the river on the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges; and Southern Cross Way peels off to form the boundary with Hamilton. The net effect is that an Eagle Farm occupier can reach the airport terminals, the Port of Brisbane and the CBD — via the AirportlinkM7 tunnel — within minutes, without ever joining surface congestion. For freight and aviation-dependent businesses, that grade-separated access is worth paying for.

Demand here is structurally outrunning supply. Agents describe the precinct as tightly held, with private investors targeting well-leased assets where there is genuine scarcity and future supply remains constrained. Newer additions point to the suburb's evolution: TAFE Queensland began building a $40 million Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre in Eagle Farm in late 2023, signalling the move toward higher-value advanced manufacturing alongside traditional logistics.

Typical asset types here

Eagle Farm runs the full spectrum from corporate-grade office-warehouse facilities and high-bay distribution centres with container-height roller doors and dedicated hardstand, through to freight depots, aviation-services buildings and advanced-manufacturing campuses. Single-tenant freestanding assets and larger purpose-built facilities within masterplanned estates dominate the institutional end of the market.

What drives demand

• Direct adjacency to Brisbane Airport — the natural home for air-freight, aviation and time-critical logistics.
• Grade-separated access to the Gateway Motorway, AirportlinkM7 and Port of Brisbane for fast, congestion-free goods movement.
• Severe infill scarcity — a fully built-out, almost wholly industrial suburb with no greenfield land.
• A deep, diverse tenant base across freight, automotive, electronics, building supply and government.
• Established masterplanned estates such as TradeCoast Central offering serviced lots and a credible blue-chip address.