Lowood, QLD 4311

I have been actively selling property in the Lowood area for over 12 months now and the experience has been awesome! The town has everything on offer, from grocery and medical needs to fuel and hardware!

The location can't be argued with - major shopping in Ipswich is just 32 minutes away (25 to Brassall) and you've also got Fernvale and Plainland under 15 minutes away!

The people are friendly and the majority of the homes are well kept. Highly recommend considering a purchase @ Lowood.

I work at Wacol . 30 minute commute even in peak hour .
Houses are cheap compared to Brisbane and Ipswich.
There is a large primary school and large high school.
The large medical centre bulk bills . I have my own excellent doctors.
Drakes supermarket and the mitre 10 are great services .
There is a proactive citizens group .
Let us say we are ensuring that better quality of tenants come here .
My unit settled in 2020 .
It is brick and tile but was cheap .
I find I have an excellent outlook over the neighbouring paddock and dam .
Prices have risen a little . But for $250k .
You will get a less than 10 year old brick and tile .
Near the Brisbane River.
The drive up over the panoramic hill to Glamorganvale. Only ten minutes. But what a view !

If U want to enjoy living in country town close to Brisbane for work I tick Lowood, clean town, nice walking trails, good supermarket,schools, service station, police station, people are what we are
1. Syringes or drug addicts
Not noticed
2. Car burn out marks on streets
Not noticed
3. Used furniture on roads
Not noticed
4. Very clean and tidy town

Attracted by the cheap rent, I cant wait to rectify the mistake of ever coming here.
full of vile nasty people.
people you have never met spreading vile lies. its a pathetic, disgusting place to raise kids

Okay was looking at buying here, thank god I dodged a bullet. (Spent a few months not just a novice review) The town itself is worth a drive through and some very pretty houses. Do not skip the bakery, I swear they make the best sausage rolls from far and wide. Unfortunately the estate has totally ruined this piece of rural paradise. Full of druggies and scum, looked at a few house to buy and, oh just no. I cannot understand how the investors of these properties make any profit after repairs to the house when the tenants move out. Look at Laidley or Plainland, very up and coming, and the shops dont have almost mad max protection to stop break ins. Great to stop in and give the local businesses some help, but if you purchase would suggest other side of town far from estate and have security.

We were attracted by the low house prices in Lowood. In the so called "Eagle Rise Estate" you can purchase recently built 4 room, one level houses from 230k, would you believe it?
Well, there is a reason for that. When we went there to meet a real estate agent to take a look at a house, we arrived early. So we thought we chat with lady with a pram who obviously lived ther. We asked: "In hindsight, would you come and live here again?"
she said, "given the affordability, probably yes. We just learned to keep to ourselves. When ther is a fight on the road, don't get involved. Same for the usual domestic violence, drug deals or burn outs. Don't go out, don't get involved. Lots of theft. Dont leave anything outside. Lock your garage from the inside. Get a dog. Watch for needles on the playground. And then, during the day, everything is ok. Even if they tow unregistered or stolen cars, just dont get involved."
Well, good news that! Keep to yourself, get a dog, lock everything up and your'e safe, basically. Since we made the appointment, we met the agent, went into the house which was rented and occupied by six or seven young people, which basically met the criteria to be the people not to get involved with. The house was a smelling mess inside. On the way out we drove past two police cars, straegically parked and at the exit to the estate waited two large tow trucks. In Lowood itself we learned that it once was a lovely community, but the last years nearly every business was broken in to, many more than once. Apparently the Eagle Rise Estate was mainly bought by investors who rented out to bogans. Take a look ate crime rate.
In our opinion, don't buy here. We are taking a good look at Plainland area and Laidley.

Live in the outskirts of town. Quiet town. Everyone is kind. You will only have a tough time if you surround yourself with bad people as in every town.

Low socioeconomic town but easy access to drugs 😂

Since the housing crisis, it’s not even cheap to rent in Lowood now so the only positive to living there is now gone.

At first before we moved here we hummed and harred about moving into the eagle rise estate. I should have listened to my gut.. its bloody horrible!!

Full of bloody junkies and bogans!! The day we moved in our back garage door had been tampered with and we found knives in the brick work.

Our house has been broken into 7 times in 5 years. Thankfully we have only been here for nearly a year and im done.. fed up and ready to leave..We have had to invest in a security camera system because our neighbour is a psycho. We have had someone arrested on our front lawn and our garden searched for drugs cuz the guy who was arrested threw them in the garden, we had a massive punch up on our front lawn on halloween .. we didnt even know the bloody people!! Not to mention the idiots doing burnouts and im waiting for a car to come through our house..

I have also been told by the lowood police that the parolees from the prison get discounted housing when they are released from the prison. That is also why the police are pretty much constantly patrolling the estate. .. so i was told.

The coppers from down north came up and just to go and get a lettuce from fernvale my husband was breathalised 2 times, the car searched inside and out on the way to and from fermvale (twice), drug tested just accross the road from our house .. which is fine as we dont do any of that.. but it certainly makes a quick trip a long trip!

the internet speeds are appalling too!

I liked lowood when we first moved here, but this last month and a bit has been hell and I can not wait to leave next july!

Word of advice is DONT DO IT!! We even kept to ourselves and know know one here thinking it would help us avoid trouble... it didnt..

Sure rent is cheap but this is why.. if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.. and now we have to fork out and move again and pay for our big mistake of moving here!!

Being the cheapest place to live its attracts all the wrong king of people. Development companies have built 2 estates for Investors comprising of poorly equipped houses & they do not do repairs. If you ask for repairs you get evicted. Most tenants are in the lower socio economic class. Police always in your street. Schools no better. Shops expensive especially IGA, its a rip off. No Public transport or 24 hour Police station, its not even an 8 hour station. I wouldn't be here if I worked but being disabled pensioner I have too. Most people afraid to go outside at night, with good reason. Great place to buy a farm or outside Estates but don't rent in the Estates if you can avoid it.

I'm confused about the reviews here. Lowood was both our childhood homes and we lived there up until 5 years ago .. and while some locals were lovely, some definitely weren't nice at all. While the scenery is spectacular (in my opinion), this is not a town you would want to bring up your kids in. The primary and secondary schools have reputations that .. haven't changed much in 40 odd years. There was a 'rail-link' bus that left for Ipswich early in the morning, returning late in afternoon (Ipswich around 30 minutes drive away), but no public transport apart from that (tore up the train tracks around 20 odd years ago when they thought it too expensive to maintain the wooden bridges). Fair bit of crime, but get that everywhere. And it's a good place to retire, if you like the quiet life and like to keep to yourself, but it's definitely no place to raise kids. That would be Fernvale, a short drive from Lowood.

It is a small town but has nice people, we know everyone in our street and the kids play with each other. I like living hear its quiet.

Have lived here for 3 years now and would not live anywhere else. Very quiet, safe, great schools. Country lifestyle close to city for shopping and work. So enjoyable to live in a town with no trafic lights or roundabouts.

From an investors point of view this is a great place for renters, close to the city, yet have the great lifestyle of being in the country.
Good for increasing value.

We moved here 3 years ago to escape the suburban 'rat race'. We have three young children and we would like them to live a childhood where they can safely run and play and not be glued to the television or computer (although we do have broadband for work and study purposes). We like this semi-rural area as it is quiet but not too far from major services. Acreage blocks are good for a horse, cow, goats, chooks, ducks, large vegie garden, etc (which we have). The area is fantastic for primary school aged children - lots of space to run and play, ride their bikes and for a swing set, trampoline, etc (we do not have a Playstation, Wii, etc). There doesn't seem to be a lot for teenagers to do around the area. There is only one high school but there is the option of travelling by bus to private schools in Ipswich and surrounding areas (only 35 mins away). We have nice neighbours who help each other out. The main thing this area is missing will be remedied over the next 12 months - an Indoor Sports Centre which is to be built at Fernvale (10 mins away). There is a good variety of outdoor sports to play and a nice golf course in Lowood (4 mins away). You can swim, canoe and fish in the Brisbane River which is only about a 10 min drive from here.