Brisbane residents who stayed put after 2011 flood claw back house values

Tuesday January 12, 2021

Ten years after the devastating Brisbane flood in which thousands of residents lost their homes and possessions, house prices are back up, but signs of the catastrophe remain.

Across Brisbane, thousands of houses have been raised to avoid future flood damage. Photo: ABC

It was a disaster on an unprecedented scale — 36 people died and about 30,000 Queensland homes and businesses suffered some form of inundation in the floods in south-east Queensland of 2010-11.

In Brisbane, some of the city’s most desirable suburbs were swamped.

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