The top 5 houses on acreage within 20km of Brisbane's CBD

Within 20 kilometres of the city centre, there are still large tracts of land with acreage properties available; an advantage Brisbane has over its southern neighbours, Sydney and Melbourne.

Depending on the area, they can also be prestigious postcodes with buyers paying millions of dollars for sprawling family homes.

35 Neville Road, Bridgeman Downs

Price: Auction 05/08/17

Agent: Sonya Treloar and Lauren Phair

6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 4 car spaces

This home on Neville Road is a stunning build. The house has a contemporary feel because of a modern kitchen and fixtures and other bold features like exposed rafters.

It also has six bedrooms, one of which is a private guest retreat. It’s made possible by the huge land holding, which is pretty large by middle-ring standards. An acre is about 4000 square metres, which is 0.4 hectares. The property is 1.31 hectares, just 16 kilometres from the city.

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Ray White Bridgeman Downs’ Sonya Treloar said large land holdings would become rarer in future.

“It’s quite rare to find some large parcels of land with stunning properties on it,” she said. “As the city pushes out these parcels of land become rarer and rarer.”

73 Neville Road, Bridgeman Downs

Price: $2.35 million – $2.55 million

Agent: Robert Green and Samantha Foster

6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4 car spaces

Bridgeman Downs is filled with properties like 73 and 35 Neville Road. Like number 35, number 73 sits on more than a hectare of land, although it is a bit smaller.

It’s also a very modern looking home, built 12 years ago by the vendors. This six-bedroom home boasts two kitchens and what the agent calls “three self-contained living areas”. You’d be hard pressed to find something like that on the inner-city’s smaller blocks.

77 McMullan Road, Brookfield

Price: $1.78 million

Agent: Kim Rolph-Smith

4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

Brookfield is another prestigious postcode with a lot of large lots of land. It’s 13 kilometres from the CBD – which you can just about see from 77 McMullen Road, a home perched on a hill.

“You can see North Straddie, you can see the southern half of the city and you can see Mount Coot-tha of course,” Brookfield Agencies’ Kim Rolph-Smith said. “It’s right in the heart of Brookfield, it’s private.”

The land is also the biggest holding on this list, at 6.23 hectares. What can you do with all that land? A lot, according to Mr Rolph-Smith. “It’s very good land for horses and ponies, if someone wanted they could grow an orchard on it,” he said. “There’s wallabies and deer on the property too.”

The 20-year-old home was in relatively good nick too. “It’s in very, very good condition, the owner was an engineer,” Mr Rolph-Smith said. “It was very well built.”

233 Jesmond Road, Fig Tree Pocket

Price: $1.65 million

Agent: Russ Cornish and Robin McIlwain

5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

Fig Tree Pocket is another western Brisbane Suburb with its fair share of acreages, and Jesmond Road is notorious for its prestige properties.

The home at 233 Jesmond Road is up there with its sprawling neighbours. The big five-bedroom home is a new build, surrounded by bushland.

652 London Road, Chandler

Price: $5 million

Agent: Tyson Clarke

7 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 4 car spaces

This might be one of the biggest and most grand homes in all of Brisbane – it actually looks like something out of a movie.

Sitting on a one-hectare block, this home in the eastern suburb Chandler is a head-turner. A huge seven bedrooms would house an entire family and then some. It even has a ballet room. And if you’re worried about keeping an eye on all those square metres, there’s infrared CCTV too.