TV presenter and renovator Cherie Barber has helped hundreds of Queenslanders add equity through renovations. Picture: Luke Marsden.

PROPERTY flipping is on the rise with profit hotspots emerging across three parts of South East Queensland.

A massive 90 per cent of properties flipped last year — that is, bought and re-sold within one to two years of purchase — went for a profit across Brisbane, with the figure sitting at 88.3 per cent in regional Queensland.

The latest CoreLogic data found three hotspots had emerged in the state — the Gold Coast, Moreton Bay North and Ipswich.

“Property flipping was most prevalent in the Gold Coast, comprising 7.9 per cent of re-sales for properties held between one and two years,” according to CoreLogic’s Flipping Report, released yesterday.

The GC region also experienced Queensland’s biggest growth in flipping, up 1.3 per cent over the previous year’s data.

Queensland’s highest percentage of successful flips came from Moreton Bay North in 2017, where 95.6 per cent of properties re-sold within two years were profitable.

A kitchen before it was made over by celebrity renovator Cherie Barber’s company Renovating For Profit.

The kitchen after the renovation using White Knight products.

And for those in the market for a quickie, the area that was able to deliver the highest percentage of properties bought and flipped for a profit in under a year was Ipswich (92.7 per cent).

According to the report, short term property trading profits come off “buying undervalued property and reselling at a higher price, buying property at market value and riding the capital growth curve, or by adding value to the property in some way (renovation, subdivision, development approval etc)”.

CoreLogic warned that flippers needed to take into account transactional costs such as stamp duty and conveyancing, as well as selling costs like marketing and real estate agent commission, plus interest payments on the debt as well as capital gains tax on the profit.

“When housing markets are running hot, it makes sense that flipping would become more popular while when a market is weaker, owners are likely to have to hold onto properties for longer in order to return a profit.”

Bathroom before celebrity renovator Cherie Barber got stuck into it.

The bathroom after the renovation work.

Queensland’s worst place to flip properties owned between one to two years was Townsville last year where 48.8 per cent were losses.

Across the combined capitals, property flipping has gone from 5.1 per cent in 2012 to 5.7 per cent last year — a rise that was being mirrored across regional Australia as well, the report said.

Renovation queen Cherie Barber has worked on over 100 flipped projects and trained hundreds of Queenslanders to “manufacture equity” in property through renovations and upgrades.

“You can buy a profitable property at any time, but not every property on the market will be profitable,” she warned potential flippers.