Furnished homesin West End.

“Brisbane's most stubbornly independent inner suburb.”

West End sits in a river bend south-west of the CBD and has kept a character the suburbs around it have largely traded away. Boundary Street is its spine — independent cafes, Greek and Vietnamese restaurants, secondhand bookshops and the long-running Davies Park Market on Saturdays — and the surrounding streets hold a mix of timber Queenslanders, post-war walk-ups and a growing band of newer apartments along Montague Road. It is the most ethnically layered part of inner Brisbane, with Greek, Vietnamese and Indian communities all long established, and that shows up most obviously in the food. The riverfront along Orleigh Park is quiet and largely undeveloped. There is no train station, so buses along Boundary and Vulture Streets and the CityHopper ferry do the work, with the CBD around 10 minutes by bus. Medium-term tenants tend to be people who have chosen the suburb deliberately — academics at UQ one stop across the river, creative workers, and relocating families who want a Queenslander rather than a tower.