How flood risk is reshaping property values

This article draws on findings from the PropTrack Climate Council Property Value Flood Risk Report .

Australia’s housing market has long been a store of wealth and measure of aspiration, but in some regions property values increasingly reflect our collective exposure to flood risk.

For the first time, new research by PropTrack provides a national, data-driven view of how flood risk is already being priced into Australian property markets, analysing the impacts of flood risk on individual residential property values.

The data are not based on any future projections or climate change modelling, but the realised market impact of flood risk on property values in mapped flood zones and how that flood risk is priced across different regions today.

Our analysis combines Geoscape’s flood ris