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17 Dodt Road
Forest Hill QLD 4342
4 bed, 1 bath, 167,135 m²
$1,125,000
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17 Dodt Road, Forest Hill QLD 4342
Offers Over $1,125,000 · House, 4 bed, 1 bath, 167,135 m²
For sale
The home is on the market and the agent is taking offers.
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What the selling side says about this home, from its live listing. Their words, not ours.
Published by Gatton Real Estate - Gatton.
17 Dodt Road, Forest Hill, Qld 4342
There's something highly appealing about a property that simply works, where the land is accessible, the home is comfortable, and the infrastructure is already in place. Set across 16.74 hectares (41.36 acres) of gently sloping country at Forest Hill in the Lockyer Valley, this well-improved acreage offers a genuine rural lifestyle without the trade-offs. A tree-lined driveway, rolling paddocks, and a tastefully renovated four-bedroom home combine to create a property that suits families, hobby farmers, and lifestyle buyers alike. Whether you're looking for space to run horses and stock, raise a family away from the suburbs, or simply secure a substantial land holding in a growing region, this is a rare opportunity to get the full package from day one. Forest Hill itself punches well above its size, offering a well-regarded primary school, award-winning cafes, boutique shopping and classic country pubs, meaning the everyday essentials and a few of life's pleasures are close at hand. Property Features The Land • 16.74ha (41.36 acres) of fully fenced land with flexibility for a range of rural pursuits • Peaceful location delivering privacy while remaining close to major services • Purpose-built horse facilities including a 60m x 20m fenced riding arena, wash bay, horse-safe yards and two open rail stables • Multiple fenced paddocks adjacent to the house yard with convenient gate access at the road and several entry points • Elevated position with a gentle slope providing excellent natural drainage across the property • Tree-lined driveway framed by established gum trees, creating a picturesque arrival • Rural zoning offering a range of potential lifestyle and agricultural uses (subject to relevant approvals) • Established chook pen for those seeking a more self-sufficient lifestyle The Home • Comfortable four-bedroom residence with light-filled interiors, large windows and beautiful rural outlooks • Security screens installed throughout for added peace of mind • Stylishly renovated brand new kitchen featuring all new cabinetry and benchtops, Bellini oven, electric cooktop, dishwasher and air conditioning • Open-plan kitchen, dining and living area designed for everyday family living and entertaining • Cosy fireplace in the main living area, perfect for cooler winter evenings • Timber-look vinyl flooring throughout main living zones, hallways and laundry • Separate second family room with carpet and ceiling fan • Freshly painted interiors with new lighting and ceiling fans throughout much of the home • Generous master bedroom with walk-in robe, air conditioning and ceiling fan • Additional bedrooms with built-in wardrobes, carpet and ceiling fans • Updated bathroom with full-size bathtub and separate shower • Beautifully renovated laundry with custom cabinetry complementing the kitchen's contemporary style Outdoor Living • Full-length covered rear patio overlooking landscaped gardens • Secure fenced house yard, safe for children and pets • Established shade trees surrounding the home for privacy and comfort • Attractive sandstone block garden edging adding character to outdoor areas • Concrete pathways and steps improving accessibility and ease of maintenance Sheds, Storage & Infrastructure • 9 foot (2.92m) high-clearance two-bay shed with dual roller doors (one electric) and concrete base, offering plenty of height for a horse float, caravan or machinery, plus workshop functionality including power, lighting, sink and workbench with power points • Additional single lock-up garage and adjoining carport on concrete, with the garage offering scope for multipurpose use as a home office, extra parking or teenager's retreat. • Compressed gravel driveway providing practical all-weather access • Two garden sheds on concrete slabs offering excellent additional storage • Multiple water storage options including a large concrete tank, poly tank and small dams in two paddocks Why Forest Hill? The Lockyer Valley continues to attract families and lifestyle buyers drawn by its affordability, productive land and strategic position between Brisbane and Toowoomba. Forest Hill offers genuine country living with easy access to services, just 13 minutes from Gatton, approximately 45 minutes from Toowoomba and around 1 hour 10 minutes from Brisbane. Strong population growth across South East Queensland and sustained demand for lifestyle acreage continue to underpin confidence in the area. Opportunities of this scale and versatility, combining equine facilities, modern renovations and an enviable rural lifestyle across 41 acres, are becoming increasingly difficult to find. This impressive Forest Hill property is ready to be enjoyed from day one. To arrange your inspection or learn more, contact Shelley on 0448 408 649 today. Some images used in this marketing material have been virtually staged for visualisation purposes only.
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The basics
- Property type
House
- Bedrooms
4
- Bathrooms
1
- Car spaces
4
- Land size
167,135 m²
- Year built
1995
Listing
One of these looks wrongWhat the home has
- Dishwasher
- Fully fenced
- Outdoor entertaining area
- Secure parking
- Shed
- Water tank
From the market feed, most recently seen 26 June 2026.
A feature that is not listed here may still be there.
Has anyone checked these features?
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How buying a home actually works
Buying a home is the same few steps every time.
What each step involves
Here they are in the order they actually happen, so you can see where reading this page fits in.
- Find out what you can borrow. Do this before you fall in love with a home. A lender or a mortgage broker works out how big a loan you could get, and that ceiling decides which homes are worth your Saturdays. It is called pre-approval, it is not a loan and it is not a promise, and asking for one costs you nothing.
- Go and stand in a few. Photographs flatter every home ever listed. An open home is free, nobody books you in, and you can leave after two minutes. Walking through five homes in one suburb teaches you what your money buys there, which is the thing no website can tell you.
- Pay somebody to check the home, and somebody to read the contract. A building and pest inspector finds what the photographs left out. A conveyancer or a solicitor reads the contract, which is the part that decides what happens if something goes wrong, and it is written before you ever see it. Both cost money, both are cheaper than what they find, and both happen before you sign rather than after.
- Then you make an offer, or you bid. An offer can usually be made subject to your finance and to the inspection, so you have a way out if either falls over. An auction sale usually has no cooling off period, so at an auction everything above has to be done before you raise your hand. After that comes settlement, which is a month or two of paperwork your conveyancer runs, and then the keys are yours.
You do not need an account for any of that. It does take months, though, and the homes you are weighing up will move while you are working through it.
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The money
What buying this one would actually cost
The price is not the number you need: transfer duty, registry fees, a conveyancer and a building and pest inspection all come out of the same savings as your deposit, and Byrz works them out only from a price this listing states or one you put in, never one it invented.
Cash you need on top of the deposit
- Transfer dutyNot checked here
- Title transfer registrationNot checked here
- Legal and searchesNot checked here
- Building and pestNot checked here
Put in a price and each of these fills in, with the duty worked out for your position and every figure labelled with who set it.
What each of these costs pays for
Transfer duty is a tax on the transaction itself, paid to the state, and on most purchases it is far larger than everything else combined. The registration fees pay the state titles office to record who owns the lot and who holds the mortgage over it. Conveyancing pays a person to read the contract, run the searches that tell you whether the property is affected by anything, and move the money on settlement day. Building and pest pays an inspector to walk the home before you are committed.
Why two of these are ranges, not rates
A published rate is set by a government, either applies to you or does not, and you can check it against the schedule yourself in a minute. A typical range is an observation Byrz has made about what people are charged, and nobody is bound by it. A page that mixes the two into one total without saying which is which has misled you by its shape, whatever its words said. Ring two conveyancers and find out what yours will be.
Why none of this can go on the loan
A lender lends against the property, not against the cost of buying it, so none of these charges can be added to the loan. They come out of the same savings you were going to put down, and they come out first. That means the price you can reach is not your savings divided by a deposit percentage: it is your savings, minus all of this, divided by a deposit percentage. People find this out at the wrong end, usually a week before settlement.
What Byrz cannot know about this home
Byrz does not put a price on any home. Every figure here is worked out from one price: the one this listing states, or the one you put in yourself, and the card says which. Byrz does not know your savings, so it shows reference deposits rather than your position. It does not decide whether a concession applies to you: the state revenue office does that, on the transfer, and a conveyancer will tell you where you stand before you sign.
What it costs to rent around here
Median weekly rent means the middle price.
These figures are for the whole area, not this home, so they are a guide to what renting nearby costs, not a price for this address.
Across the wider Lockyer Valley (R) area, June quarter 2026
- All homes
- $580 a week
- 3 bedroom houses
- $550 a week
- 4 bedroom houseslike this home
- $670 a week
- 2 bedroom units
- $400 a week
These are for the wider council area, because Byrz does not have a suburb figure for them.
Median weekly rent for new tenancies commencing in the quarter, from bonds lodged with the Residential Tenancies Authority. Not a valuation, and not the rent paid under existing tenancies.
What a median does and does not tell you
Half of new rentals cost more than this, and half cost less.
Forest Hill, QLD
Recently sold in this suburb
Recorded sales from the last 12 months, most recent first, one sale per home. As at 14 September 2026.
- 3 Friedrich Avenue4 bed, 2 bath house$640,000July 2026
- 27 Victoria Street4 bed, 2 bath house$660,000June 2026
- 26 Church Street3 bed, 2 bath house$760,000June 2026
- 25 William Street3 bed, 1 bath house$515,000June 2026
These are homes in this suburb that actually sold, and what they sold for, taken from the sale campaigns Byrz records. They are a snapshot as at the date shown, not a live feed, and they are not every sale in the suburb. This is not a valuation and Byrz does not give one: no figure here is about a home you are looking at. A licensed valuer or the selling agent is who to ask about a particular home.
Why a sold price is not an asking price
A sold price is different from an asking price. An asking price is what a seller hoped for, and a sold price is what a buyer actually paid, which makes recorded sales the plainest way to get a feel for a suburb.
Where these sales come from
Each linked sale opens that home's own records page, which shows what is held about it and where each piece came from.
What sold nearby
Homes near this one that actually sold, ranked by how closely each sale matches this home.
What these homes sold for
$515,000 to $871,500
The middle of these 6 sales is $663,500, over the last 18 months.
3 Friedrich Avenue
about 2.3km away, 166335 m2 less land, one extra bathroom, reads in poorer condition in its photos (an automated reading by Byrz)
Sold for $640,000
in July 2026
$800 per m2 of land
4 beds, 2 baths, 800sqm of land
Byrz reads it in poorer condition than this home.
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27 Victoria Street
about 2.1km away, 166123 m2 less land, one extra bathroom, reads in poorer condition in its photos (an automated reading by Byrz)
Sold for $660,000
in June 2026
$652 per m2 of land
4 beds, 2 baths, 1012sqm of land
Byrz reads it in noticeably poorer condition than this home.
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25 William Street
about 1.8km away, 166123 m2 less land, one fewer bedroom, reads in poorer condition in its photos (an automated reading by Byrz)
Sold for $515,000
in June 2026
$509 per m2 of land
3 beds, 1 bath, 1012sqm of land
Byrz reads it in noticeably poorer condition than this home.
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26 Church Street
about 1.8km away, 165784 m2 less land, one fewer bedroom, one extra bathroom, reads in poorer condition in its photos (an automated reading by Byrz)
Sold for $760,000
in June 2026
$563 per m2 of land
3 beds, 2 baths, 1351sqm of land
Byrz reads it in poorer condition than this home.
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8 Palm Avenue
about 2.0km away, 166123 m2 less land, one extra bathroom
Sold for $667,000
in October 2025
$659 per m2 of land
4 beds, 2 baths, 1012sqm of land
See this home
6 Kerry View Court
about 4.3km away, 162464 m2 less land, one extra bathroom
Sold for $871,500
in May 2025
$187 per m2 of land
4 beds, 2 baths, 4671sqm of land
See this home
We could read condition from the photos for 4 of these 6 homes.
Sold prices are as reported by agency and portal feeds. Condition is read by Byrz from the photos it holds for each home, so it describes the home now rather than the day it sold.
These are homes near this one that actually sold, with what they sold for. We show you how each one differed, so you can see what is driving the price. This is not a valuation and Byrz does not give one. A licensed valuer or the selling agent is who to ask about this home's price.
How did Byrz choose and compare these sales?
Sold prices are the most honest signal in property: they are what someone actually paid, not what someone hoped. Look at how each home differs from this one, because those differences are what moves the number.
Byrz's software chose these sales by looking for homes like this one, and read the condition of each from the photos Byrz holds for that home. It can get both of those wrong: a home on this list may not be a fair comparison, and a reading taken from photos is not an inspection. The condition reading is how Byrz reads that home now, not how it looked on the day it sold. This is not a valuation and Byrz does not give one. A licensed valuer or the selling agent is who to ask about this home's price.
Reported crime
This figure describes the area around this home, not this home itself and not the people who live in it.
10,665 offences per 100,000 people
Reported in the Laidley police division, 12 months to July 2026.
Recorded offences per 100,000 people
- Offences Against the Person1,499
- Offences Against Property3,855
- Other Offences5,311
| Offence category | Rate per 100,000 people |
|---|---|
| Offences Against the Person | 1,499 |
| Offences Against Property | 3,855 |
| Other Offences | 5,311 |
The three category totals cover every offence the service records. The offences named under them are part of those categories and are already counted in them, so adding all of these numbers together would count the same offences twice.
Offences recorded across a police division. Police divisions do not align to suburbs or local government areas. This describes an area, not any particular home. The figure is for the Laidley police division, the area the Queensland Police Service reports on. A police division follows police boundaries, not suburb boundaries, so it can take in several suburbs or parts of them. The rate adds the three offence categories the service publishes and counts recorded offences over a year for every 100,000 people in the division.
How a rate per 100,000 works
A rate per 100,000 people makes areas of different sizes fair to compare, because it works as if every area had the same number of people living in it.
How this area scores with the ABS
These scores describe the area around this home, not this home itself and not the people who live in it.
Scores for the Lockyer Valley - East area, from the 2021 Census.
- Disadvantage
- 2 out of 10 across Australia
- Advantage and disadvantage
- 2 out of 10 across Australia
- Economic resources
- 5 out of 10 across Australia
- Education and occupation
- 1 out of 10 across Australia
This one is about disadvantage only. A decile of 1 means the area is among the most disadvantaged tenth of areas, counting things like low income, unemployment and homes without a car. A decile of 10 means it has few of those things. A high score does not mean an area is wealthy, only that it has little measured disadvantage.
This one counts advantage and disadvantage together, so it sits on one scale. A decile of 1 means the area has a lot of measured disadvantage and little advantage, and a decile of 10 means the opposite.
This one is about income and housing costs, and it leaves out education and job type on purpose. A decile of 1 means households in the area have relatively fewer economic resources, and a decile of 10 means they have relatively more.
This one is only about how much education people have and what kinds of jobs they do. A decile of 10 means the area has a lot of people with higher qualifications and skilled jobs. It says nothing about income.
SEIFA describes the area, not the people or households in it. These indexes are computed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Lockyer Valley - East, the statistical area this suburb sits in. A statistical area is a Bureau region of a few thousand people, so it can take in more than one suburb. A decile places the area against every other area in Australia: 1 means the lowest tenth on that index and 10 means the highest tenth.
What do these scores actually measure?
SEIFA is how the Australian Bureau of Statistics compares areas. Every area in Australia gets a score from 1 to 10, and the score describes the area as a whole, not any one household in it.
In this suburb: Forest Hill
About the suburb, not this home.
Sellers cutting their asking price
0%
of sellers cut their asking price
Homes still listed; those already sold are not counted.
Time to sell (sold campaigns only)
70 days
the typical wait
Sold campaigns only; withdrawn ones are not counted.
Time to sell (sold campaigns only): This is worked out from the 13 sales where Byrz saw both the day the home was listed and the day it sold. Another 9 listings in this suburb, 40.9% of them, stopped being advertised without a recorded sale, and Byrz has no reliable end date for those, so they are left out. Homes that take a long time to sell are the ones most likely to be pulled from the market, so the real wait in this suburb is probably a little longer than the figure shown.
These figures describe a suburb over the period shown, using listings Byrz has observed. They do not describe any particular home, they cannot tell you what any home will sell for, and they are not a valuation and Byrz does not give one.
What these percentages are out of
Byrz does not see every listing in Australia, so these figures describe the listings it did see in this suburb. Each one is a share of that group over a single period, never a count compared from one period to the next, because a change in how many listings Byrz sees would otherwise look like a change in the market.
- Sellers cutting their asking price
- Listings counted: 10
- Time to sell (sold campaigns only)
- Listings counted: 13
Government records for this location
They describe the location, not the condition of the home.
- Council
Lockyer Valley (QUEENSLAND)
Please note that ABS approximated boundaries do not match official legal or administrative boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.
- School catchments
Forest Hill SS
Prep to Year 6 catchment, for the 2026 school year
Lockyer District SHS
Years 11 and 12 catchment, for the 2026 school year
Lockyer District SHS
Years 7 to 10 catchment, for the 2026 school year
Catchments for the year shown. Being in catchment is an eligibility condition, not a guaranteed place: schools with an Enrolment Management Plan have capacity limits. EdMap is authoritative. Non-state schools do not have catchments.
- Lot and plan
33RP7798
167,281 m². Measured by Byrz from the QLD cadastre boundary of this lot and plan.
Where these records come from
Byrz reads these from government flood studies, planning schemes, school catchment maps and public transport datasets, at the mapped coordinate for this home. Boundaries and datasets change, and a mapped risk describes the mapped area, not the state of any building on it. Before relying on one of these records, check it against the council's or the custodian's own tools for this address.
What is a planning overlay?
An overlay is an extra rule a council puts on an area of land, on top of the normal zoning. If a home sits inside one, it means the council looks at certain plans more closely, like building near a waterway or changing an older character home. An overlay does not stop you buying the home.
What is a school catchment?
A state school catchment is the area a school takes its enrolments from, so a home inside one is generally entitled to a place at that school. Catchments are redrawn from time to time and there are exceptions, so confirm with the school or the education department before relying on one. Non-government schools set their own enrolment rules, which is why only state catchments appear here.
What is a lot and plan number?
It is how the state land registry names the piece of land an address is recorded against, and it is what a title search, a council enquiry or a conveyancer will ask you for. It describes the land, not the building on it: every unit in a block shares one plan, and a single parcel can hold more than one home. Where a land size is shown beside it, Byrz measured that from the boundary the registry publishes, because no state publishes the area itself.
What our software saw
It is an estimate, not an inspection, and it can be wrong.
Presented to a premium standard
Architectural style: Contemporary
Byrz AI
One of these looks wrongAn estimate from photos
Might anything need fixing up?
Our software looked at this home's photos, one area at a time. It did not spot an area that stands out as needing work. That is a guess from pictures, not a quote and not an inspection, and it can be wrong. Photos can be old, or taken before someone did the work.
No area stood out as needing work
That is not the same as saying the home needs nothing. It means nothing in the photos looked like a big job to our software. Photos do not show wiring, plumbing, drainage or anything behind a wall.
Based on 121 photos across 13 rooms, read on 6 September 2026.
Planning to change something anyway? Our trusted renovation partners can quote on it.
How our software works this out
It reads the photos on the listing. It sorts them by area, then looks at things like benchtops, tiles, floors and paint. It compares what it sees with what that kind of work usually costs. It never visits the home, and it never sees anything the photos do not show.
Why we show one area and not the whole home
Adding every area together would give you a number that looks precise and is not. Most people do not redo everything at once, homes get fixed up in stages, and any area with no photo is invisible to us. So we show you the one area that stands out, and we leave the adding up to a real quote.
What could change this number
A lot. Photos can be years old, or taken right after a tidy up. What you choose matters more than what is there now: the same kitchen can cost $10,000 or $60,000 depending on what you put in it. Prices also differ between towns and cities. Treat this as a starting point for a conversation, not a budget.
Is this wrong about your home? Tell us and we will look at it.
This looks wrong: the renovation estimateByrz does not yet hold: a past sale price.
- No past sale price on file
- We do not have a past sale price for this home. That can mean it has never sold, or simply that we do not have it.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these, and each entry links back to what it is used for.
Source 1
From the sale listing. The home may have changed since.
Source 2
© The State of Queensland (Residential Tenancies Authority) 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 Australia.
Jun Qtr 2026
Median weekly rent for new tenancies commencing in the quarter, from bonds lodged with the Residential Tenancies Authority. Not a valuation, and not the rent paid under existing tenancies.
Source 3
© The State of Queensland (Queensland Police Service) 2026. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 Australia.
12 months to July 2026
Offences recorded across a police division. Police divisions do not align to suburbs or local government areas. This describes an area, not any particular home. The figure is for the Laidley police division, the area the Queensland Police Service reports on. A police division follows police boundaries, not suburb boundaries, so it can take in several suburbs or parts of them. The rate adds the three offence categories the service publishes and counts recorded offences over a year for every 100,000 people in the division.
Source 4
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data
SEIFA describes the area, not the people or households in it. These indexes are computed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for Lockyer Valley - East, the statistical area this suburb sits in. A statistical area is a Bureau region of a few thousand people, so it can take in more than one suburb. A decile places the area against every other area in Australia: 1 means the lowest tenth on that index and 10 means the highest tenth.
Source 5
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Please note that ABS approximated boundaries do not match official legal or administrative boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.
Source 6
Incorporates the Queensland Spatial Cadastral Fabric (c) State of Queensland, licensed CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), adapted by Byrz.
Source 7
© The State of Queensland (Department of Education). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Catchments for the year shown. Being in catchment is an eligibility condition, not a guaranteed place: schools with an Enrolment Management Plan have capacity limits. EdMap is authoritative. Non-state schools do not have catchments.
Source 8
Computed by Byrz from property listings it has observed. Not an official government series.
These figures describe a suburb over the period shown, using listings Byrz has observed. They do not describe any particular home, they cannot tell you what any home will sell for, and they are not a valuation and Byrz does not give one.
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