Paget & Bakers Creek: a decade of demand for industrial land
Since 2016 buyers have absorbed more than 80 vacant industrial parcels in Mackay's main industrial estate: the serviced lots on offer in 2016 and the new releases that followed. This is the lot-by-lot record, from sales data, state aerial imagery and our own supply surveys.
Drag to compare southern Paget around Farrellys and Crichtons Roads. Aerial imagery © State of Queensland.
Taken up in three years, cutting supply from 50+ lots to under 15.
Newly created lots, about 30 ha, released and sold since 2017.
85 parcels sold as vacant land since mid-2016.
Per m² for vacant lots, 2016 vs 2025–26.
Ten years of demand, mapped
Choose a year to change the aerial and the supply we recorded at the time. Move the slider, or press play, to show each parcel that sold as vacant land from mid-2016 onward. Select any shape for its sale details.
Demand in the numbers
Each recorded sale of a vacant industrial lot under 5 ha in Paget and the Bakers Creek industrial estate, by rate per square metre, with the median for each year. Volumes show hectares changing hands.
Rate per m², 2016–2026
One dot per sale, sized by land area.
2026 has one sale to date, a 2,030 m² lot; small lots carry higher rates.
Hectares sold per year
Vacant industrial lots under 5 ha.
2026 covers January to mid-October.
| Year | Sales | Hectares | Median $/m² | Total value |
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Bakers Creek: where demand goes next
With Paget's serviced lots close to fully taken up, the Southlink and Logistics Drive estate in Bakers Creek is where new industrial land is coming from.
Demand has kept pace with every release. With Paget close to fully taken up, Bakers Creek is where the next lots are coming from.
The Southlink and Logistics Drive estate in Bakers Creek sold its first lots in 2023, with six sales recorded there to date, at $156–197/m² for most serviced lots. Council's 2020 industrial land study found serviced industrial land takes five to seven years to deliver.
- 2000–2020
Developed industrial land in Paget grew from 110 ha to 333 ha.
- 2016–2019
Buyers take up 35 parcels, about 24 ha. Supply falls from 50+ lots to under 15; median rate rises from $112 to $141/m².
- 2018–2022
New stages on Production Drive, Diesel Drive and Crichtons Road are released and sold.
- 2020
Council study projects Paget's high-impact land could be exhausted by 2033, or by 2028 under high growth.
- 2023
Busiest year of the decade: 15 lot sales, almost 12 ha. First sales in the Bakers Creek Southlink estate.
- 2025
Four new Dozer Drive lots sell between July and October.
- Oct 2026
85 parcels and 68 ha absorbed since mid-2016. Four vacant industrial sites listed; median rate $220/m².
Method
- 2016 and 2019 supply is the vacant land recorded in our surveys at the time, traced onto the current cadastre.
- Sales are Pricefinder records classed as vacant land, January 2016 to October 2026. Bakers Creek is limited to the Southlink and Logistics Drive industrial estate.
- Multi-lot contracts are counted once. Rates outside $40–450/m² are excluded as improved or non-market sales. Parcels of 5 ha and over are excluded from price figures.
Limitations
- The latest state aerial capture over Mackay is mid-2022. The 2026 view shows 2026 sales and listings on 2022 imagery.
- Listings are a Pricefinder snapshot on 22 October 2026 and exclude off-market land.
- The Crichtons Road and Logistics Drive listings do not disclose a lot number; their markers are approximate.
Sources
- Sales and listings: Pricefinder (Domain Insight).
- Aerial imagery and cadastre © State of Queensland (Department of Resources).
- Mackay Regional Council, Industrial Land Supply Report (Ethos Urban), endorsed 14 October 2020.
- Explore Commercial supply surveys, 2016 and June 2019.