Brisbane residents who stayed put after 2011 flood claw back house values
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Across Brisbane, thousands of houses have been raised to avoid future flood damage.
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The flood that shaped a city 10 years on and house prices are back up in Brisbane, but signs of the catastrophe remain.
Key points:
More than 95 per cent of the flooded properties were built before the 1970s
Thousands of residents have taken advantage of post-flood building height relaxations
It was a disaster on an unprecedented scale 36 people died and about 30,000 Queensland homes and businesses suffered some form of inundation in the floods in south-east Queensland of 2010-11.