Record low interest rates and cheap credit could boost Brisbane home prices by up to seven per cent in one year, a new report reveals.

An unprecedented $2 billion is being poured into new runways and airports across southeast Queensland in a job-producing boom that aims to tap into the growing world demand for Queensland tourism and produce.

Brisbane Airport has spent $1.3 billion on a new, parallel runway that will make it the most reliable gateway to the east coast of Australia.

The largest mail facility in the Southern Hemisphere has opened at Redbank ahead of what Australia Post predicts will be its busiest peak Christmas period in history.

The new $240 million facility at Redbank Motorway Estate is the size of eight football fields, has more than 500 people employed on site and is loaded with technology including Automated Guided Vehicles, robotic arms and parcel pickers. It will be able to process 700,000 parcels per day at full capacity.

Lush, green fields and netball courts await thousands of Ipswich sportspeople – both players and supporters – with the opening of the $56 million Springfield Central Sporting Complex.

The City of Logan is fast emerging as a global investment hotspot in south-east Queensland, buoyed by a strong economic track record, historic levels of infrastructure investment in the pipeline and business confidence on the rise.