Edens Landing takes its name from Henry Eden, who was active in the Logan River timber industry in the 1860s and wrote to the government in 1865 asking for permission to establish a punt and ferry boat across the river. He later left the district for the Tweed River and eventually returned to England, where he took up the title of Viscount Eden. The modern suburb didn't exist under that name until 1984-85, when Leighton Holdings developed the land (originally marketed as Holmview Heights) into what became Edens Landing. Queensland Places notes the suburb was formally created in 1985 through severances from neighbouring Bethania and Holmview.

That means Edens Landing's housing stock is almost entirely one age: roughly 35-40 years old, built in the same development push rather than growing gradually over decades like older suburbs nearby. Properties this age typically still carry whatever termite management system was installed at construction, and that system is now well past its original design life in most cases. Combined with the suburb's position directly on the Logan River's south bank, which keeps soil moisture elevated compared with suburbs set back from the water, Edens Landing properties face a fairly consistent and predictable termite risk profile across the suburb.

For homeowners, that means most Edens Landing properties are due, or overdue, for a proper reassessment of their original termite protection, not because anything's necessarily gone wrong, but because the system installed in the mid-1980s was never designed to last indefinitely.