Howard Smith Wharves has won two national awards recognising it as a new Brisbane entertainment and dining precinct. At the Planning Institute of Australia’s national awards on Thursday night, the revitalised and restored wharves were given the Great Place Award and the Hard Won Victory Award. Planning Institute of Australia Queensland president Wendy Evans said…
Valley High School officially open
Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations The Honourable Grace Grace Queensland’s first ever vertical school is now officially open. Education Minister and Member for McConnel opened Stage 1 of the $100 million Fortitude Valley State Secondary College at a ceremony at the school today. “Today is a milestone day for state school education…
Homemaker & Lifestyle Centre – Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast
A development application has been lodged for a Homemaker & Lifestyle Centre, on vacant land formerly the Bunnings site, located at 197-207 Reedy Creek Road, Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast. Designed by 77 Architecture, the proposal seeks a single storey homemaker and lifestyle centre that will accommodate a range tenancies sizes and configurations based on individual tenant requirements.…
Brisbane’s Luxury Market Lures Expat Buyers
Brisbane had the best-performing luxury market on Australia’s east coast in the second quarter of 2020, according to Knight Frank’s latest Prime Residential Review report. The Queensland capital’s lifestyle, relative value against southern counterparts and swift recovery from lockdown emerged as the key factors underpinning its growth. The report found that Brisbane’s prime property price…
Westpac’s full circle – forecasting 15 per cent house gains post COVID
Westpac economists have gone full circle in their house value forecasting, with prices to soar from December 2021. They had been expecting between April 2020 and June next year, the national price index to fall by 10 per cent. But last week they updated their forecasting, stating prices would only drop five per cent between April…
STRONG SALES CONTINUE AT OMEGA APARTMENTS DESPITE CHALLENGING TIMES
Luxury residential property developer HG Developments’ new lifestyle building in Brisbane’s inner city has sold 18 apartments in recent months to local, interstate and international buyers across all price points and demographics, despite the uncertainty of Covid. Of the recent 18 apartment sales at Omega Apartments, 85% of the buyers are from Brisbane, 10% from…