Kooralbyn
Kooralbyn was first settled in the 1830s as timber millers sought the quality hardwoods of the area. In the 1840s pastoralists migrated to the region and Kooralbyn became one of South-East Queensland’s most significant estates, the land used predominately for cattle grazing. Kooralbyn, whose aboriginal name means the place of the copperhead snake, was subsequently owned by William…
Main Beach
Main Beach Real Estate, located on the eastern side of the Nerang River estuary (The Broadwater) is bounded to the north by The Spit and by a narrow isthmus (Narrowneck) extending to Surfers Paradise in the south. The name Main Beach is descriptive, since it was the main surf beach for the town of
Mermaid Beach
Mermaid Beach is an exclusive beach front suburb on the Gold Coast in South-East Queensland, Australia. According to the 2006 Census, Mermaid Beach has a population of 5,751. The suburb is bounded to the west by the man made canals of adjacent Mermaid Waters and to the east by the Pacific Ocean. To the north is the suburb…
Molendinar
Molendinar is a predominately residential area bounded by the Pacific Motorway to the West, the Southport-Nerang Rd to the South, the Smith St motorway to th North and Olsen Ave to th East. It is situated between Ashmore and
Mount Nathan
As you head west from Nerang towards Beaudesert, on the Beaudesert-Nerang Road you will drive through Mount Nathan. Mount Nathan is a popular area because it offers a diverse range of small acreage properties, yet it is just a few minutes from the Nerang CBD…
Mount Tamborine
Mount Tamborine is a popular tourist destination in the Gold Coast Hinterland. It provides a lovely escape from the busy Gold Coast city. The charming village offers old-fashioned country hospitality and is ideal…
Mundoolun
Mundoolun is a rural area to the south of Jimboomba and to the east of Beaudesert. The Mundoolun Estate is a portion of the original Mundoolun land holding, one of four claims in the Beaudesert Shire registered with the land commissioner in Sydney in 1842.…
Nerang
In the early years Nerang was an administrative centre for the region, with a courthouse, police station and meeting place for local councilors. Gradually, Southport assumed many of these roles and Nerang survived quietly as a picturesque centre of the Hinterland. In the 1970s and 1980s, the
Pacific Pines
Since its inception in 1993 Pacific Pines has become the largest master planned community on the Gold Coast. Developed by one of Australia's leading developers Stocklands, today approximately 10,000 residents enjoy the relaxed lifestyle of this family focussed communuity. With sixty-eight hectares of public open space, Pacific PInes has an array of educational facilities, including three primary schools,…
Paradise Point
Follow the Broadwater's edge to the North and you will end up at the picturesque Gold Coast suburb of Paradise Point. With the Coomera River to the North and the Broadwater to the West, Paradise Point is virtually surrounded by water! No wonder it's every boaties dream to live here! The waterfront properties in Paradise Point…
Runaway Bay
Runaway Bay, once though of as the northern end of the Gold Coast, is really now considered more a part of the central
Sanctuary Cove
Sanctuary Cove, a 474 hectare resort development at the Northern end of Queensland's Gold Coast was the brain child of the late Mike Gore. Officially opened in 1987, Frank Sinatra and Whitney Houston…
Southport
As early as 1860 a village reserve was proposed opposite the ‘Boat Passage’ but it would be some time before this village was surveyed. Meanwhile, many selectors took up farming properties which would later be included in the town. Richard Gardiner built a home and a wharf near the river end of Queen Street and the Loder Family established a farm beside a salt water creek to the south of this reserve. In 1875, George Pratten was finally commissioned to survey a township on the Crown Reserve at…
Sovereign Islands
The Sovereign Islands were originally developed by the Lewis Land Corporation, with the first block in Excalibur Court settling on the 12th January, 1988. The price paid for this 827 square metre block was just $319,000. Lewis Land, founded by the late Bernard Lewis, developed several water front estates in the northern suburbs of the…
Surfers Paradise
In 1869, James Beattie was one of many first selectors or farmers to travel down to the South Coast and Hinterland. Beattie settled south of an area which the Kombumerri people called Jarri Parila (today's Narrowneck). He selected 80 acres on the northern bank of the Nerang River. The location of his farm was not far from the future Cavill Avenue. Beattie built a shingle-roomed cottage, a barn for his produce and a jetty on the river bank. Around him, farmers were just barely surviving on their farms…
Tamborine
Tamborine, often referred to as Tamborine Village is situated approximately 60 kilometres South of Brisbane via the M1 motorway. It is South of Cedar Creek, West of Eagle Heights, East of Mundoolun and North of Boyland. Facilities in Tamborine include the
Witheren
Witheren, Queensland is one of the small rural communities in the Gold Coast Hinterland and is part of the 4275 post code. There are just 148 properties in Witheren, ranging in size from two acres to 864 hectares. The highest price paid for a property in Witheren is $3,090,000, which was for an 31.75 hectare parcel…