Creative Partnerships Saturday the 5th of April 2014 saw the inaugural meeting of the creative arts community of Gordonvale come together to discuss the future of the creative arts in Gordonvale and how this area of untapped talent can move forward and in the process advancing the town. One area discussed was the potential for arts tourism, something that doesn’t really exist in the area. Gordonvale is such a unique place, and being separated from Cairns lends itself to such an idea. The general consensus from the meeting was that Gordonvale needed a shop front in the town to showcase products being crafted by the community. Members representing the Cairns Regional Council, local business people and more importantly the artists themselves attended to meeting. The arts community of Gordonvale is now on the lookout for a shop front in the area to display the material. The next meeting was held on the 26th of April to further discuss the ideas, potential locations and opportunities and then hopefully move forward.
Robyn’s Real Estate Read Welcome to this month’s Editorial and all things Real Estate. It is been another busy month with confidence still high from both buyers looking to break the rental cycle or move up or down in the market and sellers seeing prices improve. Gordonvale has been on the increase and recently named as one of Australia’s “hottest suburbs” for 2013 after 107 houses were sold in this suburb last year. According to the Cairns Post on 12.4.14, it is one of only three Queensland suburbs named on the Australian Property Investor list of 89 top performing suburbs. The data showed Gordonvale had a capital growth of 15.5%, similar to growth in some suburbs of Sydney. Other southern suburbs such as Edmonton and Mt Sheridan are also seeing good growth and a lot of buyer activity so it is a wonderful opportunity to look at changing your current situation whether it is to upsize and rent your current home, downsize and free up your cash flow or take advantage of the extremely low vacancy rates and high rental returns with a perfect investment property.
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