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Coming home by Julie Gatehouse
Don’t know your Birtinyas from your Beachsides? With interesting new communities expanding across the Coast, MPP keeps you in the loop, from locations to lifestyles to land costs. ocals already know there’s more to living on the Sunshine Coast than being able to surf on a sunny winter’s day – as fabulous as that is. Newcomers may not realise that Coast lifestyles can revolve around lakes and valleys as well as beaches, and range from convenient city-style apartments to semi-rural homes with big backyards. One constant is the demand for new housing and new land where dreams can be built. Land owners and developers are meeting this demand in a variety of ways. They are master planning whole new suburbs, mixing residential with commercial and recreational aspects. They are adding dwellings and infrastructure to existing estates, striving to be smart and sustainable. As the Coast evolves, it gets a little harder to keep up with the details of these new communities. So MPP found out the latest in this two-part series which continues next week.
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BEACHSIDE Where is it?
Adjoining Yaroomba Beach (south of Point Arkwright), on the eastern side of David Low Way. It’s the eastern part of the Hyatt Regency Coolum resort. Beachside’s own entry road and roundabout at David Low Way are under construction and due for completion in September.
What is it?
Beachside is the biggest housing component of Lend Lease’s masterplan for residential precincts within the 150 hectares of Hyatt Coolum’s resort grounds. In fact, six holes of the resort’s renowned golf course closed last December to make way for it. But sports fans not fear – six new designer golf holes opened instead for the 2009 Australian PGA Championship. Beachside is believed to be one of the last areas on the Coast where buyers can build their own homes fronting sand dunes. Currently selling stage two, it’s all about prestige land and luxury homes alongside five-star facilities, parkland and dunes. When finished, the precinct will have about 400 of the 550 dwellings across the resort site, which already includes Visage and Vantage. “There are a limited number of duneand park-fronting lots still available,” says Melissa O’Sullivan of Lend Lease. Available lots range from a courtyard size
of 404 square metres to large blocks up to 857 square metres. Stage two has a height maximum of two storeys. The overall developable area of Beachside is 34 hectares excluding the dunes, and its medium-density designation provides for future terrace homes and future apartments as well as traditional house blocks of land. “Residents are already living in stage one of this new community,” says Melissa. “The majority are from Brisbane or local. Some interstate buyers have been attracted to the location and resort’s reputation and they tend to ‘lock-up and leave’, using these homes for holidays. “Buyers and inquiries are also coming
from the US, South Africa and Sweden.” New infrastructure is planned to complement Beachside as it grows, including a recreational precinct exclusively for residents in stages one and two. It will have a swimming pool, tennis court and playground. In the meantime, residents can access all the facilities of the international resort. The Hyatt Coolum property sales centre is at northern end of the release on David Low Way.
How much?
Minimum: $370,000 Minimum: $620,000 for a dune-fronting block
Sunshine Cove is finished about 2017, Chardan’s new $800
million community will have about 600 lots of mixed density up to six storeys in certain places
Construction for Emporio is expected to
start in September
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