The Weekly Real Estate from Coast to Country, April 25, 2024

Tree-changers flocking to scenic Terranora

By Jo Kennett

TERRANORA SPRAWLS over a hill with views over the Tweed River, Terranora Broadwater and the ocean, so it’s no wonder it has become a highly-sought after locale for tree-changers.

The original inhabitants were the Tulgigin people, the Tweed Heads clan of the northern Tweed Valley. ‘Tulgigin’ means ‘dry forest people’, referring to the hardy sclerophyll forest that grew in the area before European settlers arrived and knocked most of it down.

Cedar cutters arrived in the 1840s and built the first permanent settlement in Terranora, originally ‘Taranora’, meaning ‘little river.’ Tess Easton runs the local Facebook page and moved to the area in 2009.

“My partner and I grew up in the Northern Rivers and wanted a new space to start a family,” she said.

“Terranora felt like the best of both worlds; with the ocean, the bush and amenities.

“The elevation provides amazing views in all directions, especially in the morning when the clouds roll through, and I love the community here.”

There used to be a community hall on Terranora Road on land donated by Bert and Ethel

Johnson. Sadly, that centre of village life, of dances, school plays, first loves and everything that brought the community together, was demolished and never rebuilt.

Now The Pavilions Marketplace is the centre of village life.

“I’m an event organiser so I use The Pavilions Marketplace to run events,” Tess said.

“I do a free annual Halloween event and all the kids from the neighbourhood walk up.

“It’s the biggest event in Terranora with about 500 people attending over the night.

“The Pavilions has an IGA, a good coffee shop, a fantastic bakery and a hotel, and it’s the informal gathering spot.

“We do classic cars in the car park once a month, markets, concerts, movie nights, all sorts of stuff.”

Terranora Public School and Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School are also centres of community life.

“They are both really active in the community,” Tess said.

“Lindisfarne has an amazing theatre and they do annual productions there as well.”

There are some upmarket areas with multi-million dollar mansions scattered around the place, according to Tess.

“I’ve been here for nearly 15

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years and I still find the most amazing houses hidden away,” she said.

“There are four houses in my street that have sold for over a million dollars in the last two years, which was unthinkable when my house was bought ten years ago. “

Residential blocks at Terranora are already up around the $600,000 mark. Last month Terranora had four properties for rent and 18 properties for sale.

The median price over the last year is $1,226,000 for houses, with the median rental price $890 per week and an annual rental yield of 4.1 per cent.

Tess said there were three new estates with a lot of tree-changers moving in.

“People see it as a desirable location because it’s easy access to everything, it’s 15 minutes to Coolangatta and 19 minutes to Murwillumbah,” Tess said. “We are up high with beautiful views and flood free.”

During the 2022 floods, Tess put out a call for food box donations with a huge response.

“We put out 240 food boxes which residents drove down to where the flood reached at the end of Terranora Road, where locals boated them down to Tumbulgum, Condong, Burringbar and Uki,” she said.

“After Covid that really formed a strong sense of community and that was pretty exceptional.”

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