Why the Central Gold Coast Property Market Is About to Pop

Places like Palm Valley, that's where the opportunity for the city is.

It's a little bit like Burleigh.

You've got your runners, you've got your families with their kids, you've got your hardcore surfer going out the back, you've got someone grabbing a coffee that morning with their dog, and then it changes form throughout the day.

Location's everything, but for me it's down amenity.

Proximity to schools, proximity to sports, proximity to transports, and the ability to go to a restaurant without having to drive 40 minutes.

In areas such as that Central Northern Gold Coast, is there a suburb, pocket, property type you'd really look at?

Southport will pop.

When that stadium goes ahead, and-

Yeah

... with the light rail, the stadium, the Olympics coming.

People create places.

Palm Beach, when I got here in 2004, I was going to rent.

I didn't know anywhere in the Gold Coast.

"No, you don't want Stanthorpe."

[laughs]

Can you believe 20 years ago I was told not to go and stay there? It wasn't safe.

I'm like, "What are you talking about?" And there's a bit of that in Southport still.

Where do you reckon the forever home would be on the Gold Coast?

I think I'll certainly get something in.

Places like Palm Valley, that's where the opportunity for the city is.

It's a little bit like Burleigh.

You've got your runners, you've got your families with their kids, you've got your hardcore surfer going out the back, you've got someone grabbing a coffee that morning with their dog, and then it changes form throughout the day.

Location's everything, but for me it's down amenity.

Proximity to schools, proximity to sports, proximity to transports, and the ability to go to a restaurant without having to drive 40 minutes.

In areas such as that Central Northern Gold Coast, is there a suburb, pocket, property type you'd really look at?

Southport will pop.

When that stadium goes ahead, and-

Yeah

... with the light rail, the stadium, the Olympics coming.

People create places.

Palm Beach, when I got here in 2004, I was going to rent.

I didn't know anywhere in the Gold Coast.

"No, you don't want Stanthorpe."

[laughs]

Can you believe 20 years ago I was told not to go and stay there? It wasn't safe.

I'm like, "What are you talking about?" And there's a bit of that in Southport still.

Where do you reckon the forever home would be on the Gold Coast?

I think I'll certainly get something in.