4 Skiff Street, Southport.
HIGH-END turnkey properties are in hot demand as buyers continue to turn their backs on building amid soaring construction costs, long wait times and a dwindling supply of land.
Experts say the trend won’t slow down anytime soon with buyers choosing move-in ready properties over blocks of land and big-scale renovators.
New build Kooringal Lodge at Tallebudgera just hit the market.
Kooringal Lodge blends black, stone and wood.
“We have many examples where people have bought land and are building and halfway through the construction costs have gone up 15 per cent,” said buyer’s agent Jake Edwards, of Edwards and Mills.
“Buyers, and especially southern buyers just don’t want the stress and are after something they can just move into and not have to touch.”
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