El Dorado Indooroopilly

The El Dorado Indooroopilly apartment development is still selling off the plan, and despite about 2 years of marketing, construction has not started. Some of the three bedroom apartments have been reconfigured as 1 bedroom apartments. The developer is now offering incentives for the smaller 1 bed apartments, which are small and the bedroom is fully internal (edited from an email from an agent):

Pretoria Property Group (developers of Indooroopilly’s ‘El Dorado Village Apartments’) has agreed to provide the following investment package.

Purchase as an investment property the A3 Type or A4 Type 1 bedroom apartments currently available for sale at El Dorado Village and Pretoria Property Group will provide to you from time of Settlement:

• Rental Guarantee @ 5% Gross rental yield paid for 2 years;

• Body Corporate fees paid for 2 years;

• Brisbane City Council Rates paid for 2 years;

• Supply and Installation of Door and Window coverings;

• Depreciation Schedule.

With the development earmarked to complete construction at the beginning of 2013, the above package will mean that the astute buyer will have nothing more to pay until approximately 2015.

So it begs the question, ‘if investors and upgraders are currently driving the residential property market then how much capital growth do you think residential property in Indooroopilly will achieve in the next 5 years’?

Recently in the ‘Matusik Market Update’ (dated March 2010) Michael Matusik stated that, “new apartments in both Toowong and Indooroopilly have seen consistent price growth in recent years. Last year the average annual gain was 5.9%, with owners making $102,000 in gross terms between sales. This compares well within just a 1% average growth rate for apartments across the Brisbane area during calendar 2009”.

In a recent article published by Investors Choice dated 1 June 2010 it was stated, “Brisbane will experience 10% per annum growth over the next 3 years” (click here to See Article).

With the suburb of Indooroopilly being a traditional high growth area the thought of purchasing a secure investment at today’s prices and watching that investment grow in value over the next 5 years is indeed very appealing.

El Dorado Village itself is a mixed-use development that comprises retail, cinema’s, commercial and residential tower. It has been identified that mixed-use developments such as El Dorado command higher growth due to greater demand to live in such complexes (click here to see extract from Michael Matusik).

This is a limited investor special and will only be provided to the first 10 buyers. One bedroom apartments at Eldorado Village start at $397,000.