Showing posts with label roma street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roma street. Show all posts

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Top End Apartments

Some high end apartments for sale in Brisbane:
  • The Refinery at New Farm, 4 bedrooms for $3.65M
  • Pinnacle at Roma Street Parklands, 3 bedrooms, 291 sqm, auction
  • Pinnacle at Roma Street Parklands, 3 bedrooms, 229 sqm, auction
  • Hamilton Harbour, 2 bedrooms plus media room, auction
  • The Grosvenor, 3 bedrooms, about $1.4M
  • Riparian, 3 bedrooms, $7M.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Recent Brisbane Apartment Sales

Recent sales:
  • Riparian, 71 Eagle Street, 3 bedrooms on level 44, sold for $2.3 million
  • Charlotte Towers, 128 Charlotte St, Apt 1903, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, sold for $465,000 (after being on the market for some time)
  • River City, 79 Albert St, Apt 2706, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, sold for $420,000
  • River City, 79 Albert St, Apt 2106, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, sold for $430,000
  • Admiralty Towers One, 35 Howard Street, Lot 110, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sold for $535,000
  • Roma Street Parklands, Apt 6008, 3 bedrooms, sold for $1,220,000
  • Riverplace, 82 Boundary Street, Apt 82, 2 bedrooms, sold for $645,000
  • Casino Towers, 151 George Street, Apt 1604, 1 bedroom, sold for $347,000
  • Festival Towers, 108 Albert St, Apt 3402, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, $495,000
  • Aurora Towers, 420 Queen St, Apt 568, 2 bedrooms, $750,000

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Meriton Infinity - Under Construction

Some recent photos of Meriton's Infinity apartment building in Brisbane, currently under construction.  When complete, this will be Brisbane's tallest residential tower, at 81 floors.  So I guess it is about half way now.


Infinity on the left, with Evolution Apartments on the right.  This was taken about two weeks ago.


Infinity behind Evolution Apartments, with Federal Court building in the foreground.  Taken this weekend.


From Roma Street Parklands, with one of the Pradella Parkland apartment buildings on the right.


From Roma Street Parklands


Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Roma Street Parklands - Recent Sales


Here are some recent sales of apartments in the Roma St Parklands complex in Brisbane, which was developed by Pradella in around 2002 to 2006:

  • Apt 3006, 3 bed, $520,000
  • Apt 3093, 1 bed, $360,000 
  • Apt 3107, 1 bed, $370,000
  • Apt 7046, 2 bed, $621,000
  • Apt 6039, 3 bed, $1,475,000
  • Apt 3081, 3 bed, $590,000
  • Apt 6028, 3 bed, $1,300,000
  • Apt 3120, 2 bed, $637,000
What is interesting here is that of the eight resales listed above, only 1 was less than the purchase price that the seller originally paid.  Also, at least 5 were sales to owner occupiers, and one was a sale to a super fund.  All apartments seem to have Parklands views.


Sunday, April 1, 2012

Apartment Sun

When buying or renting an apartment in Queensland, it is a good idea to understand which way the apartment faces, and to view the apartment in the morning and afternoon.  The sun will shine in, and with the trend for large windows, this makes the apartment bright but potentially hot.  Below are some photos of apartments at the Roma Street Parklands (Pradella's development), including the expensive Pinnacle building.  Notice that the blinds are drawn in the penthouse apartments.  Even though these apartments have a great view, and do not face west, that is not much use if the blinds are always closed.





Saturday, February 6, 2010

Roma Street Parklands Auction Result

A three bedroom apartment in the Pradella Roma Street Parklands development went to auction today. A deceased estate. The address is 7110/7 Parkland Boulevard. This apartment is an end apartment, on the southern/city end of the building, with the side view looking into the Pinnacle building. 119sqm internal, with a long skinny living room at the front, and three bedrooms on the back (on the railway side), plus two largish balconies. Sold today at auction for $750,000. The total area (including balcony) is 155sqm, so this sold for $4,840 a sqm. This is significantly less than the price per sqm of many off the plan developments currently being marketed.


Saturday, June 20, 2009

Brisbane Apartment Recent Auction Results

  • Felix, Apt 317, Level 31, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, over 150 sqm - highest bid $820,000, now listed at $950,000
  • Willahra Tower, Apt 49, 2 bed, 2 bath, 96sqm, no bid at auction, now listed at $449,000
  • Quay West, Apt 401, Level 4, 2 bed, 2 bath, 126 sqm, vendor bid of $600,000
  • Roma Street Parklands, Building 3, Apt 3095, 3 bed, 2 bath, end/rear unit, vendor bid $535,000, listed at $600,000 and reported as sold
  • Roma Street Parklands, Building 4, Apt 4046, 3 bed, 2 bath, lower floor with no view, vendor bid $550,000, now listed at $700,000
  • SoHo South Brisbane, Apt 605, 3 bed, 2 bath, impacted by new bridge being built, highest bid $550,000, now listed at $600,000
  • Toowong, 24/12 Patrick Lane, 2 bed, 2 bath, sold for $487,000
  • New Farm, 7/38 Elystan Road, 2 bed, 1 bath, sold for $780,000

Friday, April 3, 2009

One Bedroom in Roma Street Parklands


One bedroom for sale in Roma Street Parklands - Pinnacle - for $669,000. Nice apartment, but that seems expensive! Compare a one bedroom at Quay West for $450,000

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Roma Street Parklands Sale

A recent Brisbane apartment auction:

7041/7 Parkland Boulevard, Brisbane
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car parks
In 2006, it was listed for sale for $685,000.
Sold at auction on 21 February 2009 for $730,000

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Rates Ripoff in Brisbane

CITY Hall will drag five times the amount of general rates out of Kelvin Grove Urban Village this financial year.
Information released by Brisbane City Council after a question with notice shows some inner city buildings will collectively pour 400 per cent more in general rates in to the city’s coffers than last year, with Kelvin Grove Urban Village facing the biggest rise. The Village’s 213 unit owners paid a total $83,411 in general rates to council in the previous financial year, the information shows. But this will jump to $443,750 for the 2008/09 financial year after changes are introduced in January, designed to increase rates for some of the city’s most expensive inner city apartments. The changes, which take effect in January, will lift the general rate for the average unit owner in the Village from $392 last financial year to about $2100 for this financial year. But just a fraction of those living in the Village are owner-occupiers, meaning all but 23 units are owned by investors.
Other addresses to be hard hit by the new ``parity scheme’’ include the Parkland Boulevard building in Brisbane’s CBD, which will collectively pay 364 per cent more in general rates than last year, increasing the building’s total contribution to $753,000. The building contains 168 owner occupied units and 232 investment units.
Council will collect 300 per cent more in general rates for the year from Riverplace Apartments in Brisbane, where 76 of the building’s 314 units are owner occupied.
Owners of units in Admiralty Towers II in Queen Street will fork out 310 per cent more than last financial year.
Riverscape West unit owners in MacDonald St, Kangaroo Point, face an increase of 150 per cent over last financial year.
The information shows just under 1000 owners of units in 116 inner-city apartment blocks will together boost council’s kitty by $6.3 million this financial year under the changes, representing a 127 per cent overall increase for the addresses.
Central ward Councillor David Hinchliffe (Labor) said the changes would take a toll on residents of Kelvin Grove’s Urban Village, which he said was ``not the most salubrious address.’’ Cr Hinchliffe said the impact on unit owners would be about an 800 per cent increase from one quarter’s rates bill to the next.
But council Finance chairman Adrian Schrinner said the information put to rest once and for all claims people were facing 1000 per cent rises in their rates bills. He reiterated a previous commitment to issue letters to unit owners showing the individual increases they face ahead of the January changes.
See City News

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Bardon Parklands - 104 apartments planned

First, there was Roma Street Parklands. Then Sherwood Parklands. My guess is that next, the Pradella Construction Group will launch Bardon Parklands. Pradella owns the Bardon Conference Centre.

"Brisbane City Council is assessing an application by the Pradella Group to rezone the 3.4ha site from a community purpose and conservation area for redevelopment. The proposal, lodged with the council in September 2006, features four three-storey buildings to house 104 apartments and 20 attached units, with 248 car parks."

See

http://mountcoot-tha.greens.org.au/media-centre/interviews/centre-rezone-ask-for-units

http://www.thebardoncentre.com.au/assets/bardon-map.pdf

http://www.pradella.com.au/web/pdf/news_2007_issue1.pdf

http://www.pradella.com.au/content/news/press_display.asp?id=141