Sunday, May 26, 2013
Vida West End
This new development is being marketed as Vida. It consists of two towers of about 10 floors each, with about 150 apartments. Some apartments will look West across the river. About half the apartments will look East towards West End.
The Courier Mail says that for the apartments on the riverside, 1 bedrooms will be from $460,000; 2 bedrooms from $660,000; and three bedrooms from $1.2 million. It will be interesting to see how expensive the apartments on the higher floors will be.
Compare a recent listing in Left Bank next door -- two bedrooms on a lower floor with river views for $599,000.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
West End Unit Owners are Concerned
"WEST END: Riverside apartment dwellers are banding together in a bid to give their direction on the future shape of the community. More than 30 residents from the Flow, Koko, Leftbank and Tempo complexes have met to discuss the need to build a sense of community in the area. Regatta Apartments body corporate chairman Paul Rees said they hoped to build a liveable community, not only for apartment dwellers but the whole of West End.
“We’re planning a series of regular events to build community in our area and the first event will be a breakfast in Riverside Park on Sunday, December 7 at 9am,” Mr Rees said.
He said they invited local, state and federal representatives as well as community groups and property developers to attend the breakfast to hear their ideas. Among residents’ concerns are building heights, closing Riverside Drive to public traffic and fast-tracking plans for a CityCat terminal. And Mr Rees said residents felt they were not consulted about increasing building heights.
“We are appalled at the suggestions of 15, 20 and 30-storey highrises being built here,” he said.
“We moved into this area believing the height limit would be seven storeys and we don’t want to see our area turned into a concrete jungle,” Mr Rees said.
He said a CityCat terminal and a reliable bus service on Montague Rd were important to give residents adequate public transport. Mr Rees said they supported redevelopment of the old riverside industrial areas as long as it was on a “human scale” and integrated with the established community of West End, “rather than creating a concrete barrier between West End and the river”."
See City South NewsSaturday, October 11, 2008
Future Brisbane Apartment Developments
There is likely to be a shortage of apartments in Brisbane in the near future. (This statement assumes that that is not massive unemployment in Brisbane.) There are few developments under construction, and so very little new stock will come onto the market in the next three years. What new stock remains unsold is either overpriced or poor quality.
Downtown Apartments
- M on Mary - completed - mostly poor quality 1 bedroom apartments, mostly unsold. Developer has ceased sales campaign and is running this building as short term accommodation
- Evolution - completed - about 20 apartments unsold - small and overpriced
- Skyline - completed - about 20 apartments unsold - building surrounded by other buildings, and generally overpriced
- Aurora - completed
- Empire Square - cancelled
- Trilogy Tower - status uncertain - in presales, with planned completion in 2012 - both hotel rooms and expensive apartments
- Vision - status uncertain - in presales, with completion not before 2012
- Soleil Tower - soon to start presales - 403 apartments, with completion about 2011
- French Quarter - early days, no planning approval
- Flow (West End) - completed - about 5 remain unsold, will negotiate on price to sell
- Koko (West End) - completed - about 5 remain unsold, will negotiate on price to sell
- Tempo (West End) - completed - about 5 remain unsold, will negotiate on price to sell
- IceWorks (Paddington) - almost complete - about 6 apartments remain unsold
- SL8 (West End) - under construction, with completion expected in April 2009, poor location
- Waters Edge (West End) - off-the-plan selling, overpriced and selling poorly, completion in 2010
- Ciana (Indooroopilly) - almost complete - about 25 out of 130 apartments remain unsold - good value
- Tennyson Reach - 2 buildings nearing completion, 1 building not far behind, 3 more buildings planned
- Newstead Waterfront - 2 buildings selling well off-the-plan
- The Mill at Albion - almost sold out, relatively expensive
- El Dorado Village - to be launched to the marketing in October 2008, completion likely in 2011
- Milton Union - received planning approval