Plenty of scope for outdoor lifestyle

ONE of the great advantages of living in Far North Queensland is the tropical outdoor and rural lifestyle on offer.

As cities become more clustered, there is still demand for homes with large yards, privacy and the options for livestock.

REIQ Cairns zone chairman Tom Quaid said, buyers interested in acreage living while still wanting easy access to the city, had many options in Cairns’ surrounding areas.

“If you’re looking for rural living you’re going to be on the southside towards Goldsborough, Aloomba, Babinda or you’re going to be up on the Tablelands or towards Yungaburra.

“You’ve got a lot more choices where you can have a couple of acres, you can have a reasonable home and it’s still in that affordable price point – being anywhere in that to $400,000-500,000 price mark.

“You find that people who are looking for these lifestyle homes in these areas, they’ll be willing to commute into Cairns to be able to have that home outside the city.”

Mr Quaid said large blocks on the Tablelands could be bought for about $300,000 while more premium acreage properties were available in the city’s inner suburbs and suburbs to the north.

“If you’re willing to spend $800,000 to $1 million there’s lots of choices around.

“There’s some great homes at Clifton Beach, Trinity Beach, Smithfield and Redlynch that would suit that kind of lifestyle.”

Mr Quaid said larger blocks would only become more difficult to obtain as most newer allotments were driving towards smaller blocks with a higher density in homes.

The rural and outdoor lifestyle homes were also attracting residents who wanted to be eco-friendly, he said.