BECOMING LOST REVEALS SERIOUS LABRADOR LOVE
SOMETIMES, losing your way is the best way of finding where you want to be.
It worked for home-buyer Cassandra Zervos, who stumbled upon Labrador while negotiating road blocks in place for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Ms Zervos fell in love with the Broadwater suburb, which posted the city’s highest quarterly growth in house prices, the latest market report from the Real Estate Institute of Queensland shows.
COVID pushed Ms Zervos to fast-track her dream of owning a property in the booming Coast suburb, where house prices were up 30.2 per cent since December to a median of $547,000, and 317 units changed hands in the past year.
The Brisbane-based buyer bought a two-bedroom apartment on Marine Pde in February this year through marketing agent Catherine Nutt, of LJ Hooker Broadwater.
”I was visiting my godmother at Runaway Bay pre-Games, and I ended up on this road which later I found out was Marine Pde, and I stopped there so I could call my godmother ... and I was like, ‘oh my god, it was just all beautiful’,” Ms Zervos said.
“I was like, ‘I’ve got to come back here’, so I did — several times — and just fell in love with the Broadwater and the area.”
It was another few years before she and husband Patrick Smith purchased the home where they are now in the throes of renovation with the intent of using the property as a holiday base.
“COVID hit, and I probably had too much time on my hands so I started looking more seriously for a unit because we now needed a place to have mini holidays instead of the one big overseas holiday I usually had every year,” she said.
“It’s only 30 to 40 minutes’ drive to Brisbane so that’s really important for us because we don’t have to be driving for hours to get away for the weekend.”
I WAS LIKE, ‘I’VE GOT TO COME BACK HERE’, SO I DID — SEVERAL TIMES — AND JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH THE BROADWATER AND THE AREA
CASSANDRA ZERVOS