Gold Coast car king Brett Frizelle spends $2m on Budds Beach development site

A Gold Coast motoring supremo buys into Budds Beach, a champion water skier leaps into a new mansion and more.

BRETT Frizelle, el supremo at the Frizelle motor group, might have development ambitions at Budds Beach after spending $2.05 million on a property overlooking parkland and the Nerang River.

Brett Frizelle has bought a double lot in Budds Beach. Picture Glenn Hampson

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The River Drive double lot, bought via Brett’s Wildash (Qld) entity, spans 1032sq m and is home to two three-bedroom brick villas that were built in 1975.

The site has a 30-metre street frontage and was marketed as having potential to be split into either two or three titles.

CHAMPION WATER SKIER LEAPS INTO NEW MANSION

GLENN Thurlow, who in 1983 became the first water-skier to jump more than 200 feet, has ‘jumped’ out of a Sovereign Islands home thanks to a $5.5 million buyer.

He and wife Lisa moved into the six-bedroom house on a near 200sq m Knightsbridge Pde East site, in 2013 after a trade deal on their Albury-Wodonga farm.

Glenn Thurlow became the first water-skier to jump more than 200 feet in 1983

The Thurlows aren’t leaving the elite Paradise Point location – they’ve paid $2.5 million for a property in The Sovereign Mile.

DEVELOPER ADDS TWO YEARS TO PLAN

RON Bakir, Homecorp property group founder, hasn’t given up on plans to build a family home on land he nabbed on the Isle of Capri riverfront at the end of the GFC.

Homecorp CEO Ron Bakir

He bought the The Promenade lot, with a knockdown house on it, for $1.29 million in 2012 – it sold for $2.25 million in 2009.

Ron, holder of the city’s penthouse record at $9.5 million, has sought a two-year extension to a development approval for the site, citing ‘considerable design work’ being undertaken.