50 best homes in Queensland for 2022
From the tropical climes of Cairns to the treetops of Tinbeerwah and the lofty heights of Hamilton Hill. We’ve searched far and wide to find Queensland’s best homes of 2022.
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From the tropical climes of Cairns to the treetops of Tinbeerwah and the lofty heights of Hamilton Hill.
The Courier-Mail real estate team has searched far and wide to find the top homes in the state and have painstakingly put together a list of 50 of Queensland’s best.
Trying to choose the best homes in Queensland was a significant challenge, not to mention a subjective one.
Keen property watchers will know some of these homes well, while others may come as a surprise. But they all have one thing in common — a story to tell.
That’s why we decided to include 44 Charlotte St, Paddington.
The most talked about home of the year sparked the imagination of thousands of children when an international Airbnb marketing campaign turned the house into the loveable Heeler Home fromthe hit TV series Bluey.
Some are home to high profile locals, but many of the proud owners of these properties are simply everyday Queenslanders who take passion and pride in where they live.
Take the owners of 8 Odessa Street in Holland Park West.
Corey Stone of CHS Building, and his partner Peta Jamieson, are known for their love of bold black facades and moody, dark colour palettes.
Mr Stone is the builder of Brisbane’s ‘Gucci’ mansion at 29 Laidlaw Pde, East Brisbane, which sold for $12.5m earlier this year, but ‘Odessa’ was built to be his ‘forever home’.
Then there are the homes that are just simply envy-inducing, like ‘Villa Casa’ — a sprawling hillside home in Reedy Creek in the Gold Coast hinterland.
The award-winning, resort-style residence is made of timber, limestone, marble and stone, boasts views of the coastline, and has a heated pool with a swim-up bar.
On the prestigious shores of Noosa Sound, a jawdropping home by Shaun Lockyer Architects also fits the brief.
Set across three levels and draped in natural greenery, the house won the coveted Australian Home of the Year award at the 2022 HIA-CSR Australian Housing Awards.
In the affluent inner Brisbane suburb of Ascot, ‘Montrose on Massey’ attracted more than 500 people in just two hours of open homes before selling for $4.45m last month, while down the road there’s a six-storey mansion with a Batman tunnel and secret “bear cave”.
But there’s no place quite like our No. 1 choice.
‘The Cliffhanger’ — a gravity-defying, concrete monolith floating over a cliff in the regional city of Toowoomba that cost about $5m to build and serves as an engineering feat.
It was built by Valdal Projects for local Mark Johnstone, a Subway franchise owner in Toowoomba.
Valdal Projects manager Emily Valdal said it was “an extremely challenging site with how steep the slope of the block is”.
“Mark’s brief to us was that every component had to be finished to nothing short of a perfect standard, so the boys all put in a huge effort and we believe we’ve achieved that,” she said.
Originally published as 50 best homes in Queensland for 2022
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