Last plot of Gold Coast's Monterey Keys up for receivership sale

Last plot of Gold Coast's Monterey Keys up for receivership sale
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 8, 2020

The Peninsula residential development site at Monterey Keys on the northern Gold Coast has been listed for receivership sale.

The current listing is 32,994 square metres of waterfront land in a gated community, which potentially consists of up to 62 individual titled lots.

CBRE Gold Coast managing director Mark Witheriff said the sale campaign is expected to generate interest from domestic house and land developers.

“The sale could provide an opportunity for the incoming owner to either sell down the individual waterfront lots or develop a themed waterfront community on the remaining land and super lot,” Witheriff says.

The Peninsula is located on the natural waterway of Saltwater Creek, offering views to Hope Island Resort from its Helensvale location.

Offers close on December 1.

Stefan Dopking and Quentin J. Olde of Taylor Woodings were appointed as receivers and managers of Kabale, the site’s owner, in June 2011.

The Monterey Keys residential estate was launched in 1992, initially comprising 1,100 lots on a 182-hectare riverfront site on the northern Gold Coast.

The site was purchased in a vacant state in 1998 for $12 million by Kabale Holdings, a company associated with the Dalley family, with a view to the development of an integrated residential resort.

It was a canal housing project with an estimated $300 million completion value.

In 1989 when Kabale went through a period of reconstruction the estate lay dormant, with sales beginning in late 1992 averaging 10 to 15 blocks a month for the first two years. The dry lots were fetching around $70,000 and the wet lost $130,000.

Most recently the developer was selling wet blocks from $495,000, which were re-priced over recent times down to $395,000.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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