Anna Bligh lists Highgate Hill, Brisbane investment apartment

Anna Bligh lists Highgate Hill, Brisbane investment apartment
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

The former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has listed a Highgate Hill, Brisbane investment apartment for sale.

The three bedroom, two bathroom apartment in the Beaumont block has a $640,000 asking price through Ray White south Brisbane agent Luke Croft.

The 4/91 Dornoch Terrace apartment cost $609,000 in 2009 when bought by Anna Bligh with her husband Greg Withers.

It has 149 square metres space with two car spaces.

The large wraparound balcony has a north/east aspect as well as southern views over to the University of Queensland. 

It sits within the sought-after Brisbane State High catchment.

The apartment recently became available for rent at $520 a week, so reflecting a 4.2% rental yield if it sold at its asking price. It was previously available for rent at $480 a week in May 2011.

On its 2009 purchase the couple sought to obtain $530 a week tenants, but had to lower the asking rent to around $490 a week.

The couple retain two other Brisbane investment properties.

 

Their Brisbane house was sold following their move to Sydney where he took up a job in 2012 at Arts NSW.

The Sydney-based former Queensland premier Anna Bligh and her husband, Greg Withers, secured $960,000 having bought the 1890 Highgate Hill home in 1997 for $290,000.

They rented in Sydney's Paddington.

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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