Located on one quarter of an acre in the very popular village in the rainforest is this classic Queenslander home. With everything you need literally minutes from your front door, trade your city life of hustle and bustle for a village life where the trees rustle."
Did David Hall swap his real estate licence for a poetic one? "Trade your city life of hustle and bustle for a village life where the trees rustle." I can hear Wordsworth turning over in his grave! Not that David Hall has to convince me, as I've had my eyes on the village of Kuranda in the hills west of Cairns for more than a decade. Back then I could've bought a nice house in the village for under $300,000 and even the extraordinary Barron Lodge sold as late as 2020 for as little as $850,000 - click here.
With all the good properties already picked over, there isn't much left but that's all right, too, because we aren't ready yet to move anyway and even if we were, we'd now probably opt for a downsizer. Something small because we've grown tired of endless cleaning and gardening!
There are some beautiful properties within walking distance of the village but they are all on small acreages and maybe at our age that distance is no longer walking distance anyway - or, as a friend from Sydney emailed, "don’t even think about anything with steps or stairs" - so I keep my eyes on something suitable in the village such as this cutie at 6 Morong Street (which has plenty of stairs at the front and back):
It's already UNDER OFFER but that's all right, too, as we're not ready yet. So while Angela Martin waxes lyrical about that simple brickwall downstairs, I keep following the market which has gone through some amazing leaps and bounds in recent years: 6 Morong Street last sold in 2016 for $390,000, now they want offers over $600,000; similarly, 7 Barang Street also sold in 2016 for $350,000, now they're advertising it at "Over $549,000" (after an initial price range of $580,000 to $620,000).
Acting on David Hall's motto "Keeping real estate real!" and reducing the price to below $500,000 would keep this real estate offering real!
