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The Government will move quickly to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission, scrapped by the Gillard government in July 2012.
A spokesperson for employment minister Eric Abetz told The Australian Financial Review it would introduce legislation to try and restore the ABCC within 100 days.
Facing opposition from Greens and Labor senators it is considering other options to stifle the power of unions.
The paper reports it is considering replacing the inspectorate chief executive of Fair Work Building and Construction Inspectorate, Val Gostencnik, and ordering the agency to take a more aggressive approach to union militancy with an interim investigative taskforce.
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A previously derelict 14-bedroom mansion in Melbourne's Armadale has been listed for sale with reported price hopes of $10 million plus.
Redcourt was left to the elements from 1996 until 2009 when Melbourne investor Adam Garrisson bought and started renovating the property. The photos of the property above are from prior to the building's renovation.
The Queen Anne-style mansion at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-armadale-105339513?tm=1227060916&amp;c=2001104" target="_blank">506 Orrong Road </a> was originally built in 1888 by glass and timber merchant Edward Yencken. It was designed by architect Joseph Reed, also responsible for State Library of Victoria and the Royal Exhibition Building.
It was then bought and sold by a series of pastoralists, politicians and mining entrepreneurs, Vogue Living reports.
The Ministry of Education bought the heritage listed 3497 square metre property as a residency of music students, but reportedly abandoned the property in 1996. It then listed the property for $8 million but sold to Garrisson for reportedly less than half that.
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The property in it's pre-renovation state
Garrisson, who makes a business out of restoring old buildings acquired the site in 2009. Previously he was responsible for the redevelopment of Melbourne's GPO building, he co-founded the restaurant Fifteen Jamie Oliver, and is currently working with Vue de Monde’s Shannon Bennett to create an eco-resort at the 1930s Art Moderne mansion of Burnham Beeches near Sherbrooke Forest.
For this project he appointed John Warwicker of London art and design collective Tomato as creative director, Vogue Living reports.
Each room had a different creative professional working on it. Fashion designer Akira Isogawa worked on the music room, artist David Bromley worked on the children’s room, Warwicker worked on the Great Hall, artist Naomi Troski worked on a bedroom White Room, and Shannon Bennett worked on the kitchen.
It has a tennis court, servants' quarters, a coach house and a pavilion.
"I wanted to create an environment that fostered a cultural and artistic exchange," Garrisson told Vogue Living.
"Some people don't care about old buildings, but they are defining, contextualising and encase the character of a civilisation."
It is being sold by agent Ross Savas from Kay &amp; Burton.
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A 19-room Toorak mansion formerly owned by entertainer Steve Vizard is listed for sale with reported price hopes of $14 million.
Steve Vizard bought <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-toorak-114871075" target="_blank">17 Chastleton Avenue</a> in 1998 for $1.8million from 78-year widow, Maria Stone, who ran it as a boarding house until Stonnington Council intervened.
Stone had bought the 1727 square metre property titled Chastleton  in 1964.
Despite plans to renovate Vizard sold it after just five months for $1.616 million to lawyer Justin Shmith and his wife Sandra.
It was built in 1908 and modified again 1930. The castle-like residence has panoramic views of Melbourne's skyline.
In 1935 it became a guesthouse with about five flats, according to a history of the area by Sally Wilde. The whole of upstairs and the tower rented for just £1 per week.
Other previous owners include W. Barrett, EA Mackay, and Mrs Davey-Milne.
It was described by former tenant, Mrs Parker, as “a lovely old home for the gentry (with a) beautiful entry (and with) marble floors”.
In 2011 15 Chastleton Avenue sold for $4.135 million by RT Edgar.
The property is being sold by Michael Gibson from Kay &amp; Burton.
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Residents of the 332-unit Parque development in Melbourne will have access to a large communal entertainers kitchen designed by Shannon Bennett of Vue De Monde fame.
They will be able to cook in the kitchen (pictured below), eat around 12-person banquet table, barbeque on the deck and read in the library.
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Residents at 555 St Kilda Road will have access to an online booking system for the space which also includes a temperature controlled wine cellar.
SP Setia, the Malaysian developer of Parque, have seen the concept work well in Singapore and Malaysia and have implemented it in their Fulton Lane development.
“We’ve seen this concept work extremely well in Asia in recent years and believe this is the way forward for apartment living here in Australia,” Bennett (pictured below) says.
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“Space is becoming more limited but the expectation for high end luxury and amenity is greater than ever.  We’ve created the Parque shared kitchen and entertaining space with this in mind”.
Construction of the building is due to start in early 2014 and finish in 2016. Around 90% of the one, two and three bedroom apartments in the building have sold.
“Gone are the days of people living in the inner city being at a social disadvantage.  Parque’s club level means residents can still have a home they’re proud of and the lifestyle they desire without their house being big,” principal architect Karl Fender from Fender Katsalidis Architects explained.
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/news/chef-shannon-bennett-spends-%242-million-buying-on-belongil-beach/2013091964857">Bennet recently spent $2 million on some prime Byron Bay beachfront residential land.</a>
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Investors have been rushing to the Pilbara town of Onslow where house prices have jumped 212% over the last four years, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
House prices increased from $301,000 in 2009 to $940,000 this year. They increased 30.8% in the past year and 4.4% in the past quarter.
The Australian Financial Review reports most of that growth came from Chevron’s $29 billion Wheatstone gas project which currently in early construction phase and has 2000 workers on site.
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It was also helped along by the nearby BHP Billiton’s $1.5 billion Macedon Gas plant which opened on Friday.
Aubin Ray from HPG Realty says people are shifting there following falling rents in towns further north from project delays and cancellations.
“Absolutely, they’re coming from Gladstone and Karratha,” he told The Australian Financial Review.
“They’ve had good returns but now yields are declining. They’re looking at Onslow as the next one.
He is selling one and two bedroom units in the town for between $685,000 and $850,000.
Rents have sky-rocketed as well. Older two-bedroom homes rent for $1600 a week and four bedroom homes rent for more than $2500, according to Ray White’s Tim Grose.
The WA government is building a 220 lot residential estate in the town to mitigate housing shortages.
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Victoria’s second oldest golf course will reopen as a 320-home residential community adjoining a scaled down nine-hole course.
Developers Links Living issued title deeds to 200 people who bought into the Geelong Golf Course project which has been closed for the past 10 years.
Transforming the course into a part residential development is an alternative to struggling courses selling their land and being forced into mergers, managing director Stephen Head told The Australian Financial Review.
“This provides an opportunity to create a business model and structure with a new income stream where residents contribute to the cost of maintaining the golf course and become part of the club either playing golf or socialising at club facilities,” he said.
Blocks in the development are price from $200,000 to $400,000 and have annual body corporate fees of $1000.
Links Living have done similar transformations of the Sanctuary Lakes and Sandhurst Club courses in Melbourne.
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Struggling Geelong golf course to reopen as residential development

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The New South Wales Government is trying to sell two neighbouring iconic sandstone Sydney buildings to foreign investors for use as hotels or apartments.
In October it will list the Department of Lands building bounded by Bridge Street, Bent Street, Loftus Street and Gresham Street; and Department of Education building bounded by Bridge Street, Loftus Street, Farrer Place and Young Street, the Australian Financial Review reports.
It will reportedly market the properties to more than 100 local and offshore investors at a tourism event tonight.
The Lands building could sell more up to $80 million.
They are being offered for sale separately but marketing for the project suggests it could be developed into one precinct.
Barry O’Farrell said he sees tourism as one of the main kick-starters of the state’s economy.
“If we want to maintain and grow our market share, we need to ensure NSW has the tourism infrastructure in place including that Sydney is home to some of the best hotels in the world,” he told The Australian Financial Review.
The Lands Department building was built in the late 19th century and home to bureaucrats. It may be leased back to the government for a year.
The Education building was built between 1912 and 1930 and may be leased back to the government until June 2016 with a possible two year extension.
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NSW government to sell iconic heritage Sydney buildings to foreign investors

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There are 25,000 apartments across 130 projects to be completed in the next five in Sydney, according to a report consultancy firm Deep End Services.
The CBD will be home to 4,000 of those apartments, the greatest of all 36 suburbs covered by the report.
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About 40% of those apartments are currently being built. Nearly 3000 will be completed this year and 6000 will be finished next year.
The 2014 peak comes with the completion of stages in some of the bigger projects presently underway in Inner Sydney, such as Central Park  in Chippendale, Harold Park in Forest Lodge, Divercity in Waterloo, VSQ, Emerald Park, Eon, EastVillage and Platinum all in Zetland and The Quay Haymarket.
The 25,000 apartments identified would reportedly house 44,000 additional people – about in line with population forecasts by NSW Government.
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The inner city suburbs are garnering the most building approvals for units.
“Although pockets of apartment development are also emerging in the middle-ring suburbs of Macquarie Park, Parramatta and Olympic Park, demand is greatest in the Inner Sydney Region, close to the largest concentration of jobs, public transport, universities, retail and entertainment,” the report says.
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“Strategic planning policies for metropolitan Sydney call for significant population growth to be accommodated within the existing urban area.
“The present apartment cycle means both market preference and planning strategies are aligned and this appears to be giving rare speed and volume to the process and number of approvals and development.”
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Building firm Creation Homes Victoria will complete 50 unfinished homes left by collapsed group Australian Residential Builder.
The firm will complete the homes by Christmas, the Australian Financial Review reports.
ARB was put into administration with insolvency firm Hamilton Murphy in August, owning creditors $8 million.
 
 
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The original article wrongly identified owners of Creation Homes Victoria as owners of ARB.

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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority says imposing lending restrictions on banks is not high on its agenda although it remains an option.
Chairman of APRA John Laker said the authority would engage directly with banks ahead of institute New Zealand style macro-prudential controls.
“We have the same tools in our armoury as other supervisors have used,” Laker told the Financial Services Institute of Australasia conference, attended by The Australian Financial Review.
“We’ve used those tools in the past and would be willing to use them, but there are a range of other actions prudential regulators can take before being forced to take macro-prudential [measures] and those tools are engaging across the table.”
His comments come after a plea from the Reserve Bank of Australia for banks to maintain lending standards and calls by the International Monetary Fund to use macro-prudential policies to restrict risky bank lending.
New Zealand recently implemented policies to ensure just 10% of total mortgages are worth 80% or more of the value of a residential property.
 
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APRA shies away from lending restrictions but still an option

<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/broadbeach-qld-4218">Broadbeach</a> offers plenty of reasons to live vertically, but moving from a substantial family home into an apartment can expose the compromises of high-density living. Privacy, room for guests and usable living space tend to matter more when an apartment is intended as a permanent home rather than an occasional coastal base.

A typical residential floor at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/the-eveleigh-broadbeach-7-9-surf-parade-broadbeach-qld-4218">The Eveleigh</a>, on Surf Parade,&nbsp;contains just four apartments. The 94-residence development by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/hirsch-faigen">Hirsch &amp; Faigen</a> is predominantly made up of expansive three-bedroom homes, with a limited collection of half-floor penthouses above.

Across the apartment floors, <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/rothelowman">Rothelowman</a> has used the relatively limited number of residences to give each home greater access to natural light and outlook. Living spaces extend towards full-height glazing, while a series of bay windows frame selected views across the Pacific Ocean, city and hinterland rather than treating the building edge as a continuous wall of glass.

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“The apartment floors deliver a collection of homes that embrace controlled outlook via a series of bay windows deliberately framing moments of view,” Rothelowman Director Kim Lowman said.

From outside, those projecting forms contribute to the tower’s faceted profile. Strong horizontal and vertical elements establish its proportions, while the changing position of the sun alters the light, shadow and reflection across the façade throughout the day.

The same attention moves inside the apartments, where the material palette combines warm timber, natural stone, metallic detailing and softer curved forms. Kitchens sit within the main living zone, with stone island benches, integrated joinery and European appliances, before the living areas extend towards the glazing and the outlook.

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Three genuine bedrooms provide room to accommodate family and guests, while two secure car spaces and storage address some of the practical considerations that can become more noticeable when moving from a larger home. Feedback from the display suite has centred on the warmth and restraint of the interiors, with buyers commenting that the residences feel like homes rather than conventional coastal apartments.

A limited collection of half-floor penthouses occupies the upper levels, increasing the scale of the living spaces and adding private balconies and elevated finishes. From this position, the outlook extends between the ocean and hinterland.

Outside the private residences, The Eveleigh separates its shared spaces between the podium and rooftop. The podium is centred on wellness, with subtropical landscaping surrounding a swimming pool and pool terrace, yoga garden, private gymnasium, sauna and hot and cold plunge facilities. Landscaped retreats and pavilions provide additional places to sit away from the main recreation areas.

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Higher in the building, a rooftop pavilion and private dining suite sit alongside resident lounge, barbecue and outdoor dining areas, opening towards panoramic views across the ocean, city and hinterland.

“Buyers are no longer just looking for an apartment, but a lifestyle where they can relax, reset, and enjoy a balanced way of living,” Hirsch &amp; Faigen Director of Sales Matt George said.

Interest to date has come from established owner-occupiers and interstate lifestyle purchasers, including buyers planning a future move to the Gold Coast. Many are coming from larger homes and want to reduce ongoing maintenance without giving up space for family and guests, privacy, two car spaces or the ability to entertain at home.

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Much of that daily life can also take place beyond the building without requiring a drive. Kurrawa Beach and Pratten Park are an easy walk from Surf Parade, while Pacific Fair, Oracle Boulevard, The Oasis, restaurants, cafés, entertainment and public transport are also within walking distance.

The Eveleigh is Hirsch &amp; Faigen's fourth Gold Coast development since entering the market in 2021, following The Hemingway at Palm Beach, The Emerson at Kirra and Yves at Mermaid Beach. Each of the preceding projects sold out before completion.

“Broadbeach had been on our radar throughout our time operating on the Gold Coast,” the developer said. “Following our projects in Palm Beach, Kirra and Mermaid Beach, Broadbeach represented the natural next step for the business.”

The Surf Parade site brought together proximity to the beach, protected coastal outlooks and walkability to dining, shopping and recreation. Hirsch &amp; Faigen also identified the street as an emerging premium residential address, with enough separation from Broadbeach's busier destinations to retain a quieter environment at home.

The Eveleigh is now under construction by Maxcon, with completion forecast for mid-2028. Three-bedroom residences are currently available from $2.87 million.

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The Eveleigh brings house-like apartments to Broadbeach

A long-stalled Campbelltown development site is back in play, with new plans for 139 apartments set to supersede a mixed-use scheme approved almost a decade ago but never built.

The new proposal for 28 Cordeaux Street would deliver 116 market and 23 affordable apartments in a part 14-storey building, bringing a substantial new project into a Campbelltown market where new apartment supply remains limited.

Plans have been filed over the 3,092 sqm corner site at Moore-Oxley Street, around 600 metres from Campbelltown Railway Station and the city-centre retail core.

The site already carries a mixed-use residential approval dating to 2016. Doroch Architects has now been engaged on a larger replacement scheme, which is progressing as a State Significant Development Application following a Housing Delivery Authority determination in August 2025.

The apartment mix comprises 39 one-bedroom, 72 two-bedroom and 28 three-bedroom residences. Two-bedroom apartments make up just over half of the project, while three-bedroom homes account for 20 per cent.

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Of the 139 apartments, 23 will be delivered as affordable housing under the in-fill affordable housing provisions of the Housing SEPP. The affordable component represents 15 per cent of the residential gross floor area and will be managed by a registered Community Housing Provider.

Doroch has sought to break the scale of the building into two distinct elements, with a masonry podium of around four storeys establishing the street edge before the residential tower steps back above.

The corner position has shaped that approach. Cordeaux Street faces toward the commercial and civic centre, while Moore-Oxley Street leads into the lower-scale residential neighbourhood to the south, and the design verification report describes the site as "bridging the commercial core to the north and established residential areas to the south."

The podium will be expressed predominantly in face brick, while the upper levels shift to brushed and grooved concrete cladding with darker metal detailing. Recessed sections, deep balcony edges and landscaping break down the upper form, with an approximately 11.8-metre setback to the northern boundary addressing the adjoining St Peters Anglican School.

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Campbelltown has been starved of new residential developments in the last decade.

The only other notable development set to come to market this year is ALAND's Queen Square, a mixed-use precinct on over two hectares that will comprise apartments above a vibrant ground-level retail and hospitality dining precinct.

First look: New 139-apartment plans revive long-stalled Campbelltown city centre site

First Look: Sherlock Construction pitches apartments for low-rise Deception Bay

Queensland builder-developer MAYD has revealed the first look at its major North Kirra beachfront development, lodging amended plans that reduce the number of apartments and increase the proportion of larger residences.

The project is planned across a substantial 4,742 sqm amalgamated site spanning seven lots at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/2-6-pacific-parade-bilinga-qld-4225">2-6 Pacific Parade</a> and 27-33 Golden Four Drive in Bilin​ga, directly opposite Nor​th Kirra Beach.

<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/mayd-group">MAYD</a> secured the site for $32.5 million in 2025, in what was one of the Gold Coast's largest property transactions of the year.

The development will be delivered across two stages, with the first stage carrying an estimated gross realisation value of around $360 million.

The latest amendments seek to reduce the overall apartment count and shift the project further toward the owner-occupier market, with larger residences designed for buyers wanting considerably more space than traditionally offered in a beachfront apartment.

The residential mix will include townhomes, oversized two-bedroom apartments, substantial three-bedroom residences and four-bedroom homes.

MAYD has appointed Cera Stribley to lead the architecture and interiors, with the Melbourne-based design practice drawing on the beachfront setting through a series of ocean-facing terraces and heavily landscaped balconies.

Strong horizontal forms and curved balconies will define the exterior, with subtropical landscaping integrated throughout the building to soften the built form and increase the connection between the residences and the beachfront.

The project will also include an extensive collection of resident wellness and lifestyle facilities, continuing the broader shift across the Gold Coast's luxury apartment market toward larger homes supported by resort-style amenity.

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MAYD Founder Todd Mould said North Kirra was increasingly appealing to buyers attracted to the more established, lower-density character of the southern Gold Coast.

"North Kirra presents one of the most compelling luxury residential opportunities currently emerging in Australia, combining absolute beachfront with the character and authenticity that buyers are increasingly seeking, and the same sense of tight-knit community that defined Burleigh and Currumbin perhaps 10 or 15 years ago," Mould said.

"With Gold Coast Airport on its doorstep, it also offers a level of accessibility that broadens its appeal across almost every market demographic."

The project comes as the southern Gold Coast continues to attract an increasing share of high-end apartment development and buyer activity.

Kirra in particular has emerged as one of the region's more tightly held beachfront markets, with its relatively low-density character, established surf and hospitality scene and proximity to Gold Coast Airport differentiating it from the higher-density markets further north.

Mould said those characteristics had informed the approach MAYD and Cera Stribley had taken to the project.

"We've worked closely with Cera Stribley to create a vision that is deeply connected to its surroundings," he said.

"Inspired by the coastline itself, the architecture has been shaped around space, privacy and resort-style living, creating a collection of homes that reflects the next generation of luxury on the southern Gold Coast."

MOTIV Managing Director Carly Cottam, who has been appointed to market the project, said buyer attention had continued to move south along the Gold Coast.

"Purchasers who may once have defaulted to Broadbeach, Main Beach or Surfers Paradise are increasingly recognising the value of a genuine beachfront location that offers lower density, strong amenity and a more established sense of community," Cottam said.

"Kirra has a powerful combination of growing demand and genuine scarcity. Beachfront supply is inherently constrained, the area remains relatively low density, and buyers are increasingly placing a premium on locations that feel established, uncrowded and authentic rather than heavily developed."

Cottam said the proximity to Gold Coast Airport was also proving increasingly important for interstate and second-home buyers.

"Being minutes from Gold Coast Airport makes it particularly compelling for interstate buyers, frequent travellers and second-home purchasers who can access an authentic coastal lifestyle almost immediately after stepping off a flight."

The acquisition takes MAYD's active development portfolio to more than $500 million, with the North Kirra project representing one of its largest undertakings to date.

MAYD is targeting an early 2027 launch.

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Castle Hill, the longtime hub of the Hills District, has been one of the major beneficiaries of Sydney's Metro expansion, with improved connectivity helping drive continued population growth, development and buyer demand across the Hills District.

But despite that growth, the suburb has seen relatively few major new apartment projects brought to market over the past 18 months.

Hills District developer Reve Group is looking to fill that gap with <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/nova-r-ve-castle-hill-2-garthowen-crescent-castle-hill-nsw-2154">Nova Rêve</a>, a major new mixed-use precinct on the corner of Garthowen Crescent and Old Castle Hill Road, a short walk from Castle Hill Metro Station and Castle Towers.

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The project will comprise three residential towers alongside a hotel, restaurants, cafes and a skybar, more than 1,600 sqm of ground-floor retail and almost an acre of landscaped gardens.

It represents the largest project undertaken by Reve Group, the development arm of the Kassis family, which has been building across the Hills District for more than 30 years through Kassis Homes.

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Nova Rêve also represents a significant step up from the family's first apartment development, Grand Rêve, which was delivered nearby on Garthowen Crescent.

Grand Rêve introduced larger, house-like apartment layouts and premium inclusions including Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances to the Castle Hill market.

Nova Rêve takes that approach to a precinct scale, combining the residential component with hospitality, retail and substantial public and resident landscaping.

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Reve Group Managing Director Sam Kassis said the project reflected the family's three decades of building in the Hills, which has evolved from trophy homes on quarter-acre blocks to larger-scale apartment development.

"Grand Rêve was our first apartment project here and it showed us what this pocket of Castle Hill could be. Nova Rêve is the refinement of that idea: not just apartments, but a place the whole suburb can use," Kassis said.

A key part of that approach is the hotel, which has been designed to operate as an amenity for the wider Castle Hill community rather than solely hotel guests.

It will include restaurants, cafes, skybars and all-day dining, alongside conference and event facilities catering to business functions, community groups and private events.

At ground level, more than 1,600 sqm of shops and cafes will open onto the surrounding streets and landscaped areas.

Almost an acre of gardens designed by Land and Form Studios will run through the precinct, incorporating pathways, seating, barbecue areas and children's play spaces.

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Reve Group's Romio Georges said creating an active ground plane had been central to the planning of Nova Rêve.

"There are gardens with pathways, barbecues, seating and play areas, shops and cafes opening onto the street, and a hotel with restaurants and a skybar that anyone in Castle Hill can walk into," Georges said.

The project's elevated position on one of Sydney's highest ridgelines will also provide apartments with outlooks toward the Sydney skyline, surrounding parkland and the Blue Mountains.

More than 80 per cent of the apartments will occupy corner positions, with Turner responsible for both the architecture and interiors.

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