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Melbourne stockbroker Steve Gillon has listed his Victorian rural holding at Merton-Mansfield for auction with expectations of more than $1.2 million.
The 75-hectare Rosevale is an elegant country retreat with a productive beef cattle farm and stud. 
Gillon, and his wife Di have held it for 35 years.
Located in northeast Victoria, Rosevale is 8 kilometres from Lake Eildon, an hour from the snowfields of Mount Buller and two hours from Melbourne. 
It has a stock holding capacity of 400 head of cattle and is a full blood Wagyu cattle operation with associated sheds, cattle yards and storage. There are nine spring fed dams and a new electric bore that that feeds a holding tank for the stock and residence.
The Rosevale homestead is a graceful trophy home with sympathetic extensions built by local craftsmen. It has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, an office and large formal and informal living rooms. A large fireplace is built from antique Hawthorn bricks. 
Listing agent Matt Childs from <a href="https://www.prh.com.au/listing?listing_id=1515" target="_blank">Pat Rice &amp; Hawkins</a> says the estate is likely to attract lifestylers given its productive pastures and the nature of Rosevale as classic rural retreat. 
It will be auctioned on site on November 8.
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Sydney’s cheapest sale at auction over the weekend was $265,000 for a studio in the inner city Newtown.
The 26 square metre studio at 216/88 King Street, which is the main road cutting through the area that is flanked by Sydney University, sold through Agency by Glenn Regan according to APM.
The unit is on the second level of Georgina Apartments and is rented for $330 a week, reflecting a yield of 6.4% for an investor. The median asking rent for Newtown according to RP Data is $450 a week 
The studio, which is in a building with a swimming pool, intercom and an lift, last traded in 2007 for $205,000.
According to RP Data the median price paid for a unit in the hip area is $535,250 of the 100 units sold in the past 12 months.
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Newtown rental sells at 6.4% yield as Sydney weekend's cheapest sale

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Adelaide’s most expensive property to sell at auction last weekend was a $1.195 million Californian bungalow in Glenelg.
The 1935-built residence is at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-glenelg-117941435" target="_blank">14 Maturin Road</a>, just a few streets back from the beach and Jetty Road attractions, according to Australian Property Monitors.
The sprawling five-bedroom house is 243 square metres in size and features an Art Deco cocktail den. It is on 968 square metres of land and was sold through Harris Real Estate Glenelg.
The house last traded in 2005 for $750,000.
According to RP Data, the median house price for Glenelg, which is 9 kilometres from Adelaide, was $1.2 million in August this year.
However, the statistics show that the suburb sits within a dramatic statistical growth cycle. In 2013 growth in Glenelg was negative 20.8% while in 2012 it was up more than 22% on 2011’s negative growth of 22.5%. 
Over five years, RP Data has the suburb’s median house price up by 20%.
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Glenelg bungalow sells for $1.195 million

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The InterContinental Hotel is getting ready to fling open the elegant entry of its newest Australian operation in Double Bay.
Having languished as the boarded up Ritz Carlton Hotel-turned-Stamford Plaza since closing in 2009, the new property may put some pizazz into the sluggish centre.
During its golden days, the hotel was a hotspot for visiting royalty such as Princess Diana, Madonna, Sir Elton John and former President of the USA Bill Clinton. 
It was also where pop icon Michael Hutchence died in 1997, after a night in the bar.
Next month it will open as the <a href="https://www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/gb/en/sydney/sydic/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=OSMAE-IC2-MEA-EN-visitaustralasia_vanity" target="_blank">InterContinental Double Bay</a> following a $25 million renovation and aim to resume its post as Sydney’s most glamorous inn with 140-rooms and a chic rooftop pool with curtained cabanas. 
Architectural firm Bates Smart has overhauled the mock-European-styled structure.
The Cross Street property was bought in 2013 for $57 million by Singaporean funded group Royal Hotels Australia. It had previously sold to the Valad Property Group for $81.5 in 2008. It will be Royal Hotels’ fifth in Australia.
The new operation will sleep 360 people when full, have a late night gin bar, a restaurant and Sydney’s only fully separate Kosher kitchen in a hotel of this standard. Michelin-starred French chef Julien Pouteau will head the restaurant.
It has also joined the Double Bay wedding collective in an attempt to tap the lucrative nuptial market.
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Double Bay's InterContinental set to turbocharge village renaissance

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Melbourne’s Deague family has launched its $260 million hotel and residential development at Box Hill, 14 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD, through its Asian Pacific Group (APG).
The twin-tower project, which is designed by architect Peddle Thorpe, will have 650 apartments and hotel rooms. An Art Series Hotel in the complex will be named in honour of Chinese-Australian artist Zhong Chen. 
APG chief executive, William Deague, who has been joined by his brother Jonathan in the family firm as executive director, said the Box Hill concept was preferable to joining the rush for apartment towers in the CBD.
The group is also beaming its energy north to Brisbane where it has partnered with CorporateRealEstate’s Adam Flaskas to build a six star 140 riverside hotel.
The flagship hotel will be on more than four hectares of Brisbane’s historic Howard Smith Wharves, which is under the Story Bridge.
APG will also develop its Spring Hill site in inner Brisbane, which it paid $23 million for earlier this year. This development will be a $155 million complex that has the Art Series hotel called The Johnson – after Sydney artist Michael Johnson – plus 180 residential apartments. 
Recently the group opened three more Art series hotels, which are valued at $110 million. They are the Larwill in Parkville, The Schaller in Bendigo and The Watson in Adelaide, named after David Larwill, Michael Schaller and Tommy Watson, respectively.
Construction has also begun on another APG Adelaide project, the Vue, a 207-apartment tower on King William Street that will be the tallest residential tower in South Australia. Some 197 apartments in Vue valued at $100 million have been sold.
The group now has six Art Series properties including the established hotels: The Olsen, The Cullen and The Blackman in Melbourne’s inner areas.
The Art Series Hotels, where guests can stay from $100 a night and take dedicated art tours, have been a hit in Australia’s cultural climes.
The group’s only foray into Sydney was The Storrier, in a restored Art Deco Hotel in Potts Point that lasted less than a year despite being profiled in The New York Times as the “ultimate cocoon in which to chill..."
That property was promptly taken over by Quest Apartments, which has traded from the Springfield Avenue building since 2009.
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Deague family launch Box Hill two tower project

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Melbourne’s auction numbers for the September quarter have raised the bar for auction clearance rates.
The city had about 8,165 auctions in the past three months, which is 15% up on the same time last year, according to Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV).
Melbourne’s middle and outer suburbs staged more auctions and accounted for 16% of total auctions, showing a 3% increase.
Clearance rates in middle suburbs remained strong led by Dingley Village, Bulleen and Montmorency with clearance of over 90%.
A four-bedroom house at <a href="https://www.realestateview.com.au/Real-Estate/10-st-marks-close-dingley-village/Property-Details-sold-residential-7544324" target="_blank">10 St Marks Close, Dingley Village</a> sold for $773,000 through Buxtons. The median house price for Dingley Village is $605,000 according to realestateview.com.au.
Inner locations such a Hawthorn East and Collingwood also posted high clearance rates.
Renovated houses in Hawthorn East are hot items with a three-bedroom Invermay Close house <a href="https://www.realestateview.com.au/Real-Estate/3-invermay-grove-hawthorn-east" target="_blank">selling for $1.22 million</a>.
 “The inner and middle south-east and eastern suburbs have consistently been the city’s hot spots in terms of the volume of auctions,” says REIV chief executive Enzo Raimondo.
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Dingley Village strong as Melbourne auction volumes up 15%: REIV

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Investors are making it increasingly difficult for other buyers to enter the market, according to Bob Guth’s weekly Realestatement.
This is particularly challenging among the apartment market in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
He notes that more than a third of all occupied housing in Australia are rentals, with almost half of all new housing loans in 2014 defined as investment loans.
“It’s unsurprising that competition from investors has resulted in many would-be homebuyers forgoing the idea of owner-occupation. Instead, they are joining the investor ranks to gain a foothold in the marketplace,” says the director and chief auctioneer of Sydney agency BradfieldCleary.
Recent first-home owner figures show that home loan applications are at record lows while many first-time buyers decide to gain a foothold by turning to investment.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics records that 64% of the population in NSW is in Sydney and that is projected to grow to 74% by 2061.
This will drive housing demand, further push up prices and have a spill on effective on values of established property similar to Europe and Asia.
Bob Guth points out that declining interest rates has helped owner-occupiers and investors to buy residential property and this has underpinned housing performance for the last two years.
“The major banks cut fixed-term interest rates in July 2014 and this is fuelling greater interest in this class of asset,” he says.
Records are not likely to be set this spring. Bob Guth believes the market will experience more property volume from now.
 
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Investors creating challenging market for other buyers: Bob Guth

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The weekend auction sale of a house in Wishart, in southeast of Brisbane, was a record auction price of $1.68 million for the street.
According to Australian Property Monitors, the two-level 2005-built house at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-wishart-117921187" target="_blank">10 Saint George Court</a> has five-bedrooms, three bathrooms with parking for three cars was sold through LJ Hooker Sunnybank Hill.
The house, which has a purpose-built business zone with an air-conditioned office, private entrance, kitchen and two storage rooms, is set on a land area of 3,831 square metres.
It last traded as a new house in 2006 for $910,000, as recorded by RP Data.
The median house price for Wishart is at $581,000 for August this year against $530,5000 in August 2013, however, records show it has jumped 15.5% over five years.
Rent in the area has a median of $480 a week.
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Wishart, Brisbane home offering with office fetches $1.68 million

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The most expensive domestic real estate to sell in Adelaide at the weekend auctions fetched $900,000 in Brighton’s Park Crescent, on the South Australian capital’s coast.
The three-bedroom single-level house was set on a large 1,420 square metre block at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-brighton-117876483" target="_blank">5 Park Crescent</a>, and traded through selling agent Elders Brighton, according to Australian Property Monitors.
The 1957-built house last sold in June 2005 for $550,000.
According to RP Data, the median house price in Brighton for August 2014 was $574,000 up from $490,000 in the corresponding month in 2013. 
Capital growth for 2013 is at 3.4% for the area, which is a considerable improvement on the -25% recorded for 2012. 
The median rental for a house in Brighton is $420 a week. 
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The most affordable residential property to change hands at the Brisbane auctions last weekend was $350,000 in Chermside, 10 kilometres north of the riverside city.
The three-bedroom house at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-chermside-117871911" target="_blank">621 Webster Road</a> was on a large block of 632 square metres and sold through agent Burton &amp; Ryan Property Agent, according to APM.      
The house was last traded in November 1976 for $32,250.
RP Data sets the median rental for a Chermside house at $388 per week.
The median house price for August this year was $470,000, down from the median house price of August 2013 of $560,000. 
The house shares its location with one of Queensland’s largest shopping centres - Westfield Chermside.
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Chermside secures Brisbane's cheapest weekend auction result

<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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