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Web based lender loans.com.au has again been named as the nation’s bargain basement home loan financier.
For the second consecutive year the market leader for online lending has claimed the title as Australia’s Cheapest Home Loan according to Mozo’s People’s Choice Awards 2014.
This year 25,000 clients ranked more than 200 home loan providers for the Mozo's People’s Choice Awards, and loans.com.au scored 9.2 out of 10.
The lender’s Dream Home Loan has a variable interest rate of 4.54% per annum and a 4.56% per annum comparison rate. There is no application, monthly, establishment or ongoing fees plus a full mortgage offset facility.
The Dream Home Loan product has a five star rating for outstanding value by Canstar.
Mortgage originator Firstmac funds loans.com.au. Managing director Kim Cannon says the award was validation of loans.com.au’s streamlined online lending model.
“This People’s Choice Award confirms for us that we were right to rely on the online model we built to keep costs down,” he says.
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Work has started on a master planned residential community at Elderslie in Sydney’s south-western rural outskirts.
The 24-hectare Argyle project, which is near Camden, is a collaboration between land developer AVJennings and Investa Land.
Argyle will have 500 lots and is expected to house 1,500 people. The development is close to shopping areas, established schools and public transport. It is aimed at first and second home buyers.
According to RP Data, the median house price for Elderslie is $335,000. It has remained the same for several years.
The project will significantly boost the population of the area, which was at 2,647 people in 2006. 
As part of the Argyle development the Oxley Rivulet will be restored and more than 3.5 hectares will be open space. 
 
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Argyle, Elderslie master planned community underway

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The well-known Sunshine Coast Humzy family hopes to sell its major resort and land property near Maroochydore for about $10 million.
The Maroochy Waterfront Resort at Diddillibah has a popular 64-room motel set beside a natural forest reserve and lagoon. 
There are 20 holiday cottages, 23 relocatable homes, a freehold lagoon and 33 hectares of land with has development approval for residential development and integrated tourism.
Allen Humzy built the resort in the early 1980s for budget holidays and his son Phil currently runs the resort.
The resort attracts families, sporting groups and school camps and offers an income producing business to operate while developing the residential land.
Agent Andrew Jackson from CBRE is calling for offers in collaboration with Rob from Elite Lifestyle Properties and Peter Ward of Ward Commercial.
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Diddillibah, Sunshine Coast motel offering

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Adelaide's most affordable property to sell at auction on the weekend was in Seacliff Park, southwest of Adelaide.
According to figures from Australian Property Monitors, a 1960s-built flat-roof three-bedroom house at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-seacliff+park-117893367" target="_blank">34 Thomas Street</a> sold for $335,000.
It was marketed as a knock down with potential sea views through Phil McMahon Real Estate Glenelg. 
The top price paid for a house in Thomas Street is $535,000 for a 1970s-built thee bedroom brick home was paid in 2010.
According to RP Data the median sale price for a house in Seacliff Park was $550,000 in August this year while median increase over five years is nearly 9%.
Houses in the area lease for a median rent of $370 a week.
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Brisbane’s least expensive residence to sell at weekend auction was a house in Redbank Plains, near Ipswich on Brisbane’s outer ring suburbs.
Australian Property Monitors reported that the three-bedroom 1970s-built home at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-redbank+plains-117852659" target="_blank">42 Flinders Street</a> exchanged for $230,000 through the Professionals Thornton.
The solar powered house on 967 square metres of land last sold in 2005 for $190,000.
The median sale price for a house in Redbank Plains was at $309,000 in early 2014, up from $275,000 in early in 2012. 
Between 2012/13 the median growth in the suburb was 3.4%
RP Data shows the median weekly rental is $320.
Other recent house sales in Flinders Street included a three-bedroom house, which sold in July for $282,000. In May another house sold for $275,000 while in February a house sold for $235,000, which was last rented for $270 a week - the continual figure since 2008 despite new leases - reflecting a yield of nearly 6% for an investor.
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Melbourne’s least expensive property to sell at auction on the weekend was a small unit in Gladstone Park, northwest of the CBD.
The one-bedroom 60 square metre unit in the single level row of dwellings was at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-gladstone+park-117829227" target="_blank">20/16 South Circular Road</a>. It was offered to buyers all ages but with a covenant that only 55+ year olds can occupy/rent the unit.
It sold for $190,000 through Jason Real Estate Tullamarine, according to APM, at a $10,000 increase over the past six years, reflecting 0.88% annual growth.
There were $225,000 hopes when the brick unit was listed in early 2014.
The unit last traded in 2008 for $180,000 and before that in 1994 for $77,000. 
Last year another two units sold in the row, each for $205,000. 
The highest price paid for a one-bedroom unit in residential retirement complex is $227,500 in 2012.
The recent asking rental for the block are around $230 a week.
According to RP Data, the median unit price in Gladstone Park is $210,000.
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Gladstone Park's ordinary 0.88% price growth in Melbourne's cheapest weekend auction

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More than 130 years after Queensland’s notorious Boggo Road gaol opened, it is set to morph in a $300 million inner-city village.
The best-preserved heritage-listed Annerley cellblock that opened in 1901 is likely to be converted into a museum while the original prison courtyard will be a park. In two areas beside the former goal 500 one, two and three bedroom apartments will be built.
A food market and bars will be between the Queensland Government’s EcoScience building and the prison. Callie Malouf Investments, which is behind New Farm’s James Street markets, has already secured operating rights to the market.
The first apartments to be released will be on Peter Doherty Street, off Annerley Road with prices starting from $379,000.
According to RP Data the median price for units on Annerley Road is $421,000.
Leighton Holdings will develop the sustainable village project with owner the Department of Housing and Public Works
Gavin Tonnet, Leighton Properties national head of residential, recognises the extraordinary nature of the property.
“The Boggo Road Gaol is a unique public asset, but experienced by very few. Through interpretive planning and sensitive design, the proposal seeks to retain the aesthetic and social significance of the area and transform it into a public place that incorporates educational opportunities, tours and a museum,” he says.  
The National Trust, Boggo Road Gaol Tours and the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society have all worked in consultation with Leighton and the government.
 
 
 
 
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Boggo Road gaol set for village conversion

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Aria Property Group has paid $10 million to consolidate a Woolloongabba site to develop a residential project.
Brisbane City Council sold a 4,403 square metre block at 17 Gibbon Street while the Nazareth Lutheran Church of South Brisbane sold the second 2,667 square metre block, which also fronts Hubert Street, off the market through Colliers International. 
Developer Tim Forrester’s Aria Property Group is behind the Urban Development Institute of Australia 2013 award-winning Vine building in South Brisbane and has a raft of stylish refurbishments and buildings to its name including Coco Bliss in Mooloolaba and The Cliffs at Kangaroo Point.
Aria plans to develop an integrated residential project with four individually designed buildings on the large Woolloongabba site.
Brent Liddell, Aria’s manager of residential development projects, says Woollongaba is an exciting area for land redevelopment.
“With the nearby Logan Road restaurant and antique precinct, the up and coming B.a.T. [Bus and Train] tunnel and its proposed station across the road, we think the area is ripe for a quality mixed use development.
“Our plans for the 7,100 square metre site are to develop four distinctly different medium rise residential buildings. We want to give them their own identity architecturally and separate them into their own body corporates,’’ says Liddell. 
 
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Aria consolidates Woolloongabba site

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A retail unit in Doncaster East has sold for $860,000, reflecting an increase in value of more than 100% in four years.
Shop 10 in the Devon Plaza strip shops at 958 Doncaster Road last traded four years ago for $400,000, according to RP Data.
The sale, which was conducted by Chris Alcock of Gorman Kelly, was also 31% more than it was expected to achieve at auction.
The single storey 49.5 square metre retail freehold is zoned Commercial 1 and currently leased to Canine Elegance.
The tenant has a new three-year lease with a three-year option that began in August this year for a yearly rent of $31,200, plus GST and outgoings. 
The lease includes 5% annual rent increases with a market review if the option is exercised. The lease agreement reflects a yield of 3.6% for the new owners, while the previous landlord was banking 7.8%.
Agent Chris Alcock says the sale reflects how hotly contended affordable commercial investments area among small investors and self managed super funds.
 
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Doncaster retail sells at $860,000

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Seemingly focussed on the old proverb "the more the merrier", Harry Triguboff’s Meriton group has a record eight cranes on its mega inner Sydney development site Mascot Central.
Given that the number of cranes to dot a skyline has long been an economic barometer, it seems that Sydney is abundantly healthy.
The crane craze is a result of Meriton’s decision to develop the master planned project as a single venture rather than over stages. 
It will have 1000 apartments, 255 serviced apartments, a 3,200 square metre Woolworths and 16 other retailers. There will also be a lap pool, kids pool, a gymnasium and childcare centre.
 
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Above: An artist's impression of Meriton's Mascot Central. 
Harry Triguboff said: "We can build all at once here because 60% of the site we will sell; 20% will be serviced apartments; and 20% will be leased residential." 
"So we don’t have to find so many buyers at once. We will not depress the market. To do all this, we put up four tower cranes and when necessary, we also have mobile cranes,” said Triguboff.
The site was purchased last year for $100 million from the Goodman Group.
The company was responsible for 0.03% of the nation’s GDP in 2013.
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Eight cranes for Meriton's Mascot Central

<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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