The Compass Points North

Sydneysiders top the list of interstate buyers snapping up Queensland's most expensive apartments.

Home Owners Choose Life

The growing number of apartments selling for more than $10 million invites a rethink.

A Head For Heights

Newcastle apartments, including penthouses, don't come much better than this, writes Sarah-Kate Scicluna.

Gold Rush Is On For Paradise

CRYSTAL Bay is the perfect location for a wonderful family holiday on the Gold Coast, just a short distance north of the heart of Surfers Paradise.

Forever Fresh

At least the surfers know what to call it, writes Dugald Jellie.

From Nowhere To No. 1 - S8 Top In Travel

BARELY eight months after its first foray into the travel agency game, Surfers Paradise property group S8 is set to become the southern hemisphere's biggest travel retailer.

Surfers' Turf

The Wild East finally yields to the hip - but some things don't change. Maroubra Bay Hotel 182 MARINE PARADE, MAROUBRA, 8347 2422.

Coast On The Boil

What property slump? It's been a hot summer in Surfers.

The Sands Of Time Breathe Life Into Shattered Migrant Dreams Of A New Life By The Sea

Once it was a desolate coastal strip touted as Victoria's Surfers Paradise. Today it is . . . well, a desolate coastal strip. But that may change, reports Jewel Topsfield

$8m Buys A Piece Of Paradise

NOT everything at Surfers Paradise has to be high-rise, but there is a cost if you want to walk straight onto the beach.

Sculpture With A Twist

The developers who brought Palazzo Versace to Surfers Paradise are planning to make an impact in Melbourne.

Stars Basking In The Sunshine State

IT was back in the early 1980s when Picket Fences spent a lot of time on Hamilton Island basking in the sun, living at the Frangapani Apartments, courting the island doctor and having the odd drink or two with the owner of the island, Keith Williams. Also creator of Sea World on the Gold Coast, Wil

The Nude In The Binoculars

I FIRST saw Mrs Calloway belly dancing naked on her veranda a month after I moved into Parthenon Place. She was partnered by two potted palms. I was on the balcony of my 29th floor penthouse, she a little lower in the neighbouring Artemis Apartments. It was by chance that I saw her. I was delighting

`surfers' Attack On Twin Towers

The Kennett Government was yesterday accused of trying to create a ``second-rate Surfers Paradise" on the bay by approving two 18-storey apartment towers at Port Melbourne. The towers, to be built on the HMAS Lonsdale site, received the go ahead from the Planning Minister, Mr Rob Maclellan

Luxury Units At Fawkner Park

THE OLD Taylor's College property at 2 Slater Street, Melbourne, was sold in July for $4.95 million, but possession was delayed until after the academic year closed. Now more than one-third of the 25 apartments have already been sold in the new Park Lane residential development arising on the sit

Nat Young Has Shared Marijuana With His Two Oldest Children. One Day, He Says, He'll Do The Same With His Youngest Daughter

Nat Young is a hero to a generation of surfers who admire his courage and ape his style. Like the waves he conquered, he was wild, but he doesn't regret a thing - not even the drugs. David Knox reports. `TAKING risks is part of life," said Nat Young, who turned 50 on Friday. "The tric

From Bay To Surfers Paradise?

ARCHITECTS and designers routinely ignore the views of local communities, according to residents opposing a beach-front development in Port Melbourne. The cause of their concern is a plan by the developer Taristar - a Hudson Conway subsidiary - to build a 22-storey skyscraper in a low-rise, beach

One Last Favor - How Graham Richardson's Career Ended

A sex scandal on the Gold Coast marked the beginning of the end for Graham Richardson as a Labor powerbroker. This extract from a new biography by Marian Wilkinson details his downfall. THE telephone rang in the Pintari Apartments on the Gold Coast on the night of 10 August 1993. Sarah Gee,

A Different Kind Of Anzac Day

from Vincent Matthews. An environmental crime is being planned for one of the most picturesque parts of the Mornington Peninsula. At the bay end of the main street of Sorrento village, developers propose to build 23 apartments on six levels, blocking the view of the bay. That's not all. Al

Crown Gardens Developer Expands Its Luxury Penthouses

The demand for penthouses and large luxury apartments at Crown Garden, Woolloomooloo, has been so intense that the developer, the Terrace Tower group, has gone back to the drawing board. Crown Gardens, situated between Crown and Riley streets, is being sold off the plan with 70 of the units alrea