buyer-strategy
Is Now a Good Time to Buy in Robina?
**Robina's rolling 12-month median house price has risen +5.2% over the past year while sales volume has surged +35.1%. Those two numbers, read together, define the market you are buying into.**
Will Simpson
buyer-strategy
Is Now a Good Time to Buy in Varsity Lakes?
**Varsity Lakes house prices have risen +14.4% over the past rolling 12 months. The rolling 12-month median house price sits at $1,350,000. In that same period, the number of houses that sold rose by +13.7%. Prices are climbing and so is activity — but the days-on-market figure tells a more complica
buyer-strategy
Is Now a Good Time to Buy in Robina?
**Robina's rolling 12-month median house price has risen +4.3% over the past year while sales volume has contracted -42.0%. Those two numbers, read together, define the market you are buying into.**
Major Projects
M1 Pacific Motorway Upgrade: Five Years, $1.5 Billion, and It's Finally Done
Complete November 2025. Final cost: $1.5 billion. Varsity Lakes to Tugun — 10 kilometres. The full story.
Major Projects
Gold Coast Airport: From 6.2 Million Passengers to 13 Million by 2044
20-year master plan approved June 2025. From 6.2 million passengers to 13 million by 2044.
Major Projects
Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 4: What Happened and What It Means for the Southern Gold Coast
Cancelled 1 September 2025. Proposed route: Burleigh Heads to Coolangatta, 13 km. Why it was axed and what comes next.
buyer-strategy
The Gold Coast Auction Buyer's Playbook: When to Bid, When to Wait, and What to Pay
Based on 10 years of Gold Coast sales data — 11,837 auction transactions across 82 suburbs. When to bid, when to wait, and what to pay.
seller-strategy
The Science of Getting More for Your Home: What Research Reveals About Agent-Buyer Relationships and Sale Prices
Why the conversation your agent has with a buyer after the open home is worth more than everything you spent on styling, photography, and marketing combined.
buyer-strategy
Why Queensland Won't Tell You What an Auction Property Is Worth — And What to Do About It
In Queensland, vendors aren't required to provide a price guide for auction properties. Here's how to value any property yourself using real data.
seller-strategy
The Highest-ROI Actions When Selling Your Gold Coast Home
Not all pre-sale spending is equal. Data-backed ranking of which actions move the needle on sale price — and which ones don't.
Property Data
Gold Coast Interstate Migration — What It Means for Southern Gold Coast Home Values
The migration wave that doubled Gold Coast property values wasn't a once-in-a-generation anomaly. It was four decades of structural flow, compressed into five years — and it's still running.