Real Estate FROM COAST TO COUNTRY
Living the Pottsville dream life
By Jo Kennett
detector finding lost wedding rings and more. He also posts morning WE’RE DOING the rounds of the weather reports online. Tweed Shire and we are back in Potty has hands down the best beautiful Pottsville, which used to neighbourhood centre ever, where be a retiree’s haven but is now you can find all sorts of secondjumping with life and a few more hand goods including clothing, characters. furniture and electricals. They Bill Potts owned the first house put on the markets as well every in Pottsville and it was originally first and third Sunday where you called Potts Point, like the posh can get the freshest fruit, veg and Sydney suburb, only it wasn’t anything else you need or don’t posh. The kids who grew up in Pottsville need at all. The oft-maligned blow-ins back in the day no doubt look (another Bender act) have started back with fond memories but it’s up some fantastic events like the hard to complain about the great Bridge to Bridge sup race which cafes, bars, restaurants, bakeries, Robin always wins. She can shops and community events be seen everywhere, running, that have made Potty such a swimming, supping, walking, happening place. cartwheeling — seriously this When Splendour in the Grass lovely local can’t sit still and is an was cancelled, some comedian who has been seen lurking behind inspiration to young and old. Every few months an amazing the counter in the local bottle-O, decided to promote Bender at the crew of talented musos put on Tunes in the Park, with great music, Bask (basketball court) instead. tucker and a chill, family vibe It features bands made up all for a gold coin donation at from the most posted Facebook Ambrose Brown Park. They do it comments like What Day is the all for free to bring the community Markets on, Who Stole my Son’s together for some entertainment Bike, The Grass Tearing Posties and fun. Someone give these and The Finders Keepers ft. Al people a grant! Davis. There is always something on at Al is a local legend and the local hall including the very marriage saver who can be seen popular Dallas Linedancers classes around the beautiful creeks and beaches of Pottsville with his metal with another local legend with a
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sense of humour, Debbie Greaves. There are so many fantastic eateries in Pottsville now it’s hard to pick a fave and apart from the revamped bowlo — which has a great outdoor party area and kids space and pumps out hundreds of meals each night which are always top notch — and the tavern, there are some top bar/ restaurants like Baker and Farmer, Pippit and 2 Brothers Cafe, Bar and Grill, plus the best Japanese food at Izakaya Potts and some outstanding cafes. Seriously, you can’t go wrong at any of them. The Pottsville Environmental Park is great for a bike ride, walk and some koala spotting, and then there is the creek, which often features on social media in all its sparkling glory with comments
like, ‘We live in paradise’ and ‘blessed’. Which is slightly annoying but true. We do. Pottsville was, in 2004, as Seabreeze went in, the fastest growing town in Australia, but fortunately it’s calmed down a bit and the only thing that seems to grow fast now are property prices. In 2021, Pottsville had a population of 7,209 and at peak pandemic a lot of newcomers came to town and stayed, with home prices reaching eye watering levels along with FOMO. According to realestate.com data for March, Pottsville had 29 properties available for rent and 50 properties for sale. Pottsville houses rent out for $850 per week on average and units rent for $650. Median property prices over the
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last year ranged from $1,263,750, down 2 per cent over the past year, and $900,000, for units, up 1.1 per cent. That’s a lot, especially for units, although it is down from a 2022 peak of almost $1.5 million for houses, while units peaked at $905,000. They fell to $850,000 a few months later so they are definitely on the rise again. Sadly, for most of us, the days of $500,000 homes when we should have bought are just a misty, tear-stained memory. It may never be cheap again, but if you have the cash it’s a truly lovely place to live. The rest of us will just have to make the most of coming down to annoy you all there, as you’re basking in the glory of living the Pottsville dream.