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Tree-changers flocking to scenic Terranora By Jo Kennett
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years and I still find the most amazing houses hidden away,” she said. “There are four houses in my street that have sold for over a million dollars in the last two years, which was unthinkable when my house was bought ten years ago. “ Residential blocks at Terranora are already up around the $600,000 mark. Last month Terranora had four properties for rent and 18 properties for sale.
The median price over the last year is $1,226,000 for houses, with the median rental price $890 per week and an annual rental yield of 4.1 per cent. Tess said there were three new estates with a lot of tree-changers moving in. “People see it as a desirable location because it’s easy access to everything, it’s 15 minutes to Coolangatta and 19 minutes to Murwillumbah,” Tess said. “We are up high with beautiful views and flood free.”
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During the 2022 floods, Tess put out a call for food box donations with a huge response. “We put out 240 food boxes which residents drove down to where the flood reached at the end of Terranora Road, where locals boated them down to Tumbulgum, Condong, Burringbar and Uki,” she said. “After Covid that really formed a strong sense of community and that was pretty exceptional.”
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Johnson. Sadly, that centre of village life, of dances, school TERRANORA SPRAWLS over a plays, first loves and everything hill with views over the Tweed that brought the community River, Terranora Broadwater and together, was demolished and the ocean, so it’s no wonder it never rebuilt. has become a highly-sought after Now The Pavilions Marketplace locale for tree-changers. is the centre of village life. The original inhabitants were the “I’m an event organiser so I use Tulgigin people, the Tweed Heads The Pavilions Marketplace to run clan of the northern Tweed Valley. events,” Tess said. ‘Tulgigin’ means ‘dry forest “I do a free annual Halloween people’, referring to the hardy event and all the kids from the sclerophyll forest that grew in the neighbourhood walk up. area before European settlers “It’s the biggest event in arrived and knocked most of it Terranora with about 500 people down. attending over the night. Cedar cutters arrived in the “The Pavilions has an IGA, a 1840s and built the first permanent good coffee shop, a fantastic settlement in Terranora, originally bakery and a hotel, and it’s the ‘Taranora’, meaning ‘little river.’ informal gathering spot. Tess Easton runs the local “We do classic cars in the car Facebook page and moved to the park once a month, markets, area in 2009. concerts, movie nights, all sorts of “My partner and I grew up in stuff.” the Northern Rivers and wanted a Terranora Public School and new space to start a family,” she Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar said. School are also centres of “Terranora felt like the best of community life. both worlds; with the ocean, the “They are both really active in bush and amenities. the community,” Tess said. “The elevation provides amazing “Lindisfarne has an amazing views in all directions, especially theatre and they do annual in the morning when the clouds productions there as well.” roll through, and I love the There are some upmarket areas community here.” with multi-million dollar mansions There used to be a community scattered around the place, hall on Terranora Road on according to Tess. land donated by Bert and Ethel “I’ve been here for nearly 15