Real Estate FROM COAST TO COUNTRY
Beautiful Cudgen set to boom
By Jo Kennett
when cedar stocks were exhausted. William Julius arrived from the West THE CUDGEN plateau was home to Indies to farm cane and built the first the Goodjinburra clan, part of the commercial sugar mill in the Tweed Minyangbal (Minjungbal) tribe of the in the late 1870s, which was located Bundjalung Nation prior to European just near the Cudgen traffic lights. settlement, according to The Fragile After the British stopped sending Edge, Michael DeGood’s brilliant convicts to Australia, the blackbirding natural history of the Tweed Coast. of Pacific Islanders to work the Their men were described by one cane fields began, with many of early surveyor as ‘all friendly’ and them escaping over the border from ‘fine looking men.’ Queensland to work for farmers like Cudgen is derived from ‘Goodjin’, the Julius family, who paid wages and meaning red, referring to the red provided decent working conditions. ochre found there and ‘highly coveted Many of their descendants still live in for ceremonial Paint-Up.’ the area. Ecologist John Hunter said in The By 1891 Cudgen had a school, two Fragile Edge that before it was hotels, a store, a police station, a cleared, the subtropical rainforest on butcher, and a baker. Only the school the Cudgen plateau “ would have remains but the plateau now provides been glorious, absolutely glorious”. most of the nation’s sweet potatoes. From 1929 timber cutters began Right now there are eleven moving into the area and within 50 properties for sale at Cudgen, but years of European settlement an most of them are residential blocks estimated 90 per cent of Indigenous yet to be built on, in the Kingscoast Tweed and Brunswick people had estate, most for around the $700,000 died from diseases they brought such mark. as smallpox and measles. There are three homes for sale, two Vast swathes of land were cleared on rural acreage and one a lovely for stock and crops of the settlers, historic home in the middle of the including the lush vine and flowervillage (see Hot Property). There were 952 people living at clad foliage filled with palms and Cudgen in 2021 and that number hoop pines on the Cudgen Plateau which were targeted by timber cutters will boom once building starts in
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Land for sale at 101 Cudgen Road
Kingscoast. According to PropTrack data there were only two homes available for sale in Cudgen in the last months and one unit, with hundreds of interested buyers. No doubt some of them will be staff with jobs at the new hospital. There is no data on prices as there weren’t enough sold to gather meaningful figures. Rental yield for homes at Cudgen is 4 per cent and 4.4 per cent for units. It’s a beautiful area with some great views looking out over the valley towards the mountains or to the coast, and only five minutes from the beaches of Kingscliff and only 13 minutes to Coolangatta and Tweed Heads. With a boom in population expected once the hospital and Kingscoast open up you can’t go wrong buying into this lush, lovely part of the shire.
• 2/144 Kennedy Dr, Tweed Heads West 1-1:30pm NSW
First National Murwillumbah
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Hot property
SINCE WE are already up on the lovely Cudgen plateau, we thought why not feature an absolute gem of a home for this week’s Hot Property. Number 4 Collier Street is a six bedroom, two bathroom home set on a 722 square metre block in the heart of Cudgen village and it is really something special. This bright, airy Queenslander is over 100 years old and believed to be one of the shops of the original 600 acre sugar plantation established in 1869. The properties on the plantation, including this one, were built of fine timbers growing on the plantation such as cedar, teak, rosewood and beech. This house oozes history and beautiful workmanship, with timber French doors and timber features. The kitchen has beautiful hardwood benches with modern appliances and there’s a huge entertainment deck overlooking the garden and another looking out to Cudgen’s landmark memorial pine trees. Hardwood floors, a giant stunning bath in the main ensuite, a teenage or grandparents downstairs retreat, high ceilings, unique light fixtures, rooftop solar, gorgeous light fixtures and modern touches next to original vintage features are just some of the drawcards that bring warmth and charm to this lovely home. This gem is just minutes from Kingscliff and ten minutes from Tweed Heads, making it a pretty unbeatable place to hang your hat.
• 2431 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Ocean Shores, 11.3012pm • 241 Middle Pocket Road, Middle Pocket, 12-12.30pm
LJ Hooker Kingscliff
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Tate Brownlee
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