St Lucia's first riverfront development to be completed in over a decade. Do not miss this never to be repeated opportunity to secure your newly completed riverfront residence in 160 Macquarie, St Lucia. Just 4 available. Designed by renowned architects Rothelowman and constructed by McNab builders, 160 Macquarie is a bold fusion of sculptural form and elegant materiality rising delicately from the riverbank to offer exquisite views to the river and city skyline. The vision was to embrace the subtropical climate and river in all its fascination, encapsulating the very best in affluent luxury apartment living. Residents are offered exclusive access to spectacular amenities on the roof top with an array of lounge and dining areas complemented by uninterrupted views. All of this is on top of a private, state-of-the art pool beside the Brisbane River. Expansive interiors of everlasting elegance embrace the potency of the river in a very deliberate manner. Every interior space, room and detail is a statement of class and sophistication. Located within one of Brisbane’s most established and desirable suburbs, with its historical charm and lush green surrounds, St Lucia is flanked by the Brisbane River on three sides. St Lucia is blessed with effortless access to shopping precincts, boutique retail and a dazzling choice of exotic dining, all easily accessible from 160 Macquarie. Contact Julius today to arrange a private inspection.

St Lucia's first riverfront development to be completed in over a decade. Do not miss this never to be repeated opportunity to secure your newly completed riverfront residence in 160 Macquarie, St Lucia. Just 4 available. Designed by renowned architects Rothelowman and constructed by McNab builders, 160 Macquarie is a bold fusion of sculptural form and elegant materiality rising delicately from the riverbank to offer exquisite views to the river and city skyline. The vision was to embrace the subtropical climate and river in all its fascination, encapsulating the very best in affluent luxury apartment living. Residents are offered exclusive access to spectacular amenities on the roof top with an array of lounge and dining areas complemented by uninterrupted views. All of this is on top of a private, state-of-the art pool beside the Brisbane River. Expansive interiors of everlasting elegance embrace the potency of the river in a very deliberate manner. Every interior space, room and detail is a statement of class and sophistication. Located within one of Brisbane’s most established and desirable suburbs, with its historical charm and lush green surrounds, St Lucia is flanked by the Brisbane River on three sides. St Lucia is blessed with effortless access to shopping precincts, boutique retail and a dazzling choice of exotic dining, all easily accessible from 160 Macquarie. Contact Julius today to arrange a private inspection.

160 Macquarie - 160 Macquarie Street, St Lucia

<ul>
	<li>Perfect residences for downsizers.</li>
	<li>Vibrant yet peaceful leafy surroundings.</li>
	<li>Rooftop amenities for residents.</li>
</ul>

Anthology will comprise just 26 residences, offering a full suite of apartment living options &ndash; from one, two, and three-bedroom residences through to spacious penthouses.

New Farm is a leafy inner-city Brisbane suburb nourished by expansive parklands, tree-lined streets, and river frontage, all making up&nbsp;the natural ingredients that have defined the design intent for a collection of New Farms&#39; finest new residences.&nbsp;The development features a rooftop lounge with an infinity pool and excellent views of the Brisbane River and city skyline.

The apartments at Anthology New Farm have kitchens that are finished with high-end materials, Miele appliances throughout, 2pac joinery in the kitchen and bathrooms as well as stone benchtops.&nbsp;

<ul><li>Perfect residences for downsizers.</li>
	<li>Vibrant yet peaceful leafy surroundings.</li>
	<li>Rooftop amenities for residents.</li>
</ul>Anthology will comprise just 26 residences, offering a full suite of apartment living options – from one, two, and three-bedroom residences through to spacious penthouses.

New Farm is a leafy inner-city Brisbane suburb nourished by expansive parklands, tree-lined streets, and river frontage, all making up the natural ingredients that have defined the design intent for a collection of New Farms' finest new residences. The development features a rooftop lounge with an infinity pool and excellent views of the Brisbane River and city skyline.

The apartments at Anthology New Farm have kitchens that are finished with high-end materials, Miele appliances throughout, 2pac joinery in the kitchen and bathrooms as well as stone benchtops.

Anthology - 155 Moray Street, New Farm

<ul>
	<li>6 x apartments</li>
	<li>Four levels</li>
	<li>6 x 3-bedroom apartments</li>
	<li>1 2-level penthouse</li>
	<li>20 car parking spaces across two-levels of basement</li>
	<li>Developed by QM Properties</li>
	<li>Architecturally-designed by Rothelowman</li>
	<li>Landscaping by Urbis</li>
	<li>810 sqm site at 140-142 Oxlade Drive, New Farm</li>
	<li>This development application was submitted 21/03/2023</li>
</ul>

<ul><li>6 x apartments</li>
	<li>Four levels</li>
	<li>6 x 3-bedroom apartments</li>
	<li>1 2-level penthouse</li>
	<li>20 car parking spaces across two-levels of basement</li>
	<li>Developed by QM Properties</li>
	<li>Architecturally-designed by Rothelowman</li>
	<li>Landscaping by Urbis</li>
	<li>810 sqm site at 140-142 Oxlade Drive, New Farm</li>
	<li>This development application was submitted 21/03/2023</li>
</ul>

140 Oxlade Drive, New Farm

Construction has commenced on 160 Macquarie Street, St Lucia’s first riverfront residential development in more than a decade.

Developer QM Properties has appointed construction firm McNab to build the luxury development at 160 Macquarie Street on the Brisbane River.

The Rothelowman-designed development of 33 three-bedroom apartments is already 80 per cent sold, with 27 apartments raking in $58 million, an average sale price of $2.28 million.

Prices start from $1,375,000 for the three-bedroom apartments spanning 139 sqm of living space.&nbsp;

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Andrew Roubicek, Director of Residential at Colliers International, said 160 Macquarie Street has been one of the best performing residential projects in Brisbane.

“160 Macquarie Street is a remarkable project as evidenced by the strong sales achieved prior to construction,” Roubicek said.

“Since April 2020 the median sale price for apartments in St Lucia has increased by 9.1 per cent revealing the suburb to be one of the most in-demand areas in Brisbane."

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The project will feature a sky garden&nbsp;on its rooftop, with mature trees as part of an expansive recreation terrace which will also offer a private dining room with city skyline views from the 15th level.

QM development manager Glenn Rix said there were no other riverfront projects in the pipeline at St Lucia, making 160 Macquarie ‘one of a kind’.

“Neighbouring areas like West End, Toowong and South Bank have a number of riverfront projects in train, but St Lucia has remained a tightly-held pocket and sites like the one we have for 160 Macquarie are extremely rare,” he said.

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“We’ve taken a unique site and have worked with award-winning architects Rothelowman to create a building to match, with statement features like the sky garden, which connects the rooftop with the riverfront.

“We’ve brought the outside in throughout the whole building, with a natural interior palette led by finishes such as oak timber floors and natural dolomite stone benchtops, in oversize apartments offering up to 246 sqm of living space.

The Rothelowman-designed development of 33 three-bedroom apartments is already 80 per cent sold

Joel Robinson

Construction starts on 160 Macquarie, St Lucia's first riverfront apartments in a decade

Brisbane is seeing continued growth in its apartment market, but&nbsp;Colliers Director of Residential Andrew Scriven says there&#39;s not been the same strength in the capital&nbsp;yet compared to the booming Gold Coast market just an hour south.

&quot;It&#39;s a more solid market in Brisbane at the moment, with good sales to owner-occupiers,&quot; Scriven says, and suggests for Brisbane to grow, they need investors to come back.

&quot;There&#39;s a bigger pool of people throughout the rest of Australia,&quot; Scriven said, highlighting the four million residents in SEQ and 21 million or so across the rest of the country. That&nbsp;investor pool is ultimately the most important&quot;.

Interstate investors are starting to come back in to the market, but only slowly, Scriven says.

&quot;The yields in Brisbane are&nbsp;still the highest out of all three states [Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane], with some of the lowest vacancy rates in the country. Prices are half that of Sydney, and 30 per cent less than Melbourne.&quot;

Scriven noted that there&#39;s been a high price differential over the last year&nbsp;between established and off the plan apartments, which is offering further opportunity for value.

&quot;Over the last 12 months, the established apartment median&nbsp;has risen may be 10 per cent,&quot; Scriven says.

&quot;New apartments haven&rsquo;t risen at all over that time. There&#39;s a bit of a price differential which is starting to look like an opportunity for investors.&quot;

With limited action from interstate investors, sales have picked up to owner-occupiers, no more evident than at&nbsp;The Fernery, the mixed-use project in Ferny Grove in Brisbane&#39;s north.

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&quot;There&#39;s been overwhelming success since launch in April&nbsp;from the local market, looking to either downsize, invest or secure something for the children. Most of them have come from a couple of kilometre radius.&quot;

&quot;Locals have really embraced the project. They&nbsp;haven&rsquo;t really had that offering ever.&quot;

The bureau^proberts-designed project, developed&nbsp;by the Townsville-based Honeycombes&nbsp;in partnership with their financier MaxCap, will comprise the 82 apartment block The Fernery, as well as&nbsp;a 12,000 sqm retail centre set next to the Ferny Grove train station.

Prices start from $352,500 for the one bedroom apartments, $399,000 for the two bed units and $620,000 for the three bedrooms.

Scriven says the mixed-use retail precincts is what buyers want in this day and age.

&quot;They&#39;ve got the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, all at their doorstep,&quot; Scriven says.

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&quot;It&#39;s away&nbsp;from that investment grade apartment development to more quality schemes. Good architecture and good place&nbsp;to live that will increase in value.&quot;

On the level of finishes and designs of the apartment development, Scriven suggests what The Fernery is offering is&nbsp;what you would typically find in the more premium apartment&nbsp;market areas such as Newstead and New Farm.

Construction is due to commence of the residential and retail components in the coming months, with Broad Construction appointed to handle the build. Completion is slated for late 2023.

Scriven suggests that construction dates, completion dates and builder appointments are&nbsp;what people want to hear when it comes to buying off the plan developments, particularly mixed-use precincts.

&quot;They want to know timelines and when they are being delivered.&quot;

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There&#39;s been a bit of expat interest&nbsp;across Brisbane, but that&#39;s primarily been focused on the housing market.

&quot;What we have seen is expats have come back, particularly Australian&nbsp;citizens in Sydney and Melbourne.&nbsp;There&#39;s been around 440,000&nbsp;Australian&#39;s come back from overseas over the 12 moths to Feb or March. All those people are living someone, or they&#39;ve bought.

&quot;A lot of expats have a lot of wealth and have been leaning&nbsp;towards the housing market in SEQ which has been well documented&quot;.

There was a bit of expat interest in the boutique St Lucia riverfront, 160 Macquarie Street.

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Now over 70 per cent sold, 160 Macquarie is&nbsp;St Lucia&#39;s first riverfront apartment development in more than a decade.

The development by&nbsp;QM Properties, led by horse enthusiast and managing director&nbsp;Jon Haseler, has been designed by the architecture firm&nbsp;Rothelowman&nbsp;and only homes 34 riverfront apartments.

Scriven suggested that as a city and potential place of residence,&nbsp;Brisbane has come out of the COVID pandemic as well as any other capital.

&quot;If&nbsp;you don&#39;t need to be in the office, there&#39;s worse places you can be than Brisbane,&quot; Scriven says.

&quot;We didn&#39;t have a lock down as long as anyone else and that has certainly been an attraction to the city. People can work a little bit longer from home, a bit more mobile. There&#39;s regionalisation or mobility in the work force.&quot;

Locals snap up apartments in The Fernery, but Brisbane needs investors to grow: Five minutes with Colliers director Andrew Scriven

160 Macquarie, St Lucia's first riverfront apartment development in more than a decade, has racked up over 70 per cent of sales before its construction begins next month.

The development by QM Properties, led by horse enthusiast and managing director&nbsp;Jon Haseler, has been designed by the architecture firm Rothelowman and only homes 34 riverfront apartments at 160 Macquarie Street.

A rooftop lounge will crown the development, with residents also having access to a private dining room and lounge on the 15th level rooftop where there will be expansive views of the Brisbane River, West End, the city skyline, Mount Coot--Tha and the D'Aguilar Range.

Down by the Brisbane River will be a riverside swimming pool and barbecue areas. On the ground level will also be&nbsp;a private cinema and a gym.

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There are just two three bedroom residences remaining priced from $1.06 million, three premium three bedroom apartments from $1,835,000 and three sub penthouses which start from $3.06 million.

Rachel Huston, associate director at Colliers Residential, says that buyers are almost exclusively local downsizers, either living currently in the area or with a past connection to it via family or the University of Queensland.

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Construction is expected to commence, which will see the onsite sales display close.

About the developer

QM Properties have been developing property in South East Queensland since they were established in 1976.

In recent years QM have&nbsp;developed the East Brisbane apartment complexes Corde Residences and Mowbray East Brisbane, as well as the residential communities Forest Pines in Bulimba and Bridgeman Green in Bridgeman Downs.

QM are also selling Anthology, the luxury New Farm apartment development of just 26&nbsp;residences on the dress circle Moray Street.

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Down by the Brisbane River will be a riverside swimming pool and barbecue areas. On the ground level will also be a private cinema and a gym

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