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Brisbane’s western corridor through to Ipswich offers some of the region’s lowest entry-level price points, according to HTW’s Month in Review: March 2017. 
The valuation firm says access to facilities and transport options to the CBD make the area an enticing proposition for first home buyer.
“Check out the suburb of Camira for some of those cheaper, larger blocks,” the report says.
“Springfield and Springfield Lakes are popular suburbs for first home buyers where there is affordability and proximity to both great public infrastructure and transport.”
A brand new or near new home is often the preferred option for many buyers’ first foray into residential, but HTW suggests that first timers should consider other options too.
“If you do choose second hand, it’s possible to get a three-bed, two-bath, one-car car dwelling on a small allotment at Springfield Lakes from $330,000 to $380,000,” it says.
“There’s also the option to buy a townhouses or unit, although these historically don’t achieve the same capital growth as houses.”
A three bedroom house at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-springfield+lakes-124702170" target="_blank">8 Prospero Circuit</a>, Springfield Lakes (above) has been listed for $389,000.
Similarly a four bedroom house at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-springfield+lakes-124843694" target="_blank">27 Conventina Crescent</a>, Springfield Lakes (below) has been listed for $469,950.
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Springfield Lakes an affordable option for first home buyers

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A Greater Springfield Brisbane land parcel approved for residential development has sold to JLF Corporation for $8,789,000.
The 6ha site at 7006 Augusta Parkway, Augustine Heights, was sold through expressions of interest by Ray White Special Projects Qld Directors Mark Creevey and Tony Williams on behalf of Springfield Land Corporation.
Mr Creevey said JLF Corporation obtained development approval for a 97-lot residential development under a community title scheme.
“The site is located within the Greater Springfield area directly opposite the Brookwater Village Shopping Centre and entrance to Brookwater Golf and Country Club," he said.
“This site is approximately 1.5km to Springfield CBD, Springfield Central Rail Station, Orion Shopping Centre and Robelle Domain Parkland.
"There was strong recognition from prospective purchasers of the significant growth, amenity and infrastructure in the Greater Springfield region and plans for the future.
“Springfield Land Corporation was keen to procure interest from the residential development sector to deliver a premium gated estate to leverage off Brookwater Estate,and Brookwater Golf and Country Club.
“JLF is planning to produce a premium land estate comprising 97 detached allotments ranging in size from 300 sqm to 645 sqm and including twenty innovative shared and dual living dwellings."
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Greater Springfield site set for residential development

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A John Chappel-designed five bedroom home at Springfield was Adelaide's priciest weekend sale at $1.43 million.
There have been <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-springfield-126465846" target="_blank">$1,500,000 to $1,650,000 Toop &amp; Toop price guidance</a> for the house which sits on a 1,197 suuare metre block at 6 Coreega Avenue.
John Chappel, who was born in Unley Park, in 1923 and died in 2013.
Chappel first became interested in architecture through his contact with Victorian architect Jack Hobbs McConnell, who boarded with the Chappel family after he moved to Adelaide to work with Philip Claridge and Associates.
For about 12 months in the mid-1950s, Chappel was the group architect for the War Service Homes Division.
He oversaw the development of some 400 houses at North Glenelg, Woodville and Brighton.
From the 1950s to the late 1960s he was a member of the board for the Small Homes Service of South Australia.
Chappel become an architectural correspondent with the Advertiser in 1956, a role extended over three decades until 1990.
He received many commissions, mainly in the residential field, including from a number of prominent South Australian families, including the Bonythons and Kidmans.
Chappel was a member of the National Trust of Australia (SA Branch) and while being an advocate for heritage listing, he also argued for financial assistance for owners of heritage listed buildings
It has been reported Chappel claimed that ‘the modern movement in architecture arising from Bauhaus is surely the most significant happening in architecture since the days of the Greeks and Romans’. He became a close friend of Sydney architect, Harry Siedler.
Chappel was greatly influenced by the Melbourne School led by Robin Boyd in the post-war years. Through him, Chappel met other Victorians including Peter McIntyre, with whom he would stay, Roy Grounds, Geoff Mewton, Neil Clerehan, Kevin Boreland.
In the late 1950s, Chappel went to Melbourne to study the latest trends in the design of blocks of flats. Upon returning to Adelaide he designed and developed ‘own your own’ apartments in Broughton Street, Lockleys. This concept was based on co-ownership, a first in South Australia, and a forerunner to strata titles.
He went onto design a block of 76 flats for Peter Hearne of Orlit Constructions, at 100 South Terrace, Adelaide, the largest of its type in the state at that time. In 1969 he accepted a commission from Highrise Pty Ltd to design a multi-storey block of flats which became a prototype for many others.
Chappel held that ‘architecture [was] his religion’ and that ‘it [was] a privilege to be an architect’, with the basic principles of good design being ‘function, truth and architectural integrity.'
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