Golfers' Referrals A Matter Of Course

Newcastle Herald

Saturday October 28, 2000

Sally Croxton Property Reporter

W ORD of mouth in Sydney and Newcastle golf circles is thought responsible for a dramatic surge in sales at the 237ha Tallwoods Village golf resort between Forster-Tuncurry and Taree.

Sales and marketing director Darrell Innes said $6million of land and villas was sold during a hectic 10-day period this month, more than doubling the previous monthly record and defying the national economic trend.

Big capital gains were being attained in a matter of months, he said.

`The referral business is extraordinary,' he said. `People from a particular golf course (mainly from Sydney and to a lesser extent from Newcastle and the North Coast) come and buy and go back and tell their mates.'

He said Tallwoods Village at Hallidays Point was set around a `sensational' championship golf course about 3kms from the beach.

Already 20 of the 48 lots had sold in the latest release area. Sized between 700sq metres and 1200 sq metres, lots were priced from $115,000 to $240,000.

Only eight were left from a release of 64 villas built for golf holiday accommodation on a lease-back arrangement. They ranged from $310,000 to $325,000.

Inquiries to 6559-3333.

* MONTGOMERY Homes of Belmont has triple reason to be hopeful of a win at tonight's NRMA Insurance and Housing Industry Association (HIA) Housing Awards presentation.

The company has been named as a finalist in three categories in the State-wide building awards: project spec home over $160,000, custom-built home under $250,000 and best home for Newcastle/Central Coast.

The winners will be announced at tonight's Darling Harbour dinner for 1100 members of the building industry.

Montgomery Homes design consultant Dean Allison said the company won Best Home in NSW in the 1997 event and `came close' to winning best in Australia.

Other regional finalists are the Tea Gardens Grange Pty Ltd for its lifestyle resort at Tea Gardens, Kingstone Homes of Erina, and Woodbury Park Estate at Mardi for integrated small lot housing.

* A WIDE choice of designs for sloping sites makes Montgomery, whose managing director is Jamie Montgomery of Lake Macquarie, different from most project home builders.

Mr Allison said the company specialised in slopes because there was little flat land left in convenient Hunter locations.

Most project home builders either refused to build on slopes or charged heavy site costs to do so, deterring land buyers from buying anything other than level blocks, he said.

To demonstrate that building on a sloping site need not cost a fortune, Montgomery, in conjunction with Street Real Estate, is offering well-priced four-bedroom with ensuite and double garage brick veneer and tile house and land packages.

They are priced from $275,000 at Naroo Ave, Charlestown East, or on land at the corner of Reservoir and Jubilee roads, Elermore Vale.

Mr Montgomery said the blocks were all large and sloping, about 1000sq metres at Charlestown and from 1500sq metres at Elermore Vale.

For more information contact the Jewellstown Plaza-based company on 4948-0000 or Street Real Estate on 4926-3933.

* NEW to the market are two-bedroom units at 54 Martin St, three streets back from the waterfront and shopping centre in popular Warners Bay.

Listing agent Malcolm Macleod of Raine & Horne, Belmont, said the units, priced from $188,000 to $190,000, offered top quality finishes and a choice of single and double garages, each with internal access and automatic doors.

All had a second toilet.

The development was on flat land which made it ideal for the retiree, he said.

Inquiries to Mr Macleod on 4945-9800.

* REMEMBER the new Story Book cottage at Vacy featured in this column last week? Agent Colin Campbell, of David Haggerty First National, said about 50 people made last Sunday's two-hour inspection.

Offers approaching the asking price were made and a sale was being negotiated.

© 2000 Newcastle Herald

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