Cairns is one of the most beautiful cities in
Far North Queensland
 

In winter it is a city of soft warmth, blue skies and gentle breezes. In summer the moist ambient air wraps  around the mountains and over the sea. Only in tropical latitudes less than 20 degrees from the equator will you find spots as  sensuous as Cairns  . The tropical air  envelopes you in a warm mantle that  hangs over the rainforest and incites  everywhere a cornucopia of colour and growth. At night the exotic sounds and smells of the city  assail your senses and the cool touch of  the tropical  air  makes captives of its visitors and those who live here

Year long tourists and travelers  from around the world brighten the busy Esplanade strip. Daily they explore reef, forest and hinterland,  and then soak up the sun alongside our sparkling lagoon.  Carved into the foreshore in the curved shape of the State of Queensland, the lagoon is a perfect place of leisure for families and friends

Unfortunately, as elsewhere, businesses in the Far North are struggling. The property market too, as elsewhere,  remains depressed. But as the Reserve Bank continues on its trend of lowering the official cash rate, and so long as the banks continue to pass this on to the borrowers, we can expect to see an uplift in property sales in 2012

We are not real estate agents and  operate only with our own properties. These have been reduced in recent years and will be further reduced in the future when market indicators improve

Our long term rentals are currently under lease and are self managed. Our two remaining short term commercial residential rentals  belong in our Self Managed Super Fund and are leased by professional managers on behalf of the fund

NB:

A 3 bedroom  inner city Brisbane cottage will become  available in January 2012. Sadly, our excellent Head Tenant is leaving the property after 5 0r 6  continuous years with us on a continuing Residential Tenancies Lease Agreement

Our daughter was one of the first students at the cottage to graduate from UQ. Since then the house has seen many UQ and QUT students earn degrees in law and medicine and then move out into the world as young professionals. This property is in an excellent spot for tertiary students and/or city workers as it's within 15  minutes walk of the city center and close to the trendy  Police Barracks  development and Caxton Streets restaurants.  It is a 2 storey cottage with 3 bedrooms and a lounge  upstairs and the kitchen, large dining or study area and bathroom downstairs. It will become available late in January and we'll be looking then for reliable tenants with good rental references.

The lease  will be long term, written under the Residential Tenancies Act

One long term Brisbane rental coming up in late January 2012

 
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Is a small family partnership with interests in property (in the private sector).  As stated above we are not real-estate agents and have in recent years been selling down  properties that we have owned for several decades.  We no  longer self manage any short term holiday  rentals

We manage and write our own fixed term residential leases under the relevant state authority

Queensland rentals come under the aegis of the RTA. The RTA  outlines the rights and responsibilities of all parties in a  rental agreement. Their office can be contacted on 1300366311 or you can visit their website at: www.rta.qld.gov.au

Machans Beach ... gently hugs the coast between the foothills of  the Great Dividing Range and NQ's Wet Tropics Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. As Barron River Beach it was Cairns very first local beach .......  read more  about this lovely suburb where we once lived on the edge of the sea and where we now own just one cottage (under lease) that has  scenic, and safe, views out to sea ...

Edge Hill, at the foot of Mount Whitfield, is one of Cairns most desirable suburbs ...

       An Investment that rewards effort and hard work     

For an Australian, tax deductible Donation that is certain to be well spent have you considered CO-ID (Co-operation in Development) ?

Fred Hyde is a remarkable Queenslander and CO-ID Australia is a registered Australian charity that builds and operates schools on Bhola Island in Bangladesh. Fred is from Warwick in Queensland, and over a period of 3 decades he has overseen the building of 41 schools in  Char Fassion.

We funded School number 37, which we continue  to support each year. It was completed in 2008 and is now fully enrolled with 300 children and 4 teachers - that is, with a teacher-child ratio that would challenge western teachers everywhere  . ... but  which shows that the children of Bhola are clamouring to go to school,  and that we all value best what we work hardest to achieve.

CO-ID's most recent school , # 41,  was opened by the Australian High Commissioner on 9th of May 2009.

By way of saying thank you to Australia the young people  of Bhola Island, one of the poorest regions in the world,  managed to raise in return - taka by taka - the equivalent of one and a half  year's adult wage . Their generous donation was made on behalf of the Australian Bush Fire Appeal and went towards assisting those who suffered such devastating loss in the Victorian bush fires.

For more information see CO-ID's  website at http://fredhyde.org/