Coffs Harbour oceanfront dream home: Own your own private headland on the NSW coastline

Ever fancied owning your own beach headland?

Just imagine being woken by birdsong every day and walking out of your front door into the pristine bushland of a national park, and straight to the beach.

But it’s not a distant, impossible, multibillion-dollar dream, either.

It’s actually not far from either Sydney or Brisbane – here in our own Coffs Harbour on the North Coast of NSW.

“This is such a great property and it’s pretty rare,” said selling agent David Lonie of LJ Hooker Southern Gold Coast. “You don’t see something like this come up often.

“It’s such a secluded property so close to the beach, in a national park but with easy access to the point. It’s just stunning.”

The four-bedroom, one-level house at 29 Charlesworth Bay is on sale for the first time in over 40 years, after being kept by one family all that time. It is on the market via an expressions-of-Interest campaign. 

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29 Charlesworth Bay, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

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On nearly two hectares of private land, it has private access to both Diggers beach and the picturesque Charlesworth Bay. There’s also a separate one-bedroom apartment on the property and, with an additional five allotments available, the chance to further develop the area subject to council permission.

“The owner is quite elderly now, so wants to sell the house,” Lonie said. There are offers coming in all the time, he added, “But it’s not possible to even say what kind of price range it might command. It’s simply so unlike anywhere else for sale … the price could be anything.”

Coffs had the distinction of being one of the most in-demand property markets in the country in the first quarter of the year, with unit prices outperforming every other region and growing by a stunning 16 per cent, on Domain House Report research.

According to the most recent Domain report, unit prices rose by an outstanding 12.8 per cent to a still affordable $541,500 median. House prices rose annually by 1.5 per cent to a current median of $740,000, clocking up a five-year rise of 62.6 per cent.

And it looks as if there’s more growth on the way, with the flow of sea changers resettling in Coffs Harbour continuing well beyond the pandemic, a bypass under construction and a major new film studio being established by Russell Crowe.

That’s unsurprising to anyone who lives there. “It’s just such an amazing place to live,” said Sandie Robbins of McGrath Coffs Harbour. 

“We’ve got everything. It’s right on the ocean but has the mountains behind it and is wonderful for trail bike-riding, bushwalking, surfing, everything.

“We call it the ‘undiscovered Byron’ as it’s just as beautiful with a similar lifestyle but is at a much cheaper price point.”

In stark contrast, Byron Bay’s median house price is now $1,875,471, up 47 per cent in the last five years, while its unit price is $1,510 500, up 13.7 per cent in the past year alone. Owning your own Byron headland would be beyond most regular billionaires.