Five of the best budget homes on the Sunshine Coast

If you need a holiday home on a budget, sometimes the Sunshine Coast can be a better bet for buyers. If you want to buy on the Gold Coast, comparable properties could set you back a few hundred thousand dollars more than on the Sunny Coast. 

For this list, properties $400,000 and under were considered and as it turns out, you get plenty of bang for your buck on South East Queensland’s northern beaches.

39/11 Innovation Way, Birtinya

Price: $350,000+

Agent: Tanya Murphy

1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 car park

Waterfront views don’t have to be of the ocean, take this unit in Birtinya for example. Selling agent Tanya Stewart the lake was a great spot. “It’s quite nice, you can watch the rowers on the weekend,” she said.

The one-bedroom unit was a good size, and would be just as good for an owner-occupier as an investor.

“I think it is great value. It’s an 82-square-metre unit, a great size,” Ms Stewart said. “A lot of the other one-bedroom units in that location are a lot smaller.

“If you’re a single person or a couple it’d be perfect to live in. It’s not an open studio style.”

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26 Woombye Palmwoods Road, Woombye

Price: $379,000

Agent: Mark Cheney

4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car parks

In the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, this house is a great example of the affordability the coast has to offer. Four beds, and only 15 minutes from the beach is a great buy for a family home or investment property.  

It also has the capacity for dual living, with an almost self-contained downstairs suite so you could really have both if you wanted.

6/3 Hilton Terrace, Tewantin

Price: $315,000

Agent: Sandra Upton

2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 car park

This two bedroom apartment in Tewantin is actually two separately keyed apartments, so it offers a lot of options for potential buyers.

The whole property can be lived in, or half can be rented out while the other half is lived in or both can be rented out. It’s pretty flexible, and for an affordable price too.

Tewantin is also close to Noosa, one of the Sunshine Coast’s most exclusive suburbs.

19A Ann Street, Woombye

Price: $399,000

Agent: Kirk Patrick and Gary De Paoli

2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 car park

Another home in Woombye, this time it’s a charming brick cottage in a central location. Selling agent Kirk Patrick said the great spot was the house’s killer feature.

“Location wise it’s excellent, you can walk to the shops and the pub and train,” he said.

The relative affordability when compared to Brisbane makes the home a good holiday spot for city dwellers, Mr Patrick said.

“It would work for a Brisbane based person if they wanted a weekender,” he said. Like the other Woombye home, this one’s just a quarter of an hour to the beach.

10/20-22 Woomba Place, Mooloolaba

Price: $399,000

Agent: Steven Allen

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1 car park

Finally is Woomba Place, a tidy waterfront unit in Mooloolaba’s waterways. If you don’t want to take a dip in the Mooloolah river, you can walk to the beach or go for a swim in the complex’s pool.

Selling agent Steven Allen said unit of this size with two bedrooms and bathrooms didn’t last long on the market.

“They do come up and they are available but they get snatched up quickly when they do,” he said.