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QLD › Diwan › Turpentine Rd
$1,100,000
For sale
Asking
2
Bedrooms
1
Bathrooms
3
Car spaces
21,480 m²
Land
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No detected risks — but see the checklist: absence of evidence is not an all-clear.
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Price evidence
Asking
$1,100,000
Asking · $51/m² of land
No recorded sale for this property.
Diwan at a glance
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$52,007 on top of the price (4.7% extra)
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Source
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Site
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Flood exposure has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.
Bushfire exposure has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.
Heritage listing has not been retrieved from any source for this property yet. Unknown is not the same as clear.
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Records
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Capital growth
QLDPlanning layers have not been retrieved for this property yet. A suburb median or growth rate is not a reason this particular lot would outperform. Funded catalyst catchments are not loaded. A TOD badge is not this product.
Official flood overlay has not been retrieved (pending). Missing layer is unknown, not “no.” Nearby development applications are not loaded. This lot’s own applications are a separate question.
Rental
No advertised rent and no suburb rent aggregate are loaded. Official bond files are not loaded. Listing rent and suburb aggregates are evidence, not this address’s rent.
Current comparable rental listings within 400 m of this lot are not loaded. Nearby development applications are not loaded. This lot’s own applications are a separate question. Supply pressure needs comparable listings near this lot plus a nearby DA pipeline. Neither is loaded. Suburb vacancy or leased-tape days are not this property’s competition.
Yield cannot be shown without both a price and a rent figure. Net yield is not estimated from gross advertising copy. Net yield / holding costs are not estimated outside NSW without inventing land tax.
Verdict
Districts view
Not enough official evidence yet to underwrite this as an investment.
Detail
The same ten questions apply to every property. Missing flood, nearby DAs, achieved rents, or lot geometry is unknown — not “no.”
Do not treat a suburb median, an advertised yield, or a listing score as the case for this lot.
The evidence loaded so far isn't enough on its own to change a buy, offer, or walk-away decision for this property.
Evidence
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Development optionality of this lot
UnknownPlanning layers have not been retrieved for this property yet.
Nearby development pipeline
UnknownNearby development applications are not loaded. This lot’s own applications are a separate question.
Honest achievable rent
UnknownNo advertised rent and no suburb rent aggregate are loaded. Official bond files are not loaded. Listing rent and suburb aggregates are evidence, not this address’s rent.
Rental supply pressure
UnknownSupply pressure needs comparable listings near this lot plus a nearby DA pipeline. Neither is loaded.
Why is this cheap?
UnknownThe constraint stack has not been retrieved for this lot, so Districts cannot explain a discount versus land size.
Lot-level flood
UnknownOfficial flood overlay has not been retrieved (pending). Missing layer is unknown, not “no.”
Catalyst exposure
UnknownFunded catalyst catchments are not loaded. A TOD badge is not this product.
This lot's DA history
UnknownDevelopment applications have not been queried for this parcel.
Statutory land value versus ask
UnknownStatutory land value is not available as free bulk data in this jurisdiction. Do not fake it with a suburb median.
Net yield / holding costs
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Diwan at a glance
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Listed by Minus The AgentWhen calling, please use enquiry code 120234
The approach to this property in the Daintree Rainforest is along a romantic forest-lined no-through road which rises up at the base of Thornton Peak. The temperature is more pleasant than in the Daintree Lowlands, being about 5 degrees cooler, due to the higher elevation. When you get out of the car at the property the trickle of a stream can be heard 50 meters away at the end of the road as well as the sounds of birds, animals and frogs in the forest. Often in the first hour after sunset the synchronized movement of lights emitted by fireflies is seen at the roadside and next to the house. The house is at the end of a 40-meter driveway made of river stones through the rainforest.
The property projects into the national park on the northwestern corner of private land in the region. There are 712 meters of boundaries with the national park of a total of 740-meter boundary, effectively increasing your backyard to include hundreds of acres of the national park and there will never be neighbors adjoining the property. Cassowaries, blue Ulysees butterflies, fireflies, a huge range of rainforest plants and animals and two streams are found on the property which is uncleared apart from the house site footprint which measures 20 X 12 meters.
The property has high environmental value due to the exceptionally high biodiversity on this property. The property is habitat for the endangered Southern Cassowary. Though only 1,200- 1,500 of these large colorful birds remain in the wild in Australia, two cassowaries were seen on the property by the owner who visited the house for short holidays.
This pole house is solidly built from wood and iron and is completely off-grid with a 30,000-liter unlined galvanized steel water tank on a high wooden stand, a Hills Solar vacuum tube hot water system, an ecological Biolytix wastewater treatment system and a 4.5kWatt solar power and battery system. It was built in 2010 using termite resistant hardwood timber which was transported from Western Australia. The galvanized iron water tank has no lining and the water inlet pipes to the house rooms are made from copper. No surfaces in the house have been painted to prevent mold and the release of synthetic volatile organic compounds (VOCs). There are glass skylights in the bathroom and living area which let natural light into all areas of the house. When the two trifold glass doors on two sides of the living area are opened on to the deck the living area is doubled in size. There is also a bifold glass window and a large paperbark wood breakfast bar providing access between the kitchen and the deck.
The Queensland EPA and the Dougal Shire Council has decided that no further clearing or building permits will be granted for properties in the Upper Cooper Creek Precinct due to its biodiversity. The Upper Cooper Creek Precinct is one of nine precincts described in the Daintree Futures Study conducted by the Rainforest Cooperative Reasearch Centre for the government of Queensland. In the Daintree Futures Study, it is stated that the current and proposed settlement rate in the Upper Cooper Creek Precinct is the same, 31% (See attached table of settlement rates in the nine precincts). Therefore, this house can never be replicated in this part of the Daintree rainforest even on existing public or private land. On the contrary the government of Queensland has bought back properties adjacent to lot 221 Turpentine Road and has incorporated them into the certificate of title of the Daintree National Park.
The cost of the building was approximately $600,000 in 2010, which included Town Planning, geophysical engineering and botanical surveys which were required by the Environmental Protection Agency. The land now has high value due to its location being embedded in and surrounded by the Daintree National Park, the extremely low if any availability of a similar block and the inability to obtain a clearing or building permit for land in this precinct determined by the Douglas Shire Council.
Features of the property
The 2.15-hectare property is situated in the Daintree Forest on the very corner of private land projecting to the northwest into the Daintree National Park.
Two properties on one side one on the other side have been bought back by the Queensland government and converted into National Park meaning that there will never be neighbors.
There will not be an opportunity to repeat the building of such a house again in the Upper Cooper Creek Precinct.
The property is habitat for the endangered Southern Cassowary, which have been seen on the property beside the house.
Cassowaries and fireflies live on the property in addition to Ulysees butterflies and countless birds, reptiles and mammals.
The rainforest here is world class ancient complex mesophyll type 3 rainforest, in the oldest rainforest in the world.
Outstanding representation of species of conservation significance is unmatched anywhere in Australia. (Daintree Futures Study, November 2000).
A Nature Refuge Agreement is attached to the property title. The clearing of plants is not permitted according to a Nature Conservation Covenant which is a condition of the building permit obtained from the Queensland government in 2007.
There is a stunning stand of fan palms which extends up to the house.
Located 3 km from Thornton Beach and 60km from Port Douglas.
Significantly lower temperatures than at Port Douglas and Cairns owing to the elevation at the base of Thornton Peak.
Cooper Creek and an excellent restaurant (Heritage lodge) overlooking the river is 200m away at 96 Turpentine Road, Diwan.
There are no crocodiles in the Cooper Creek, 200 meters from the house and upstream as far as Alexandra Falls. Crocodiles do not inhabit the higher sections of Cooper Creek.
Closest private property to Alexandra Falls, about 900m away.
When calling, please use enquiry code 120234
Listing description written by Minus The Agent Sales, Minus The Agent — reproduced as published, not verified by Districts.
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