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The Block has already looked at Gold Coast property for a potential future season, with local prestige agents nominating waterfront pockets as dream locations. Picture: Nine<\/p>\n
The Block has eyed the Gold Coast for a future season, with co-creator Julian Cress revealing producers have looked at property in the city.<\/p>\n
No Gold Coast season has been confirmed to date, but judge Marty Fox is moving there permanently next year and wants the show to follow.<\/p>\n
Cress said producers had investigated Gold Coast property in recent years and were open to taking the renovation juggernaut beyond Victoria. Slain Stuart Rattle\u2019s final Brighton vision revealed<\/a><\/p>\n We are certainly open to taking the show elsewhere,\u201d Cress said.<\/p>\n \u201cIn recent years, we\u2019ve looked at property on the Gold Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n He said there was \u201cno reason\u201d The Block could not be made elsewhere in Australia.<\/p>\n Fox, who will relocate with wife Charlotte and their family next year, said a Gold Coast season would be \u201cthe best thing that could happen\u201d.<\/p>\n The Block co-creator Julian Cress has confirmed producers have looked at Gold Coast property in recent years and remain open to taking the show beyond Victoria.<\/p>\n Marty Fox and wife Charlotte will permanently relocate their family to the Gold Coast next year, initially making their existing Mermaid Beach home their main base. Picture: Ash Koek<\/p>\n Fox said the family would initially use their existing Mermaid Beach home as their main base after spending increasing amounts of time on the Coast during the past two years.<\/p>\n Longtime Block co-host Shelley Craft is also based in Byron Bay.<\/p>\n The Whitefox chief executive said the company\u2019s Brisbane and Gold Coast offices were growing, with its average Queensland sale price about $4m.<\/p>\n The Block judge Marty Fox has backed a Gold Coast season, declaring it would be \u201cthe best thing that could happen\u201d for the hit renovation show. Picture: Nine<\/p>\n Melbourne would remain Whitefox\u2019s headquarters and Victoria its largest market, but Fox said the Coast offered a compelling mix of business opportunity and lifestyle.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Block would be amazing on any of those canals,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you think about the waterways on the Gold Coast, that\u2019s essentially the Dubai of Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the city had a deep pool of family buyers and major infrastructure investment ahead of the 2032 Olympics.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat an amazing place to get five homes, huge appetite, huge depth of family buyers,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n JW Prestige Agents director Jordan Williams nominated Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters and Broadbeach Waters as prime locations for a future Gold Coast Block.<\/p>\n 2\/8 Avanti St, Mermaid Waters, is in one of the Gold Coast suburbs tipped by local prestige agents as a potential home for a future season of The Block.<\/p>\n JW Prestige Agents Broadbeach director Jordan Williams said producers should start with Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters and Broadbeach Waters.<\/p>\n Mr Williams described postcode 4218 as the \u201cepicentre for real estate on the Gold Coast\u201d and said Mermaid Beach would suit a knockdown and new-build format.<\/p>\n He said a larger redevelopment site could accommodate several individual residences, with contestants competing on design and finish.<\/p>\n His preferred concept would be a row of five or six Brooklyn or New York-style terraces, lofts or townhouses.<\/p>\n \u201cIf The Block did some Brooklyn-style or New York-style terraces, like lofts, townhouses in a row, five or six in a row, that would achieve great money,\u201d Mr Williams said.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody would want that.\u201d<\/p>\n Longtime The Block co-host Shelley Craft is already based in Byron Bay as speculation grows about the renovation show potentially heading further north.<\/p>\n Mr Williams said producers would need to design for Gold Coast buyers, with basement parking, multiple car spaces and storage among the features expected at the prestige end.<\/p>\n He said perceptions of the city had also changed markedly since the pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were looked at as a small regional town,\u201d Mr Williams said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s changed now.\u201d<\/p>\n Amir Prestige agent Karen Pirie says the Gold Coast has enough high-end buyer depth to handle five multimillion-dollar Block homes hitting auction at once.<\/p>\n Amir Prestige licensed sales agent Karen Pirie also backed a waterfront series, nominating Broadbeach Waters, Mermaid Waters, Isle of Capri and Paradise Point.<\/p>\n Ms Pirie said new builds were attracting \u201cextraordinary prices\u201d and would likely deliver a stronger result than renovating older homes.<\/p>\n \u201cI think a new build would get them a higher dollar,\u201d she said. The Gold Coast also had enough prestige buyers to handle five multimillion-dollar Block homes going under the hammer together, Ms Pirie said.<\/p>\n The penthouse at 30 Anembo St, Surfers Paradise, sits within a Gold Coast prestige market agents say continues to attract strong demand for high-end property.<\/p>\n AMIR Prestige is preparing to auction 30 prestige properties at a single event on October 2.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do events that handle that sort of property all the time,\u201d Ms Pirie said.<\/p>\n She said local residents currently made up the majority of buyers, despite interstate migration, lifestyle appeal and investment helping reshape the city.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gold Coast has sort of gone out of the sleepy holiday town,\u201d Ms Pirie said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s got a lot of backbone and business industries behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n Sign up to the Herald Sun Weekly Real Estate Update. 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