HOUSE hunters are wasting no time snapping up properties on the Glitter Strip, with several recently selling in a matter of days.
It comes weeks after data released by CoreLogic revealed Gold Coast properties were spending an average of 73 days on the market — more than a month longer than they were a year ago.
One of the properties that bucked the trend was a waterfront Runaway Bay house, which sold for $1.39 million.
Director of self-titled agency Alex Phillis, who marketed the Markham Ave property, said it sold within days of him approaching a local buyer from his database.
“By day six he was signed, sealed, delivered,” he said.
“We had multiple offers in the end.
“The other buyers we had were from Cairns and Sydney.”
He said the buyer was attracted to the two-storey house’s nine-car garage and boat ramp onto the canal with bridge-free ocean access.
Another waterfront property he marketed on the Sovereign Islands sold in 21 days.
The Regents Court house also had multiple offers on it before the sellers accepted the final offer of $2.1 million.
Further south, a Palm Beach property sold within a few days despite not even being listed on the market.
The Jefferson Lane house’s owners agreed to sell it after Kollosche agent Rob Lamb and agency director Michael Kollosche approached them with an offer too good to refuse.
“(The owners) said, ‘funnily enough we are actually thinking about selling, why not?’,” Mr Lamb said.
“We’d arrived at a figure which was incentive enough to sell right there and then.”
The $4.4 million deal was penned in a matter of days.
Source: www.realestate.com.au