CANADIAN group Brookfield appears to have aborted plans for a 16-level retirement high-rise at Labrador, with the site quietly on the market.
The 2016sqm holding, which fronts Frank and Robert streets, was bought by the Aveo group for $4.95 million in 2017 and a tower approved a year later.
The tower was planned for Labrador. Pics Adam Head
Brookfield, when it snared Aveo last year, ‘inherited’ the land, along with a Currumbin Valley farm which it sold in April at a $60 million loss.
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MALCOLM Watkins, a founding director of finance and mortgage broking group AFG, and a partner are being mooted as the buyers of giant Broadbeach Waters riverfront home Villa Cantarocco.
The 1300sqm Villa Cantarocco.
A $12.5 million deal was revealed two weeks ago on the 1970s mansion, which sits on some 3300sqm of land.
The Toorak-dwelling Malcolm helped found AFG in Perth in 1994 and the group listed on the ASX five years ago.
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Hughes Ave, Main Beach.
Margaret, who first marketed the Hughes Ave property nine months ago, is taking the auction path next week.
Her ‘new’ $5.2 million holiday home spans two lots and was bought from realtor Bruce Wilson, who sells the suburb as ‘magnificent Main Beach’.
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