A Singapore-based house hunter is one of a number of parties interested in a “very rare” Queensland property that has hit the market for the first time.
Renowned Sunshine Coast builder Col Wallace built Wintergreen — comprising six bedrooms, four bathrooms and seven car spaces — on the tree-laden, sprawling Buderim block in 2009.
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But now he and wife Dianne have decided to downsize.
“It’s too big and too much looking after now,” he told 7NEWS.
The Wallaces bought the 1.33ha block because it “suited our purpose perfectly”, Wallace said.
“My wife wanted to see the Glasshouse Mountains and I wanted privacy, so we got both,” he said.
In the time they lived there, Buderim changed around them and has become a bustling suburb — not that you can tell that from Wintergreen.
“You have no neighbours, you cannot see another house roof and yet you’re 100m from the centre of town,” Wallace said.
“(It is) very rare.”
While neighbours are scarce, the couple shares the property with wildlife including kangaroos and wombats.
“It is so peaceful, so private but so much birdlife, kangaroos — they’re all here,” McGrath Real Estate agent Chris Pace said.
“And yet you can walk three minutes up the road and be sitting down having a coffee.
“It is just amazing and you just can’t replicate it.”
Aside from the Singaporean party, interest has come from “right up and down the eastern seaboard, from Cairns down to Melbourne”, Pace said.
The listing has attracted more than 13,000 views online, which is “not surprising for a property of this calibre”, he said.
“The main thing about the home itself is the quality. Col is renowned as one of the best builders the Sunshine Coast has produced,” Pace said.
“So the quality of the house and the land is exceptional.
“Whoever buys this property is going to absolutely love it.”
The property has gone to tender, with its value unknown “because it is so unique and so rare”, Pace said.