Buddina is a beachside community with a good mix of residential property from low-set brick-and-tile homes and units to prestige properties with ocean views or in the canal development shared with neighbouring Minyama.
Buddina residents are well catered for with Kawana Shoppingworld, Buddina Primary school and the Kawana Waters Surf Life Saving Club at Buddina Beach.
Its beaches, parklands and esplanade are popular attractions for residents and visitors.
Just ask resident Lorraine O’Neill-Cooper, who moved from acreage, in Perth’s Swan Valley, to the Coast with property developer husband Anthony Cooper two years ago. Their move was a lifestyle and business decision and the pair, who has just bought their tenth home, has not looked back.
Mrs O’Neill-Cooper, who is putting the final touches to a PhD in high performance, said she and Anthony had bought properties at Buddina, Kawana Island, Warana and Bokarina because of the beach, the facilities and their belief the area showed enormous growth potential.
They still look to buy property in the same area to renovate and turn into rentals “that are just like a home”.
“It’s so close to the beach, it has all the amenities and future growth is going to be occurring here,”she said. “We feel that… the growth hasn’t stopped yet.”
Buddina Beach runs the full length of Buddina and is the northern part of the 10km beach that extends from Point Cartwright to Currumundi Beach in the south. Based on REIQ sales figures for the past 12 months, the most expensive street is Adaluma Avenue.
A four-bedroom home on a 772sq m block on Adaluma Avenue set a record for the highest sale price, for the 12 months to the end of June 2008 quarter, when it sold in July for $3m. There are a fairly high number of rentals in the suburb (37.9%), with just over half (56.2%) fully owned or being bought. Most dwellings are houses (70.9%), with 27.1% being units and townhouses.
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