One title. Every future.
One of the last coastal landholdings of scale on the Southern Great Barrier Reef held in private hands, offered in one line by Expressions of Interest.
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Town of Seventeen Seventy
A private coastal wilderness, held in a single title.
Between the surf town of Agnes Water and the wilderness of Deepwater National Park, a single freehold title takes in approximately 17.89 hectares* of elevated coastal land above a beach that most Queenslanders have never stood on.
Red Rock Estate carries a rare combination: the seclusion of a coastal wilderness, the services and access of an established neighbouring community, and a current development approval for 22 residential lots that preserves every option, from pure conservation to a generational family compound.
Ridge, forest, headland, beach.
The land rises from an esplanade reserve at the ocean's edge through pandanus, coastal heath and eucalypt forest to ridgelines with uninterrupted views over the Coral Sea.
The red rock itself.
At its feet is the red rock headland that gives the estate its name. Deepwater National Park runs south, the Reedy Creek Conservation Area lies west, and to the north the estate adjoins the low-density Sunrise at 1770 community.
Optionality is the asset. Every path is open.
Nothing about this land forces a decision. It can be kept exactly as it is, held for a generation, or shaped, carefully, into something no coastline in Australia will offer again.
The Sanctuary
Hold the land whole as a private conservation estate: littoral forest, heath and headland on a turtle-nesting coast, protected in perpetuity under a single title.
The first of its futures is the simplest: leave it whole.
Hold the land as a private conservation estate: 17.89 hectares of littoral forest, heath and headland on a turtle-nesting coast, protected in perpetuity under a single title, with philanthropic and stewardship structures available to formalise the legacy.
The setting does most of the work. Deepwater National Park to the south and the Reedy Creek Conservation Area to the west already hold the surrounding country; conserving the estate completes an unbroken run of protected coast, with the owner's own house rules inside it.
An owner who chooses this path has partners to walk it with: the Indigenous Land and Sea Rangers who monitor this sea country, and Queensland's conservation trusts, active on the southern Great Barrier Reef.
The Long Hold
Land bank an irreplaceable coastal position. A freehold of this scale between a national park and an established premium community compounds quietly, with no obligation to act.
Scarcity does the work.
The supply side is effectively closed. The estate is bounded by national park, conservation area and the sea; no comparable coastal holding has traded in Agnes Water in recent memory, and the competing land pipeline is thin and contested. What exists is what there will be.
Demand, meanwhile, builds slowly and steadily. Agnes Water's population grew by half in the decade to 2021, and the region's roads, airports and reef tourism continue to draw sustained public and private investment.
A long hold here asks nothing of its owner. The land carries no obligation to build and no operating business to run: a single title held quietly, and a coastline doing the compounding.
One great house, above a beach few have ever stood on.
The approval is the head start. The land is the canvas. What is built here will be held by one family for generations.
The work of imagining is already half done.
At its simplest: one residence on the ridge, taking the elevation and the ocean in both directions, with the balance of the land left wild. For a family: a handful of homes drawn from the approved sites, each within its own vegetation, sharing the beach, the headland and the trail between them.
The approval keeps every version honest. Building envelopes are set, heights are capped, and the vegetation beyond the envelopes is protected by covenant: restraint is engineered in, so whatever is built sits lightly on the land. A purchaser inherits the drawings, the approvals and the serviced position, and decides only how much of the plan to use.
Elevated ridgelines face the Coral Sea. Building platforms sit above two beaches, with a national park as the southern neighbour, forever.
The current 22-lot approval can be drawn on, amended or set aside. Build one great house, or a compound of several. The civil engineering is already certified.
Land like this is not traded; it is passed down. A private coastal holding on the Southern Reef, held in one line, in one name.
A rare approval, banked and current.
A current development approval for 22 residential community-title lots, granted under a planning regime that no longer exists, with a complete RPEQ-certified civil engineering package. Council has signalled comparable approvals are unlikely to be issued again. The full approvals record is set out in the Information Memorandum.
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The quiet end of the Great Barrier Reef.
Agnes Water town centre is 7.5 km away; Bundaberg and Gladstone airports are each around ninety minutes, with Brisbane services. Offshore lie Lady Musgrave Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef.
In thirty-four years I have not walked a property like this one. I do not expect to again.
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The estate is offered in one line by Expressions of Interest. Register your interest and Hamish Bowman will be in touch. The Information Memorandum and private access to the complete due-diligence material are provided to qualified parties under a confidentiality agreement.
The Memorandum is confidential and provided solely to parties considering the acquisition of the property. Your details are held by HB Property and used only for this campaign.
The due-diligence room.
Registered buyers sign in with the personal code issued by Hamish Bowman. Inside: the full approvals record, survey and engineering documents, and the private research behind the campaign. Every sign-in and document view is recorded.