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The market report · Prepared by Antony Loomans

Every figure here carries its source, or it is not here.

There is no free, registry-complete record of Gold Coast prestige apartment sales. Portals withhold prices, trophy transactions are disclosed selectively, and floor areas are quoted on whatever basis suited the marketing. So this report is assembled from public evidence and is explicit about being a sample rather than a census.

A figure appears only when it can be traced to a named public source. Where two sources disagree, both are shown and no number is chosen. Where a source does not say what its floor area measures, no rate is published.

Where it stands, as at 2026-07-25

16

sourced transactions

8 verified, 8 reported

A$3.3m to A$30m

range of disclosed prices

7 suburbs, 2022-03 to 2026-05

1

rates deliberately withheld

area basis unstated or disputed

7

suburbs represented

a public slice of a largely private market

No average sale price is published. Record sales are reported in the press and ordinary resales are not, so an average taken from public sources would describe the records rather than the market. The range and the individual sales are shown instead.

What the evidence shows

Four findings, and what each one rests on.

Each finding below is assembled from the sourced transactions and the published claims, and links to the page carrying them. Where a figure is proprietary or commissioned rather than official, it says so. Nothing here is inferred beyond what those rows support.

  1. 01

    The top of this market keeps printing a larger number.

    Three sales in the sample each exceeded every disclosed sale before it: A$20m in 2022, A$24m in 2023, A$30m in 2026. Between one and nine sales are disclosed in any given year here, which is far too thin to call a trend, and 2024's highest disclosed sale is only A$6m. What can be said is narrower and still worth saying. Each of those three reset the ceiling of what a Gold Coast apartment had been shown to fetch.

    Disclosed sale records and listings, each row sourced The transactions

  2. 02

    Delivery, not demand, is the binding constraint.

    JLL reported 90 Gold Coast apartment completions in the March quarter of 2026 and described construction as still heavily delayed. A June 2026 Property Council and Urbis pipeline study classified around 60 per cent of apartments due for completion in 2028 and 2029 as at moderate or high risk of delay or withdrawal.

    Research-house and commissioned figures, not an official completion register.

    JLL Research; Urbis for the Property Council of Australia Risks and constraints

  3. 03

    The demand behind it is population, not speculation.

    In the year ended December 2025, Queensland recorded net interstate migration of 16,528 people and net overseas migration of 54,604. For the financial year ended June 2025 the figures were 21,595 and 55,743. New South Wales remained the largest interstate source. Gold Coast Airport handled more than 6.2 million passengers in calendar 2025, with international passenger numbers up 14 per cent on 2024.

    Australian Bureau of Statistics; Gold Coast Airport Who is buying

  4. 04

    Policy pushes offshore capital into new stock specifically.

    From 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2029, foreign persons are generally prohibited from purchasing established dwellings in Australia. Limited approval pathways remain, including qualifying redevelopment that adds at least twenty dwellings, commercial-scale housing uses and certain employee housing. Queensland applies an additional foreign acquirer duty of 8 per cent on relevant acquisitions of residential land by foreign persons, including applicable companies and trusts. The 8 per cent rate took effect on 1 July 2024, replacing 7 per cent. A foreign buyer who wants Gold Coast exposure is therefore steered toward new and off-plan product, which is the segment already waiting on delayed delivery.

    Australian Treasury; Queensland Revenue Office Risks and constraints

Taken together: supply that cannot arrive on time, demand underwritten by people moving here, and a rule that sends offshore money to the one segment already running late. That is upward pressure at the top of the market, and the three step-ups above are what it has looked like so far.

What this does not establish is where any individual residence should be priced. Sixteen disclosed sales across four years cannot do that, and no average of them is published here for the same reason. How the sample was built, and what it cannot show.

Contents

  1. 01

    The transactions

    16 sourced Gold Coast prestige apartment sales, each with its own sources, floor-area basis and check date. 15 carry a rate per square metre.

  2. 02

    The pipeline

    8 sourced projects, who is developing them, and which of the transactions belong to each.

  3. 03

    Who is buying

    Buyer cohorts and demand drivers. 6 sourced claims, each labelled with its geography and, where the data is proprietary, whose it is.

  4. 04

    Risks and constraints

    Foreign acquirer duty, the established-dwelling restriction, planning and height, coastal exposure and delivery risk, sourced to the bodies that set them.

  5. 05

    Methodology

    How the sample was built, what it cannot show, the claims withdrawn from it, and the work still outstanding.

What stands behind it

Every finding above can be taken apart.

The methodology sets out the sample basis, what the report cannot show, the 0 transactions still being checked, and the and why most of this market never reaches a public source at all. A reader who wants to disagree should start there, because that is where the argument is weakest by construction.

Read the methodology See the transactions