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"Sawtell the next hot spot"
Sawtell is one of the most underrated surfside towns on the east coast of Australia. The heritage
listed village centre is a gem and the beaches are superb and unspoilt.
Its real‐estate is cheap and represents the best value buying on the NSW North Coast, with excellent growth prospects.
It has good stock of underdeveloped traditional fifties homes, ripe for knock downs or renovation,
located within walking distance to the shops and to the beaches.
There are even some easy Dual Occupancy opportunities close to the beach.
There are only a limited number of homes that located within next to the beach, so you have to be
quick for a bargain!
There are a fair few mainly older style home units (almost no new ones) and they are incredibly
cheap in comparison to other places on the east coast.
Sawtell is ripe for development.
It has a train Station on the East coast rail line, with Sydney to the South and Brisbane to the North.
Coffs Harbour airport which is a major regional airport with access to major cities across the country, is only 10 minutes from Sawtell.
It has a patrolled surf beach for the families and the beach break is renowned to be as good as it can get on the east coast with numerous other different facing surf breaks dependent on swell and wind make it excellent for surfing and families.
The Sawtell Village centre offers the best dining experience in the region with its excellent
restaurants, cafes and shops. It is remarkably similar to Byron Bay as it used to be.
With the hinterland being surrounded by hills and rivers, again similarities to Byron Bay, with
Bellingen just down the road and Nana Glen to the west.
Coffs Harbour, a major regional city, is 15mins to the north with all the facilities and services that are to be needed.
Until now its distance from Sydney and Melbourne has been its defence from crazy prices and mass numbers.
As retires increase in unprecedented numbers, the natural growth of Coffs Harbour, the influx of
lifestyle sea changers and the ability of people to work away from cities due to technology, Sawtell
is ripe to move ahead in leaps and bounds.
With all these prime features it won’t take long for people to catch on and for Sawtell to become a
hot spot for real ‐estate.
Who lives here?
- Families with kids
- Retirees
Too true Peter, Sawtell is becoming exponentially more popular , but it would be a shame to lose the heritage and charm that make up our village to property speculators building ugly homogenous units and being over run with people who think theyre Bob Oatley ( One can only take so many polo shirts and range rovers ) , I think your dead right about keeping local stakeholders involved I mean look at how the new Sydney owners have defaced what was such a beautiful country pub and made it look like a Chatswood gaming den. Sad!.
Haha you made me laugh out with the Range Rover comment Kirra , but I think some of these fears and the hype might be overblown , if your as old and falling apart as me youve seen all the trends and history tends to repeat itself. People have been making tree and sea changes up here and bellingen since the 60s (though in the 80s the yuppies tended to drive Volvo station wagons ). What people dont realise is although its naturally stunning around here -the difficulty of laying down roots in a regional area is easier said than done. Unless your working in the building industry or hospitality integrating into the community is tricky. I remember when my mate shane and his wife moved up here in the 80s after feeling burnt out in his merchant banking job , he endured quite a flogging about being a ex banker wanker and only really joined the community when he started training as a chippy. For all the people talking about Sawtell being the next Byron I just dont think the demographics are there , sawtell still has a very large older postwar population and I think people would be surprised how much social housing and housing commission there is in the area. If you remember the floods in the 70s and 90s and the housing crash around 2007 you realise people paying 800k+ for a house have rocks in there heads, but alas irrational exuberance will always rear its head...
Hope it doesnt go the way of Byron , it has a unique charm and feel. Keeping local stakeholders involved and active is key to preserving this unique part of the world.