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8 Highfield Drive, Merrimac
SOLD · 18 MAY 2023

8 Highfield Drive, Merrimac

$830,000
3 bed2 bath2 car400 m² block121 m² insidePoolBacks onto bushland

Sold in 20 days

The sale in brief

8 Highfield Drive sold for $830,000 on 18 May 2023, 20 days after it was listed. That is $16,000 below the $846,000 median of the 28 houses sold within a kilometre in the year to the sale.

It is a single-level house on a 400 m² block. Backs onto bushland.

Listed
28 Apr 2023
Sold
18 May 2023
Days on market
20
02 · Speed

20 days, against every Merrimac house sale in the year to it

Each dot is a Merrimac house sold between 18 May 2022 and 18 May 2023 with a published price. Left is faster; up is dearer. The shaded band is $750,000 to $900,000, where the median sale took 26.5 days.

$0.50M$0.75M$1.0M$1.25M$1.50M$1.75M$2.0M$2.25M0306090120150180+Days on marketMedian 29 days$705,000, 54 days$660,000, 15 days$920,000, 36 days$810,000, 16 days$1,300,000, 66 days$720,000, 13 days$862,000, 56 days$830,000, 50 days$878,000, 31 days$940,000, 59 days$920,000, 27 days$1,162,500, 10 days$1,100,000, 29 days$972,500, 6 days$2,000,000, 48 days$795,000, 32 days$760,000, 6 days$760,000, 55 days$740,000, 93 days$770,000, 22 days$760,000, 15 days$730,000, 25 days$795,000, 13 daysThis home: $830,000, 20 daysThis home
This homeWithin 1 kmElsewhere in Merrimac

29 daysMedian time to sell for a Merrimac house in the year to this sale (23 sales).

35%of those sales took fewer than 20 days.

26.5 daysMedian in the $750,000 to $900,000 band (10 sales). 60% took 20 days or more.

04 · The sales around it

10 nearby sales, and how each one was run

Houses within 900 metres sold in the year to this sale, nearest first.

Aerial of the streets around 8 Highfield Drive with nearby sales marked
8 Highfield · $830,000
· $770,000

9 more of these sales sit beyond this frame.

AddressSoldDaysPrice path
8 Highfield Drive
this sale · May 2023
$830,00020No price published

206 m · Jan 2023 · 3 bed
$770,00022No price published
29 Cabot Court
387 m · Oct 2022 · 3 bed
$660,00015No price published
11 Cabot Court
399 m · Apr 2023 · 3 bed
$705,00054No price published
7 Inlet Court
429 m · Aug 2022 · 4 bed
$878,00031No price published
28 Petherbridge Avenue
730 m · Jul 2022 · 3 bed
$862,00056No price published

760 m · Jun 2022 · 3 bed
$740,00093No price published
21 Petherbridge Avenue
763 m · Jun 2022 · 3 bed
$830,00050No price published
5 Barra Court
784 m · Apr 2023 · 3 bed
$810,00016No price published

803 m · Oct 2022 · 3 bed
$709,000–No price published

854 m · Oct 2022 · 4 bed
$1,030,000–No price published
05 · The home, measured

What the buyer got for $830,000

Block, land, flood height, rooms and condition, from survey, laser and photo data.

The block

400 m² · Freehold

Aerial photograph of 8 Highfield Drive with its boundary outlined

Building

Internal living
121 m²
With garage, decks and patio
180 m²
Roof footprint
217 m²
Levels
1
Roof height
4 m
Ground level
11.4 m

Roof footprint and height from the 2022 laser survey of the Gold Coast.

Condition, from the listing photographs

Overall9/10
Kitchen9/10
Bathrooms9/10
Interior9/10
Exterior8/10
Outdoor8/10
Stone benchtopsIsland benchFrameless showersBath
Floor plan of 8 Highfield Drive

Rooms

RoomSizeArea
Room4.8 × 3.1 m14.9 m²
Room3.8 × 4.3 m16.3 m²
Room3.0 × 2.8 m8.4 m²
Room3.4 × 3.1 m10.5 m²
Room2.7 × 3.0 m8.1 m²
Room2.7 × 2.9 m7.8 m²

Dimensions read from the printed floor plan.

Location

Highfield Park
141 m by road
Robina station
6 min drive
Mermaid Beach
13 min drive
Bell Central
5 min drive
Robina Hospital
6 min drive
All Saints Anglican School
1.1 km by road
Merrimac State School (primary catchment)
In zone
Robina State High School (junior secondary catchment)
In zone
Surfers Paradise
16 min drive
Gold Coast Airport
21 min drive
Off flight paths

What the buyer paid on top

Transfer duty, owner-occupier
$23,200
Transfer duty, investor
$30,375

Queensland Revenue Office schedule applied to $830,000.

Photographs from the campaign

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