Nerang ‘storybook’ cottage hits market in two-for-one property deal

The unique double-block listing is going to auction on August 20 A two-for-one property listing offers a compromise for buyers torn between head and heart: own a modern four-bedroom home, and get a quirky 1960s English cottage thrown into the deal. The double-block property at 1 The Avenue and 138 Beaudesert-Nerang Rd delivers a total of 10 bedrooms and five bathrooms across two separate titles in Nerang. Set across an 811sq m footprint is a 2015-built four-bedroom townhouse built in 2015, along with a traffic-stopping 1950s-build that looks like it was plucked straight from a Brothers Grimm storybook. It’s a local landmark for its steep-pitched roof and blue-grey tiles With its steep-pitched roof and blue-grey tiles, the cottage has become a local landmark and was rumoured to have been one of the Gold Coast’s first display homes through the 1960s. Ray White Malan + Co agent Paris-Bella White said it was originally built to lure Brisbane buyers down the highway as Nerang began to boom. “Everyone in Nerang knows the home; it’s a local landmark, probably because there’s not much else like it on the Gold Coast these days,” Ms White said. “That style of architecture never really caught...