New luxury apartments lure Brisbane’s prestige buyers from high-maintenance homes

Brisbane’s prestige buyers are no longer asking what they must sacrifice to move into an apartment, according to Place New Farm’s Sarah Hackett. “High-end buyers are asking why they should continue maintaining a large house when the right apartment can offer the space, privacy and practicality they use every day,” she said. That shift is driving early interest in La Vue, a boutique collection of six residences nearing completion on Balmoral Hill, with inquiries coming from Brisbane and South East Queensland homeowners considering the sale of substantial family properties. Mrs Hackett said the lifestyle gap between Brisbane’s prestige houses and apartments had never been smaller. “Luxury apartment buyers still want generous living areas, a second media room, ensuited bedrooms, high ceilings, proper parking, privacy, and space to entertain, and that’s exactly what La Vue delivers,” she said. La Vue has views to the Brisbane CBD skyline. Ardo Property Group director Ben Davis said La Vue was designed around the features prestige homeowners were least willing to surrender. “We started with what makes a house work well: volume, separation, privacy, multiple living areas and proper car a...