Once known as the Banana Bender state, today Queensland is known as the Sunshine State, now famous for tourism, agriculture and mining. An area of over 1.85 Million square kilometres and a population of 5.1 Million, in Australia’s mainland northeast corner.
Its offshore Great Barrier Reef, the world?s largest coral reef system, hosts thousands of marine species. The city of Cairns is a gateway to the reef and tropical Daintree Rainforest. The capital, Brisbane, is flanked by the surfing beaches of the Gold Coast to the south and the Sunshine Coast to the north.
Regional centres include Mount Issa, Townsville, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay, Port Douglas etc.
In the coast regional areas of Queensland, properties tend to be a mix of residential, commercial, rural-non urban and special-use properties.
The inland regional areas of Queensland, properties tend to be predominately rural/non-urban, with the town centres having commercial/industrial, residential and special-use properties.