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The One Club Journal

Gold Coast property,
written plainly.

Long-form guides on what selling actually costs, how to price a home so buyers respond, how agencies structure fees, and where the 2026 market is moving, written to be useful whether you sell with us or not.

Cairns & Port Douglas · 9 min read
Selling in Cairns: 2026 market snapshot
A suburb-by-suburb read on the 2026 Cairns market, median prices, growth, days on market and what it means if you're selling this year.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 7 min read
The best time to sell in Cairns
Wet season versus dry, tourist peaks and interstate migration, and why remote buyers now matter more than the calendar.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 8 min read
How much do real estate agents charge in Cairns?
Typical 2–3% Cairns commission, the marketing invoice on top, and what 1% + GST actually saves you on a real sale.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Broadbeach
A large share of Broadbeach buyers are shopping from interstate before they book a flight. How a Matterport 3D Showcase changes the outcome.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Robina
For a family relocating for a Robina school catchment, a 3D walkthrough answers what photos can't.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Southport
Hospital staff, students and investors can all assess a Southport property properly without fitting an inspection into a shift roster.
2026-08-01 · 7 min read
3D Home Tours in Palm Beach
Palm Beach is the most-watched suburb on the coast. A Matterport 3D Showcase often decides whether an interstate buyer books the flight.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Edge Hill
Stilted Queenslander layouts that photos struggle to explain. A Matterport 3D Showcase shows the elevated structure properly.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Trinity Beach
An elevated Trinity Beach Road home lives or dies on its Coral Sea view. A drone flyover is the only way to properly show it online.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Redlynch
For a family relocating into the valley for schools, a 3D walkthrough answers the space and layout questions a floor plan can't.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
3D Home Tours in Manunda
For investors comparing yield across several properties at once, a 3D Showcase does the work of multiple inspections at once.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Broadbeach
Broadbeach runs on the Gold Coast's peak-season calendar. When interstate buyers are actually looking, and when to avoid listing.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Robina
Robina is a school-catchment suburb first, so the academic year matters more than the tourist season.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Southport
Hospital staff, university students and Broadwater lifestyle buyers spread Southport's selling calendar wider than most.
2026-08-01 · 7 min read
Best time to sell in Palm Beach
Palm Beach is the most-watched suburb on the coast right now, which means the usual seasonal caution matters less here.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Edge Hill
Cairns runs on a dry season and wet season, not four seasons. What that means for timing a listing in Edge Hill.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Trinity Beach
Coral Sea views and beachfront lifestyle photograph best in the dry season, when Cairns' visitor traffic also peaks.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Redlynch
Like Robina on the Gold Coast, the school enrolment calendar matters more here than the wet-dry season split.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Best time to sell in Manunda
Manunda's entry-level and investor-driven market is the least seasonal in Cairns. What still moves the needle.
2026-08-01 · 6 min read
Gold Coast 1% commission savings, by suburb
Broadbeach, Palm Beach, Robina and Southport: what a 2.5% agent charges vs The One Club's 1% + GST, paid on settlement, and what you save in each suburb.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Cairns 1% commission savings, by suburb
Edge Hill, Manunda, Redlynch and Trinity Beach: a 2.5% agent vs The One Club's 1% + GST (1.5% + GST under $600,000), paid on settlement, by suburb.
2026-08-01 · 7 min read
Selling in Southport: 2026 Market Snapshot
Southport house prices grew close to 20% in the past year. What's actually driving demand around the Gold Coast CBD and Broadwater Parklands.
2026-08-01 · 7 min read
Selling in Broadbeach: 2026 Market Snapshot
Recent price trends, days on market and who is actually buying in Broadbeach right now, from beachfront towers to the canal pocket.
2026-08-01 · 7 min read
Selling in Robina: 2026 Market Snapshot
What established family homes near the top school catchments are actually selling for in 2026, and how long a good listing takes to clear.
2026-08-01 · 8 min read
Selling in Palm Beach: 2026 Market Snapshot
Palm Beach has changed more in five years than any other Gold Coast suburb. What cottages, rebuilds and creek-front homes trade at in 2026.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Selling in Edge Hill: 2026 Market Snapshot
Cairns' most chronically undersupplied inner suburb. What stilted Queenslanders and architect-renovated character homes are trading at in 2026.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 7 min read
Selling in Trinity Beach: 2026 Market Snapshot
Fifty years of continuous development means Trinity Beach runs from entry-level units to trophy Coral Sea view homes in a single suburb.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Selling in Redlynch: 2026 Market Snapshot
Where Cairns families trade a short commute for space and school catchments. What four-bedroom valley homes and acreage blocks sell for in 2026.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
Selling in Manunda: 2026 Market Snapshot
The best block size per dollar in central Cairns. What post-war homes, renovator specials and dual-occupancy blocks trade at in 2026.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 6 min read
The cheapest suburbs in Cairns in 2026
Where Cairns houses still sell for under $750,000, from Manoora to Mount Sheridan, with sourced medians.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 8 min read
How much does it cost to sell a house in Cairns in 2026?
Commission, marketing, conveyancing and the line items Cairns sellers forget, with realistic numbers for an $800K sale and where the savings actually sit.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 9 min read
Best suburbs to buy in Cairns and Port Douglas in 2026
Where buyers are actually moving across Far North Queensland this year, by lifestyle, value and growth, from the Northern Beaches to Port Douglas and the Tablelands.
Cairns & Port Douglas · 7 min read
Selling through the wet: how to time a Cairns campaign
The dry-season buyer wave, wet-season presentation, and why remote buyers make the calendar matter less than most Cairns sellers think.
2026-04-08 · 6 min read
Cheap doesn't mean bad. It means fair.
Why a 1% + GST commission is the right price for real work, not a discount on the service, but a correction to a fee that was set before technology did half the job.
2026-02-14 · 8 min read
How much does it cost to sell a house on the Gold Coast in 2026?
A full breakdown of commission, marketing, conveyancing and the line items most sellers forget, and why the agent's fee is rarely the biggest number on the page.
2026-03-02 · 9 min read
Best suburbs to buy on the Gold Coast in 2026
Where buyers are actually moving this year, broken down by lifestyle, value and growth potential, from the southern end up to the hinterland.
2026-03-18 · 7 min read
How to prepare your Gold Coast home for sale
A pragmatic two-week checklist for Gold Coast sellers: where presentation money pays back, and where it almost never does.
2026-04-01 · 6 min read
Why 1% commission doesn't mean less service
The traditional 2–3% agency model was built for a different era. Here's how lower overheads, better tools and a tighter team actually improve the seller experience, not degrade it.
2026-04-15 · 5 min read
Why we don't inflate appraisals to win listings
The most common trick in the Australian real estate playbook, and the single biggest reason honest sellers end up selling for less than they should.
2026-04-22 · 7 min read
What Gold Coast sellers get wrong about listing portals
realestate.com.au, Domain and Homely sit at the top of most campaign budgets, here's how their pricing tiers actually work, which ones matter on the Gold Coast, and where the money is usually wasted.
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