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A real estate company that began in Forest Hill is building its rental role and expanding into south east Queensland.
Vanilla Rentals, previously known as Lockyer Valley Real Estate, is the same business with a new look as it expands into Jamboree Heights.
Operating from Plainland, Vanilla Rentals will solely focus on rental properties and developing its own maintenance program.
The plan involves having build and tradie staff that can assist with maintenance requests and ensure landlords aren’t being overcharged for works, acquisition manager Simon Hatherall said.
“We’ve rebranded the business and done an acquisition in Jamboree Heights and a third in progress – it didn’t make sense to take Lockyer Valley Real Estate naming across south east Queensland,” he said.
As buyers continue to move out of the metropolitan markets, regions including the Lockyer Valley continue to see strong sales growth in house and land prices.
The last six months of 2020 saw âreally positive resultsâ for the region, according to Allison Graham, Business Director and Sales Consultant at Gatton Real Estate.
Ms Graham told the
Gatton Star she predicted a âcontinuationâ of those strong sales markets in 2021, strengthened by city buyers flocking to the region.
âMy prediction is that the regional housing market may outperform the metropolitan housing market (percentage wise) this year,â Ms Graham said.
She said the median house price is expected to rise by at least five per cent in 2021, unless strong COVID restrictions get reimplemented.