Queensland. Near-ish the coast, to live in retirement. Where?

[Miljah]

We are considering retiring to Queensland. We're already 'legal'.

We have around £250,000-£300,000 (AU$ 440,000-530,000) to spend.

We want a house, 2-3 bedrooms, a pool, a bit 'out of town' so no neighbour noise, but, being retirees, ability to 'get into town' to shop and see GPs/ hospital.

The coast isn't critical, though we'd like to be within 20-30 minutes drive.

We are wary of FNQ as it is, of course, hot as Hades in high summer, and the distances don't shrink!

We 'know' Brisbane, Sunshine Coast (Buderim), Gympie (DH's family), but as of 15 years ago.

DH said 'Bundaberg is considered to have an ideal climate'... true?

Where would you look at?

TIA.

Cotton Tree (near Maroochydore) is gorgeous. Great cafes; tea house,gift shops and calm sea. I would love to live there. Not really out of town though.
For more rural I'd go near Eumundi.

Daisypie- what factors do you think are causing the house price wobble?

Interested to know!

Anxiety about future recession, over heated market in Sydney and Melbourne, harder to borrow money...housing market is really weird here!

And might it be the Chinese economy stalling? Given that I assume Australia's prime customer for raw materials must be China?

Yes, Australia is incredibly dependent on selling resources to China.