The Courier Mail: 50 Best Homes in Qld for 2022

From the tropical climes of Cairns to the treetops of Tinbeerwah and the lofty heights of Hamilton Hill. We’ve searched far and wide to find Queensland’s best homes of 2022.

From the tropical climes of Cairns to the treetops of Tinbeerwah and the lofty heights of Hamilton Hill.

The Courier-Mail real estate team has searched far and wide to find the top homes in the state and have painstakingly put together a list of 50 of Queensland’s best.

Why we love it:
Dubbed “Cliffhanger” for obvious reasons, this gravity-defying, concrete monolith seemingly floats over the regional city of Toowoomba. Designed by Brisbane’s Joe Adsett Architects and built this year by Valdal Projects, the home has a number of unique features that make it an architectural and engineering masterpiece. The most obvious is that it boasts 30m of continuous windows and doors — with no structural blocking elements — that run the length of the building, taking in uninterrupted views of the Lockyer Valley. The other striking aspect of the build is the 7m concrete counter lever, which juts out over the escarpment without any form of support. It truly is a showstopper.

But there’s no place quite like our No. 1 choice.

‘The Cliffhanger’ — a gravity-defying, concrete monolith floating over a cliff in the regional city of Toowoomba that cost about $5m to build and serves as an engineering feat.

“Mark’s brief to us was that every component had to be finished to nothing short of a perfect standard, so the boys all put in a huge effort and we believe we’ve achieved that,” she said.

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