9 Aussie leisure resorts offering investment and lifestyle dreams
If you’re sweating through a fantasy about your summer holidays, cast your mind to these nine handpicked leisure resorts (or potential fortunes in the making) across Australia, all looking for their new forever owners.
Why shouldn’t you live the resort-life year round? Blur the lines between reality and work, immediately.
There are hundreds of properties to pick from – from Kangaroo Point to Adventure Bay, so fast-track your holiday happiness vibes without the return-to-work depression with a taste of the best from around the large island we call home.
Pour yourself a tasty refresher, dream big and sit back and imagine yourself living your best life with our top picks for resorts on the market now.
Captain Cook Holiday Park, Adventure Bay, Tasmania
Invest in a lifestyle makeover, and live and run this iconic holiday park which promises a ‘lifestyle adventure on Bruny Island, located off the southeastern coast of Tasmania. With a swag of awards under its belt, join the loyal customer base to lap up the stunning beachfront position.
The caravan, camping, and cabin park is the only one located on Bruny Island, and boasts ‘proven consistent revenue and high profitability’. It’s perched on 2.91 hectares of Crown-leased land with potential for further expansion so change your life for the better with this leasehold business.
The Sands Resort, Torquay, Victoria
For sale by the receivers, this premium resort and 18-hole Stuart Appleby-designed award-winning Links golf course could be yours. Spread across 76.5 hectares, it’s just 90 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD in the surfing heartland of Torquay.
The resort boasts a 112-suite hotel with restaurant and conference facilities, a health club with an indoor 25-metre pool, tennis clubs and golf club facility with a strong membership base, and potential for further residential development.
Del Rio Riverside Resort, Webbs Creek, New South Wales
The Del Rio holiday park is a destination not to be missed on the iconic Hawkesbury River waterfront, just 90 minutes from Sydney’s CBD. Spanning 176 hectares, the family-owned and operated property hasn’t changed hands for more than 60 years, which makes sense when you’re lapping up 2km of river frontage.
The resort is huge, with a 2,000 guest capacity with 369 separate living options. Take advantage of repeat visitors, a licenced café and club, swimming pools, boat ramps and jetty’s, BMX pump track, a 9-hole golf course, tennis, basketball and volleyball courts.
Sunshine Coast Water Park, Tourist Attraction and Resort Complex, Glenview, Queensland
If you’re looking to invest in what will no doubt be a mind-blowing destination that will change the Sunshine Coast landscape, get behind this master-planned development site on Steve Irwin Way, a major arterial road.
Put your stamp on 25.18 hectares of land on two lots at the gateway to the Sunshine Coast, with approval for an international tourist park, surf pool, waterpark, food and beverage, retail and 234 villas/apartments. Leap into immediate stage 1 development and reap the potential rewards including increased growth leading up to the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games.
Anna Bay Beach Resort, Anna Bay, New South Wales
Sometimes, someone else’s misfortune can be your winning ticket. This beachfront resort in the making is a partially-constructed 4-hectare dream, and needs an investor to take over after construction stalled. Take advantage of approved plans for different accommodation configurations with incredible 360-degree views overlooking Birubi Beach, and the Stockton Bight Sand Dunes, an expansive stretch of sandy coastline known for its vast golden sands, a 2.5-hour drive north from Sydney.
Take in whale watching as it comes to life, with a pool, tennis courts, sand-boarding, 4WD sand dune tours, and camel riding nearby, waiting in the wings.
Barossa Valley Apartments and Barossa Dreams, Tanunda, South Australia
This two-in-one package offers more than its excellent location – just a 5-minute drive from the Barossa Valley wineries. Barossa Dreams is a grand Victorian home, built in the 1890’s, and Barossa Valley Apartments are four modern architecturally-designed apartments in a resort-style setting.
Less than an hour from Adelaide’s CBD and airport, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity provides the added bonus of an outdoor heated swimming pool, and rooms incorporating wood fireplaces, and underfloor heating.
‘Ginninderra Falls’, Wallaroo, New South Wales
Australia’s iconic ‘Ginninderra Falls’ – a 55.73 hectare mystery sanctuary known locally as Canberra’s Kakadu – will sweep you off your feet in a convenient bush setting just 25-minutes from Parliament House. Up for grabs for the first time in 40 years, this is your chance to pick your own adventure, be it develop, make it private or offer it to the public once again.
Waterfalls and walking trails aplenty, with river and creek frontage, and potential by the bucketload. Take in the rich history, or help spark its bright future with a very rare combination of residential, resort, retail, eco-tourism and environmental zoning.
Bridgewater Apartments, Kangaroo Point, Queensland
Take the reins at this riverfront property, just four kilometres from Brisbane, with “high netting mixed-use management rights” at Bridgewater Apartments, in Kangaroo Point. The high-rise building complex boasts views of Brisbane River and Story Bridge, with 100 apartments, 37 of which are managed in the on-site letting pool.
Take advantage of the resort pool, plus a body corporate salary of more than $230,000. With secure long lease agreements in place, and flexibility to live onsite or offsite, it could be yours for just over $5 million. An easy spend when you’re looking to take advantage of Brisbane’s growing short-stay market thanks to the population boom and the upcoming 2032 Olympic Games.
Seaside Garden Retreat, Wamberal, New South Wales
Tucked away in the serene seaside town of Wamberal, this extensive resort venue about 1.5 hours north of Sydney on the Central Coast, offers a “unique and versatile opportunity to transform an already captivating coastal resort property”.
Spanning 1.91-hectares, Seaside Garden Retreat has lived a good life, and is brimming with development potential to take advantage of its near beach access and panoramic ocean views. Reel in the strong demand for leisure and retirement living, with lovely features including landscaped gardens, a pool, two restaurants, conference facilities, a bar, BBQ and tennis court.
And if you can’t quite find what you’re looking for, one of these beachfront or beachside small businesses might be more your flavour.
