Couple’s Spain sojourn has home and business for sale
As summer visitors bask in the relaxed holiday vibe of the pretty town of Kalbarri on Western Australia’s mid-west coast, long-term residents Julie Croasdale her husband Des are preparing to go adventuring, starting with Spain.
Julie says San Sebastian has the same casual seaside mood as Kalbarri where the natural beauty, particularly its deep-cut gorges and magnificent coast, attracts visitors from around the world.
Its safe swimming and fabulous fishing put it top among favourite family getaways for West Australians too.
The Croasdales’ move to “take them where the winds blows” means saying so long not just to their modern owner-built four-bedroom, two-storey home but also their two cute fully furnished rental units on the adjoining block.
The home is less than 10 years old and has open-plan-living upstairs overlooking the national park where mobs of kangaroos gather in the evening.
The Kalbarri property is on the edge of the national park. Photo: Supplied
Nairn Street is a small, quiet street in the “old” part of Kalbarri, 400 metres from the river, the supermarket and the pub.
The properties have provided the Croasdales with a steady income over the past 12 years, each unit bringing $180 a day in the high season and $100 in the low.
“We are very busy with our units right now – flat out,” Julie says.
“When kids and family come to visit, we can just put them in one of the units.
“But I’ll tell you what one of the really good things about having a little holiday house is; we meet so many travellers – a lot of foreign people; we often exchange details and are catching up with some of them overseas.”
The Nairn Street, Kalbarri, properties have provided the Croasdales with a steady income over the past 12 years. Photo: Supplied
Agent Ray White Kalbarri’s Ilona Bickford says buyers can have the units or the house individually.
She says the biggest cost in the units is the cleaning, so if the buyer is prepared to do that themselves, the better the income.
Ilona say Kalbarri is flush with accommodation properties for sale to take advantage of the influx of tourists for the holiday season. They include Blue Ocean Villas luxury villas in Mortimer Street and individual rental units such as 15/22 Grey Street.
The street are one and two from the seafront. Mortimer Street is also the location of two original “beach shacks”, at 9A and B, that have a fish cleaning table and room for a boat with a 1012-square-metre block.
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