Community & Business
24 November, 2025
Significant interest in Clifton’s new estate
Since Expressions of Interest for the Raceview Estate were released a few weeks ago, Webster Cavanagh Rural Property Agent Jules Coutts has been inundated by enquiries.
Jules said she has received dozens of enquiries, with many offers already presented with the contract process for some keen parties beginning last week.
The estate has been a labour of love for Jules, who first started working on it four and a half years ago, in April 2021.
It has gone through several owners in that time and the development application approval process.
It most recently sold to Josh Duce of Clifton Developments Pty Ltd, based in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast.
Mr Duce has experience in developing housing estates on the Darling Downs.
Bounded by Gannan Street, Clark Street, Wiedman Road and the Clifton Recreation Reserve, the ten hectare site is a very logical place to expand Clifton.
Access will be via an empty block on Gannan Street currently known as Sandys Road, which will be made into a circuit road when civil works commence.
The Raceview Estate name came from a previous owner of the land, inspired by the nearby presence of the Clifton racecourse.
Continuing with the racing theme, Jules came up with the idea of a horseshoe for the estate’s branding.
With prices in Toowoomba and its immediate surrounds only going up, towns like Clifton are increasingly attracting more interest from first home buyers, families, retirees and investors.
Jules said she has been receiving enquiries from a wide array of people, especially first home buyers and even some interest from investors looking at multiple blocks.
She said interest has been predominantly from the Darling Downs, but also from down the range including the Lockyer Valley, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Scenic Rim.
The development is taking place in two stages, with the first stage consisting of 21 homesites on the eastern side.
As well as 33 house blocks ranging from 800 to 1350 square metres, there is room for a pony too, with five blocks at around the acre mark and two large blocks on the western side that measure over three and over four acres respectively.
Jules said the variety of sizes has been a big draw-card with potential buyers attracted by the lower prices of smaller blocks and the lifestyle options of the larger blocks.
She said current estimations have civil works beginning at the Raceview Estate in March next year, with titles to be issued in twelve months’ time.
Expressions of Interest close at noon on Friday, 28 November.
Jules is very familiar with the demand for house blocks in Clifton, having sold six blocks on Catherine and Gillam streets earlier this year.
The blocks were snapped up very quickly with keen buyers missing out.
For Jules, it has been a change of pace from the usual types of sales in the area.
“I’m really enjoying the process,” she said.
The developer’s confidence in Clifton’s growth is a good sign for the town, which has had a slowly growing population in recent decades.
Clifton’s urban centre, which does include outlying properties, had a population of 1,299 in 2021, up from 1,249 in 2016 and 1,188 in 2011.
The addition of potentially 40 new houses could easily mean 100 new residents to become customers of local shops, work at local businesses and attend local schools.
“It’s great for the future of the town,” Jules said.
