Floating’ Cliffside House in Australia Hits the Market

 A newly built home that’s designed to appear to be floating along the cliffs of Burleigh Heads, a Gold Coast suburb in Queensland, Australia, hit the market last week.  
There’s no asking price, per se, since the house is being sold through an “expressions of interest” campaign, a sale method reportedly considered somewhere between an auction and a traditional sale and used to draw offers for properties without disclosing the price for which the owner wants to sell. Like an auction, the property has a deadline for sale, but buyers can’t see other bids or bidders. As such an asking price cannot be disclosed.

The three-level house on Hill Avenue is owned by Rozetta Naumoski, who bought the lot in June 2016 for A$880,000 (US$667,121) and immediately knocked down the old shack that was on the site, said listing broker Ed Cherry of Sophie Carter Exclusive Properties.
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She drafted architect Paul Uhlmann and builder Nick McDonald, and the resulting suspended property has four bedrooms, high ceilings, multiple living spaces, including a sunken lounge with a fireplace, a pool and poolside deck, a full floor master suite with a outdoors soaking tub, sliding doors and a study nook and coastal views, according to the listing.
The gradient of the lot proved challenging during the building, as did “complying with council regulations and trying to create a floating illusion on such a narrow block,” Mr. Cherry said.