Cousins Securities - Media

2008

Affordable housing for the first home owner

Cousins Securities Pty Ltd (CS) has commenced negotiations with a view to forming a joint venture to facilitate the development of some five-hundred allotments in the Townsville region.

Russell Cousins, the Director of Cousins Securities, said the purpose of the joint venture was to produce a product so affordable that it provides first home buyers with the chance to enter the market and own their own home.

The product will be a house & land package at the three-hundred thousand level.

This project will compliment two other very affordable subdivisions already underway by CS on the Tablelands at Ravenshoe and 30 minutes south of Cairns. These projects will enable southern city dwellers to ‘own’ their own home in one of these great locations where there are plenty of employment opportunities and exit the renting cycle.

Construction of Sunrise Estate on the Tablelands will commence mid-June 2008. The first 34 lots will be ready to commence house construction by October 2008. The end value of the three projects will be approximately $200 million.

For further information on these projects contact: Russell Cousins on 0410 780 238 or .

For information on the house and land packages available at Sunrise Estate, contact: Cousins Property Group Principal Licensee, Krystal Cousins on 1300 366 923 or .

Further information about Sunrise Estate is available on the website at www.sunriseestate.com.au.

2007

Cousins Securities has recently diversified its portfolio to include projects along Queensland's east-coast, from Hervey Bay to Bundaberg and Airlie Beach.

2006

Cousins Securities Pty Ltd, a real estate development firm owned and operated by the Cousins family in North Queensland, has formed an entity known as the Mission Beach Regional Development Group (MBRDG).

The MBRDG was formed to assist developers and businesses achieve greater success in the region. The MBRDG is based at the Cousins Securities Project Office at Banfield Plaza, Wongaling Beach.

The MBRDG was registered in December 2005 and was launched in January 2006. The MBRDG has a Public Relations Manager, Kim Cousins, who is responsible for getting information out to the community for the group.

"After much time spent in the region, we felt that there was a very strong need to create a group that would support development and businesses in Mission Beach and its surrounding areas."

- Kim Cousins, for Cousins Securities Pty Ltd.