One of the few remaining cane farms along the Logan River in Eagleby is being sold after spending the last four years idle with old crops on it.
Property agent Andrew Wright said the Eagleby Road site was maintained as a sugar cane farm by a neighbouring resident on behalf of the current owner.
They’re now listing the property at a starting price of $1 million.
Mr Wright, of Professionals Real Estate Southport, said he had received 25 enquiries, with “strong interest” being shown in turning it into a riverside home.
The site is not likely to become a residential sub-division because of its flood plain location.
“The owner has no further need for the site, so they are now very motivated to sell and is very negotiable on the price,” he said.
There are no approvals in place for development on the site, so the correct planning permissions would have to be acquired.
“I’ve had plenty of enquiries as to whether you can build a house on there, but you’d have to get a town planner involved,” he said.
The Logan-Albert area has a rich history of Queensland’s first sugar plantations. Waterford, Loganholme, Beenleigh, and Windaroo were home to 14 plantations established between 1864 and 1882.
These emerged in the 1860s in response to Australian colonial authorities who introduced a series of land acts to “encourage yeoman farmers” to bolster state supplies of cane.
However, they were a “short lived phenomenon” that mostly disappeared by 1915, according to researcher Peter Griggs in his history on Queensland sugar plantations.
The most recent example of that came to light was an original cane farm a short drive away along the Albert River, which was traced back to the first German settlers around 1865.
Any would-be homeowners on the site would first have to consider the potential impact of the Coomera Connector.
Initial plans for the road have it brushing the property’s southeastern corner.
Stage one of the project between Coomera and Nerang is still being planned, while planning is underway for the section from Loganholme to Coomera.
