The Roy family’s 43ha property at Roys Rd, Coochin Creek, has hit the market, with a price guide expected to be between $5 million – $6 million.
The property, divided into two lots, is being jointly marketed by CBRE Sunshine Coast and Colliers International in an expressions of interest process closing at midday on March 4.
The lots comprise of one 40.47ha property currently operating as a strawberry farm, complete with underground water supply and dams.
END OF AN ERA: The last of the pioneering Roy family land has hit the market overlooking Pumicestone Passage.
The second lot is a 2.64ha waterfront homestead, with a four-bedroom home and in-ground pool with frontage to the Pumicestone Passage and its own jetty, as well as a packing shed, machinery and storage sheds.
The property sits about eight kilometres from the Bruce Hwy and was being marketed as an idea site for horticulture or turf farming, as well as agritourism ventures.
A sale would mark the end of the Roy family’s connection to Coochin Creek, which started back in 1930.
Brothers Harry, Gordon and Jack Roy, from a citrus growing family, shifted on horseback from Palmwoods to Coochin Creek.
PRIME LAND: The Roy family have put their last parcels of Pumicestone Passage-frontage land on the market.
Lemons and naval oranges were grown on what was a 37,000-tree citrus orchard.
They also started a turf farm and built the jetty so fruit could be packed and shipped to Brisbane.
Roys Rd, which runs from the property to Beerwah, was also cut in by the brothers.
The land was worked by five generations of the family, with the homestead and strawberry block all that remained of the empire.
CBRE Sunshine Coast managing director Rem Rafter and Colliers International managing director Nick Dowling had been tasked with the sale of a slice of Coast history.
VIEW: The Roy family have put their last parcels of Pumicestone Passage-frontage land on the market.
The land was currently zoned rural, but with Stockland’s Aura estate so close to the property and Pelican Waters also nearby, Mr Rafter said there was a “possibility” that future state and local governments “might consider alternate uses for the land”.
The two lots were being offered separately or together in an in-one-line deal, as part of the expressions of interest process.



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