Buyer's Guide to this Byron Bay Neighbourhood
Kay Wilkie has been living in Byron Bay since 1970 and serving the area since 1987.
Old fibro houses are being replaced with beautiful homes and accommodation
Byron Bay used to be a working town, it wasn’t full of beautiful old federation timber homes, there were a few here but the majority of the houses down close to town were little fibro workers cottages.
A lot of people are coming in and renovating those old homes, whether they were weatherboard or fibro, and are turning them into these amazing holiday destinations like the Atlantic and Byron Palms.
There's one I sold down Mitre 10 end, it was an old fibro house and he turned it into a timber, gorgeous property, all white and then bought the one next door and did the same thing there, and they were both just terrible old houses.
Many locals sold out of the "Golden Grid" in the 90's
In the 90's a lot of the born and bred Byron people who were living in the golden grid, as some agents call it, which is the streets right in town, Kingsley, Carlyle, Ruskin, they had quarter acre blocks with old houses, but they sold them and bought blocks of land out out at Baywood Chase or Byron Hills, I refer to it as they sold their souls.