Buyer's Guide to Mullumbimby
Adam Mangleson is Mullumbimby born and bred and has been working in real estate since 1999.
People moving here prefer to buy
The vast majority of people purchasing in Mullum that aren’t local, are from Sydney and Melbourne, Sydney first Melbourne second, and are coming here to buy and live, not rent.
Some young locals will rent for a little while or they’ll stay with their parents longer and then buy as soon as they can.
The CBD is well serviced compared to neighbouring towns
All the services are here in Mullumbimby, we’ve got three of the four major banks, plus the Credit Union.
The town itself has a much larger CBD than other towns in the Byron Shire, we've got two industrial areas as well as a bit of an arts precinct now, everything's here, it's really well serviced.
Slow real estate turnover
I don’t know officially the stats, but I know anecdotally that once people come here they rarely leave, and the turnover of real estate is very, very slow, people stay here as long as they can once they’re here.
Sydney sea changers
We’ve got a lot of people that decided to get out of Sydney and live here.
They commute to Sydney once every two weeks or so for their work, we also have fly in fly out workers, it’s not that far to the airport now with the Pacific Highway upgrades.
Plenty of school options
We have six schools here in Mullumbimby.
There's the Catholic School, you’ve got the Public School, the Christian School, and you’ve got the Steiner School.
There are the two high schools, the Steiner High School and the Public School, and then you’ve got on the edges of Mullumbimby, out in Durrumbul and Wilsons Creek and Coorabell, another bunch of primary school options.