Does anyone know about this town in Tasmania? Can anyone tell me if they have an investemnt property there or anywhere along the West coast of TAssie. What about Tassie in general?[
]Yeah, I’ve heard of Tassie once or twice (: Even seen it on some maps!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. Is a tiny place in the middle of nowhere, former mining town gone bad from memory. Nothing attractive about it. Less than 1,000 population. Do a google search and you’ll find everything you wanted to know about it.
The usual arguments for TAS are concerned with population growth – which as a state has been slightly negative in recent years (though improving).
But the West Coast is a different story to Launceston and Hobart. Once you start to head south, it gets pretty deserted. I distinctly remember thinking as I drove through Zeehan (and Queenstown) that you must have to have grown up here to live there. Nothing that wrong with the place – some of the countryside is very beautiful. Just quiet, quiet, quiet. Not really the level of activity of a town I’d consider investing in.
Keep away from that area, bad area, may have +ve cashflow, like Anubis said a town gone bad. Also keep away from other such towns as Queenstown and Roseberry. The population is these towns are even worst and less.
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Listen to everyone. There is absolutely nothing moving in Zeehan. Even Queenstown with mining is a very pretty but quiet town. There are some very cheap very nice homes for sale where you would probably get some return but it is still quite isolated. I really like Swansea on the eastern coast. I think with the pristine beaches, that would suit both families and the more adventurous, perhaps in time a reasonable return may be had. Just now a bit of a problem with employment but it is on the tourist route.
Hi Judith – true what you say about Swansea and Bicheno and Coles Bay. However the boom has well and truly hit these towns and prices are through the roof. Also very much summer towns with limited year round population.
Thanks for the info ANUBIS. I could have guessed. By time I get myself organised I’m always too late lol.
Queenstown is considered to have a “lunar landscape”- so overly mined that trees won’t grow. Well, that’s what it was like when I was there a dozen years ago- there might be trees now? But the soil is considered very bad- it really is naked and bare land- very sad really.
For a time, the locals decided to use the lunar landscape as a tourist attraction. It didn;t seem aesthetic to me- depnds on whatcha like, really.
kay henry
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