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Four ways to incorporate Australian native flora in your interior design

Here at Ellendale, we love celebrating the beauty of Australian nature in our community and we aren’t the only ones. There is a growing trend among interior designers and homeowners to use Australian native flora as inspiration for home styling, bringing a love of the outdoors inside.

Perfect harmony: How Ellendale honours its natural surroundings

Ellendale’s masterplanned community has been created with a central focus on the local environment. Our premium homesites, located just 12 kilometres from Brisbane’s CBD, blend in beautifully with the surrounding natural bush corridors.

First home owners forgo grants to build dream home at Ellendale

First-home buyers Tamara Hensen and Robert Patterson are part of a new wave of first time purchasers, opting to forego government grants to build a dream home now for their future.

From little things, big things grow

Our award-winning land management has seen more than 189,000 trees, shrubs, ground covers and fauna connections established throughout Ellendale Upper Kedron over the last six years, helping to create perfect harmony between the natural environment and our premium homesites.

Ten local businesses we love in and around Upper Kedron

From café culture to cake-makers, cooking classes and creatives, there are so many incredible locally owned and operated businesses in and around Ellendale Upper Kedron. We’ve put together a list of businesses we love, to help you shop local and support those who live and work in our area. Not only...

Ellendale Community Nominated for Prestigious Award

Ellendale has been lauded as one of the most popular communities in Queensland at the prestigious AREA Awards by Realestate.com.au. Our Upper Kedron community is one of three finalists for Land Campaign of the Year (QLD), following outstanding engagement on realestate.com.au over the past 12 months.

Design via video proves no barrier to Ellendale buyers

Marla Cranston and Aroon Cawthorne are just weeks away from moving into their ‘forever home’ after a building process that involved choosing every detail via video from lockdown in Sydney.

Ellendale’s environment-led design recognised with national award

The vision for Ellendale Upper Kedron was to create a place where the city meets nature in perfect harmony. So we are incredibly proud our dedication to the local environment and nature corridors has been recognised at the prestigious 2021 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)...

Top things to do with the family this spring

Ellendale is truly a neighbourhood like no other. With a picture-perfect bushland setting, nature corridors and abundant recreation space, there’s no need to look far afield for a fun and fulfilling way to spend your spare time this spring.

Brisbane Housing Market is the Gold Standard

Demand in the Brisbane housing market is soaring to never before seen heights due to a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions including a supply shortage, high interstate migration and Brisbane’s winning bid for the 2032 Olympic Games. With family-friendly, near CBD suburbs at the forefront of price growth,...

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