Secret Kangaroo Point Apartment Sale Sets New Brisbane Market Record

A secret sale at Kangaroo Point’s Walan building has rewritten the suburb’s apartment record books, with a full-floor penthouse at 14/2 Scott Street changing hands for $14.75 million — surpassing the previous high by $3.7 million and making it the largest apartment sale in Brisbane so far this year.



The deal was handled quietly by Heath Williams of Place New Farm, who said the sale was never publicly advertised. Rather than a broad marketing campaign, the property was introduced directly to prospective buyers through a selective network of trusted contacts — a strategy Williams says is becoming more common at the top end of the Brisbane market.

The Walan is a 14-storey residential building completed in 2018, comprising just 14 whole-floor apartments. The penthouse itself offers sweeping views of the city skyline and river, generous entertaining terraces, and the kind of layout that prioritises both scale and privacy.

For locals who walk past the building on Scott Street — tucked neatly between the cliffs and the river — it might come as little surprise that one of its residences commands such a price. The building has long been considered one of the more architecturally considered addresses in the suburb.

The previous record for a Kangaroo Point apartment was $11.05 million, paid last year for an off-the-plan purchase in the Heirloom development, which is still under construction. The suburb’s house price record remains $15 million, set in 2021 for a property at 1 Leopard Street.

According to PropTrack data, the median unit price in Kangaroo Point now sits at $840,000 — up 16.4 per cent over the past 12 months — reflecting a broader upward trend that this latest sale sits well above.

Williams said buyers and sellers at this price point are typically experienced property owners making considered moves rather than entering or leaving the market altogether. The appeal, he suggested, is less about fanfare and more about finding the right match between a property and the right buyer, at the right moment.



The Kangaroo Point sale came shortly after Williams also negotiated an off-market deal for Teneriffe House, which set a suburb record of its own. That sale price has not been officially disclosed, though industry sources have indicated it exceeded the recent $18.5 million sale of a New Farm property on Elystan Road, making it the highest recorded residential sale price in Brisbane in 2026.

Published 5-March-2026

Kangaroo Point Jumpstarts Green Building Trend

Demonstrating the growing trend towards green architecture and sustainability in building design, Kangaroo Point’s Walan Apartments will be the first development in Brisbane’s fiercely competitive apartment-style high-rise market to utilise a large-scale “green wall”. Featuring a vertical forest that was designed to become an architectural landmark in Kangaroo Point, which is widely considered as Brisbane’s Little Manhattan, Walan’s address on #2 Scott Street is certainly going to give the precinct’s cityscape a picturesque and memorable addition to its riverfront skyline.

Inspired by the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, the building’s design incorporates six-metre high semi-mature trees which are braced and entwined, 14-storeys high, and growing up the spine of the main street elevation. “We’ve taken the green wall to new heights … This has never been achieved in apartment living in Australia before,” Cam Ginardi of developer GBW Group, proudly says.

Liam Proberts, architect and director of Bureau Proberts, is the creative genius behind the “vertical landscaping”, which draws inspiration from nature and the site’s relationship with its environment. “The main idea for this project was to create a home with a connection to the landscape … like having a mini-backyard running up the building,” Mr. Proberts explains.

“I’ve not worked on anything quite like this, but there is definitely a growing theme in Queensland of melding the indoor with the outdoor, and so this seemed like a logical thing to do … I’m sure it will be a model for future developments.” Mr. Proberts adds.

Such is the designer’s concern for preserving the site’s relationship to its natural environment that a heritage house which has originally been on-site, has been retained and carefully restored, to house a gym, lap pool, and kitchen in its new incarnation.

Other Green Buildings

Artist’s Impression of Jardino. From Brisbane Development.

Kangaroo Point is certainly getting its share of green buildings. In recent news, another project by Bureau Proberts, a 19-storey “breathing building” will soon rise on Hamilton Street. Aptly named Jardino, the building will have flowering plants on stainless steel screening wrapped around the structure, with a rainwater tank on the rooftop feeding a centralised watering system for the plants.

443 Queen Street, Brisbane. Photo from Brisbane Development.

Meanwhile, in Brisbane, a controversial 47-level tower will soon rise on 443 Queen Street, just a stone’s throw away from the iconic Customs House. Expected for completion in early 2018, this $375 million tower will have multiple gardens composed of stacked ledges at the building’s base. The top ledges will have trees, with shrubbery strategically positioned up the building’s side.

In Sydney, One Central Park has scored a world’s first, with its 116-metre vertical green walls. Designed by noted French botanist Patrick Blanc, it contains 35,000 plants. The building has thus far won at least 28 awards for its architecture, interior design and green credentials, including the International Green Infrastructure Award from the World Green Infrastructure Congress, and the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s award for Best Tall Building Worldwide.

Professor Sue Holliday, an authority on Urban Policy and Strategy from the University of NSW, made an excellent observation in her statement about Sydney’s One Central Park. “They made a lot of positive moves in that direction, which is where inner-city regeneration needs to go,” Prof. Holliday said, referring to incorporating sustainability in design.

Given Kangaroo Point’s vertical forest at Walan and the “breathing building” of Jardino, plus Brisbane’s Queen Street green development, Queensland’s architectural cityscape certainly seems to be branching out and growing in the right direction.