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Yorkeys Knob
Yorkeys Knob is Cairns' boating village, Half Moon Bay Marina, a nine-hole golf course, and 'the Knob' itself, a headland of view homes above an honest beach community.
Where is Yorkeys Knob?
Pinned to the centre of the suburb. Drag, zoom, or open in Google Maps for full directions and street view.
The character
of Yorkeys Knob.
Yorkeys never gentrified on schedule, and that's its charm and its opportunity: original beach shacks sit streets away from serious view homes, the yacht club pours the coldest beer on the northern beaches, and the marina keeps the suburb's identity working-nautical rather than resort.
The Yorkeys Knob
buyer profile.
Sailors and fishing families, renovators hunting the last affordable beach-suburb projects, value-driven lifestyle buyers, and a growing holiday-let contingent.
What sells in Yorkeys Knob.
- Elevated homes on the Knob with Coral Sea and Double Island views
- Original beach houses and shacks, the renovation pipeline
- Low-set brick family homes in the flat streets
- Units and townhouses near the marina and golf course
Streets and
pockets.
The headland loop (Buckley Street and its offshoots) owns the views and the premiums. Sims Esplanade fronts the beach itself, and the golf-course side offers quiet family streets at the suburb's most accessible pricing.
How Yorkeys Knob
actually trades.
Renovated view stock outperforms everything else in the suburb; original shacks attract builder-buyers and land-bankers. Prices step up sharply with every metre of elevation, comps need to respect that.
A weekend
in Yorkeys Knob.
Yacht club sunsets, a nine at Half Moon Bay Golf Club, kitesurfers on the bay all winter. Unpretentious in a way money is starting to notice.
Keep the difference.