Chicken King and Queen Feather Nest With $7.6m Coast Buy

Richlister poultry pioneers Tony and Chrissy Van Den Brink have feathered their nest with a $7.625m Palm Beach property buy.

The New Zealand-based buyers and agribusiness barons swooped on the seventh-floor sky home just three days after it hit the market, securing the apartment for almost twice its previous sale price.

Auckland’s Van Den Brink family founded Brink’s Chicken, one of the country’s three leading poultry brands, in 1954.

The absolute beachfront apartment was the second resale within Sherpa Property Group’s Perspective Two Sea building, and first sold off the plan in May 2021 for $3.95m, settling in July 2023.

With 391 sqm of luxurious living space, the full-floor Twenty Seventh Ave residence has four ensuited bedrooms, a media lounge with a bar, and a designer kitchen with butler’s pantry, built-in bar, and statement island.

The deal was handled by Kollosche agent Troy Dowker, who had planned to take the unit to auction before connecting with the buyer via another client who had previously purchased on the beachfront.

“The overseas buyer was incredibly happy with their purchase and how perfectly this product suited their needs,” Mr Dowker said.

“Their new residence brings them closer to their family and very close friends who are locals of Palm Beach.”

The sellers had purchased another luxury apartment on the southern Gold Coast, he said.

Mr Dowker said the tower’s protected beachfront views from Surfers Paradise to Coolangatta were highly sought after, while high-end apartment buyers who were often purchasing a part-time residence to add to their portfolio valued the privacy and security such developments offered.

Sherpa Property Group general manager Daniel Clarke said homes within the company’s boutique luxury beachfront projects were generally tightly held by owner-occupiers and downsizers.

The first re-sale in Perspective Two Sea was of the ground-floor villa, which went for $5.5m in January 2024, after the initial purchase off the plan for $4.5m million.

Mr Clarke said the results showed the strength of the luxury beachfront market and the quality of the design and build.

“Part of the Sherpa ethos is to create residences of distinction at a price point that will

naturally lead to buyer value due to location and quality,” Mr Clarke said.

“It demonstrates the continued strength of the luxury beachfront market for completed apartments at a time when delivery is increasingly challenging, especially for apartments of this size and calibre.”

Originally published in the Gold Coast Bulletin.