The Weekly Real Estate from Coast to Country, October 6, 2022

Real Estate

Beautiful old Uki convent is on the market

By Jo Kennett

ONE OF the most beautiful historic buildings in the shire is on the market and it comes with its own income stream.

The Convent is located in the heritage-listed village of Uki at 9 Old Convent Road in the rolling green foothills of Wollumbin National Park and has five apartments on a lush 1,263 m2 block.

The heritage-listed convent was built in the early 1900s as Saint Joseph’s Convent with the order of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart which was founded by Australia’s canonised Saint Mary MacKillop.

The building served as a convent school and closed around 1963 when it was transformed into flats, according to the Uki and South Arm Historical Society’s Esme Thompson.

“Edna from Palliative Care used to go over there for music lessons,” Esme said.

“There was a plant as you walked in that the nuns would tie lollies for the children to find; some of the former students speak very highly of them.”

It is full of charm and character and has been lovingly maintained over the years.

The Convent is currently configured as five apartments which carry the names of the sisters who lived in The Convent in the 1900’s, Avelina, Theodore, Julieta, Gertrude and Ignatius.

This magnificent property is on the market for $1,495,000 with Belinda Franks at Ray White Rural Murwillumbah.

It currently operates as permanent accommodation with one and two bedroom apartments, providing good returns of around $85,000 p.a.

Belinda says with a huge shortage of quality tourist accommodation in the region the old convent provides “an outstanding opportunity to harness the tourism demand and create something very special and unique.

“All the original features of the building have been retained; hardwood timber floors, soaring 12’ ceilings, brick fireplaces, French doors opening onto verandahs, the colonial archways and breezeways above doors, weatherboard clad exterior, the

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