by Jemma Pearson In the market for a high-end home on the Coast? Here are a few to choose from.

Earlier in the year Formula One driver Mark Webber reportedly paid $4.9 million for former tennis star Thomas Muster’s old holiday home in Noosa.

Noosa was also the buying location of choice for Reece Australia chairman Alan Wilson. Spruiking bathroom products must be a lucrative business – Alan spent almost $5 million on his holiday home. Sonia King of King Furniture fame also parted with the best part of $5 million for her waterfront Noosa abode.

It makes the $3.68 million John Van Lieshoust paid for his Noosa mansion seem a little trifling, and this sum probably won’t make much of a dint in his savings – the Super A-Mart founder’s wealth is estimated at around $1.4 billion.

But Noosa isn’t the only suburb where big bikkies are being spent. Further south, cattleman Peter Camm’s Mooloolah Island getaway set him back a sizeable $5.5 million.

Richard Branson famously owns a lot of real estate, but it’s his Makepeace Island –in the middle of Noosa River – that Sunshine Coasters best know. The British gazillionaire bought the island in 2007 as a retreat for family, friends and staff, and now anyone can holiday there. Prices start at a very reasonable $8000 a night. Loose change really.

A holiday home of a different sort, mining magnate Clive Palmer wasn’t satisfied merely spending his down time in Coolum – he bought the entire Hyatt Regency resort.

So what’s for sale right now? My Property Preview has uncovered five properties on the market which might lure even more high-fliers our way. If you have a spare two or three million – or merely dream of the day you do – read on.

1 MOOLOOLAH ISLAND, MINYAMA

Platinum Properties’ Geoff Ohmsen is looking for $2.55 million for this family home, which offers all the trimmings you’d expect on the Coast’s most exclusive street, including four enormous bedrooms, a study and media room. But let’s face it, in this home it’s what is on the outside that matters. There’s almost 25 metres of waterfrontage, a Jet Ski lift and 12-metre jetty, and the ample deck has plenty of space to set up camp and compare the size of your neighbours’ vessels with your own. But the best bit? Between the soft-close toilets, the master bedroom’s mirror TV and the media room’s electric chairs, who can decide?

278 OLD PALMWOODS ROAD, PALMWOODS

Heading over to the other side of the Bruce Highway, Matt O’Grady from Next Property Group has a nine-bedroom, nine-bathroom beauty that is set for auction next month. If you’re after a humble hinterland retreat, keep looking. But if a tennis court, professional gym, Swedish sauna and lap pool are musts on your list, you can stop the search for the perfect home. The 16-acre property features two dwellings – the main home with gym, sauna and pool and a four-bedroom guest house – plus an industrial-sized shed for the bloke of the home to tinker in. And the views are pretty special, too.

31 CARWOOLA CRESCENT, MOOLOOLABA

Elite Lifestyle Properties’ Mark Unkel is marketing an architecturally designed residence that’s unlike any of the canal-front homes surrounding it. Visitors enter the home via a floating deck through native grasses and are met with raw rendered walls, exposed concrete ceilings and curved cedar walls. In the living zone, a seven-metre Corian bench dissects the commercial kitchen and lounge room while six-metre windows create generous views. The home has a wine cellar and multiple living zones, but it’s the parents’ retreat that is the star, with a steam room, gym, dressing room, ensuite and balconies that open up through sliding doors. The auction date is set for next month.

5 MUSGRAVE DRIVE,COOLUM BEACH

You’ll need at least $2 million to even walk through the door of Mandalay, which is more five-star Bali resort than hilltop home. Comprising four rammed-earth pavilions which are connected by walkways, steps and covered breezeways, this exceptional property offers 1070 square metres of living space featuring seven sleeping chambers, five living areas and a large office. The infinity-edge pool is the perfect spot to cool off and enjoy the view and there’s an art studio to potter around in, a golf pitching green to practice on, plus a library and reading room. Di Swan at Belle Property Buderim can tell you more.

Noosa isn’t the only suburb where big bikkies are being spent. Further south, cattleman Peter Camm’s Mooloolah Island getaway set
him back a sizeable $5.5 million

163A MOOLOOLABA ROAD, BUDERIM

With more than 1000 square metres of living space under roof (that’s about double the size of the avergage suburban block), this Buderim mansion, listed with Karl Rademeyer from Engel & Volkers Mooloolaba, has plenty of space for big families. The main residence is dripping in luxury appointments, from the handy basement – which is almost 240 square metres itself – past the office/spare bedroom and multiple living zones, by the under-roof pool area, and onto the large kitchen. There are four bedrooms on the upper level, a self-contained two-bedroom villa for guests, a theatre room for movie nights plus security gate, ducted vacuum and zoned air-conditioning. Karl is looking for offers over $1.95 million.