After the overwhelmingly successful completion of Stage One, Toral Park have flown into the construction of Stage Two's additional twenty town houses. Stage Two Includes one, two and three bedroom dwellings, ensuring there is something for everybody. Call Steve Burridge on 0408 068 663 to secure your piece of the sunshine coast now.

One third of the Toral Park project is complete. The first stage includes the swimming pool and recreation area as well as a large portion of landscaping. With the addition of well grown palms to complement the already lush surrounding bush lands Toral Park is proudly showing off its potential as an accommodating residence for Coastal Living.

Along side its welcoming atmosphere Toral Park proudly boasts its unique location, a short walk to Sunshine University and A Primary Catholic School as well as a three minute drive to shopping centre providing a broad range of services, from food outlets and grocery stores to homeware centres.

New home sales in Queensland have jumped more than 20% in October sparked by a 1% cut in interest rates and the increased government?s First Home Owners Grant. The latest Housing Industry Association survey of major builders found the industry was looking up after a sluggish first nine months of the year. The spike is not across all sectors nationally with multi-unit sales down 8%.

No Sunshine Coast specific figures are yet available for October but in the September quarter of this year, 644 new houses were approved in the region compared with 848 in 2007, a fall of 24%. In defiance of national trends, 470 units were approved in September, 2008, quarter compared with 302 in 2007, an increase of 55.6%. Housing Industry Australia Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay manager Adrian Langford said there had been a significant increase in activity among building certifiers and designers this month which was starting to flow through to builders. Mr Langford said most activity was in the affordable housing range indicating that the first home owners? grant scheme was working and getting people back into the market.

He said renovation inquiry was also picking up and there was a buoyancy about consumer attitudes although lending institutions were being very tough on valuations, indicative of the economic climate.HIA chief economist Harley Dale said the national result saw an increase in new home sales among Australia?s largest builders and developers for the first time since June. 'Both new home sales and building approvals fell sharply over the first nine months of 2008,' he said.

BUDERIM Ginger has lifted its full year earnings forecast by 200 per cent after sealing a $US5.7 million ($6.3 million) deal to buy a US macadamia nut producer. The world's leading maker of confectionary ginger now expects a calendar 2008 pre-tax profit of more than $3 million. This compared to its earlier guidance for a pre-tax profit of at least $1 million and a 2007 profit of $900,000. Buderim said the purchase of Mac Farms of Hawaii adds to its growing macadamia nut operation and could make it the biggest macadamia processor and marketer in the world.

"The acquisition will enable the company to increase its 2008 profit forecast as a result of both incremental operating profit and business combination benefits on acquisition,'' chairman John Ruscoe said. Buderim will pay $US5 million in cash for Mac Farms ahead of a second payment of $US700,000 in either cash or shares. Mac Farms will be added to its existing Australian macadamia nut business Agrimac.

"The business will be very well positioned to capitalise on the expected improvement in pricing in the global macadamia market over the coming years and on the long term increase in world demand,'' Mr Ruscoe said in a statement.