77-apartment Albion tower lodged by Core Property Partners

Core Property Partners has lodged a development application with Brisbane City Council for a 77-apartment tower named Novairé at 56A Albion Road, Albion, Queensland, with The Urban Developer reporting the filing on 21 October 2026. The design, by Prax Studio, is pitched at 16 storeys: a four-storey podium carrying parking and amenity, topped by 11 residential levels and a rooftop communal area. Landscape plans are credited to Ivy May. The application remains at the lodged stage, listed as in planning and awaiting assessment by Brisbane City Council, not an approved project.

The unit schedule reported by The Urban Developer splits 55 two-bedroom apartments and 22 three-bedroom apartments, which together total the 77 units both listings cite; no one-bedroom apartments are listed. Parking is set at 116 spaces across the ground and podium levels, with the design avoiding basement excavation, a choice The Urban Developer ties to the site’s local flood overlay. The site sits roughly 80 metres from Albion railway station and about 4 kilometres north-east of the Brisbane CBD, bounded by the adjoining rail corridor and the Albion overpass.

Why it matters

Albion’s rail and bus interchange has drawn a run of apartment proposals in recent years, and a 77-unit, 16-storey tower on a rail-adjacent infill site adds to that pipeline without yet being tested through Brisbane City Council’s assessment process. The site constraints named in the reporting, the flood overlay, the rail corridor and the overpass, are the kind of factors that typically shape conditions rather than block a proposal outright, but they also explain design choices such as the above-ground parking. Because the application has only been lodged, none of the scale reported here, the storey count, the unit mix or the parking provision, is locked in; Brisbane City Council can request changes through the assessment process before any decision is made.

The numbers

The reported unit mix, 55 two-bedroom and 22 three-bedroom apartments, sums to the 77 total both the developer-facing listing and The Urban Developer cite, with no discrepancy between the component figures and the headline count. The site itself covers four lots that The Urban Developer puts at 1,842 sqm combined, addressed variously as 56-60 and 50-60 Albion Road in that report, against the corrected single-address record of 56A Albion Road used here. Parking is reported at 116 spaces, and the rooftop communal area at 780 sqm. Neither source lists a Brisbane City Council application number, so this report cannot cite one.

What’s next

The application sits with Brisbane City Council awaiting assessment; neither of the two reports consulted lists a council reference number, a lodgement date from the council record itself, or a decision timeframe, and Brisbane City Council’s public register was not able to be checked against this filing within this report. Until Brisbane City Council records a decision, Novairé remains a proposal: the 16-storey height, the 77-unit mix and the 116-space parking count are all subject to change through the assessment process, and nothing reported here should be read as a planning outcome. Core Property Partners has not been reported elsewhere making public comment on the filing’s timing or next steps. It is one of several Brisbane-area apartment filings lodged this month, alongside Karam Group’s 81-unit, 13-storey Oban Lane tower at Southport, which remains in progress with no decision recorded either.