13/08/2026
Filmed on site late last month at Laguna Waters — a walk-through with residents already settled in Magnolia, and a rooftop catch-up with our site foreman Joe Wootten on the Wattle build.
The site hasn't stood still since. Wattle keeps climbing, Banksia (Building 6) has now broken ground, and the team has pushed on again — another update coming soon.
🏡 The residents already calling it home
From the owners walking us through their Magnolia apartments:
"Cleveland's pretty central to the services — the hospital, the bus stop out the front, the railway, all walking distance, shops across the road. We bought off the plans, and with Cody's help it was quite seamless. Just a breeze, really."
"When I got the building inspector in to look at my apartment, he was really impressed with the finish. He does a lot of building inspection, and he said it was a much better finished apartment than most of the ones he sees. That's really nice to hear when you're buying something."
Downsizers out of five-bedroom homes. Owner-occupiers who wanted high ceilings, real gardens, and a walk to the bayside. That's the community that's already here.
🏗️ Wattle update — with site foreman Joe Wootten
Joe walked us across the freshly poured Wattle rooftop. At the time of filming:
- Rooftop pour done — "very successful pour, no cracking, just perfect weather"
- Upper roofs finished; render about to start around the perimeters
- Rough-ins finished on Level 4, framing crew moving up to Level 5
- Windows and doors installed on Levels 2 and 3; renderers chasing them up the building
- Building lift arriving imminently (two lifts total, both going in shortly)
- Aluminium screens for the upper roofs due within weeks — then scaffold begins coming down, top level first
- Practical completion tracking to around January — we're still guiding buyers to budget for a May or June settlement, but with the builder now naming January, an earlier settlement window is looking increasingly likely. That window will firm up as we get closer.
And the news dropped at the end of the walk-through:
🌸 Banksia (Building 6) breaks ground. Council pre-start was locked in, piling rig on its way in — and since we filmed this, work on site has begun. Not yet released for sale, but interest is already building.
Watch the full walk-through below — residents in their own words, then Joe's site update.
Interested in a Wattle apartment, or want to be first to hear on Banksia? Register at lagunawaters.com.au or send us a message here and we'll be in touch.