Rise at Middle Ridge: How CJAM Group Brought Boutique Architectural Living to Toowoomba’s Most Premium Suburb
Middle Ridge is the kind of suburb where families stay for decades. The streets are wide and tree-lined, the houses sit on generous blocks, and the Toowoomba Golf Club anchors the neighbourhood’s quiet prestige. It’s the suburb that professionals and retirees with means have gravitated towards for generations — a place where the median house price has climbed to $986,000 and homes on 600-square-metre blocks regularly sell above $1.5 million.
What Middle Ridge has never had, until now, is a boutique masterplanned community offering architecturally designed homes at a more accessible price point. That’s exactly what CJAM Group’s Rise at Middle Ridge is delivering.
Set across a 2.05-hectare elevated site at 306 Ramsay Street, Rise at Middle Ridge is a collection of 58 homes across four dwelling types — each available in two distinct architectural styles. The “Barn” facade echoes classic gable forms with a contemporary twist, while the “Skillion” style offers clean, modern rooflines. Both are available in white or grey exterior colour schemes, giving the streetscape architectural variety while maintaining a cohesive character that fits Middle Ridge’s leafy identity.
“This suburb has always been tightly held,” said Craig McDermott, founder of CJAM Group.
“People don’t leave Middle Ridge unless they have to. So when we found this site with direct park access and two street frontages — we knew it was a rare opportunity to bring something new to a market that doesn’t see a lot of new stock.”
The development’s single-storey homes offer three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a double garage — designed for downsizers, small families, and investors seeking low-maintenance living without compromising on space or finish quality. The two-storey homes have four bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, a study or reading nook, and an expansive open-plan ground floor with zoned living that separates the bedrooms upstairs for privacy.
Lot sizes reach up to 278 square metres. Every home includes a private yard, covered alfresco, and a light-toned interior palette of white, beige, and pale timber — a deliberate design choice that maximises natural light and warmth.
Standard inclusions tell a quality story: stone benchtops throughout, timber-look vinyl plank flooring, split-system air conditioning, quality kitchen appliances, and designer bathrooms with chrome tapware.
The community itself connects directly to Ethan Street Park — just 50 metres from the development boundary — with pedestrian paths linking residents to surrounding nature reserves and walking tracks. Inside the masterplan, three landscaped green common zones and shared walk and cycle paths create the kind of connected, community-oriented living that distinguishes a considered development from a standard subdivision.
The investment fundamentals are strong. Middle Ridge posted 16.1% price growth over the past twelve months, with median weekly rents for houses sitting at $850 and the regional vacancy rate at approximately 0.5%. Over 80% of homes in the suburb are family households, and nearly a third of residents are professionals — a demographic profile that supports stable demand and value retention.
Growth projections for the broader Toowoomba region remain robust, underpinned by the $1.3 billion New Toowoomba Hospital, the Inland Rail Project, Wellcamp Airport’s freight expansion, and a population forecast of 225,000 by 2046.
“With new homes in Middle Ridge typically priced near or above a million dollars, Rise gives buyers a way into a premium address at a more accessible entry point — without sacrificing design quality or finish,” McDermott said. “That’s a rare proposition in a suburb this tightly held.”
Two homes were sold in the first week of release. For a suburb where new listings of any kind are an event, the arrival of 58 architecturally designed homes on an elevated site with park frontage is something Middle Ridge hasn’t seen before — and may not see again.
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