CASE STUDY • THE GLADES • HERVEY BAY, QUEENSLAND
Happy Ever More: a land brand rooted in nature & community.
Brand for a Hervey Bay land estate, now selling through to Stage 7.
THE CHALLENGE
Hervey Bay has no shortage of land releases, and buyers compare them block-for-block. The Glades needed a brand that sold a feeling of nature, calm and community, and set it apart from every other estate competing for the same downsizers, families and investors.
THE STRATEGY
The brand centred on one warm, ownable idea: "Happy Ever More." From there came the identity, colour and visual language of green corridors and open space, plus the campaign collateral the estate sells with: masterplan and stage plans, design guidelines, and register-your-interest assets. A brand built through my Ground to Grand system to work release after release as new stages come online.
THE RESULT
Buyers keep choosing The Glades.
Seven stages in, demand has held. Stages 5 and 6 released 65 lots and sold through in under three months. One brand, every release, so each new stage launches with the recognition the last one built.
7
Stage now selling
270
Lots across the estate
65
Lots sold in >3 months
GROUND TO GRAND SYSTEM
You're selling a feeling long before there's anything to walk through.
01 Groundwork · Strategy
We started with what makes the site different: green corridors and open space woven through the estate. That became the strategic heart of the brand. We mapped the three buyer types, families, downsizers and investors, and positioned The Glades against every competing Hervey Bay release.
02 Build · Brand & Identity
An identity drawn from the landscape itself. A natural palette of greens and warm neutrals, a soft and welcoming logo, and a visual world that reads as calm, green and community-minded. All held together by one ownable idea: Happy Ever More.
03 Launch · Campaign
Masterplan and stage plans
Estate design guidelines
Billboard and on-site signage
Location and lifestyle mapping
Register your interest assets
Brand styleguide
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Rod Marks
Marks & Partners Property
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