EXCLUSIVE! GC Mayor makes millions selling Bowls Club to Chinese developers

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has made a huge profit by selling a former community-owned Bowls Club to Chinese interests for an alleged $33 million.

The sale was completed on 26 November and included all four prime properties in the center of Surfers Paradise, once owned by the former community organisation, which Tate first began buying in 2005, initially under the guise of an attempt to save the then-struggling club.

Despite the controversy that followed his “Crackerjack”-style plan, Tate continued to purchase the two remaining publicly owned Bowls Club greens, each time at a price well below market value, even after he became mayor in 2010. The Mayor controversially completed his purchase piece by piece earlier this year, which national condemnation and seniors’ calls Judicial names for corruption investigation into the matter.

Title searches by IA. It revealed that four plots of land previously owned by the Mayor, which once formed the Bowls Club grounds, were purchased from the Tate last month by a company called Remembrance Holding Pty Ltd. Remembrance Holding (not Holdings) is wholly owned by major Chinese developers AW Group.

AW Group owns Gold Coast high-rise development GemJewel consists of three massive waterfront towers ranging from 34 to 47 storeys in Broadbeach, bordering Surfers Paradise. Mayor Tate played a heavy role in supporting Jewel’s troubled 5-year construction despite facing scrutiny over land deals and conflicts of interest regarding the development.

Tom Tate has now sold the former Surfers Paradise Bowls Club land to: AW GroupAccording to our sources, for $33 million. Tate purchased the land for just under $8 million over 20 years. This means a profit of over $25 million (if IA.reliable sources are correct).

Although it was completed on November 26, 2025, two weeks ago at the time of publication, Mayor Tate has made no public statement regarding this significant transaction.

Only via Independent A.Australia’s patient investigations brought Tate’s sale to close Chinese associates to light here.

Gold Coast residents may ask how much Tom Tate actually made from his alleged secret takeover of the former Bowls Club. Was it $25 million?

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT TATE’S TAKEOVER OF CRACKERJACK BOWLS CLUB IN OUR TATE TOWN INVESTIGATION.

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