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

Despite the controversy that followed his “Crackerjack”-style plan, Tate continued even after becoming mayor in 2010, buying the two remaining publicly owned Bowls Club greens, each time at well below market value. 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 search criteria 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 the Gold Coast high-rise project. GemJewel consists of three massive waterfront towers ranging from 34 to 47 storeys in Broadbeach, bordering Surfers Paradise. Mayor Tate be heavily involved in promotion Jewel is problematic Five years of construction despite coming under scrutiny for land deals and conflicts of interest.

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

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

Only through Independent A.Australia‘s patient investigations uncover Tate’s sales to close Chinese associates.

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

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