Maylake Properties Pty Ltd is a Gold Coast based property company founded in 1997 by Leonid Eshchenko and remains a family owned business to this day. Our office is located in Kay House, 35-39 Scarborough Street, Southport, a property purchased by the company in 1999.
We are owner/managers specialising in boutique style commercial office buildings in both Southport and Surfers Paradise. We offer premium office spaces from 20m2 up to 670m2, we also have short and long term co-working spaces available at the Gold Coast Business Hub in Kay House, which include day desks, meetings rooms and small private offices for 1 to 4 people.
Our team is led by Chief Executive Officer Lorraine Lovatt who has over 45 years of experience in the property industry and joined the company in July 1999. We have a strong commitment to the local community, which is evident in our ongoing support and with Lorraine’s tireless efforts volunteering her time and experience to both business and charitable communities over the years.
Key Events
The company purchased “Kay House”, a well-established and well-known office building located in the heart of the Southport CBD on Scarborough Street. Kay House needed some refurbishment works which commenced in early 2000.
The purchase of the old H I S Building at 29 Elkhorn Avenue Surfers Paradise, a 6-storey commercial office building, was added to the company portfolio to be part of the future redevelopment of 25 and 27 Elkhorn Avenue.
2006 saw the transfer of ownership of 25 and 27 Elkhorn Avenue, Surfers Paradise. These two 1970’s fibro and brick converted office buildings, added to the portfolio of properties for future development.
With the sale of our residential Real Estate business in Surfers Paradise, we relocated our Maylake Pty Ltd Head Office to Kay House to concentrate on the commercial division of the business.
Late in 2008, and into 2009, we commenced refurbishment works of Kay House, to ensure a professional and quality office building for our tenants.
We commenced the redevelopment plans for our three sites. 25 and 27 Elkhorn Avenue, the 2 older office buildings, were demolished and we commenced with the inclusion of the re-design of the exterior of 29 Elkhorn Avenue.
Construction commenced on Elkhorn Centre East, 25 Elkhorn Avenue Surfers Paradise, the first ‘5 Star Green Star’ office design in Surfers Paradise. This building comprised of 6 floors of office space with 3 levels of basement parking.
2012 also saw the purchase of a 5 storey office building in the heart of the Southport CBD – 40 Nerang Street Southport.
Elkhorn Centre East was completed and received its Green Star rating in May 2013. Marketing and Leasing of the office space commenced.
29 Elkhorn Avenue, Surfers Paradise was rebranded to Elkhorn Centre West and the full refurbishment was completed.
Full renovation works commenced on 40 Nerang Street, Southport and was re-named “The Scarborough Centre”. Works included a new roof, air-conditioning, lifts, fire services, electrical and meters as well as office fit-outs. Works were completed late in 2014 and leasing commenced.
Design, de-fit and full new fit-out works commenced on Level 2 at Kay House to accommodate our head office and new venture into the Co-Working and Serviced Office arena.
In January of 2018 Maylake Pty Ltd opened the Gold Coast Business Hub in Southport, a new and exciting division for the company. The Gold Coast Business Hub specialises in co-working space, meeting rooms and serviced offices.
The Gold Coast Business Hub added another 450m2 at Kay House on Level 1, comprising of an additional 16 serviced offices, two additional meeting rooms as well as large casual breakout areas.
The company rebranded with a change of name from Maylake Pty Ltd to Maylake Properties Pty Ltd, continuing to specialise in quality management and care of our valued commercial tenancies.
Supporting Local Community
Maylake and Lorraine’s support of the local community is evident with Lorraine participating in the annual St Vincent De Paul (Vinnies) Gold Coast CEO Sleepout, attending every year since the inaugural Sleepout in June 2016, now having raised over $118,000.00 This year is Lorraine’s 9th year of fundraising and helping raise awareness of homelessness on the Gold Coast.
Maylake Properties is also a proud sponsor of the Gold Coast MND Support Group, now MND Care and Connect for MNDAQ (Motor Neurone Disease Association of Qld), where Lorraine has been awarded life membership of the organisation, volunteering her time for over 10 years.
Our Locations
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Kay House is located in the heart of the Southport CBD, opposite SOPO (the old Southport RSL) and situated on the light rail with Southport South Station only 80 metres away and an easy stroll to the retail hub of Southport.
5 levels of quality office space and fully renovated with the works completed early 2018. Some of the works included energy and water efficiency, new fire systems, new security including cameras as well as new ceilings, paintwork and carpet.
Elkhorn Centre East offering 6 levels of state-of-the-art commercial office space, the first 5 Star Green Star (v3 design rating) commercial office building in Surfers Paradise.
Commercial office space ranging in size from 119m2 to full floors 448m2.
Elkhorn Centre East also boasts some exceptional features such as double glaze glass for a quieter workspace, sensor lighting, climate control air conditioning, showers, lockers, as well as parking facilities for pushbikes and scooters. Other features include energy efficiency, security cameras and access control, as well full disabled access, disabled and ambulant toilet facilities on each level as well as access to disabled parking facilities.
Elkhorn Centre West consists of 6 levels of quality commercial office space.
Offering one tenancy per level with sizes from 168m2 to 257m2
Modern, fully renovated, including the electrical and lighting system and the installation of a new security system and cameras. All office suites have new ceilings, lighting, paintwork and includes high quality commercial carpet tiles. Enhance water efficiency systems with exclusive use of kitchens offering both hot and cold filtered watered systems in the kitchen as well a pre filters to the building. The final renovation works completed in 2025 with the installation of new Kone Lift.
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