Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific chairman Ken Borda is selling his Palm Beach weekender.

LJ Hooker Palm Beach agent Peter Robinson is marketing the home with a $6.8 million guide for its May 8 auction.

Set on the Florida Rd dress circle, it has 1435 square metres of native gardens and beach views.

Borda, who owns a $3.56 million apartment in The Hyde in the CBD, paid $2.99 million in 2002 when the three-pavilion residence was bought from John Mills and Greg Clarke.

The main pavilion has two bedrooms and a rumpus room with bar.

The living space opens to a heated swimming pool.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

Deputy chairman of Hutchison Telecommunications Barry Roberts-Thomson and his wife Victoria are selling their Woollahra project.

The Queen Street Victorian was quietly snapped up for $3 million in 2016 following the sale of their Woollahra home to billionaire Greg Goodman for $15 million.

They’ve renovated the home on 160 square metres.

Set behind a classic but updated white facade with a black wrought-iron front balcony, the home has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Ray White Woollahra agent Randall Kemp and Lisa Chaddare marketing the home for April 13 auction.

This article first appeared in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

Sydney sporting power couple, Australian cricketer Trent Copeland and his professional netball wife Kimberley Green, have sold in the Shire.

They've sold the Miranda property they bought in 2011, a year before they wed near the beach in North Wollongong.

The purchase came shortly after Copeland was given his baggy green cap on his Test debut in Sri Lanka.

The strata townhouse had only been built four years earlier, part of a boutique complex of just three.

The living area opens to a grassed backyard and outdoor entertaining area on its 455 square metre parcel.

Pulse Property agents Ben Pike and Blake Spooner secured the sale. 

Copeland joined Seven last year as an analyst for the network's Test coverage.

Green is the captain of the Giants Netball.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

Matt Lahood, the chief executive of the ASX-listed real estate network, The Agency, and his wife Connie put their Maroubra home to auction yesterday.

But the downsizing couple had no joy. It was passed in on a $3 million vendor bid from the struggling auctioneer, who had just one registered bidder amid many longtime neighbours.

The Lahoods have owned the four-bedroom 1970s family home for eight years, bought when he was a McGrath Estate Agents executive. It cost $2.26 million in 2011 after its 2010 refurbishment.

The initial auction price guide was $3.2 million, which was revised to $3 million given his listing agent Tony Laing gauged buyer interest during the marketing campaign.

Lahood has a Coogee triplex development with plans to reside on the top floor.

Lahood departed McGrath after two decades in late 2016 to establish The Agency, which traded at a record low 12c on the sharemarket last week,

Like McGrath, which also traded at record lows last week, the two estate agencies are the bellwether stock on the patchy state of the property market.

The Agency’s own Coogee office recently shut its doors as a cost-cutting measure. 

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

The former Australian cricket captain turned commentator Ricky Ponting and his wife Rianna have bought in Portsea.

The couple paid $3.51 million for the home, close to Fishermans Beach which had a $775,000 build in 2009.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom will be a weekender from their home on Brighton’s “golden mile”, which they bought for $10 million in 2013.

The two levels home has a resort style heated pool and spa along with in-ground trampoline and basketball practice area on its 1,068 square metres.

It was sold by Sothebys who struggled to find a buyer with the property listed for more than 300 days.

The new South Sydney Rabbitohs boss Wayne Bennett is officially cutting ties with Brisbane, listing the Yeronga home he owns with his partner Dale Cage.

They paid $1,975,000 in late 2016 when Bennett just wrapped up his second season in his second stint at the Brisbane Broncos.

He was head coach for two decades up until 2008.

The couple seemed set to lease the property upon their move to Sydney, but CoreLogic records show it was advertised at $1,850 a week at the end of January, and then again at the end of February, suggesting a tenant at that price wasn't forthcoming.

Set on the dress circle Brisbane Corso, the riverside home spans three levels and has four bedrooms, a home office, media room and a heated swimming pool.

The home built by local builders Grayhaus shortly before Bennett and Cage bought it.

Cage said the couple looked all over Brisbane when we were looking to buy "from Ascot and Hamilton and we both fell in love with this house together".

“It’s a warm, inviting and modern home and it’s made for entertaining,” Cage said.

“It’s a wonderful street we live in, there’s good company all around. It’s a great house too that is very low maintenance.

“As soon as we walked in we knew it was right for us, and it would suit a big family as it’s got a heated pool and four big bedrooms, two of which are ensuited.”

Ray White Sherwood agent Tim Davis, who sold the couple their home, is looking for a buyer around $2 million.

Bennett still hangs on to a $1.96 million Brisbane city apartment and investments in Moffat Beach and Gladfield.

Country music star Troy Cassar-Daley and his 4KQ Brisbane radio presenter wife Laurel Edwards have sold their Queensland farm getaway.

They re-listed the Vernor property, an hour door to door from their Brisbane base, last month, having failed to find a buyer on its original listing mid-last year.

Cassar-Daley has said the farm, which they paid $630,000 for in 2007, has inspired a number of his songs.

He said 'I love this place' was written on the kitchen table.

Cassar-Daley used to love fishing on the river which dissected the property. Laurel used to ride horses across the four hectares.

The couple initially sought $680,000 last year.

The family, now with grown up kids, are set to spend more time on the Sunshine Coast.

The billionaire hotelier Justin Hemmes, who has been looking for a home for his ex-partner, Kate Fowler, has quietly secured a $7.5 million Dover Heights abode.

The couple have been living in the expansive Hermitage family compound in Vaucluse following their separation last July after a four year relationship.

The purchase is just in the name of billionaire bar tsar.

Model Fowler, the mother of his two young daughters, met Hemmes on a boat in Europe in 2014.

Hemmes, who has recently broke into the $1 billion club due to his vast property empire, had been assisting Fowler in finding a suitable home.

Fowler had previously sought a Bellevue Hill offering but the couple who attended the auction last September were pipped when it sold for $6,575,000, some $575,000 over reserve. 

The Dover Heights acquisition was from Nicki Smoli and her husband Neil Smoli, a non executive director at Aviate Group.

The Smoli couple bought the property run down in 2012 for $2.4 million.

The oceanfront cliff top masterpiece was then designed by Nicki's father, the architect Dennis Rabinowitz, in 2015 with the build taking 18 months.

The home has four bedrooms, including a master retreat with its own walk in wardrobe, ensuite and balcony.

It sits in 550 square metres of landscaped gardens complete with a heated pool and dining terrace.

Sydney Sotheby's Double Bay agents Barry and Mark Goldman sold the home after having a $7 million guide.

The purchase comes ahead of Hemmes being ranked 89th in the inaugural edition of The List — Australia’s Richest 250, published in a special magazine in The Weekend Australian.

He is one of 68 property ident­ities who appear in The List, the biggest study of wealth in Australia ever undertaken.

Hemmes, who's parents, John and Merivale founded the Merivale fashion and property empire, owns the Coogee Pavilion, Ivy and the Newport Arms. He enjoys the ownership of 90 or so properties.

Late last year Hemmes dipped into the office market, purchasing the Sydney CBD building adjoining the Ivy.

It is believed he is seeking external investors, for the first time in Merivale's six decade year history, to undertake a $1.5 billion knockdown rebuild which will see the Ivy expand.

Ivy will be rebuilt within seven years and, while he has not finalised the plans for the precinct that for now at least contains 20 different venues and businesses, he is close to formulating his vision.

This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph. 

Godolphin, the international horse empire of the Dubai Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, scheduled a 9am Saturday auction morning to offload its redundant Mosman trophy home.

The early start, given a coffee shot for attendees from realestate.com.au’s mobile coffee cart, was scheduled as the racing enthusiasts had a runner in the first at Royal Randwick. The Orlando Avenue home had been bought in 2016 for $5 million for then managing director Henry Plumptre, who departed in 2017 for Waikato’s Cambridge Stud.

The cul-de-sac Federation four-bedroom, two-bathroom home attracted seven registered parties. The stone kitchen and informal living area open to an alfresco space with kitchen and pool.

BradfieldCleary Double Bay agents Bob Guth and Sam Green took a $4 million opening bid.

Announced on the market by auctioneer Mark Daley at $4,425,000, it sold to the opening bidder — who had come from Bronte — at $4.45 million.

Auction is certainly a worthy tactic as time-to-sell spirals with a saturated private treaty market of unsold pricey offerings. Prices in Sydney’s upper end have also been hit by a 12 per cent price fall.

From oceanfront homes to CBD penthouses, beachfronts and rural getaways, offerings are aplenty.

Agents report ­little pressure to sell by these well-heeled vendors, and their lenders, but buyers might just be able to secure a bargain as the richlister loses patience.

Meanwhile Guth watched Bivouac win the first, then Microphone take the Inglis Sires for Godolphin, and Multaja take the last with the Godolphin track earnings on the day of $1.66 million.

Having stepped down as the boss of the Australian Film Television and Radio School to move to the UK, film producer Neil Peplow and partner, former Screen Australia executive Nathalie Peter-Contesse, dramatically secured the sale yesterday of their Bondi Junction home.

The couple paid $2.53 million in 2015 for the modernised 2005-built terrace, not far from the set-to-be redeveloped Waverley bus depot.

The terrace, which came with $3.3 million hopes through McGrath, was passed in on a $3.05 million vendor bid. But Peplow, who is joining the British Film Institute as director of international affairs, agreed soon after to accept a $3,025,000 offer, but then the only other bidder, still hovering around, bumped up her post-auction offer to $3,037,000.

Meanwhile the estate agent involved in the sale copped a parking ticket as events unfolded inside the St James Rd offering.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

The golfing champion Craig Parry has listed his Abbotsford home with $10 million hopes.

It has been listed through Black Diamondz agent Tim Le.

The home on the dress circle Abbotsford Parade sits in private 1,705 sqm gardens and has water views from every room.

It has four bedrooms and four bathrooms. The upper level bedrooms include a master with walk-in and ensuite spa. 

There's also a home office, theatre room, steam room, infrared sauna and games room with commercial grade wet par.

A permanent marina berth jetty, pontoon, slipway and boatshed span the 53 metres of Sydney Harbour frontage.

A swimming pool, outdoor spa, full size tennis court and of course a custom putting green sits in the grounds.

One-time Real Housewives Of Sydney star Krissy Marsh is still attempting to sell her Double Bay investment apartment which she called home during the one and only season of the Foxtel show.

Marsh paid $3.5 million in 2015 for the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home.

Raine & Horne Double Bay agents Alex Lyons and Ric Serrao are handling the marketing, suggesting it could be a $2850-a-week rental.

The 285 sqm Bay St unit is now being offered with a guide of $4.28 million to $4.38 million — down on the overly ambitious $5 million hopes at Christmas.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

TV presenter Antonia Kidman, the younger sister of actor Nicole Kidman, is seeking tenants for her long-held lower north shore home — which has for some time been an executive rental.

Kidman is now based in Singapore with her businessman husband Craig Marran and their children.

Kidman is seeking a $2500-a-week tenant for the two-level Greenwich home with harbour views, which sits in sprawling 1785 sqm wraparound gardens­ and lawns. It has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, open-plan kitchen and a formal dining area.

SydneySlice Woollahra agent Melanie La Pouple is offering it at the same rental as two years ago, when it had been freshly painted. “It suits a family, large or small,” the marketing says.

The Kidman clan haven’t called Greenwich home since 2009 when they left for Singapore. 

Once dubbed Bisley, the Edwardian-era grand manor was built in 1912 for rifle importer Harry Motton, who had bought the block from Dr Walter Burfitt.

According to Motton’s granddaughter, a time capsule­ was buried in the grounds by a member of the original family. 

Kidman and her late husband, businessman Angus Hawley, paid $4.3 million in 2005 for the home — which was not far from her parents.

The late psychologist and author Dr Antony Kidman and his wife Janelle­ had purchased their 1882 sandstone former drapery shop home in 1998 from Sydney advertising guru Simon Collins for $1.65 million.

Kidman and Hawley, who were married for 11 years, had four children.

She now has two children with Marran.

The family retains a holiday­ home at Whale Beach, which cost $2,025,000 in 2011.

Antonia’s first Sydney property was a hand-me-down, a one-bedroom unit above shops in Mosman which her older sister had secured in 1987.

The elder Kidman had spent $81,000 on the Military Rd unit but when Hollywood and Tom Cruise beckoned, Antonia took up occupancy.

The unit was sold in 1998 for $265,000.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

The former The Block contestants Michael and Carlene Duffy have secured the sale of their latest project — a vintage caravan dubbed Bumblebee.

It sold prior to its recent Ray White auction for $24,000.

Apparently, a few years back they ditched their damp tent camping instead to buy some wheels.

The experienced renovators and designers have now renovated four vintage caravans.

Found on Gumtree, Bumblebee is a 3.6m-long renovated vintage Franklin caravan with single axle.

There are rattan and oak cabinets and an on-board water system.

The dining table converts to a bed.

The husband and wife team were contestants on the Melbourne series of The Block Glasshouse in 2014 when they made just $10,000 profit, well behind brothers Simon and Shannon Vos on $435,000.

The couple ­remain on the Gold Coast in the semi-rural Tallebudgera. They were 27 when they purchased the home which is still a project nine years on.

The duo who run Cedar + Suede, a home design and construction service, are hosts of home renovation and lifestyle shows, Ready Set Reno and Open Homes Australia.

This aricle was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

International fashion designer Collette Dinnigan has quietly offloaded her Surry Hills HQ. 

She had owned the Hutchinson Street warehouse for more than 20 years, having paid $1,225,000 in 1998. 

She recently secured a $6 million off-market sale, with the buyer now emerging as a company directed by Jake O’Neil, son of property developer Denis O’Neil. 

The warehouse-style, three-level offices are currently leased to marketing consultants Goodtrip and green energy supplier Eco Renewable Energy.

The O’Neil family-owned Addenbrooke development firm has proposed the 610 square metre space be converted into 11 apartments.

Last year Dinnigan signalled her exit from the world of commercial property when she sold her first shop on the William Street, Paddington retail strip, which she had bought for $625,000 in 1998.

It fetched $1,655,000 to eastern suburbs socialite tailor Patrick Johnson through estate agent Ivan Bresic.

Dinnigan’s focus has moved from fashion design to Bespoke Homes, a luxury rental platform she is developing with her husband, hotel and tourism entrepreneur Bradley Cocks.

They’ve just returned from Italy where they’re restoring a 400-year-old farmhouse in Puglia.

They also have residential properties in Darling Point, the beachside Rosedale on the South Coast, and a Paddington warehouse.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

The Forty Winks chairman, Paul Jensen, and his wife, Felicity, have their longtime Rose Bay home listed with an $8 million price guide.

Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty’s Michael Pallier has the listing of the five-bedroom home at 2 Beresford Road.

The couple bought it 26 years ago for $870,000.

The 883 sqm block could attract attention from developers although the home was renovated nine years ago.

Fashion magazine RUSSH editor-in-chief Jess Blanch and her husband, financial adviser Marty Switzer, have bought in Centennial Park — spending $4.43 million on a restored 1910 Federation semi on Cook Rd.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom home on 430 sqm last traded at $2 million in 2010.

The couple had previously failed over many months to find a buyer through McGrath Estate Agents for their Paddington terrace, so recently put the Jersey Rd terrace up for $1850-a-week rental.

They paid $1.1 million for the four-bedroom Victorian in 2002.

This article first appeared in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.  

Former Pandora Australia jewellery boss Karin Adcock has sold her Manly investment apartment. 

Adcock, who calls a Newport waterfront home, secured $1.85 million for the apartment that cost $1.3 million in 2010.

In recent years it has been a $1300-a-week rental.

Set on the top floor of The Grant on East Esplanade, the two-level, two-bedroom apartment sold through Ray White agent Mark Clarke.

Adcock sold Pandora Australia for about $100 million in 2012 but continued her work in jewellery — although her latest pursuit has been in wines. 

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

The long-time Darlinghurst home of the late costume designer and early Sydney Mardi Gras activist Ron Muncaster has been listed for sale.

Affectionately known as the Master of Sequins, Muncaster paid $110,000 for the 1860s built home in 1985, shortly after he started created costumes for the parade.

A number of its 1800s features have been retained, such as its raw brick and sandstone walls, fireplaces, high ceilings and exposed original beams.

The four bedroom terrace sits behind a sandstock brick facade on its 180 sqm Crown Street parcel. 

The terrace has its own courtyard, and there's rear lane access to a fully self-contained loft-style apartment with balcony.

Now 18 months after his death, Matt Marano of Oxford Agency has a price guide of $2.5 million. Matt and Michael Marano have the May 11 auction listing.

The 2003 documentary Queen of Sequina followed his life, from a tourist in the early 1960s to becoming one of the most well known names on Oxford Street.

He received a lifetime achievement award from Sydney Mardi Gras in 2014.

His costumes often took months to complete. 

Retired racing driver Jason Bright and wife Lucy are selling their Richmond home.

They're asking for offers between $2 million and $2.2 million for the townhouse that was designed by Melbourne designer Stephen Akehurst in the late 1990s.

There was no hiding Bright's ownership in the marketing. The games room features a shelf with dozens of race helmets Bright collected over his near two decade career.

The three bedroom, two bathroom family home features an entertaining terrace with built-in barbecue.

Kay & Burton Bayside agents Tim Blackett and Alex Schiavo have the listing.

Bright completed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, driving for Britek Motorsport then Brad Jones Racing.

He retired in 2017, with his greatest achievement coming in 1998 when he won the Bathurst 1000.

Bright runs Taskforce, a trades and services franchise which he set up in 2013.

This article was first published in The Weekend Australian.