Former rugby league star Ben Barba is selling his Brisbane investment property.

Barba, whose fall from grace has seen him swap a $500,000-a-year league career to being a labourer, paid $769,000 in 2013 for the Everton Park home.

It was bought after his move to the Broncos.

Barba only spent one season at Red Hill before moving to the Cronulla Sharks when the four-bedroom home became a $750 a week rental.

Innov8 Property Sales ­Albany Creek agent Michael Spillane is seeking offers above $849,000.

The vast 1985-built home sits on 1100 square metres.

Barba retains his $1.18 million Caringbah South home that became a rental after the winger headed to France to play rugby union in 2017.

The former Dally M Medallist currently faces two charges of public nuisance following an alleged domestic violence incident on Australia Day at the Townsville Casino with his partner Ainslie Currie, which led to his sacking by the North Queensland Cowboys.

With his league career in tatters, Barba has been a lab­ourer at a Mackay garage door manufacturing business owned by his cousin Adam Doull.

Meanwhile, Barba plays soccer for the Mackay Rangers in the Mackay Premier League.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Property executive Banjo Bond, grandson of Alan and Eileen Bond, is selling the Double Bay apartment he shares with his television producer wife, Kate.

The house-sized apartment sits in the Art Deco building Stradbroke, on the Gladswood Gardens cul-de-sac.

It has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and views across the harbour.

Laing + Simmons agent Sally Hampshire has scheduled a May 27 auction with buyers told at yesterday’s open for inspection that around $3 million was being sought.

The Woollahra-bound Bonds, who wed in Peppermint Grove, Perth, in 2017, paid $2.05 million in 2014.

The Bond family links to Gladswood Gardens go back to the 1980s when they envisaged overseeing a $30 million restoration of the historic trophy home, Gladswood House.

Banjo, who worked at TOGA for seven years on major residential projects, is a director of Prime West Development, a private company co-directed by his father, John.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

The golfing champion Craig Parry has sold his Abbotsford home which was listed last month with $10 million hopes.

It sold through Black Diamondz Concierge agent Tim Le who reportedly secured just short of the asking price.

The sale came more than a week before an expressions of interest campaign was set to close.

The buyer comes from the inner west.

The home on the dress circle Abbotsford Parade sits in private 1,620 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.

The suburb record was set next door by Le at $9.5 million in 2017 when spiritual healers Mina and Yvon Attia, of the Celebrate Freedom ministry sold to 27-year-old Yangyang Tu, a director of the Northern Territory cattle farm Tutee Farms.

The inner-west record sits at $12.2 million when the hotelier Rod Salmon sold on the Drummoyne waterfront.

It bettered the $11.8 million paid in Balmain East set when the daughter of billionaire Kerr Neilson, Paris Neilson and her husband Todd Buncombe bought on the waterfront in 2014.

Parry intends to spend more time at his Newport waterfront consolidation on Sydney's northern beaches.

Oroton boss Ross Lane has sold his Manly home which was listed with record breaking $16.5 million hopes.

It fetched $15 million plus.

Lane paid $9 million for the home in 2016 when buying from younger brother Tom, who is heir to the fashion empire.

The luxury Stuart Street beachfront is the only privately owned absolute beachfront property in Manly.

Set in 590 sqm of landscaped gardens on the shores of Little Manly Beach, the home has a lift to each of its four levels.

It has four bedrooms, plus a whole floor, one bedroom apartment, a home theatre, office and wine cellar.

The living room with sandstone fireplace opens to an alfresco dining terrace.

Jake Rowe at Jake Rowe Partners was marketing the home. 

Lane’s 592-square metre property was previously part-owned by the late Olympian Betty Cuthbert, before Tom and Emma Lane bought it in 2007 for $4.4 million.

Tom Lane rebuilt the four-level residence with internal lift before it was sold to his brother.

Lane undertook his own $1 million renovation with interiors by Briony Fitzgerald.

The buyer was a former northern beaches family currently living in the US who planned to live in the house when they returned to Australia in the next few years.

The sale result sets a record for freehold property in Manly.

It was topped only by the $16 million sale of an oceanfront home on a Catholic Church leasehold sold by Sophie Hutchinson, wife of former chief executive of education and training provider Vocation Mark Hutchinson, to the specialist laparoscopic surgeon Craig Taylor.

Brisbane Broncos NRL captain Darius Boyd is busy off-field with his property portfolio.

He has just listed his Tungan, Gold Coast, investment townhouse (above) at $475,000. It cost $427,000 in 2009.

Last month Boyd and his pregnant wife Kayla listed their Hendra home in Brisbane’s inner north with $1.99 million hopes.

An accompanying social media post gave the reason behind the listing of their four-bedroom, two-bathroom home.

“Catching the reno/build itch, time for number two we think,” Kayla posted. “Not sure how we’re going to say goodbye to this one.”

Designed by Base Architecture and built by Graya Construction, the stylish property is clad in black timber.

Boyd scored one try and made another in the Broncos’ 26-10 Friday night win over Manly.

Rebel Sports co-founder Robert Gavshon and his wife Jennifer have secured $2,052,000 following their Pearl Beach weekender upgrade.

The Dover Heights-based couple purchased the four bedroom, 1990 home on Cochrane Lagoon for $1.57 million in 2008 which took just under a year to sell.

Instead, they have opted for the beachfront where they spent $4,428,000 buying from Martin Scott, local head of Swiss investment manager Partners Group who had the property as a $1500 a night rental.

Gavshon migrated from South Africa in 1978.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

The NAB bank boss’s former chief of staff Rosemary Rogers has listed her Williamstown home, according to Your Money.

The television network's chief business reporter Leo Shanahan reported the listing was not on websites, but just had a sign on its front fence.

Rogers bought her $3.8 million trophy home with an NAB mortgage in September 2017 with her husband.

It was alleged the $380,000 deposit was paid to the real estate agent by Helen Rosamond from The Human Group.

She has resigned from NAB after years working as executive assistant to the previous CEO, Cameron Clyne, and then chief of staff to Andrew Thorburn.

NSW Police searched Rogers' home in the Melbourne suburb last December.

The senior executive at the National Australia Bank has since been charged with 56 offences after voluntarily flying to Sydney from Melbourne for questioning over an alleged $40 million fraud surrounding the bank.

The elegant four-bedroom Victorian home in Williamstown was built in 1880 on 1000 square metres.

It boasts a tessellated tiled veranda.

The Williamstown home also features a barbecue kitchen, pizza oven and a climate-controlled pavilion with indoor pool.

The Tartak millionaire waste collection family is tipping some of their Bingo Industries fortune into One Barangaroo, the apartment project by James Packer’s Crown Resorts Sydney.

They are among the few, unconfirmed, well-heeled buyers who’ve been undertaking whisper-quiet negotiations to buy within the $2.1 billion project, which will have just 82 luxury apartments.

No details have emerged relating to the apartment size and price but its 2021 settlement could even show they have bought adjoining apartments, possibly even a floor.

The waste collection company — which operates 12 processing facilities across NSW — is headed by Daniel Tartak, the 33-year-old son of the Strathfield-based family patriarch Tony, who in 2005 purchased a small skip bin company.

The Tartak family paid a record $7.25 million for the Strathfield home of the late bookie Harry Barrett last year.

It’s now the sixth property held by the family in the inner west suburb.

The Harbourside apartment acquisition is likely to be a city weekender for all the family members.

This week the international spotlight was on the casino project after the Las Vegas-based Wynn were revealed as pursuing a takeover of the Crown empire.

But Wynn Resorts then advised its $10 billion offer for Crown had been terminated due to the discussions being disclosed prematurely.

James Packer headlines the known buyers in the project, outlaying $60 million for his two-floor apartment purchase.

The retired bookmaker Bob Blann has also been revealed as a whole floor buyer.

The residences have a $9.5 million starting price, with the penthouse speculated to be more than $90 million.

The development will span 71 storeys and will include a 350-room hotel.

This article was first published in the Saturday Telegraph.

Sydney-bound prefab building entrepreneur Nick Leos and wife Emma are selling their Toorak home.

They recently emerged as the $16.5 million buyers of the Bellevue Hill home sold late last year by fashion designer Camilla Freeman-Topper and husband David.

They paid $3.51 million for the three bedroom Toorak home in 2015 before comprehensively renovating the 1938 Marcus Martin designed family residence.

There's $7.5 million and $8.2 million price guidance through Kay & Burton agents Ross Savas and Phillip French.

This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian. 

Oscar-winning Mad Max hair designer and make-up artist Lesley Vanderwalt’s Rushcutters Bay apartment has been listed with a $1.65 million price guide.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with garage at 6/44b Bayswater Road has been listed by Ray White Taylor + Partners.

It has been listed for June 8 auction.

The New Zealander Vanderwalt, who is based on the Gold Coast, paid $985,000 in 2007. 

She won an Academy Award in 2016 for Mad Max: Fury Road alongside Damian Martin and Elka Wardega.

Legendary Manly Sea Eagles hardman Anthony ‘Choc’ Watmough and his wife, the former model Elle McLeod, have snappily sold their five-bedroom Dee Why home.

The couple paid $1.73 ­million for the home in 2012, shortly after they got engaged and then wed a year later.

Watmough and McLeod have extensively renovated the three- level home which features a lounge and dining space with a stack stone gas fireplace which opens to a balcony with views.

The views extend over Dee Why Lagoon, Long Reef Headland and out to the ocean.

The third level master retreat comprises an ensuite, walk-in wardrobe and its own terrace. There is 410 square metres of space including balconies.

The couple bought the headland home with Elle’s late mum Leona when the extended family numbered six.

Their dream is to now find and renovate a beach cottage which would be home for the couple and their three year old daughter, Jagger, who ent­ered the world seven weeks early, weighing 2.2 kilograms.

Upstate agents Tulo Sila and Eddy Kalnian were marketing the home with a June 1 auction, with 22 groups through the first open.

The Dee Why market has seen a dip in its median prices after realestate.com.au showed the four-bedroom median peak at $1.93 million in 2017.

But the median was just $920,000 in 2012 when the Watmoughs bought on Undercliffe Street.

The couple hoped to get $2.7 million.

Last year the Watmoughs offloaded their nearby investment apartment for $750,000, it having been a $650 a week rental.

Watmough had paid $580,000 in 2013 for the two bedroom unit atop a 1970s block.

Watmough played 278 games for the Sea Eagles, pulling on the NSW Blues jersey 14 times and the national strip on 16 occasions.

He is now behind the Sydney CBD restaurant Cubby’s Kitchen.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

The local Shao family have emerged as the buyer in the record setting Toorak penthouse which came with initial $20 million hopes.

They managed to secure the Washington Street apartment for $14 million, then buying the display furniture, almost double the prior $8.2 million record.

The sale triggered an explosive commission battle between two top estate agents which went public despite the Real Estate Institute of Victoria's attempt to resolved it on a confidential basis.

The developers Orchard Piper also had celebrity US agents the Altman Brothers lending their name to the marketing.

The 1000 square metre space boasts pool, yoga room, sauna, and 1300-bottle wine cellar, plus private lift from its four car garaging.

One of six residences in the development, its occupies the entire third floor. 

The priciest Toorak apartment this year has been down the road where developer Venise Reilly, a pioneer in the construction industry, sold a Washington Street penthouse off the plan for over $7 million to a Toorak local.

The sale of the 320 square metre residence, a collaboration by Visioneer Builders with Domaine Partnership, was secured by Kay & Burton colleagues Michael Armstrong, Tom Staughton and Phillip French.

This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian. 

TV drama producer Julie McGauran is selling her long-time Coogee home.

McGauran paid $798,000 for the 1920s home in 2005, not long before she left her role as series producer of Home And Away.

She spent about $250,000 extending it to create a designer four-bedroom family home shared with former Home And Away actor Cameron Welsh.

It comes with a heated pool in its 230 square metre tropical gardens.

McGrath agent Mark McPherson has a $2.35 million guide for its May 25 auction.

McGauran has been working on the upcoming drama Between Two Worlds for Seven.

This article was first published in the Saturday Telegraph. 

New South Wales cricket veteran Steve O'Keefe is selling another of his investment properties in Mudgee.

O'Keefe, who has built a vast property portfolio across the country, bought into the Mudgee market in 2013, spending $169,000 on an 840 square metres corner plot south-west of the main town.

The Manly-based spinner subdivided the parcel and built a home on each block.

He's now asking $355,000 for one of the three bedroom, two bathroom homes on 435 square metres that has been a $360 a week rental.

The home next door is also $360 a week rental.

McGrath Central Tablelands agent Lucas Sheppard has sold one of O'Keefe's investment homes, and is offering the other.

The long-time Sydney Sixer, who was among the top wicket takers in the competition over the summer where the Sixers made it to the semi finals, has also just finished building a four bedroom home in Lennox Head, having spent $270,000 in 2016.

He has owned a two bedroom apartment in Manly since paying $921,500 off the plan in 2011.

O'Keefe has an even stronger portfolio in Queensland where he has four investments.

He has investment properties in Kingston, Marsden, Wakerley and Raceview, all just outside of Brisbane. 

His portfolio is at the cheaper end of the market, unlike his former Test teammates Stephen Smith and David Warner.

This article was first published in the Saturday Telegraph. 

Pilates pioneer and The Invisible Exercise founder Dell-Maree Day has bought in Mosman.

Day, who established her pilates centre Mosman in the mid-1990s, spent $1,175,000 on an apartment in a tightly held development on Military Road above the village.

The Mosman apartment median sits just above $1 million, down from its $1.1 million a year ago.

The 75 square metre apartment in the 2009-built block has two bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Di Jones Mosman agents Jacqui Rowland-Smith and Jannah Tulloch secured the pre-auction sale.

This article was first published in the Saturday Telegraph. 

Australia’s biggest live touring comedian Carl Barron has listed his luxury three-bedroom Potts Point apartment.

Currently touring Europe, Barron has quietly listed the northwest-facing 16th-floor Rockwall Apartments, seeking $5 million to $5.5 million.

With Opera House and Harbour Bridge views from its two alfresco balconies, it cost him $4 million in 2013, marked down on the $4.25 million then being sought.

He was upsizing at the time, from an apartment in the Ikon complex around the corner on Macleay Street, which he still owns and cost him $1,825,000 in 2008.

The Ikon apartment has been a $1500 a week rental in recent times.

The Rockwall inspections are by appointment only through Jason Boon at Richardson & Wrench who offer a rental income estimate of $3000 a week.

The three-bedroom apartment boasts a master suite with mosaic ensuite.

The open-plan main living room adjoins a bow-fronted sunroom area.

Barron’s strata levies are $5792.45 per quarter.

The comedian's tour started in Oslo, before shows in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Copenhagen.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

Architect Luigi Rosselli has quietly bought next door in Clovelly, spending $2.4 million on the house neighbouring his long-held 1920s late Federation home — which had cost him $350,000 in 1989.

Rosselli has reworked, extended and renovated the single-storey cottage over the years to accommodate heirloom family furniture from Italy.

This purchase is for family members.

He was a recent database buyer through Phillips Pantzer Donnelly agent Alexander Phillips, who sold the home off-market.

The classic home on 330 square metres has two bedrooms and one bathroom.

This article was first published in the Saturday Telegraph. 

Australian businessman Graeme Samuel is selling his former Toorak home.

The now Brighton-based former consumer rights chief is seeking $8 million to $8.4 million for the single-level home which was created by building designer Kim Andrews and John McNamara.

Set in 855 square metres of landscaped gardens by Jane Jones, the home has three bedrooms and two bathrooms under its slate roof. A pool sits in the grounds.

Kay & Burton agents Ross Savas and Darren Lewenberg have the listing.

Samuel paid $3.05 million in 2007 before its full scale renovation.

It was owned in the 1970s by media executive David Evans who sold his nearby home, Koonda last month.

This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian. 

A three-level Republic 2 apartment in Darlinghurst has been listed for June 1 auction with a $2 million to $2.2 million price guide.

The sub-penthouse at 301/50 Burton Street is being sold by retired Bangkok-based Willis Towers Watson executive Andrew Heard.

David Servi of Spencer & Servi has listed the two-bedroom, two bathroom apartment which has 172 square metres of floorspace, including the rooftop terrace with city skyline views.

The apartment sits in a BKH Architects-designed complex with an outdoor pool and gym.

There is level lift access to secure double car parking, along with visitor parking in the pet-friendly complex.