Sebastian Monsour, the former chief executive of real estate development firm Majella Group, is selling his Brisbane home.
Monsour along with wife Megan, paid $590,000 for the Enogerra home brand new in 2005.
Set on 425 square metres, the home has five bedrooms, three bathrooms and two entertaining patios.
Estate agent John Kyranis had scheduled a June auction, but will now take offers over $930,000.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
Screenwriter and producer Stephen Irwin and wife Sarah have sold their Brisbane home.
Irwin, whose writing and production work includes ABC's Harrow and the Netflix series Tidelands, secured $1.07 million for the Samford Village home in the Moreton Bay region.
The couple paid $1.07 million three years ago.
On the 8,160 square metre grounds is a late 1990s built four bedroom main residence, a separate two bedroom self-contained granny flat, and art studio and a swimming pool.
Coronis Arana Hills agents Tamika Kent and Sam Scott sold the home.
Irwin is also a novelist and is the author of supernatural thrillers The Dead Path which was named the Top Horror Title in the American Library Association's 2011 reading list.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
Former ABC chairman Justin Milne and Anna Cicognani are selling Erinagh, their Rozelle home.
They've had the home for nearly two decades, having paid $1.15 million in 2000 for an original late 1800s farmhouse with a period cottage.
No word on where to next, but Cobden & Hayson Balmain agents Danny Cobden and Samantha Elvy have a $4.8 million guide for a July 27 auction.
The fully modernised home has five bedrooms and four bathrooms across its two levels, as well as a parking for four cars.
Comprising high ceilings and an Indian limestone paved terrace, the home features a private lounge and a custom office.
The ground level master wing has its own designer ensuite.
Late last year, Milne resigned from the ABC after allegations he asked for a number of journalists to be sacked after the fallout of managing director Michelle Guthrie's departure.
Milne had been in the ABC's top job since 2017. He moved to New South Wales in the 1980s having bought a film company in Sydney. He more recently had senior roles at Telstra, Microsoft and NBN.
He and Cicognani married in 1996.
In 2014 they spent $1,212,500 on a two bedroom investment home across the road that has been a $720 a week rental.
Milne previously owned houses in Balmain and Lindfield.
The Erinagh property was the longtime 1800s home of the Toohey family who were the caretakers of Glebe Island Bridge.
This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
Lyndi Adler, wife of former FAI chief Rodney Adler, appears to have decided to possibly stay at the couple's Vaucluse estate.
Late last year they listed the Olola Avenue property which they had bought for $6.5 million in 2002, and put on hold their plans to stay and renovate.
The home was listed with a reported $16 million plus price tag through LJ Hooker agent Bill Malouf, however they've now pulled the home from formal marketing and this month lodged $5.2 million plans to extend their seven bedroom mansion.
Set over the 2,100 square metre parcel, they anticipate a dual occupancy family compound.
Sydney based architect and interior designer Rooz + Rooz Design have drawn up plans which include adding a basement garage for four cars.
It will come with lift access to the reconfigured kitchen, living and dining space on the ground level along with the billiard room.
Two more master suites are to be created.
There will be eight bedrooms in total and will also be getting a new tennis court.
The Adler's aren't the only ones to pull their home at the top end of the Eastern Suburbs market.
A few doors down, the Vaucluse home of Jordana Sharon-Zipser, wife of hipages co-founder Roby Sharon-Zipser, has come down off listing websites after they were asking $7 million.
They paid $8 million just over 12 months ago.
The street's highest recent sale was $17 million when Reddam House founder Graeme Crawford and his partner Ian McLeod sold to Balmain Group chief Andrew Griffin.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.
Melbourne City defender Iacopo La Rocca has sold his two bedroom Sydney apartment.
The former Western Sydney Wanderers player sold the Wentworth Point home for $701,000.
It traded for $11,000 more than the price guide which had been reduced from the initial $700,000 - $770,000 guide presented when it first hit the market.
McGrath agent Ania Aquino marketed the property, which four bidders fought for at auction.
Situated at 842/2 The Crescent, he bought the home for $499,000 during his 2013 debut season.
La Rocca has been renting out the apartment since leaving the Wanderers.
The apartment had a $750 per week rental asking price in May.
Recently renovated, the two bedroom, two bathroom abode has an open-plan layout, with views of the district and the water.
Cricketer Shane Warne is selling a Brighton home he only bought last March, The Herald Sun has reported.
It is speculated Warne is seeking about $8 million.
The Newbay Crescent contemporary double-storey home with a home theatre, pool and spa, was bought from private investigator Anthony Thompson for $5.4 million before its modernisation.
It was previously owned by the Essendon champion Matthew Lloyd, for nine years until 2015.
Warne is a frequent player on Brighton's property scene, and he's made a handsome profit playing the game.
He's owned the trophy home Melville twice.
He first bought it for $3.6 million in 2000, spending around the same amount on renovations and selling for $8.8 million in 2007.
He then bought the property back in 2016, paying $14.2 million, only to sell it 20 months later, with no extras, for $18,888,888.
That was the biggest play in Warne's long history of flipping in Brighton
Fairfax Media prepped a timeline of his flipping on his purchase last year.
1996: The beachfront home at 102 Esplanade is bought by Warne for $902,000.
2000: After renovations, 102 Esplanade fetches $2.61 million.
2000: Warne and Simone Callahan pay $3.6 million for a circa-1880 Victorian residence at 32 Middle Crescent, and reportedly spend a similar sum in renovations.
2007: The couple sell the Middle Crescent mansion for $8.8 million.
2007: For $3.7 million, Warne scoops up the five-bedroom house at 16 Park Street.
2009: The Park Street property sells for $6,775,000.
2009: Warne forks out $7.55 million on heritage-listed residence at 6 William Street, which he goes on to share with Elizabeth Hurley after he splits with Callahan.
2013:The William Street mansion sells for $10.85 million.
2014: Warne spends $3.95 million on mini-manor at 11 Kinane Street.
2016: In a move that made headlines, Warne buys back 32 Middle Crescent for $14.25 million.
2016: 11 Kinane Street sells for $5.35 million.
2018: Warne offloads 32 Middle Crescent for about $20 million.
2018: Warne buys a nearby property for about $5.5 million.
The property spruiker turned media magnate in the making, Antony Catalano and wife Stefanie have spent $5.6 million to buy back at Portsea, on the Mornington Peninsula.
It was marketed as Portsea's ultimate beach house.
The private estate on 2,330 square metres has a contemporary five bedroom home with a separate study and parent's retreat.
The open plan kitchen, living and dining area opens to an alfresco deck that meets a signature oval swimming pool.
A full size mod grass tennis court and trampoline are located in the manicured grounds.
Peninsula Sotheby's agents Rob Curtain and Patrick Sinn secured the sale.
Catalano, the former boss of the Domain, recently spent $30 million off the plan for one of the penthouses in Tim Gurner's St Kilda project St Moritz.
Earlier this year he bought the Australian Community Media's portfolio of 160 regional newspapers.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
Retired veteran Liberal politician Bronwyn Bishop is seeking tenants for her long-held Potts Point investment apartment.
She’s hoping to buck the trend of the falling Sydney rental market, asking $660-a-week, up from the $650-a-week it had been listed for in 2018.
The two-bedroom Macleay Gardens apartment has seen a steady increase over the years.
The only time it went backwards in asking rent was in 2010 when she sought $500-a-week tenants, down from the $510 in 2007.
Bishop, who was a federal MP for almost three decades, paid $268,000 for the apartment in 1996.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.
Acclaimed chef Greg Doyle and wife Jenny have sold their longtime hillside Palm Beach home, with the intention of moving closer to the beach.
The couple had owned the Norma Road home since 1989, when they paid $500,000. It fetched $3,875,000.
It was listed in 2016 with a price guide of about $3.8 million.
Set in 820 square metres of Simon Oxley landscaped gardens, the home has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a large entertaining deck and a pool.
A Luigi Rosselli extension was added in the late 1990s which included a surfboard-shaped kitchen island bench.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.
The Trinity Beach trophy home belonging to Otto Buttula, one of the pioneers of boutique fund management, and wife Virginia, has been re-listed for sale.
It had been listed for ambitious $10 million hopes back in 2016.
Now Abercromby's agent Jock Langley is asking $6 million to $6.6 million for the retreat overlooking the Coral Sea in North Queensland, north of Cairns.
The couple bought the private beachfront estate in 2008, a year after Otto sold his co-founded online share brokerage, IWL to Commonwealth Bank.
They'd spotted the tropical haven after seeing its picture in a newspaper. It was being sold by the New Zealand rich lister Josef Roberts who introduced Australians to Red Bull.
Set on a vast 7585 square metres of beachfront land, the residence has two outdoor bars which look out over the sea.
The five bedroom, six bathroom home, which is around 1000 square metre, has a safari-themed den, a library, gym, sauna, and golf practice range.
The property has been a holiday let for a number of years since the Buttula's relocated to Brisbane's Ashgrove.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
McGrath chief executive Geoff Lucas has listed in Cremorne after he bought in Bellevue Hill where he secured half a Palladian villa.
It has been listed for August 17 auction through McGrath agent Claudia Portale.
Lucas had previously listed his Wonga Road property (above and below) in early 2018 when its failed to sell when listed by the now departed McGrath agents Adrian Bridges and Michael Coombs.
It was listed with $6 million to $6.6 million hopes in February 2018.
Lucas paid $3,425,000 for the home in 2005, snapping it up pre-auction after just 12 days.
He owns 1/100th and wife, Nicola the 99/100ths.
The Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill duplex (below) was bought after being passed in at June auction at $5.825 million.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom Mediterranean-style mansion (above and below) was built in 1992 on its 725 sqm block with views over Royal Sydney Golf Course to the harbour and the ocean.
The Briggs family had bought it for $3.525 million in 2002.
The property comes with pool and tennis court, which is shared with the neighbour.
It was listed for Sothebys auction in April last year with overly ambitious $7 million to $7.5 million price guidance.
Lucas returned to McGrath, the ASX listed company in February last year as its chief executive.
Its lower north shore office has been ravaged by agent departures.
The office lists just three agents including William Manning who has been based in Sydney's east.
Fitness First founder Tony de Leede is seeking to sell his redundant luxury Mermaid Beach home for the third time.
The Bondi Beach-based fitness pioneer is seeking offers over $6 million for the Hedges Avenue mansion.
Set on 405 square metres, the 2007-built home has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, an entertaining area with fireplace and a built in barbecue that adjoins the swimming pool.
Of course there's a home gym and a steam room.
Conal Martin at Kingfisher Realty Burleigh Heads is marketing the property.
De Leede paid $7.3 million for the property in 2009 when buying from Lisa Frawley, the wife of the former Romafree executive director Mark Frawley.
It has been a $2,800 a week rental in recent times.
De Leede founded Fitness First in 1993.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
Brisbane Broncos head coach Anthony Seibold and wife Hollie have sold their Gold Coast investment property.
They secured $485,000 for the Ormeau built home, 34 kilometres north-west of the Gold Coast.
They owned the home for the best part of a decade, having paid $261,000 in 2009 the same year it was built.
They were based in Wales at the time where Anthony was the assistant coach at the new Welsh rugby league club the Celtic Crusaders.
He helped them win promotion to the Super League the same year.
Set on 660 square metres in the Jacobs Ridge Estate, the home has four bedrooms, including a master with an ensuite and walk in wardrobe.
It was mostly recently listed for rent at $480 a week.
Seibold is now the head coach of the Brisbane Broncos having traded places with Wayne Bennett who took over at his former post as the head coach of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
Western Sydney Wanderers striker and the recently awarded club player of the year Brendon Santalab has sold the first home he bought as a 19 year old.
It's a single level weatherboard in Unanderra near Wollongong that cost him $190,000 in 2002.
The two bedroom home on 550 square metres fetched $601,500 through Right Choice Real Estate.
It sold in 22 days, much less of the 66 day median time on market in Unanderra.
The suburb's median house price is currently peaking at $520,000.
The Wollongong born forward bought the home when he was playing at Sydney United after a short stint beginning his career at Parramatta Power.
He spent two years at Sydney FC from 2007 and joined Western Sydney Wanderers in 2013, winning the AFC Champions League in 2014, the first Australian club to do so.
This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.
The billionaire founder of Platinum Asset Management Kerr Neilson has spent $5.3 million on a waterfront reserve Castlecrag trophy home.
The mid-century modern home, with views of Middle Harbour, sold at June auction.
Blindley House was designed by architect John M Brindley in 1955 as his own residence.
New owners moved in during the 1960s and added an extension.
It was sold by the retired Sydney surgeon Frank Fisher and his wife Penelope, who had lived in the home for more than 50 years.
The six bedroom, two bathroom house sits on a 1,581 sqm block.
Celebrity agent John Fordham and wife Veronica have sold their longtime Paddington investment property for $2,065,000.
The couple, based in nearby Woollahra, paid $730,000 for the classic 1890s weatherboard cottage in 2002.
It sold through Ballard Property agents Sam Towndrow and Clint Ballard.
The double-fronted two-bedroom home had recently been a near $800-a-week rental.
The couple bought their current home, their much-admired Jersey Street terrace, for $1.95 million some two decades ago, moving from Gordon.
It was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.
Monica Saunders-Weinberg, one of Australia’s richest women, is planning an amalgamation of her two Bellevue Hill properties.
The heiress to the fortune of her late father John Saunders, co-founder of shopping giant Westfield, has lodged a dual occupancy application for her dress circle Drumalbyn Road holdings.
She also wants a tennis court included in the $2.8 million Luigi Rosselli plans being reviewed at Woollahra Council.
It was in 2016 when Saunders-Weinberg spent $6 million on the Tudor-style residence (above), next door to her $20 million home she has owned since 2010.
She has just arrived back in Sydney after holidaying in Israel, with a stop off in Paris.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
Alessandra Eddy, one of the stylish duo behind sleepwear label, Luna Atelier, is selling her Woollahra investment property.
The townhouse is in the Kew Place complex on Edgecliff Roadd.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom property has been tenanted, most recently at a $1475-a-week asking rental.
Its master retreat has walk-in wardrobe and ensuite after architect Michael Suttor converted a spare bedroom. There is a private rear courtyard, plus double garaging.
Kew Place is 10 townhouses, the last sale being $2.56 million in February. Its peak price was $2.85 million in June last year.
Bradfield Cleary agents Mark Daley and Georgia Cleary, have the offering in conjunction with McGrath’s Will Manning, who have scheduled a July 30 auction.
There is a $2.3 million to $2.5 million price guide. Eddy, along with Laura Hannan, created Luna Atelier, known as The Tailored Sleepware.
Luna Atelier counts Kelly Rowland among its international devotees along with many Sydney clients.
Locally she’s better known as the daughter of the well-connected Paddington solicitor Nicholas Eddy (pictured with daughter and granddaughter, Paloma).
This article was published in the Sunday Telegraph.
Creek Cottage, the Pearl Beach home of the late conservationist Vincent Serventy and his wife Carol, has been sold for $1.4 million.
The Serventy’s, who 30 years ago helped save the Great Barrier Reef from planned oil leases, bought the NSW Central Coast weekender in the mid-1970s for $22,000, moving there permanently in the 1990s from Hunters Hill. It came to the market earlier this year with $1.5 million hopes through Central Coast Realty agent Stuart Gan, but sold after the price guidance dipped to $1.35 million to $1.45 million.
Set on Diamond Rd, the four-bedroom home is 100 paces from the popular beach.
The home, described as a “once in a generation opportunity” is among the 12 sales secured so far this year among the 680 Pearl Beach houses.
The dearest was when Rebel Sports co-founder Robert Gavshon and his wife Jennifer pocketed $2.05 million for their weekender of the past decade. The Dover Heights-based couple upgraded last year to a $4.428 million house on the beach.
Serventy, known as father of conservation in Australia, died aged 91 in 2007.
Long before Steve Irwin, he spent almost seven decades as a lobbyist, writer, filmmaker and lecturer. He wrote more than 70 books, articles and lectures on conservation being in the forefront of battles that saved the Great Barrier Reef, the Franklin River, the northern hairy-nosed wombat and even the migratory wading birds of Botany Bay.
It was in the 1960s when Serventy wrote to then Nine Network boss Sir Frank Packer with a documentary suggestion.
Packer relocated Serventy and his wife to Sydney, bought them a four-wheel-drive and a caravan and Nature Walkabout, Australian television’s first environment program, was aired. He also wrote for The Daily Telegraph.
Serventy’s brother Dominic was a journalist who turned ornithologist and conservationist, co-founding the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club in 1924.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
Kyko Group managing director Mary Wong-Jenkings has listed her Macquarie Street, Sydney apartment with $4.6 million hopes.
She paid $3.75 million for the three-bedroom 198 square metre unit in the Renzo Piano-designed complex overlooking the Botanic Garden in 2016.
Sydney Sotheby’s agents Harriet France and Tony Barron have the listing.
It continues Wong-Jenkings’ recent disposal of assets.
Last year she sold The Drawing Rooms of Berry in Woodhill for $3.8 million and before that her apartment in the Pomeroy, Potts Point, which fetched $4 million.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.