Matt Sinclair, runner-up on Masterchef in 2016, and wife Jess are selling in Noosa having upgraded nearby two years ago.

Their former Tewantin home, which has been a $540 a week rental since their move, cost the couple $428,000 in 2013.

They're now seeking $589,000 for the 1990s built home.

Set on 710 square metres adjacent to the Noosa Golf Course and the Harry Spring Conservation Park, the home has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a private alfresco area.

Hangloosa Property Noosa agents Chris Allen and Corinne Barrett have the listing.

When the couple upgraded in 2017 they stayed in the suburb, spending $599,000 on a three bed home.

The home is slightly less to travel to Sum Yung Guys, a restaurant Sinclair opened with three friends on Sunshine Beach.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.  

The now Melbourne-based rugby star Quade Cooper is attempting to offload his Bulimba home having failed to find a buyer first time around.

He's now asking for offers in the low to mid $2 millions through a different agency, having previously failed late last year when asking $2.65 million after its failed auction.

New agent Michael Bacon from Place Kangaroo Point Instagram messaged Cooper to tell him he could sell the home after it had been on the market for four months with another agency.

Cooper, now playing with the Melbourne Rebels, bought the 2006-built home for $1,845,000 in 2015 when he was with the Queensland Reds.

It got a facelift in 2017 by Graya Constructions.

Set on 445 square metres, the home has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a pool and a 12 metre marina berth on the Brisbane River.

Cooper lived in the property with his girlfriend, former Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.

Photographer Georgia Moxham and her wine distributor husband, Paul Stenmark have bought in Palm Beach.

The $2.65 million two-storey cottage, built of convict sandstone blocks, had been listed through Ray White agent Noel Nicholson with $2.7 million hopes.

Construction of the three bedroom cottage only dates back to 1952 when it was built by master stonemasons for the Long family, who where eng­ineers from Roseville.

The 200 square metre home sits on its 628 square metre Bynya Road block with ocean glimpses towards the Central Coast.

The Stenmark couple have been occupiers of one of the Woollahra properties that billionaire James Packer rec­ently offloaded.

The curved residence on dress circle Rosemont Avenue had been bought by his late father Kerry in the mid 1960s.

Ray White agent Elliott Placks secured the $8,375,000 sale to the Henley Homes tycoon Rob Bowen and Skye Holden.

After being Veuve Clicquot’s national brand manager, Stenmark has run Winestock which markets independent wineries to the trade and consumer.

The couple married in 1995 with Ros and Kerry Packer and Gretel and James all in attendance. Georgia was Kerry’s goddaughter.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Olivia Newton-John has sold her Dalwood rural property near the township of Alstonville, about 40 kilometres south-west of Byron Bay.

The NSW North Coast holding was listed five months with $5 million plus hopes.

She bought the first holding in 1981 for $622,000.

The original cottage was rebuilt in 2002 into a French-inspired country house.

Newton-John retains her North Coast investment co-holding, the Gaia Retreat & Spa which she co-founded in 2005.

Newton-John is now based in Florida with her husband John Easterling.

Aussie John Symond and wife Amber might be getting new neighbours this spring on their Point Piper cul-de-sac.

Expat lawyer Sarah Cooke, who resides in London’s Holland Park with her hedge fund husband Dominic Redfern, is set to seek $40 million buyers.

The Wingadal Place vacant block was bought from Gustavo and Angelo Ferella in 2006 for $7.95 million and then had a $5.5 million home designed by James Stockwell and Jonathan Temple Architects.

Many were surprised Symond, who snapped up his 2675sqm holding for $10.5 million in 1999, didn’t buy the 960sqm parcel that stemmed from pastoralist Anthony Hordern’s 1950s subdivision.

On Symond’s other side, work continues for the Song family on turning the $60.66 million trophy home Portofino into a triplex designed by Rob Mills Architects.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

Sydney Roosters head coach Trent Robinson and wife Sandra are making the move to trade-up in the eastern suburbs, and looking to move closer to the beach.

The couple have listed the Waverley home they bought for $1,815,000 in 2014, a year after Robinson took the top job at the Moore Park-based club.

It was the first time the home had traded in more than two decades.

Bordering Clovelly, the two-level home on 210 square metres has two living areas separated by a new kitchen.

The front living space features a slow combustion fireplace and the rear living area opens to a covered deck that overlooks the garden.

Upstairs there are three bedrooms­, including a master suite with a walk-in wardrobe and ensuite.

The lower level, accessible only from the garden courtyard, has a home office and a third bathroom.

Phillip Pantzer Donnelley agent Debbie Donnelley is marketing the freestanding home for an August 17 auction with a guide of $2.3 million.

Robinson met Sandra, from the French village of Montrabe, while coaching with Toulouse and Catalans.

They returned to Australia in 2013, when he sold for $495,000 the 1920s home at Wickham, near Newcastle, that he had paid $331,000 for in 2008 when he was assistant coach at the Knights.

Robinson became the youngest coach in the NRL when he took over at the Roosters in 2013 at age 35.

The club has since won four minor premierships and two grand finals.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

Sick Puay Koh, or Tootsie, the longtime partner of the late billionaire construction tycoon Len Buckeridge, has spent $6 million in Mosman Park.

It sits next door to the Swan River waterfront reserve home she and Buckeridge called home.

The founder of BCG Construction Firm died in 2014 leaving a $2.5 billion property empire.

The family home was transferred into her name in 2017, when valued at $6,425,000.

The couple had been together for four decades.

Tootsie now has a 2,070 square metre holding after acquiring the adjoining 1970s built, four bedroom home on 1,030 square metres.

Mack Hall agent Mack Hall sold the home.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian. 

The newly elected Liberal senator Andrew Bragg and his wife Melanie Evans have handsomely traded up in Paddington.

The couple have paid $4,675,000 for their new home which comes with 450 square metre space.

The state of the art home comes with a smart home automation system and cutting-edge technology.

It has five bedrooms across its four levels, as well as a self-contained studio above the two car garage.

The master retreat has a spa bathroom and a balcony.

Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agent Catherine Dixon sold the home on busy Moore Park Road.

The Bragg's had tried to sell their more standard sized Paddington terrace earlier this year but failed to find a buyer.

They leased it at around $1,500 a week, having paid $2,125,000 for the four bedroom home in 2013.

This week marked the politician's first speech as senator when he surprised many, suggesting superannuation should be voluntary for low income earners.

His wife, Melanie has been at ING Direct as head of retail banking since early 2017 when she was headhunted from Westpac and before that BT Super for Life.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

Dean Parkinson, the founder of the Honeywagons fleet of makeup vans and his wife, Deborah, have sold their Tamarama home.

They secured $4.75 million pre-auction. 

The Kenneth Street home had a $4.25 million guide ahead of its August 3 scheduled auction. 

Set in the Tamarama horseshoe, halfway between Tamarama and Bondi Beach, the designer home features views of the coastline, cliffs, beach and rolling waves.

The home comprises master bedroom with large balcony, two additional bedrooms, living and dining area, Chef's gas kitchen and courtyard.

Other highlights include high barrel ceilings, intercome, and oversized garage with storage. 

It's located within close proximity to cafes, restaurants, shops and transport. 

New Metlife boss Richard Nunn has bought in Double Bay following his move from Adelaide.

Nunn, previously chief executive of the South Australia-based Statewide Super, has spent $4.1 million on a 1980s home.

The three-bedroom, full brick home is an investment for the time being, having been promptly leased at $1800 a week reflecting a 2% yield.

Nunn previously owned an apartment in Double Bay he sold for $1,525,000 in 2012.

In 2015, he offloaded a Pyrmont apartment for $3.9 million, having paid $3 million three years earlier.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

McGrath chief executive Geoff Lucas has sold in Cremorne after he recently bought in Bellevue Hill where he secured half a Palladian villa.

It has been bought by a young family relocating from the CBD.

Lucas had previously listed his Wonga Road property (above and below) in early 2018 when it failed to sell.

It had been listed with $6 million to $6.6 million hopes in February 2018.

This time the auction guide was around $6 million.

No price reveal has been offered by the estate agency which ignores industry calls for better price disclosure of results to assist the market well appraised of prices in the lead up to the busy spring sales season. 

Lucas had 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 shares were trading at record 19.5 cent lows mid-week, but fining its Friday close at 20 cents.

McGrath chief executive Geoff Lucas has sold in Cremorne after he recently bought in Bellevue Hill where he secured half a Palladian villa.

It has been bought by a young family relocating from the CBD.

Lucas had previously listed his Wonga Road property (above and below) in early 2018 when it failed to sell.

It had been listed with $6 million to $6.6 million hopes in February 2018.

This time the auction guide was around $6 million.

No price reveal has been offered by the estate agency which ignores industry calls for better price disclosure of results to assist the market being as well appraised of prices in the lead up to the busy spring sales season. 

A Nine Entertainment website gushed its undisclosed sale price at above the $6 million reflected market "bouyancy."

Domain noted the team at McGrath Lower North Shore - Mosman has now sold five properties since the turmoil of the agent departures and currently has one property for sale.

He owns 1/100th and wife, Nicola the 99/100ths. She runs a Chatswood child care centre.

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.

After a stint at Sonoma Bakery, Lucas returned to McGrath, the ASX listed company in February, last year as its chief executive.

Its shares were trading at record 19.5 cent lows mid-week, but rising to close Friday at 20 cents.

The Cremorne harbourfront residence intended by Karl Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn as their dream home has reportedly been sold.

Offers were being sought at $9 million plus for the ultra-contemporary three storey residence (above and below).

The property sale was secured Monday night, although remained listed on the agency website Tuesday morning.

The listing agent had declined to give the sale price.

The Cremorne property is officially held in the name of Thorburn after their split almost three years ago, but The Sunday Telegraph's Sydney Confidential reported last month the warring couple will split any profit.

The home was marketed as "an exceptional lifestyle opportunity." 

The developer Tony Blanche has retained the non-waterfront residence above the Thorburn harbourside listing.

Lex Greensill, the farmer turned billionaire financier, has bought up big in Queensland's Bundaberg region.

The Greensill Capital boss has spent $4.12 million on The Glass House, the multi-award winning home in Bargara, a coastal town.

The home will no doubt act as a base for Greensill who is opening a bond-issuance team in Bundaberg for his $5 billion business.

Designed by LG International architects in collaboration with SBT Design, the absolute beachfront on Kelly's Beach was designed to connect to its natural surrounds.

Each of the three levels are serviced by a unique Italian glass Domus lift.

The five bedroom home sits in 2,240 sqm of tropical gardens that feature a heated pool, wood-fire pizza oven and barbecue.

Ray White New Farm agents Hamish Bowman and Perry Edmondson-Clark secured the sale.

Raised on his parent's sugar cane and sweet potato farm in Bundaberg, Greensill studied law by correspondence and worked at a local law firm.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian. 

Australian businessman Graeme Samuel has sold his former Toorak home.

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

The former competition watchdog sold it to Samantha Jreissati who seeks to accommodate her growing family.

It sits in 855 square metres of landscaped gardens by Jane Jones that feature a swimming pool.

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.

A coastal Victorian island retreat once owned by pop superstar Kylie Minogue has been sold.

It is the farm holding she owned between 2005 and 2010, not her residential retreat, Beauciel.

Set in Westernport Bay, the environmentally sensitive French Island is about twice the size of nearby Phillip Island, but has just 120 permanent residents.

It is only accessible by helicopter, plane or boat.

The 71 hectare elevated farmland property, that comes with building permits, was sold by Minogue for $530,000 in 2010. She had paid $292,000 in 2005.

There are four dams, a private billabong, large established gum trees and natural bushland, excellent pasture, and orchard.

There are koalas too.

Phil Bock at Century 21 Home Port secured the sale of the Farm Road property on behalf of Janet Towns, the widow of the late medical microbiologist Dr David Lesie.

Minogue's nearby Beauciel home last sold at $875,000 in 2016.

Minogue had paid $280,000 in 2003 and sold it in 2009 for $1.02 million.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.

The retired NRL legend Greg Inglis continues to shuffle his property portfolio, after selling out of Sydney.

The former South Sydney Rabbitoh has just bought a Queensland duplex in partnership with his estranged wife, Sally Robinson.

Robinson, who separated from Inglis last year, moved back to Queensland with their two young children.

They have paid $920,000 for a resort-style home nearby in Shorncliffe, a coastal suburb northeast of Brisbane. The recently renovated, decade-old two-storey home has six bedrooms. Both levels of the home have three bedrooms.

There’s also a saltwater swimming pool at the new buy.

The purchase has prompted the listing of Inglis’s long-time Bargara apartment in the Bundaberg region.

Inglis, who returned to Rabbitohs training this week for the first time since checking in to rehab, is set to make a loss on the apartment that he bought brand new.

He paid $590,000 in 2008, shortly after the Global Financial Crisis hit.

Prices haven’t recovered in the Queensland coastal region and Inglis is asking $475,000 for the two-bedroom ocean-facing apartment in the Manta apartment complex.

He is offering it fully furnished through Coastline Realty agent Emma Bauer.

It comes as Inglis, who has been a Little Bay-based renter, recently offloaded his former Coogee home for $2,475,000 through McGrath agent Marnie Seinor.

Inglis had bought the Coogee semi after his move from Melbourne at the end of 2010.

He paid $1.1 million for what was then a two-bedroom federation home and then transformed the property into a three-level, four-bedroom home, behind its period facade.

The Kempsey-born star retired from rugby league earlier this year.

He was first signed with the Canberra Raiders at 15, but didn’t play a game before moving to Brisbane and playing for Melbourne Storm’s feeder club before being added to the Storm’s playing roster in 2004.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.  

Stand-up comedian Carl Barron has sold his remaining Potts Point apartment.

Barron offloaded his $5.5 million luxury 16th-level unit in the Rockwall Apartment complex two months ago, and he has now quietly sold his nearby investment apartment for $2.8 million.

It's been bought by the local Waples family, who live in nearby Elizabeth Bay.

It is in the Mirvac-built Ikon high-rise tower, which has been caught up in the combustible fire panel controversy.

He previously called the two-bedroom apartment home, having paid $1,825,000 in 2008.

It became a $1500-a-week rental in 2013, after he spent $4 million on the Rockwall apartment.

The no-frills funnyman, just back from a recent European tour that included Oslo, Antwerp and Amsterdam, may spend more time in the Southern Highlands, where he has an 8 hectare hideaway at Mount Murray, which cost $1,755,000 in 2017.

He once said that if he had more time, he’d take up birdwatching.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

The former matrimonial home of legendary boxing trainer Johnny Lewis has been listed by his ex-wife Ingreed Rojas.

There’s a $2.8 million price guide on the 1900 renovated house in Marrickville.

The four bedroom, Federation home sits on a 441 square metre holding, which overlooks Enmore Park.

It is being taken to auction on August 17.

The property became solely owned by Rojas in early 2017 having been bought by the couple in 2007 for $955,000.

Lewis has worked with six world champions over his career, most notably Jeff Fenech and Kostya Tszyu.

This article was last published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

Stylist to the stars Anna Bingemann has bought a Coogee bolthole.

Bingemann, who is from the Boans department store family, left Perth in the 1980s when she was 19, and never moved back.

She lives in New York with her producer and director husband Griffin Dunne, the son of the late writer Dominick Dunne.

She’s settled on an apartment in the Pinnacle Complex, paying $1.71 million for a two-bedroom garden unit in the Arden Street block of 12.

She’s currently seeking $1250-a-week tenants, reflecting a 4% yield.

Bingemann bought the apartment from fellow expat, the LA-based film producer Bruna Papandrea, who bought two units off the plan in 2017.

She made a tiny loss on selling the apartment to Bingemann having paid $1,795,000. She’s retained the other apartment, which cost $2.1 million.

Bingemann married Dunne in 2009 at their 40 hectare property at Rhinebeck in upstate New York.

They first met at a birthday party for the Hollywood actor Uma Thurman.

She reportedly oversaw fittings for Nicole Kidman’s Balenciaga wedding gown for Kidman’s 2006 wedding to Keith Urban, and has worked with the likes of Sienna Miller, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.