Security consultant Craig Harwood and wife Natalie are trying to flip two Toorak properties they bought for $24 million just two years ago.

The couple are now asking $30 million for the Myvore Court residences.

They occupy a 3,435 square metre combined space.

They paid $16 million for a newly built five bedroom home in Jack Merlo gardens with an infinity pool.

It was the home that sold for $19.1 million to expats in 2017 but they couldn't complete.

The Harwood's had been the underbidders at the 2017 private auction.

He spent a further $8 million for the neighbouring classic 1980s style home next door that has an entertaining whiskey bar opening to the pool, garden and tennis court.

In 2016, Harwood sold his security company Securecorp Australia and associated properties to Shanghai-listed China Security & Fire for a reported $157.5 million.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian. 

Selling Houses Australia property guru Andrew Winter and wife Caroline have decided to go to auction to sell their redundant Sanctuary Cove home.

And have opted for their third agents to find the elusive buyer.

Its initial since was back in January when asking $3,995,000. The next agents came in April.

Charlon Delos Angeles and Alister Billingsley from Amir Mian Prestige Properties have a September 15 auction date.

Winter renovated the Marine Drive East home after paying $1.9 million in 2017.

The marketing suggests the home was subject to a renovation under the supervision of an architect, interior designer and landscape designers.

Each of the Tuscan-inspired home's five bedrooms open to the swimming pool.

The Winters have are trading in Sanctuary Cove for Mermaid Beach where they've spent $1,525,000 on a single storey, three bedroom renovation project.

The article was first published in the Weekend Australian. 

Christian Tana, of the luxury mens apparel brand Parker and Co, and wife Cassandra, are selling their Dalkeith home.

The couple paid $2.3 million for the 1940s built home in 2013 when they were moving from Claremont.

A barbecue alfresco adjoins the salt water, solar heated pool.

Ray White agent Jody Fewster says the backyard was its standout feature. 

Parker and Co has been a Perth fashion destination since its establishment in 1895.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.

Sydney Roosters head coach Trent Robinson and wife Sandra scored $2.51 million when their Waverley home went to auction yesterday.

Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agent Debbie Donnelley had been marketing the home with a price guide of $2.3 million.

But keen interest from five bidders saw auctioneer Damien Cooley knock it down to the last bidding entrant, a young first-home buyer couple who bid up from their $2,485,000 initial offer.

The Robinsons intend to trade up in the eastern suburbs, looking to move closer to the beach.

The Waverley home was bought for $1,815,000 in 2014, a year after Robinson took the top job at the club.

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

Robinson met Sandra, from the French village of Montrabe, while coaching with Toulouse and Catalans. They returned to Australia in 2013.

This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph. 

Afterpay co-founder Nicholas Molnar seems set to upgrade to the cliff-front at North Bondi.

There’s been a whisper-quiet $10 million sale, the highest price paid in the expensive suburb this year.

Molnar and wife, Gabrielle, who married in November 2015, have been residing in a smaller nearby North Bondi apartment that they bought together in 2013, a year before the buy-now, pay-later giant was founded.

The new penthouse acquisition was atop the recently completed triplex project by the Assouline family.

With ocean and beach views, the two level 210 sqm apartment with three car spaces is positioned on the coveted Ben Buckler peninsula.

In June Molnar (pictured) and fellow co-founder Anthony Eisen, who late last year spent $7.6 million in Byron, cashed out $100 million of shares.

Molnar, the 29-year-old former head of fintech Afterpay Touch, launched the firm on the ASX in 2017 at $2.95 per share. The shares are now trading at around $24.

Afterpay launched in the US just over a year ago, with Molnar now in the role of global chief revenue officer.

Afterpay has more than three million customers and over 20,000 retail merchants.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.  

The beachside Wombarra retreat of the late entertainment industry ­legend Harry M. Miller has been listed for sale by the ­executors of his estate.

Set where the escarpment meets the Pacific Ocean and ­hidden in bushland, the four-bedroom home has been listed for a September 13 auction.

There’s been a designer renovation of the two-storey home which offers direct access to Scarborough Beach, north of Wollongong.

The home is described as a laid-back coastal oasis customised for five-star family comfort, by Belle Property ­Illawarra listing agent ­Andrew McLeod.

No price guide has been given but Wombarra’s record price was on Reef Avenue when a waterfront two-bedroom home on 1440 square metres fetched $4 million last year.

Miller, who in his early years promoted tours with the likes of Louis Armstrong and Judy Garland in the 1960s, bought the home in 2004.

He paid $2,225,000 for the then small timber house on its 1043 square metre holding.

The house, that dates back to the 1920s, has water views from the central lounge and dining area.

A timber fireplace sits in the living room with high raked ceilings. There’s two entertainers’ decks.

Miller’s longtime partner, the Bellevue Hill-based ­caterer Simmone Logue has spent time at the property following his death in July last year, aged 84.

On one visit she posted a picture on Instagram of the fireplace and the sea with the caption: “Missing my Harry.”

The couple had met in the late ’90s, with Miller ­describing Logue shortly after his 2009 retirement as “the love of my life”.

He had handed his ­business to his daughter, Lauren Miller Cilento.

Ian Robertson at Holding Redlich Lawyers and accountant Rodney Naumburger are the executors of the estate.

Miller, who expressed a wish for his ashes to be ­scattered down the cliff in front of his house, had ­previously owned properties in Potts Point, Darlinghurst, Foxground and ­Woolloomooloo. 

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Coco Republic’s Paul Spon-Smith has listed his $6.6 million Mosman home through the new agency Avnu.

Its long-time furniture retailer executive chairman and his wife, Dale, bought the 1970s-built house in 1995 for $1.25 million.

The home sits on a 1200 square metre waterfront reserve holding on Sirius Cove.

Its video marketing was fronted by Avnu’s recently departed celebrity sales agent Tom Williams.

The couple, who intend spending more time at Palm Beach, retained the brick house’s classic ’70s, original split-level floorplan.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

Veteran actor Denise Roberts is selling her Hunters Hill bush retreat, which boasts a striking pine timber facade.

It was built by her ­father, the master builder David Robertson in the 1990s.

The privately set, three-bedroom, two-bathroom home goes to September 7 auction through Tracey Dixon at McGrath who is expecting around $1.89 million.

Dixon says the home, located near Lane Cove Valley walking trails, has numerous picture windows designed to enhance its leafy aspect.

There’s a triple carport and studio/home office.

Roberts, best known for her seven-year stint on the ABC series GP, has been working in the industry since 1980.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

The former co-CEO of Mail Call Couriers, Emma Cronin, and Garren Cronin, the former Lazard managing director, have listed their little-used Whale Beach weekender.

Overlooking Dolphin Bay, the four-bedroom house sits amid Richard Unsworth-designed gardens on its 982 square metre holding.

Ray White agent Michael King says the design of steel, glass and sandstone offers a modern aesthetic along with its recent refurbishment aimed at creating a calming coastal ambience.

It was bought for $4,825,000 in 2015 after the clifftop property was designed by architect Joe Rooz for the Double Bay dentist David Penn and his wife, Linda, who then moved to their 2150 square metre holding next door.

Whale Beach’s most recent sale saw Martyn McCarthy, from Arrow Capital Partners, and wife Sarah sell off-market through LJ Hooker agent Peter Robinson, with as yet no price disclosure.

They had bought the 1980s home for $3.385 million in 2015.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

Kim Peabody, the wife of former Brisbane restauranteur TJ Peabody, has listed the couple's sprawling Chelmer home with a price guide of up to $11m.

It cost $2.85 million in 2003 when they were upgrading from St Lucia.

Ray White New Farm agents Matt Lancashire and Meaghan Bakker have the riverfront listing.

The grand family home, which won the Master Builders House of the Year in 2009, was designed by Harry Poulous Architects using elements of classic American architecture.

Under the handcrafted Welsh slate roof with 34 roof pitches lies seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a billiard room with a bar and a walk in, climate controlled 1,200 bottle wine cellar.

There's two fully self-contained guest houses in the 2,400 sqm landscaped gardens which also feature a championship-size, floodlit tennis court and a heated swimming pool, looked over by the barbecue kitchen alfresco space.

The heir to the $500 million Peabody fortune is selling to pay back his father who bailed him out when his Brisbane restaurant empire collapsed two years ago.

TJ Peabody had fine-dining establishments in Indooroopilly, Fortitude Valley and Petrie Terrace offering Italian, grill and Nantucket-style food.

His father, rich-lister Terry Peabody paid off creditor bills following the collapse.

TJ was adamant the sale was his decision, not a forced sale.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.

Jacinta McDonell, the entrepreneurial co-founder of Anytime Fitness Australia, and her partner, Matthew Connolly, founder of Concept Projects, have secured $7.35 million for their recently refurbished Woollahra home.

The buyer emerged in under two weeks of marketing.

Their renovation on View Street was a special one.

Every tradie they hired donated a percentage of their works contract to The Human Kind Project, a non-profit foundation that funds life-changing projects in Africa.

McDonnell set up the foundation in 2015 after visiting Malawi a year earlier.

The renovation raised more than $65,000 for the African community that the couple visited in 2017, shortly before they bought the home for $5.5 million.

The couple have named the renovated five-bedroom home Nchalo, after the community it supports in Malawi.

It was set to go to auction on August 31 with a $7 million price guidance.

Designed to capture Cooper Park views, the property is being marketed as “a calm and serene home with the incredible luxury of the best location’’.

The couple installed a lift which Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agents David Tyrrell and Alexander Phillips suggest is was what you “would expect in a high end renovation’’.

Brother and sister Jacinta and Justin McDonell’s fitness company started in Gunnedah when they opened the first Anytime Fitness in 2008. 

Radio Nova 96.9 newsreader Matt de Groot and his entertainment reporter wife Bronte Coy are leaving their Mosman nest and looking toward the Cronulla area for something bigger. 

Coy’s family is based in the Shire.

De Groot — the breakfast newsreader for Fitzy & Wippa, as well as a rugby league commentator and game day MC for the Sydney Swans, Wallabies and the Sydney Sixers — bought the apartment in 2016.

He paid $815,000 for the two-bedroom, first level unit in the Nuova building.

Complete with a study nook, the open plan living and dining space, as well as both bedrooms, open on to the courtyard.

He’s now asking $950,000 for the 95 square metre unit which is set to go under the hammer on September 12 auction through Ray White Lower North Shore agent Lewis Adams.

The median price for a two-bed unit by realestate.com.au figures is $980,000.

A three-bedroom Cronulla home’s median is about $2 million.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

Retired AFL key forward Jarrad Waite and his wife Jackie have listed their Strathmore house.

The former North Melbourne and Carlton star is seeking $1.35-$1.46 million for their home of three years.

Situated at, 2 Head Street, it’s set to go under the hammer August 31.

Last sold in 2016, the home transacted for $1.4 million and to attain a profit this time around the property will need to sell on the high end of what they are seeking.

Alexkarbon director Charles Bongiovanni who is marketing the property said the couple had initially planned to level the three-bedroom house and build a new residence centered around a pool on the 655 square metre block.

But a change in circumstances led to them refurbishing the post-war home instead.

“(The listing) gives someone the option to rebuild as well, or renovate and extend the existing house,” he said.

Bongiovanni said the Waites initially bought the Strathmore pad for its “bigger, north-facing yard”, after selling their renovated Edwardian in Moonee Ponds for $1.48 million — almost $200,000 above reserve — at auction in 2016.

The couple also offloaded a double-storey Strathmore unit that had been an investment property, for $750,000 in April last year.

Martyn McCarthy, the managing partner of property investment firm Arrow Capital Partners, and wife Sarah have quietly offloaded their Whale Beach home at $4,285,000.

The couple bought the home for $3.385 million in 2015 when returning to Australia from London where Martyn was the owner and executive chairman of Valad Europe, the European multi-let real estate investment manager.

The company was acquired by Cromwell for €150 million ($240 million.)

The Whale Beach Road home was built in the 1980s on 455 sqm.

Just 100 metres the the sand, the home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms across its three levels.

The entry level is dedicated to living, where the open plan kitchen, living and dining space opens to a deck facing the beach.

LJ Hooker Palm Beach agent Peter Robinson sold the home off market.

The pioneering radio presenter Janadele Stewart has sold her Pyrmont penthouse, after years of being on and off the market.

The property was recently placed on the market via a soiree involving champagne and canapes with an asking price of $5.3 million to $5.5 million.

Situated at 731/8 Point Street, the apartment featuring three bedrooms and two bathrooms last traded for $2,485,000 in 2003, one year after it was built.

Ayre Estate Agents Adrian Wilson and Kirsty Gardner were the successful marketers of the Mirvac-developed penthouse in the Promontory.

Featuring two separate living areas and a large entertainers’ terrace, it holds views to the Sydney Harbour.

Set on 417 square metres, the abode transacted at auction for $5.57 million, a building-record by $770,000.

Four bidders competed for the home.

It is also the current highest registered sale price for the 2009 postcode in 2019.

Singer Olivia Newton-John secured $4.6 million when her Dalwood estate, on the NSW north coast, sold last month.

Its buyer has emerged as Carol Klin­kert, wife of businessman Stephen, who has 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry in South Africa, the UK ­and Australia.

The couple are based in Kenmore Hills, southwest of Brisbane, and also have a holiday home at Beaulieu-sur-Mer in the south of France.

The original Dalwood cottage was rebuilt in 2002 into a French-inspired country house with ­vintage timber doors and stone arches, along with a vast country-style kitchen.

There’s also a self-contained guest retreat along with two dams, a pond and tennis court.

The sale, which ended just short of 38 years of ownership, came after it was listed with hopes of more than $5 million through veteran agent Jillian McGrath.

The legendary 70-year-old entertainer initially bought the property in 1981 for $622,000, with adjoining land added in 1983 and more in 2015 to consolidate the 55 hectare property.

Its purchase came after her breakout role as Sandy in the 1978 box office hit, Grease, and then the ­release in 1981 of her chart-topping album, Physical.

Newton-John, based in Florida with her husband John Easterling, retains her stake in Gaia, near Byron, a wellness retreat co-founded in 2005.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Set to spend more time in Hollywood, Melbourne entertainment industry power couple Jason Schepisi and Katherine McIntosh are selling their Yarra Ranges retreat.

Schepisi is the Netflix producer son of director Fred Schepisi, and McIntosh, daughter of news presenter Sue McIntosh, whose credits include directing The Real Housewives of Melbourne.

They paid $940,000 for the Dixons Creek home in 2016.

They secured approval for a new build, but have decided to sell the four hectare property.

It comes after Schepisi's eight-part series A Man Called Horse was picked up by Netflix.

Schepisi, who is also an architect, has pretty much rebuilt the exisiting home that they bought three years ago.

Renovated in a mid-century style, the home with timber exterior and new concrete flooring has two bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Fletchers Yarra Ranges agent Richard Wines has a $1.27 million to $1.39 million guide.

Alongside being the executive producer of his new show, Schepisi will spend some time on architecture projects while in Los Angeles.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.

The Gold Coast home of the House Rules 2017 winners has hit the market with a $1,325,000 price tag.

Winners Aaron and Daniella Winter purchased the Broadbeach Waters home in 2015.

During the course of the show they transformed it into a "Palm Springs-inspired oasis".

The waterfront home is listed through Danny Stanley and Jamie Harrison of Kollosche.

Situated at 9 Summerland Key, the four bedroom house was originally purchased by the couple for $730,000.

Throughout the course of the show, the property underwent a complete renovation.

“In our house we got as close as possible, we made it a friendly family entertainers’ dream home with many features — not one wall was left untouched,” Daniella told the Gold Coast Bulletin which reported the couple are selling to move onto another project in the area.

Google Asia-Pacific head of travel Hermione Joye and her partner, the fintech wealth management director Tim Neville, have emerged as the buyers of the redundant Palm Beach weekender of fund manager Rob Luciano.

They paid $4.4 million for the hillside Florida Road retreat, which they will use to holiday in when away from their Singapore base.

The four-bedroom home took around a year to sell, during which Luciano’s price hopes fell.

For many years Joye holidayed at Kalua, the family’s plantation-style Palm Beach home, which was sold for $22 million in 2012 to car dealer Laurie Sutton.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Former South Sydney Rabbitohs coach Anthony Seibold has bought a home near his new club.

Seibold left the Bunnies in unceremonious circumstances at the end of last year to take over at the Brisbane Broncos, with Wayne Bennett going the other way.

He's now settled on a $1.9 million Paddington home, a stones throw from Suncorp Stadium.

The contemporary home, which dates back to the 1920s, has five bedrooms and two bathrooms.

The living, kitchen and dining opens to an external entertaining terrace, lawn and swimming pool.

A rear terrace has a built-in barbecue.

The purchase comes shortly after Seibold and wife Hollie let go of their investment property near the Gold Coast for $485,000.

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.

Former Bronco's coach Wayne Bennett, who swapped places with Seibold to take the reigns at the Rabbitohs, is yet to buy in Sydney, but he offloaded his former Yeronga home for $2.12 million.

This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.