There was one big reason the Channel 7 Morning Show co-host Larry Emdur had no hesitation in selling his beloved Dover Heights clifftop mansion.

The celebrity accountant Anthony Bell had offered $11.5 million, a record setting price.

Bell tried to keep the price paid from public records after its off market sale, but the details have worked their way through the NSW land titles systems.

Paperwork shows the sale was wrapped up in just two days.

The sale tops the previous Dover Heights high of $9.5 million, set in 2014 when South African tech investor Kevin Bermeister and wife Beverley bought a clifftop home nearby.

Instagram provided a hint of Larry and Sylvie's farewell to the home, when the couple posed for a snap of a small dinner table for two, overlooking Bondi with a pizza in a box.

The home had featured prominently in Emdur's fitness workouts.

Recently Emdur posted to Instagram images of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour, captioning the post with 'after dinner run... meh.. it'll do.'

The TV personality and his wife Sylvie now call home a $3 million apartment in the Rocks in the Sydney CBD (below).

They secured a newly converted heritage apartment in The Rocks after having been in the pricey coastal suburb for over two decades, and at their $6.8 million clifftop mansion since 2011. They pocketed $3.89 million for their earlier home that had cost $770,000 back in 1994.  

Their new acquisition is quite a contrast as it is an inner city bolthole with an ultra contemporary fit out including a bath in the open plan bedroom. 

It is a Tanner Kibble Denton Architects designed conversion of a 1924 building that was once the Sydney depot for the Cadbury confectionary company.

The building, now transformed in to six luxury apartments known as Claremont House, was more recently utilised as the Lawson Menzies auction house. 

TKD fused the original fabric of the building with a New York feel, creating the three bedroom, three bathroom apartment with much made of its exposed bricks.

Two of the three bedrooms come with en-suites not separated by a wall, just overlooked from the bed.

Ray White Double Bay agents Gavin Rubinstein and Cae Thomas sold the apartment which was developed by Cumberland Development, backed by textile mogul Phil Bart and business partner Paul Bettar.

Emdur has hosted Seven's The Morning Show alongside Kylie Gillies since 2007. The pair recently celebrated the show's 10th anniversary.

Emdur has been on our screens since the early 1980s when at 17 he became Australia's youngest national newsreader, presenting the overnight news for the Seven Network.

He switched to hosting gameshows after presenting Good Morning Australia. From 1993 he hosted The Price is Right for five years and returned to the show in 2003 and again in 2012.

Emdur, who grew up near the beach at Bondi, has been a keen surfer all his life. 

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

David Malouf, the internationally acclaimed author, has sold his long held Chippendale terrace before its weekend auction.

The Myrtle Street home, marketed as the matriarch of the street due to its rare six metre wide presence, sold after it spent 19 days on the market.

It's expected to have fetched around $2.2 million, some profit for the home that cost $175,000 in 1985.

Malouf bought the home the same year he published his memoirs, 12 Edmondstone Street.

The three level terrace behind an updated facade has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

The formal dining, living area and timber topped kitchen open to a rear leafy courtyard.

LJ Hooker Newtown agents Nick Moraitis and Edward Burns sold the home.

The Brisbane born and bred writer graduated from the University of Queensland in 1955. His first novel, Johnno (1975), is the semi-autobiographical tale.

He who received the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature last year.

This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph.

Award-winning music producer Sam Littlemore, better known by his stage name Sam La More, has spent $2.35 million on a house at Avalon Beach having returned from LA.

The multiple platinum selling, ARIA award-winning record producer had been producing hits in the US and London but is now more focused on his part in popular dance trio Pnau. 

They band, which includes brother Nick, are set to headline Luna Park's New Years Eve event Scenestr.

The architecturally designed five bedroom igloo-style home on the pricey Riverview Road spans three levels and offers gun barrel views over Pittwater.

One level is dedicated to the master retreat, which comes with an en suite and study.

Richardson & Wrench Mosman/Neautral Bay agent Geoff Grist sold the home. 

Littlemore sold his Paddington bolt hole for $1.94 million last year.

Before moving in to the music industry, the creative Littlemore co-founded new media design agency Selenium Interactive at the age of 23.

He ran design teams in Sydney and London, producing work for Coca-Cola, HSBC and Sony Playstation.

Within 18 months they had opened offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Shanghai. He sold the company two years later to pursue a career as a recording artist.

His first foray into the music business came through his younger brother Nick's ARIA Award winning band Pnau. 

He has acted as co-producer, co-writer and co-performer. 

Relocated to London in 2001 and released his debut single Takin' Hold as Sam La More, splitting his time between London and Los Angeles where he worked with Gwen Stefani.

After producing for a number of years he re-stablished his solo career, touring Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Europe and North America.

Whispers around the neighbourhood suggest fashionista Nick Kelly, co-founder of Industrie clothing, and his former wife and business partner Susan Kelly, are set to list their matrimonial home in Vaucluse.

It is a Graham Jahn-designed waterfront on Kutti Beach, one of just the seven beachfront houses in the scenic location with postcard perfect images across Sydney Harbour.

They paid $19 million for the home in 2013 (above).

Nick Kelly recently bought the Centennial Park home of TV veteran David Leckie and wife Skye.

The Kelly purchase marked a return to the south of Oxford Street precinct.

The Kelly's had owned a Paddington double terrace on Stewart Street which was caught up in the landmark court case when actor Toni Collette decided not to proceed with her $6.35 million purchase in 2011.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

Port Lincoln fisherman Sam Sarin, who runs Australian Fishing Enterprises, has sold his Mermaid Beach holiday home for $5,625,000.

It has been bought by the Melbourne based Morrissy family. It is only the third sale over $5 million on Mermaid Beach this year.

The other two were a knock down rebuild and a land parcel.

The opulent four bedroom home on the exclusive Hedges Avenue cost Sarin $3.2 million in 2001.

A lift links all three levels of the home, from the basement theatre room with bar to the rooftop entertaining area, also with bar and barbecue kitchen.

The main living areas open to the swimming pool and a beachfront lounge features an open fireplace and integrated media centre.

Kollosche Prestige agent Michael Kollosche sold the home having also sought to sell it in 2008 at $8.9 million.

This article was first published in The Weekend Australian property section.

Canberra's iconic Westridge House in Yarralumla, one of the capital's oldest homes, has been listed for sale.

The property dates back to 1928 when Harold Desbrowe-Annear designed it for Charles Lane-Poole, the founding principal of the Australian Forestry School.

In 1975, federal agency CSIRO became the new tenant of the community-zoned mansion and it was used as the residence for the chief officer.

Westridge House had been in government hands since its construction before it sold for $3.2 million at auction in late 2010.

The buyer was Dr Vincent John Adams Flynn, an heir to the Tattersalls gambling fortune, who died last year.

The expansive two hectare grounds back on to Royal Canberra Golf Course.

A 50 sqm reception room with antique fireplace, solid timber floors and high ceilings open onto a sandstone terrace.

There's five bedrooms, three bathrooms and two sitting rooms.

Peter Blackshaw Real Estate agent Mario Sanfrancesco is marketing the home for a November 26 auction.

This article was first published in The Weekend Australian property section.

A Melbourne property co-owned by comedian Andy Lee and his brother sold at weekend auction.

Lee and girlfriend Rebecca Harding entered the Seddon house before the auction which saw the home sell for $1.04 million, well above its $730,000 to $800,000 marketing guide.

The agency's initial price guidance had been $700,000 to $770,000.

It last traded at $655,000 in 2010.

Renovated since their 2010 purchase, the single-fronted Victorian has two bedrooms, a study nook and an enclosed alfresco terrace.

Fletchers Real Estate Canterbury agents Harpreet Walia and Nick Fletcher sold the home.

It had been a rental for most of the past five years with asking rents around $480 to $500 a week.

Another Melbourne comedian has been busy in the property market.

Dave Hughes bid $3.07 million for the renovated Block Elsternwick home of winners Josh and Elyse at the televised auction last weekend.

The Block judge ShayNna Blaze’s Ringwood North family home of 15 years has been listed with price hopes of $1.19 million $1.29 million. 

There was one big reason the Channel 7 Morning Show co-host Larry Emdur had no hesitation in selling his beloved Dover Heights clifftop mansion.

The celebrity accountant Anthony Bell had offered $11.5 million, a record setting price.

Bell tried to keep the price paid from public records after its off market sale, but the details have worked their way through the NSW land titles systems.

Paperwork shows the sale was wrapped up in just two days.

The sale tops the previous Dover Heights high of $9.5 million, set in 2014 when South African tech investor Kevin Bermeister and wife Beverley bought a clifftop home nearby.

Instagram provided a hint of Larry and Sylvie's farewell to the home, when the couple posed for a snap of a small dinner table for two, overlooking Bondi with a pizza in a box.

The home had featured prominently in Emdur's fitness workouts.

Recently Emdur posted to Instagram images of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour, captioning the post with 'after dinner run... meh.. it'll do.'

The TV personality and his wife Sylvie now call home a $3 million apartment in the Rocks in the Sydney CBD (below).

They secured a newly converted heritage apartment in The Rocks after having been in the pricey coastal suburb for over two decades, and at their $6.8 million clifftop mansion since 2011. They pocketed $3.89 million for their earlier home that had cost $770,000 back in 1994.  

Their new acquisition is quite a contrast as it is an inner city bolthole with an ultra contemporary fit out including a bath in the open plan bedroom. 

It is a Tanner Kibble Denton Architects designed conversion of a 1924 building that was once the Sydney depot for the Cadbury confectionary company.

The building, now transformed in to six luxury apartments known as Claremont House, was more recently utilised as the Lawson Menzies auction house. 

TKD fused the original fabric of the building with a New York feel, creating the three bedroom, three bathroom apartment with much made of its exposed bricks.

Two of the three bedrooms come with en-suites not separated by a wall, just overlooked from the bed.

Ray White Double Bay agents Gavin Rubinstein and Cae Thomas sold the apartment which was developed by Cumberland Development, backed by textile mogul Phil Bart and business partner Paul Bettar.

Emdur has hosted Seven's The Morning Show alongside Kylie Gillies since 2007. The pair recently celebrated the show's 10th anniversary.

Emdur has been on our screens since the early 1980s when at 17 he became Australia's youngest national newsreader, presenting the overnight news for the Seven Network.

He switched to hosting gameshows after presenting Good Morning Australia. From 1993 he hosted The Price is Right for five years and returned to the show in 2003 and again in 2012.

Emdur, who grew up near the beach at Bondi, has been a keen surfer all his life. 

He retains his still used Bondi Beach unit bought for $375,000 in 1992.

The Watsons Bay matrimonial home of Bell and estranged wife Kelly remains in both their names despite their much-publicised split.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

Actress Joy Smithers, most known as a presenter in the early days of MTV in the 1980s, has sold her Botany home.

Listed with $1 million hopes, the three bedroom cottage reputedly fetched $1.3 million.

The cottage sits in gardens designed by her partner, former INXS manager Gary Grant.

It was bought in 2013 for $752,000.

It has been scheduled for a November 11 auction through George Faris at The Sydney Property Agency.

Smithers most recently featured in the Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015.

Her Mad Max appearance came over three decades after she was offered the role of Max's wife Jessie in the 1979 original at the age of 15.

She was forced to decline after her parents would not let her travel to Adelaide for production.

Champion horse trainer David Hayes and wife Prue have bought a Sydney bolthole — a Coogee garden apartment.

The Toorak-based couple, who were Adelaide born, have just spent $2.3 million on the three bedroom offering.

It is just a couple of hundred metres from the beach, and not far from his satellite stable at ­Randwick.

Set in the boutique complex of eight, the 350sq m apartment has an open plan lounge and dining area that lead to a large terrace and lawn.

Purplebricks agent Dean ­Emerson initially sought $2.35 million at its unsuccessful June auction.

The unit, built in 2013, had previously been a $1350 a week rental. 

Hayes is the son of legendary Australia Racing Hall of Fame trainer, the late Colin Hayes.

From his Flemington stables, David Hayes, who became the youngest member in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2008, has secured $9 million in prize money in the 2017-18 racing season. He bagged $19 million the previous year.

His reputation was further ­enhanced last weekend after the triumph of his long-shot Boom Time in the Caulfield Cup.

What a life!
It was his third Caulfield Cup, this one trained with son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig, who became the third generation of the Hayes family to lift the cup.

David and his father Colin won the race with How Now in 1976. The family is now prepping Boom Time for the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday.

Speaking to Fox Sports, rival trainer Gai Waterhouse said “crazier things have happened” when referring to Boom Time’s chances on Tuesday. Hayes is also taking stablemate Ventura Storm to the race that stops the nation.

He has trained nearly 100 Group One winners, including winners in the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper.

Hayes isn’t the only horse racing enthusiast buying.

Owner and breeder Peter Horwitz has recently traded up in Mosman, spending $8.2 million on a four ­bedroom Vincent Squillace-designed home.

It was the home of former Netscape Australasia boss Clive Mayhew-Begg and his wife Eriko Kinoshita.

Horwitz is still to sell his Balmoral Slopes home which has $7.5 million to $8 million hopes through McGrath.

Earlier this year Godolophin head trainer James Cummings, who replaced John O’Shea in May, bought a Malabar home with wife Monica Barrera-­Cummings.

They paid $3.7 million.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Busy Sky Racing presenter Victoria Samba and her husband, recruitment firm boss Mitch Hoare, have sold their Randwick home for $3,575,000.

They were seeking between $3 million and $3.3 million for the contemporary five bedroom home on the busy Derby Day weekend.

They paid $2.79 million in 2015 for the two level home near the Spot which is set in a resort-like gardens.

Samba, the daughter of the later Melbourne racing identity Les Samba, married Hoare, Mitch & Partners founders and a former rugby union player for London Wasps, in Bondi in 2012.

Hoare migrated to Australia in 2002. They're said to now be looking around for a new home.

Randwick ranks as Sydney's busiest auction suburb with over 130 auctions scheduled during the past three months. Mosman's 129 was next busiest followed by Manly with 102 auctions. Neighbouring Clovelly, with just 30 auctions, was the best performing suburb with a 93 percent success rate.  Sydney's east has been the strongest region with a 78 percent success rate during the September quarter, followed by the northern beaches on 72 percent.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Cismontane, a horse part-owned by Marshall White estate agent John Bongiorno, won the weekend Lexus Stakes and gained a place in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup.

The final field contains 11 internationals and 13 Australian-trained gallopers.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will attempt to snatch the Cup with their featherweight hope, Cismontane.

It is owned by the Glenvallen Investments Pty Ltd Syndicate (Mgr: F L Li), D H Kobritz, J B Bongiorno, D W Lilley, C Tognolini, S D Gorman & Ms K Waterhouse.

Gai Waterhouse, David Kobritz and Bongiorno  – also known by ‘Jack’ – have held the Melbourne Cup aloft on prior first Tuesdays in November but they didn't expect to be at Flemington this year.

Kobritz has his first Melbourne Cup runner since Subzero.

In 2012 Bongiorno had part ownership of two runners in the Melbourne Cup.

He has an interest in Glencadam Gold and also Fiorente, both trained by Gai Waterhouse.

Fiorente took the Melbourne Cup win in 2013.

In 2015 he sold champion jockey Damien Oliver's Port Melbourne’s Beacon Cove offering for almost $2.2 million.

Most of Melbourne's agents take time off during the Melbourne Cup carnival - with just the 300 weekend auctions last Saturday.

But no doubt Bongiorno is still seeking out interested buyers of prestige Melbourne property. His recent sales include a $7 million Kooyong sale.

Meanwhile Lloyd Williams, who regularly appears in the property news, will chase an unprecedented sixth Cup.

Williams has a record six runners — defending champion Almandin, Johannes Vermeer, Rekindling, US Army Ranger, Bondi Beach and Gallante.

Trainer David Hayes has two horses in the race, his Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time and Ventura Storm, which counts billionaire retailer Brett Blundy and his fellow Rich Lister, the aged care magnate Bryan Dorman in its star-studded ownership group, as well as Yalumba Wines boss Robert Hill-Smith and Melbourne business identity Michael Valmorbida.

Some $2.8 million to $3 million is tipped for a three-bedroom house and artist’s studio, inside a former dairy, at Carlton.

The Dorrit Street space has been listed by artist and printmaker Bruno Leti. 

It is the work of the late architect Col Bandy.

The light-filled space, with CBD views, has been scheduled for auction next weekend by Nelson Alexander agent Arch Staver.

Bruno Leti, who was born in Italy and emigrated to Australia with his family as a child in the early 1950s, has seen his work in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries as well as, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington and Biblioteca Comunale in Milan.

This article first appeared in The Weekend Australia.

The English Super League recruit, South Sydney Rabbitoh veteran Bryson Goodwin has leased his Oyster Bay home.

The versatile back is heading to the UK with wife, Jessica and their two children having spent the past 11 years in the NRL. 

He has signed a two-year deal with Super League club, Warrington Wolves.

“The plan was for me to go over on my own then come home for Christmas, but now we’re all coming,” he told the local UK paper, the Warrington Guardian. 

“We thought it would be a great adventure for us as a family. To get the chance to come over to England and play footy is a great privilege.”

Now he needs to change his Twitter page which says “live in Sydney! surfing, golf, reading, diving, fishing”.

The couple paid $728,000 for the three-bedroom home in 2013, after he joined the Redfern-based club. He was previously at the Bulldogs after starting his career at Cronulla in 2007. 

The rental property was recently marketed at $750 a week for either a six or 12-month lease through Chamber Fleming Professionals Padstow agent Jade Tavener. 

The couple also retain a Cronulla apartment which was bought in 2008. 

A son of Australian rugby league representative Ted Goodwin, Bryson was overlooked for selection in the Rabbitohs premiership winning campaign in 2014.

This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.

NINE chief information officer Mat Yelavich and wife Alicia have spent $3,375,000 in Kensington having sold their Surry Hills home.

They've bought a 1920s Queen Anne style Federation manor that backs onto the Australian Golf Course.

The four bedroom, one bathroom home is set in an 800 square metre private garden oasis featuring established gardens, dining terrace and a swimming pool.

The couple have left Surry Hills where they sold their Goodlet Street terrace after having $1.85 million hopes through BresicWhitney agents Christopher Breedon and Ivan Bresic.

The narrow two bedroom home cost them $827,500 in 2012.

Yelavich has been at Nine since 2010 and was made CIO in in 2015.

He previously worked at Al Jazeera in Qatar and BSkyB in London.

This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.

Rio Tinto boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques and wife Muriel Demarcus have bought in Sydney.

The couple have spent $3,025,000 on a Walsh Bay apartment bolthole for when they are not in London.

Spanning 110 sqm, the fifth level apartment has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a full-length terrace.

Jacques, who was made CEO in 2016, joined the company in 2011.

In a recent interview Muriel, who runs frenchyummymummy.com, writing about the cultural differences between the French and the British, said Sydney feels like home.

Muriel said the flat she had rented in Sydney was twice as big as her London home, and cost a fraction of the price.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

The recently departed worldwide chairman of ad agency M&C Saatchi Tom Dery has listed his luxury Paddington home with $5 million hopes through Richardson & Wrench agent Geoff Cox.

His ownership of the 1890s Paddington terrace bookends his role. He paid $3.8 million in 2009, the year he was appointed.

Combining historic with modern transformation, the main residence has three bedrooms and three bathrooms.

A heritage front section with library and fireplaces contrasts with the modern rear, featuring an indoor outdoor pavilion accompanying a 17 metre heated lap pool.

A fully self-contained one bedroom cottage sits on the 290 square metre parcel.

Richardson & Wrench agents Geoff Cox and Jason Boon are marketing the home. 

Dery founded the global advertising company in 1995. 

He is set to continue to work out of the Sydney office of M&C Saatchi Australia.

This article first appeared in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 

The auction of the Beecroft home of original TV doctor Dr John D'Arcy and wife Wendy O'Donnell has been postponed until November 18.

The property north of Sydney, which has been the family residence for the last 36 years, had a price guide of $2.2 million ahead of its initial scheduled auction.

It was bought by the couple in 1985 for $164,000.

Set on 1,710 square metres, the three storey, five bedroom home has been renovated over the last 12 years.

The formal lounge and dining areas flow to outdoor living spaces.

Di Jones Real Estate agent David Meldrum was marketing the home as the couple look to downsize.

Dr D'Arcy became a household name some 30 years ago when he combined his medical career with a regular spot on the Seven Network's Beyond 2000 program.

More recently he has been medical editor for Sunrise.

This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.