Retired racing car champion Mark Skaife and wife, Toni have listed their Toorak family home.
The Kooyong Road offering has been listed for February 28 RT Edgar auction.
It was bought in 2009 for $2.93 million, according to realestate.com.au. It was bought in Toni's name.
Mark Skaife attended Wyong High School having been born on the NSW Central Coast.
He previously lived in another Toorak home, an apartment which was sold around 2007.
Retired racing car champion Mark Skaife and wife, Toni, have listed their Toorak family home.
The Kooyong Road offering has been listed for 28 February RT Edgar auction.
It was bought in 2009 for $2.93 million, according to realestate.com.au. It was bought in Toni's name.
Mark Skaife attended Wyong High School having been born on the NSW Central Coast.
He previously lived in another Toorak home, an apartment which was sold around 2007.
Skaife was a five time champion of the V8 Supercar Series and won the prestigious Bathurst 1000 six times.
Gold Logie award-winning television personality and comedian Denise Drysdale secured $870,000 for her Neerim North, Gippsland retreat, which failed to sell on its initial 2012 listing.
Daffodill Hill sold ahead of its scheduled late 2014 auction. This week in her role as lifestyle coach, Denise "Ding Dong" Drysdale is promoting Australia’s first carbon positive pop-up home in Melbourne's City Square.
Fronting for the 16th annual Sustainable Living Festival, Drysdale – who recently downsized to pursue the simple life herself – says it is important the human race adopt a lighter footprint.
It seems Drysdale hasn't yet embarked on an envisaged sea-change, with her previously stated desired nomadic search for warmer weather.
She signalled we'd be seeing her head north in her car until she found the right place to set up her new home.
Drysdale once moved to Merimbula but found it too cold in winter, so she was thinking of Tweed Heads but will research its weather before she decides.
Perched high on a hillside, the Neerim North property (pictured in the gallery above) is a four-hectare retreat at with a grand bluestone residence built from the local quarry.
The four-bedroom, two-bathroom architecturally designed residence comes with a sunken lounge with open fireplace.
The property comes with dam and shelter for livestock.
But it sold through David Clark at Clark First National Drouin.
At one stage Denise was looking for $1.3 million.
Property investor Richard Moseley’s Bonnie Doon holiday fibro near Lake Eildon in Victoria – which featured in the 1997 comedy The Castle as the serene holiday home of the Kerrigan family – has been finally sold.
It followed its recent asking price being lowered in the new year.
It was listed last November at $240,000, but came with an adjusted $225,000 asking price.
The shack sale price has not been disclosed, News Ltd reported.
Moseley proudly secured the property for $169,950 in 2006 but then first wanted out, unsuccessfully, in 2011.
The two-bedroom cottage – located 165 kilometres from Melbourne at 3491 Maintongoon Road – was listed then at $195,000 in 2011.
The cast only spent one day there.
The shack sold at $50,000 in 1995, two years before its getting its enduring celebrity status.
The upgrading fashion designer Sarah-Jane Clarke and her landscape architect husband Dan Baffsky have snappily sold their Vaucluse home.
The four bedroom, three bathroom Derby Street home was listed in mid-January with $6.5 million plus hopes through Ray White Double Bay.
It was set for late February auction. The house sold at $3.5 million in 2005.
The couple are off to the harbourfront, paying around $12 million on Wharf Road for a home sold at $12 million in 2008.
Clarke, and business partner, Heidi Middleton quit the Sass & Bide fashion brand last year.
The new six bedroom home has views over the Vaucluse Baths to The Gap.
The Koichi Takada-designed Newport, Pittwater home proposed by the Myer model Jennifer Hawkins and her builder husband, Jake Wall has been costed at $2 million in construction.
The Newport home will be set in gardens planted by the Secret Gardens company on the bushland 3,261 square metre block (pictured above). Landscaping and the pool will cost $360,000.
The approved plans shows $2 million will be the overall cost of their building project, according to the list obtained by Property Observer.
It will be four storeys with its pool and sunken lounge on another lower level virtually on the foreshore.
The top floor is the four car garaging with lift and stairs to the lower floors.
There will be a floor as the master bedroom suite with courtyard.
Four additional bedrooms and an office area are included, along with home theatre and gym.
Jake Wall has done all he costings on the development that has been designed to address the landslip hazard potential.
Permission was given to demolish Jacaranda Cottage that was briefly listed as a heritage item, set on the western escarpment of Bilgola Plateau.
The couple paid $4 million for the site last year.
Former Adelaide Crows star, now a Melbourne Demons midfielder, Bernie Vince has listed his redundant Adelaide home.
The 1970s house at 59 Rutland Avenue, Lockleys is listed through Gary J. Smith.
It has three bedrooms, a rumpus room, pergola and deck overlooking an inground swimming pool.
Agent Steve Stretch has not given any public price indication ahead of its 1 March auction.
The creamy coloured is close to Harbour Town, the airport, Linear Park and some of the best beaches in Adelaide.
The house on 850 square metres, with subdivision potential subject to City of West Torrens approval, was bought for $660,000 in 2010.
Vince played 129 games for the Crows and won the club's best and fairest award for the 2009 season.
After reluctantly being traded to the following the 2013 season, he finished third in the Demons' best and fairest last year.
The Toorak penthouse that cast a spell on Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is now for sale.
The penthouse on the prestigious St Georges Road was purchased for Radcliffe by his parents in 2004 for $1.9 million, when he was 16 years old.
It now has price expectations around $2.5 million, selling through Marcus Chiminello and Nicole French of Marshall White.
The three bedroom apartment is one of two in its development, occupying the complex's entire upper level. The apartment is accessible by lift and has views of the city over the river.
The kitchen comes with a butler's pantry and the penthouse has two bathrooms.
Radcliffe's parents reportedly spotted the apartment while looking at Australian property on the internet in London. The home was transferred to Radcliffe when he was 18, in 2007.
It has not been rented out during the family's ownership.
Radcliffe rose to prominence starring as the title character in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2001 when he was 12 years old. He appeared in a further seven Harry Potter films based upon the book series by J.K. Rowling. After purchasing the Toorak apartment, Radcliffe shot the Rod Hardy-directed December Boys in Australia.
He has acted in various film and stage roles since, including a stint at age 17 in Peter Schaffer's Equus. In 2013, he appeared as poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings.
The expressions of interest campaign for the apartment at 98B St Georges Road closes on 10 March.
The former Crows coach Brenton Sanderson has his redundant Glenelg South home for March auction.
The house at 13 Farrell Street has been listed through Harris Real Estate’s Phil Harris with $1.55 million expectations.
It was bought in 2013 for $1,431,500 and previously sold at $1.43 million in 2011.
It is marketed as within walking distance of main attractions - the beach, Broadway Kiosk, Foodland and Jetty Road - and in the zoning for Brighton Secondary School.
Sanderson and wife, Veronika, quit Glenelg South for Melbourne where he now works as the AFL’s national academy head coach.
In a shock move, Adelaide sacked Sanderson following the conclusion of the 2014 season, replacing him with former Port Adelaide assistant Phil Walsh.
Chef Pete Evans recently spent $1.2 million on a 10 hectare Round Mountain acreage near Pottsville in northern NSW.
The My Kitchen Rules celebrity chef is rumoured to have bought the property through P. Evans Property Pty Ltd, which News Ltd says is associated with Peter Daryl Evans.
Inland from Hastings Point, the comprises two residences, a two bedroom granny flat and comes with three dams.
It sold through Vanessa Rhodes of Raine & Horne Pottsville.
It was listed in late 2013 at $1,299,000.
Perhaps not the best time to list any soaking wet Queensland beach shack last weekend.
The Palm Beach, Queensland home of Townsville-bound country singer Adam Brand has been listed for 10 March auction.
The 1970s 36 First Avenue home was bought by Brand in November 2012 for $400,000 and then renovated.
"All just a few hundred metres from those glistening sandy beaches," the marketing advise.
Brand, who also owns two Queensland restaurants, was dubbed a "jet setting singer/ song writer with plenty more plans on the horizon", according to the Ray White marketing by agent Tom Collingwood.
The Killarney Vale couple Kara and Kyal Demmrich - contestants on Channel Nine's The Block Albert Park series - have sold their NSW Central Coast home for $735,000.
They bought it in 2008 for $285,000, having married in February 2007.
The opening bid was $650,000 with seven registered buyers at the 24 February auction offering. Agent Chantel Laing-Chadwick at George Brand Real Estate Avoca Beach/Copacabana described it as an "architectural masterpiece".
She emphasised the soaring high ceilings and generous use of open plan living.
"This cleverly designed home is drenched in sunlight from the floor to ceiling windows," said Laing-Chadwick.
It features four bedrooms, plus a study and separate loft area, set on a level 715 square metre block with room for a pool.
Last year the couple appeared in The Block: Fans v Faves as the so-called Super Ks.
Former AFL Melbourne captain David Neitz has $1.05 million plus hopes for his Fitzroy investment property currently listed through Nelson Alexander Real Estate.
It is three levels with four bedrooms at 61 Leicester Street.
He paid $650,000 in 2001.
It goes to March 14 auction.
It was available for rent at $850 a week in early 2013.
David Neitz, who retired after 306 games in 2008, was appointed late last year as a specialist key-position coach at the Hawks.
The redundant Mosman investment property of Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has been relisted for sale.
It has been scheduled for March 26 auction.
Designed by Corben Architects to embrace its landscaped gardens, the house comes with a centrepiece wet-edge pool and cabana.
It captures sweeping views over the Harbour Bridge and city skyline from the upper level.
There was single lowball bid of $4.3 million when it went to December 2013 auction.
It was the former Mosman home of her daughter Hope Welker.
It had cost $5.4 million in 2007.
The contemporary Bradleys Head Road house has again been listed through the Ray White Lower North Shore with agents Megan Thomas and Dino Gatti.
Ms Welker and her husband, Ryan Welker, vacated the Mosman property as they departed for New York in 2011, around the time the family dispute over control of the family's mining interests became public through litigation.
Gina Rinehart has the property advertised on Fairfax Domain.
The Hawthorn AFL footballer Jordan Lewis sold his two-bedroom Victorian semi for $1.1 million at weekend auction.
Lewis had bought the 1890s Hawthorn East semi for $690,000 in April 2009.
Five bidders triggered the sale around $150,000 above reserve through Jellis Craig agent Richard Winneke, who sold it last time too.
There are approved plans for a second story extension at the white-washed, single fronted semi-detached Victorian home on its 226 square metre block.
The house has 95 square metres space.
CoreLogic RP Data put Hawthorn East's median house price at $1.45 million, down on its 2014 peak.
The house previously sold at $445,000 in 2001 and $245,000 in 1998.
In 2014, Lewis won his club's best and fairest award, as well as All-Australian recognition, as the Hawks won back-to-back premierships.
Retired racing car champion Mark Skaife and wife, Toni, have sold their Toorak family home.
The Kooyong Road sale price has not been revealed after the weekend RT Edgar auction.
It was bought in 2009 for $2.93 million in Toni's name.
The six-time Bathurst 1000 champion’s home was passed in at $3.9 million, then sold after its weekend auction.
Two buyers took part in the sluggish bidding before the underbidder struck a deal, the Herald Sun noted.
They previously lived in another Toorak home, an apartment which was sold around 2007.
Skaife was a five time champion of the V8 Supercar Series.
Businessman and commentator John Hewson has listed Invergowrie, the Tudor-style Exeter estate, built in the 1930s for the BHP industrialist Sir Cecil Hoskins, which now stands on 26 acres.
The seven bedroom house comes with library, ballroom, studies and billiard room.
The grounds have Paul Sorensen gardens with tennis court, bocce pit, swimming pool, croquet lawn, orchard, vegetable gardens, a Japanese garden with waterfall, aviary and three guest houses.
Designed by architect Geoffrey Loveridge, Invergowie replaced Headlands, which had been owned by the Yates seed family. Before that the Badgery family had what remains the landmark feature of the village of Exeter.
After several changes of ownership, Invergowrie was bought in the 1960s by the Fieldhouse family who invited Paul Sorenson to return and substantailly reverse his earlier planting; for while the Hoskins preferred to have trees and shrubs around the house leaving the boundaries open, the new owners wanted the main plantings to be on the boundaries.
Title Tattle gleans the main Invergowrie gates were relocated from Sydney in the late 1960s by the Fieldhouse family.
Hewson and his wife, Jessica Wilson have enlisted Drew Lindsay Real Estate to secure the trophy home sale with $7.5 million expectations.
It would seem the photos were taken a few months ago as there are no naked lady bulbs (Amaryllis belladonna) which flower pink in March.
Calahla, the former rental home of Australia's first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton, has been sold.
There were $3.3 million hopes for the 1877 Balgowlah home.
The Victorian Rustic Gothic home was built for William Marshall Jackson, a partner of ironmonger Lassetter and Co.
Then known as Calahla, it was leased by Barton in 1888, the year after he was appointed to the NSW Legislative Council.
Barton stayed until 1891 when he stood for election to East Sydney.
The home last traded in 2004 when bought by the Norwegian Seaman's Church for $2.2 million.
The White Street property name was changed to Whitehall during the ownership of former state MP Doug Darby who bought the property in 1953.
Barton contested the inaugural 1901 federal election as a member of the Protectionist Party.
He served as Prime Minister until 24 September 1903, when he resigned to take up a chair on the High Court. He served on the Court until his death in 1920.
Fashion designer Collette Dinnigan has her Paddington trophy home listed for 23 May auction through McGrath agent Ben Collier.
Her four bedroom sandstone Paddington Street house has become redundant since her purchase at Watsons Bay.
Set well back from the street, the four bedroom double-fronted residence on 379 square metres cost Dinnigan $4.45 million in 2009.
Since its purchase, she has used her creative flair to renovate the 1880s home.
Dinnigan and her partner Bradley Cocks had it briefly listed in 2010. The property has been listed for May 23 auction in conjunction with Will Manning at Ballard Property with $6 million plus hopes.
Title Tattle recalls it was bought from Peter Bracher who had bought the farmhouse cottage in 1989 for a then record $1,075,000.
It had been bought in 1975 for $82,000 by Hinke Zieck, the longtime Sydney ragtrader-cum-decorator and her husband Walter.
Property investor Richard Moseley’s Bonnie Doon holiday fibro near Lake Eildon in Victoria – which featured in the 1997 comedy The Castle as the serene holiday home of the Kerrigan family – sold earlier this year at an undisclosed price.
It was listed last November at $240,000, but came with an adjusted $225,000 asking price in the new year.
The shack sale price has now emerged as $200,000, reflecting less than 2% annual price growth over its nine year ownership.
It has been bought by Melpomeni and Angelo Katapodis of Balwyn North.
Moseley proudly secured the property for $169,950 in 2006 but then first wanted out, unsuccessfully, in 2011.
The two-bedroom cottage – located 165 kilometres from Melbourne at 3491 Maintongoon Road – was listed then at $195,000 in 2011.
The shack sold at $50,000 in 1995, two years before its getting its enduring celebrity status.
It's annual price growth between 1995 and 2006 was at 11%.
The cast, including Michael Caton, Stephen Curry and Eric Bana, only spent one day there.
