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Kiwi front rower Huia Gordon lists Brisbane acreage to head home to Christchurch

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The former New Zealand rugby union international Huia Gordon and his wife Koa have listed their regional Brisbane acreage agistment property.

The 10 hectare property at Hemmant is where they were married.

Set in Brisbane’s east, 10 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD, the 76 Foley Road property has been listed by Keith Blair and Sarah Parker of Ray White Tingalpa.

Huia Gordon represented New Zealand as a front row forward in the 1980s and 1990s.

The near new six bedroom executive family resort style residence has been listed as business commitments mean he spends most of his time in Christchurch as managing director of international furniture, fittings, electrical appliance and building products company, Huidon Group.

The business is rebuilding work in Christchurch following the devastating earthquakes.

New Zealand has been seeking 1,000 Queensland tradespeople to assist with the reconstruction.

There is income from the agistment as well as rent from the two self-contained two bedroom units adjoining the 15 stables, seven tack bays and a wash bay.

There is also a dressage area, an approximately 900 metre trotting track, two round yards and barrier gates and fully fenced paddocks.


Inside the real My Kitchen Rules kitchen

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Channel 7 TV show My Kitchen Rules food editor, Kellie Thomas and her filmmaker husband Pete Mether sold their North Balgowlah home for $1,405,000 under the hammer recently.

The three-bedroom house had been expected to sell for about $1.3 million according to selling agent Tim Wirth of LJ Hooker Seaforth.

Thomas, who is in her sixth season as food editor of the hit Channel Seven show, paid $751,500 in 2008.

Following her international hospitality degree, she moved to London and set up her catering company, Saffron, cooking and teaching in the UK and Europe. 

Thomas moved to Australia in 2002 to work for the Australian Women’s Weekly, originally as a senior home economist.

From there she moved to New Idea, before editing the MasterChef Cookbook Vol 1, Our Family Table by Julie Goodwin and collaborating with Spanish chef Miguel Maestre on his first cookbook. 

Thomas moved to Channel 7 as the food editor for the second series of My Kitchen Rules.

Bronik and Corrine's $448,000 House Rules mortgage - 1st generation home owners

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The $500,000 early 2014 purchase in Reservoir was House Rules contestant couple Bronik and Corrine's first property purchase.

Bronik Davies also advised Channel 7 viewers that he was the first of his male descendants to own a house. It is in Melbourne's northern suburbs.

He has a $448,000. mortgage which would be wiped if the couple win the renovation competition.

Reservoir's median house price is at $538,000, according to CoreLogic RP Data.

He is the only carpenter in the competition.

Bronik, 27, has spent the last 10 years working as a chippie and it's a job he loves. "I enjoy building something from scratch and seeing what I end up with," he says.

His girlfriend of two years, Corrine, 28, describes Bronik as being ‘super impulsive', like the time he bought their house without telling her.

"We were out watching the cricket and he gets this call," she laughs. "He's like, 'Babe, guess what? We just bought a house!' I still get goosebumps thinking about it."

The 1960s weatherboard they bought early last year was the first house they looked at.

Despite it being a ‘bombsite' and an ‘eye-sore', it was situated where they could see themselves raising a family.

"We want to make this place our forever home; an open space where we feel comfortable and can raise some kids," Bronik said.

The only habitable area is the living room which is where they eat and sleep.

While they had a vision for the property, hefty mortgage repayments have stalled renovations.

"Knowing that we have such a huge mortgage hanging over our heads has put a lot of strain on us financially," Bronik says.

"We can't afford it financially," Corinne advised, with House Rules just the opportunity they'd been waiting for.

Corrine's no stranger to renovation, having remodelled a milk bar she once owned into a funky café. Corrine now holds down two jobs as a barista and retail assistant.

Victoria took the House Rules title in 2014 with Adam and Lisa's win.

Bronik, a dual Frank Rosbrook Medal winner, captains the Cougars in the AFL Northern Football League.

House Rules' Carole and Russell Bramston sell Halls Head house

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Former House Rules contestants Carole and Russell Bramston sold their controversial Halls Head property earlier this year at a loss.

The Perth couple attracted criticism when various media outlets reported they had a $2.3 million property portfolio, which included the three bedroom Halls Head home at 14 Leisure Way.

But the couple told WA Today last year that the home had "a massive mortgage over it" and they couldn't afford to live in the home.

The couple had been attempting to sell the home since April last year, when it was listed with an asking price of $1.17 million. After its price guide was lowered to $995,000, it was pulled off the market in September.

However, they seem to have found a buyer, with the property selling for $1.05 million in February this year. Having paid $1.1 million for the home in 2012, they have made a loss on this year's sale.

The house sold through Harcourts Mandurah, who have handled the house's sale campaign since April 2014.

Despite the loss, the sale is likely welcome news for the couple, who have also been trying to offload their Boya home which was renovated on House Rules last year.

House Rules' Carole and Russell offloading renovated home

The Coulston Road house on a 1,640 square metre plot was listed in October last year, with the Bramstons saying they would have kept the house if they had won the series and had their mortgage paid off. They attempted to sell the home late last year in an effort to downsize and enter retirement debt-free, but were unsuccessful. It was listed in October with a price guide of $689,000, but was taken off the market in February this year.

The Bramstons paid $360,000 for the Boya home when they purchased it off classfieds website Gumtree.

 

Sydney Swan Daniel Hannebery is a Bondi multi-millioniare

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Sydney Swans player Daniel Hannebery sold his North Bondi home at auction last night for $2,203,000

There were three bidders when Ric Serrao of Raine & Horne Double Bay/Bondi offering the two-storey listing.

It was bought in August 2012 pre-auction for $1.48 million.

CoreLogic RP Data suggest the median house price sits at around $2 million currently. 

The nearby single story North Bondi home of the late Luigi Coluzzi sold under the hammer last month for $1.73 million. 

The founder of Bar Coluzzi in Darlinghurst died last year, aged 84, prompting the listing of his single storey Glenayr Avenue semi through McGrath agent Peter Starr and Raine & Horne agent Ric Serreo.

It last traded in 2000 for $571,500.

Singo's Killcare beach house remains for sale

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Adman John Singleton has yet to sell his little-used Killcare beach house on the NSW Central Coast.

It sits next to the Killcare Surf Life Saving Club, almost on the beach.

It was designed by the local architect Karen Burke with skillion roof-lines and extensive glazing.

The interiors were designed by Chrissie Jeffrey with the master suite comprising a study, dressing room, bathroom and private deck, overlooking a small waterfall and bushland.

Given Singleton's desire to typically stay at his Central Coast Mt White stud farm, the beach property has been instead managed as a luxury holiday house by The Bells Boutique Hotel Group. 

Singleton bought the 80 Beach Drive property for a suburb record of $4.25 million in late 2007, pre-global financial crisis. The highest sale since then has been $2.7 million over the past eight years.

It has been listed with Gittoes agents Cathy Baker and Stephen Gittoes who withdrew the property ahead of its scheduled weekend auction with negotiations well advanced.

The initial pre-auction reports of $3.5 million plus hopes were followed by later reports the agents expect $4 million or so, which would equate to a sizeable loss.

Melbourne's Ron Walker, just $22 million short of 2015 BRW Rich 200 List billionaire status

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Melbourne powerbroker Ron Walker fell just $22 million short of billionaire status in the 2015 BRW Rich List.

He sat in 50th place, with an estimated $978 million worth. There are 19 billionaires above him who have also made their fortunes from property.

Walker's wealth was put at $795 million in 2014. 

It was $125 million in 1998.

Much of it has come from property development, initially from Hudson Conway and more recently from Evolve Development.

His Hudson Conway co-founder Lloyd Williams ranks 62nd at $793 million on this year's Rich 200 List.

In 2001 Williams was ranked 20th on the BRW Rich List with $650 million.

Ron Walker, a former Lord Mayor of Melbourne, was born in Melbourne on September 20, 1939, the second son of Joe Walker, a senior supervisor with the Hoyts cinema chain. In 1966 he married a former Brisbane journalist, Barbara Lawson.

He was a former chairman of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation.

The Age once suggested the jackpot for Hudson Conway came after he persuaded the State Labor Government to allow redevelopment of the old Toorak drive-in site in the 1980s.

Dally Cherry-Evans settles on redundant Queensland Gold Coast property purchase

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Records show the NRL star Dally Cherry-Evans and his partner Vessa Rockliff settled on a newly renovated Mermaid Beach on May 29, just before he re-signed a lifetime deal with the Manly Sea Eagles. The property, set three blocks from the beach, sold for $1.45 million.

The four-bedroom, two storey house is unlikely to see much use from Cherry-Evans and his family now that he is staying at Manly, not heading to the Gold Coast Titans.

Cherry-Evans retains a four-bedroom house in Curl Curl, and a two-bedroom unit in Freshwater, both on the insular peninsula.

It is not yet know if he will keep the newly renovated house on Petrel Avenue as a investment or try to resell it.


Jeff Provan Corbusier-inspired Toorak home remains for sale

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Jeff Provan's custom-built mid-1990s home at 119 Canterbury Road, Toorak - with striking rooftop light-filled half cylindrical studio - was passed in on the vendor’s bid of $2.75 million at auction last month.

It came with a $3.095 million post-auction asking price through Marcus Chiminello of Marshall White.

119 Canterbury Road, Toorak

The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home was designed by vendor, property designer and developer Jeff Provan with a copper cylinder on the roof. The 199 square metre block cost $340,000 in 1995.

Jeff Provan, of Melbourne design and architecture company Neometro, set himself the task of creating a building that met all the elements of the state's then new Good Design Guide code for houses on small allotments.

He created what he modestly called a box with the ground floor dedicated to living areas, the second is for sleeping and the third is a study or studio. 

Provan began the process using Le Corbusier's "modular scale", developed by the Swiss 20th-century architect based on the proportions of a man.

Title Tattle recalls Provan's Japanese wife, Mariko wanted Victorian proportions in the house while he preferred the minimal Japanese aesthetic. 

In 2007 Provan estimated his house would cost about $1 million to replicate, and require a year of planning and a year for building.

Marketed as showcasing Neometro's trademark pre-eminent design, Marcus Chiminello said scrupulous attention to detail was evident throughout with a blend of stone, timber and natural renders.

"A timeless rarity," he said.

Soccer champion Tim Cahill lists Sutherland Shire, Sydney waterfront trophy home

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Soccer champion Tim Cahill has listed his waterfront Caringbah South trophy home.

It was bought shortly after the 2006 World Cup for $5.25 million - a then suburb record on the Port Hacking River.

The professional footballer has spent little time there in the Sutherland Shire, living instead just outside of New York with his wife, Rebekah Greenhill and the couple's four children.

He now splits his time between the US and China.

Set on 1260 square metres, the four level house has been listed with Greg Gilbert of Greg Gilbert Real Estate.

517 Willarong Road, Caringbah South

It is set for the auction on June 25.

The current suburb record stands at $8.5 million, paid last November for a five-bedroom mansion on 4600 square metres on Fernleigh Road.

 

Inside Gav and Waz's garden Potts Point quick flip

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Professional renovators Gav and Waz, who appeared on the first series of The Block reality television in 2003, have listed their two-bedroom Rockwall Gardens, Potts Point apartment.

It is a ground floor apartment on Tusculum Street advertised on realestate.com.au. They are testing the apparently buoyant market in the inner city suburb where CoreLogic RP Data actually have the median apartment price down to $525,000 since they bought last year. The median price for a two-bedroom unit with a car space in the suburb sat at around $1 million, before the recent $264,000 car space sale.

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The renovation duo settled only last July at a hefty $2.25 million, with renovations completed since on the apartment with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a car space. There are still trademark Deece Giles interiors since the boys bought from the renown Sydney designer.

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Now surrounded by greenery, the total floor space, inside and out, is 180 square metres. It comes with outdoor fireplace by Rolling Stone Landscapes, gold medal winners at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show.

G06/1A Tusculum Street, Potts Point

Jason Boon and Geoff Cox, of Richardson and Wrench, won't reveal how much profit the boys really want for their snug viewless offering, but Title Tattle gleans high $2s will  make them content.

Charlie, their Jack Russell, featured in the advertising (below) to stress the pet friendly nature of the block, is not included.

G06/1A Tusculum Street, Potts Point

Two contracts were issued following the initial weekend open for inspection.

Warren Sonin and and Gavin Atkins have poured serious money into the Potts Point precinct in recent times spending $1.38 million on three investment acquisitions between 2013 and late 2014.

They sold their 23-hectare farm, Charltons, in the Byron Bay hinterland for $3 million in 2013.

G06/1A Tusculum Street, Potts Point

Some 26 registered parties ensured a strong price today for a top-floor unit 6/1 St Neots Avenue, Potts Point that fetched $1,846,000 under the hammer through Ray White Double Bay agent Kim Hayes.

It sold to an investor.

It came with harbour views.

Sydney's overall weekend clearance rate was a smidge down at 83.2%, compared to last weekend's initial 83.3%, which was then revised down to 81.9% after the late notified results.

Mosman again had the highest sale across Sydney - at $3.05 million at 4 Sverge Street - again through McGrath, albeit at half last weekend's top reported sale.

It was a 1960s original (below) on 768 square metres.

 

Geoff Huegill and wife Sara Hills list Darlinghurst terrace

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Champion swimmer Geoff Huegill, and his wife Sara, have listed their three-level, four-bedroom Darlinghurst terrace.

453 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst

The 133 square metre offering cost $1.97 million in late 2011. They bought it and still own 60% percent of the terrace, given it was bought in partnership with Geoff Huegill’s in-laws.

Winning bronze and silver at the 2000 Olympics, Huegill established himself as one of the world’s best butterfly swimmers.

All up he set eight world records.

453 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst

Sara Huegill, nee Hills, was in the Sweaty Betty PR fashion firm prior to her 2011 marriage.

The Sunday Telegraph report the couple want mid-$2 million.

453 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst

Soccer champion Tim Cahill sells Caringbah South, Sydney waterfront trophy home

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Soccer champion Tim Cahill has sold his waterfront Caringbah South trophy home yesterday ahead of its forthcoming auction.

It last traded for $5.25 million in late 2006 - a then suburb record on the Port Hacking River.

The professional footballer has spent little time there in the Sutherland Shire, living instead just outside of New York with his wife, Rebekah Greenhill and the couple's four children.

He now splits his time between the US and China.

His parents lived there in his absence, but set on 1260 square metres on the shores of the Port Hacking River in the Sydney southern suburb, the four level house was too much for them.

It was listed with Greg Gilbert of Greg Gilbert Real Estate.

517 Willarong Road, Caringbah South

It was set for the auction on June 25.

The current suburb record stands at $8.5 million, paid last November for a five-bedroom mansion on 4600 square metres on Fernleigh Road.

“I’ve only ever spent two to three weeks maximum in Australia at one time, so I’m looking at a lot of projects in the city — penthouses and probably more city living,” Tim Cahill told News Ltd papers. 

Cahill still owns a Horningsea Park property in Sydney's west bought with family in 1999 for $260,000.

Byron Bay's bounceback queried after Shelley Craft takes a loss

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The Block television personality Shelley Craft and her estate agent husband, Christian Sergiacomi, have sold their Byron Bay hinterland home, The Rise at a loss.

The tropical five bedroom, three bathroom hideaway on 6,100 square metres at Ewingsdale in the hinterland fetched $1.5 million when settlement details emerged earlier this year.

It has been home to The Block co-presenter and husband, known as Serge, who has been a cameraman on The Block, since they bought it in 2010 for $1.61 million.

The five-bedroon Ewingsdale offering has around 290 square metres floor space.

Jeremy Bennett, of Byron Bay Property Sales has it listed at $1.5 million plus.

The upgrading couple spent $2.05 million on an 8,050 square metre property at neighbouring McLeods Shoot, a substantial discount as it had been initially listed for sale at $3.5 million-plus in 2010.

The couple built on the property which was long owned by the McGettigan pioneering family who who first settled in Byron Bay in 1882.

 

John Deeks sells Brighton townhouse

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Television personality John Deeks secured $1.92 million when his Brighton home sold at recent auction.

The entertainer’s modern three bedroom town residence sold through Hodges agents Janine Lum and Campbell Cooney.

It was a 1980s townhouse refurbished in 2002.

John ‘‘Deeksie’’ Deeks was voiceover man on game shows Wheel of Fortune, The Price is Right, then the host of Family Feud. 

It last traded when bough in 2009 by his wife, Amanda for $1.57 million.


Brothers at war next month over Badgerys Creek holding: Roy Medich Properties Pty Ltd v Ron Medich Properties Pty Ltd

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The legal dispute - Roy Medich Properties Pty Ltd v Ron Medich Properties Pty Ltd - is scheduled for further directions next week in the NSW Supreme Court.

The wealthy developer and hotel owner Roy Medich and his older brother, and accused murderer Ron Medich, are in battle over their longtime Badgerys Creek land holding.

Roy Medich, 64, wants a trustee appointed to sell the properties at Badgerys Creek which will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars once they are rezoned.

The issue is because of his brother’s notoriety, Roy believes it is impossible to get the necessary rezonings.

Ron Medich, 66, wants his portion of the land to be separated off rather than sold.

The court proceedings began in late 2013, three years after Ron Medich was charged with the murder of his former business partner Michael McGurk, who was shot outside his Cremorne house in 2009. 

The SMH investigative reporter Kate McClymont reported that Roy Medich's affidavit noted the Badgerys Creek consortium (comprising the Medichs, the University of Sydney, and brothers Joe and Daniel Damjanovich) had worked very hard to get the land rezoned. 

“Ron and I do not have the same judgment or method of doing business. We are unable to agree on many things and we cannot work together," he said.

Roy Medich was seeking to have the matter dealt with before his brother’s criminal trial, but Justice James Stevenson refused to grant Roy Medich’s request for an expedited hearing. 

Justice Darke will hear legal argument next Friday, July 3, 2015.

Kate McClymont, who has followed the Medich family with typical thoroughness, reported Roy Medich had concluded the unsubstantiated allegations "that Mr McGurk had tape recordings of Ron and his dealings with the Department of Planning” had made subsequent dealings with the department difficult."

Roy Medich said the adverse publicity "compromised my ability to deal with the Department of Planning".

Harry Triguboff ends sale speculation with family succession update

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Harry Triguboff sat down last weekend with his family with the much touted sale of the Meriton empire now off the agenda.

The Australian's Turi Condon reported the conversation ended his flirtation with selling to the Chinese in a deal potentially worth $12 billion.

It will instead now see his grandchildren eventually taking over the apartment building empire.

“I told them to do what they like,” the 82-year-old advised.

“I built it for me. If a dynasty comes of it, so much the better.”

Triguboff says daughter Sharon’s sons Daniel, 24, and Ariel Hendler, 22, are interested in the development side, while his other daughter Orna and her daughter Ella Lizor prefer the investment arm.

Triguboff told The Australian“They said they want to continue the business.”

Gav and Waz secure snappy Potts Point sale

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Professional renovators Gav and Waz, who appeared on the first series of The Block reality television in 2003, have snappily sold their two-bedroom Rockwall Gardens, Potts Point apartment. It was only listed late last month.

It was a ground floor apartment on Tusculum Street advertised on realestate.com.au by Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay. They secured around $2,725,000, so possibly secured around $250,000 profit for the duo.

G06/1A Tusculum Street, Potts Point

The renovation duo settled only last July at a hefty $2.25 million, with renovations completed since on the apartment with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a car space. There are still trademark Deece Giles interiors since the boys bought from the renown Sydney architect.

G06/1A Tusculum Street, Potts Point

Now surrounded by greenery, the total floor space, inside and out, is 180 square metres. It comes with outdoor fireplace by Rolling Stone Landscapes, gold medal winners at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show.

G06/1A Tusculum Street, Potts Point

 

Stuart Wagstaff's Neutral Bay apartment sells

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The Sydney home of late entertainer Stuart Wagstaff has been sold for $1,165,000 at auction today.

Wagstaff died in March this year aged 90. An investor beat off nine other registered bidders to secure it at above its $1 million official reserve.

33/37-45 Barry Street, Neutral Bay

The eighth floor apartment at 33/37-45 Barry St, Neutral Bay has two bedrooms, along with a large entertaining balcony with views of the city.

Raine & Horne Neutral Bay selling agent David Buttel had initial $950,000-plus expectations for the top floor 106 square metre Kentwood block offering with car space.

It was the actor's home for eight years, paying $660,000 in 2007 in the 1978 Mirvac-built complex.

Greg Norman sells in Le Lac, Miami: Aussies Abroad

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Golf legend Greg Norman has unloaded his property at the fancy Le Lac neighbourhood for US$5.6 million, according to public records obtained by the Miami Herald.

According to the records, Norman also agreed to loan $2 million interest-free to the buyers for three months to ensure the deal.

Norman lost at least $1.4 million on the sale since he bought it nine years ago for $7 million.

Afer his failed attempt to develop, Norman listed the lot in 2013 for $25 million.

By 2014, it was down to $14 million for the Florida waterside offering of Greg Norman, a two time golf major winner.

He was briefly looking at a 29,000 square foot lakeside mansion development set for constructed in Florida’s Boca Raton region, Golf Week reported.

 

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The property is close to some of Florida’s finest golf links and adjacent to the Polo Club of Boca Raton golf course.

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