Shoe designer Gary Castles lists in Whale Beach: Title Tattle
Shoe designer Gary Castles has listed his radiant Whale Beach property (pictured below). He’s had the Malo Road property for three decades. It’s a-four bedroom house on a hillside 1,160-square-metre block that has an approved dual occupancy. There’s also approval for another level to the main residence that includes the addition of a three-car garage. David Edwards and Peter Robinson from LJ Hooker Palm Beach have the listing in conjunction with Ken Jacobs at Christies International. More than $7 million is being sought.
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Warren Johns and his wife, Joan, have secured $8.6 million for their apartment in Sydney Wharf at Pyrmont. It’s Sydney’s highest known apartment sale this year. The official paperwork shows it cost $6.45 million in 2010. It first sold at $5.4 million in 2006 off the plan before its completion by Charter Hall, Babcock & Brown and AMP Capital Investors. The sale was reported by Feldi Real Estate. The property developer and yachtsman and his wife will presumably make The Boatshed, the Wally Barda-designed David family-built Palm Beach residential triplex on Snapperman Beach their Sydney base.
Yet another high floor has been listed in Melbourne’s Eureka Tower (view from window pictured above). It’s the empty shell on the 85th floor. It’s been listed by two vendors, who’ve decided to offer their spaces as a combined 500-square-metre offering in the 2006 completed tower. One is Bruno Charlesworth, the France-based entertainment industry lawyer and movie producer. The other half is being sold by Melbourne businessman Alex Piccinini. The 85th-floor offering has been listed through Richard Mackinnon and Sean Cussell at Marshall White, who’ve been saying $5 million plus. It was previously listed at $7.5 million in 2009. Last August the entire 84th floor fitted out with four bedrooms and five bathrooms was listed with $13 million plus hopes by Eureka's co-developers Tab and Eva Fried and the building’s architect Nonda Katsalidis through Cussell. In September Daniel Grollo and wife Kat listed their penthouse with an $8.2 million asking price. It occupies the entire 80th floor in the Southbank tower he built. No details have yet emerged to indicate the sale of either listing.
Former editor-in-chief of Elle and now co-owner of the Hush public relations company Debbie Coffey and husband, photographer Ross Coffey, have traded again in Mosman. Their latest buy is a four-bedroom contemporary house (pictured above), which sold through McGrath agents Michael Coombs and Nicky L’Green for $3.9 million, having sold five years earlier at $4.07 million. The couple bought their redundant house for $3.85 million in 2009 and sold it for $4.35 million to Meian Sun and Zhi Tan. The Coffey's first home in Mosman cost $975,000 back in the late 1990s, Title Tattle seems to recollect.
Having failed last year, Vivian King, the chairman of the CH Warman Group, and his wife, Wendy, have relisted their 3,268-square-metre Wahroonga estate. It’s been scheduled for April 14 auction. Last year it had been listed with price hopes of $8 million through agents Don MacLennan of Richardson and Wrench Lindfield and Tracey McDonald of Chadwick Real Estate. The Water Street property cost $6.1 million in 2002. Set in gardens designed by two landscape luminaries, Peter Fudge and Gordon Sykes, the circa-1905 Federation mansion has five bedrooms, a billiard room, study and multiple formal and informal living and dining areas. The grounds have lawns, a championship-size north-south tennis court and 12-metre heated pool.
Last year’s highest sale in Wahroonga was also on Water Street when Queensland-bound software entrepreneur Paul Phillips secured $6.9 million from tech company entrepreneur Dominic O'Hanlon. An Illoura Avenue property, Cedarbank, surrounded by rhododendrons on its 4,624-square-metre Wahroonga site, has been the suburb’s biggest sale settlement so far this year. Listed for sale with $6 million-plus expectations, it fetched $5.36 million when bought by the Wang family in January. The six-bedroom house last traded in 1993 when Susan Clare, wife of car dealer Robert Clare, sold the F. Glynn Gilling-designed house for $4.35 million in 2008 to Paul Greenhalgh, a former managing partner of Accenture's Asia/Pacific business strategy practice, and his wife, Annette. The Clares had paid $1.6 million in 1993 when it was bought from tie manufacturer David Klippel and his wife, Myra, who purchased it in 1957 for £23,000. The Illoura Avenue grounds come with a pool, tennis court and a self-contained, one-bedroom flat adjacent to the four-car garage.
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Neighbours veteran Ryan "Toadie" Moloney has listed his Malvern East house (pictured above) with $1.2 million hopes. It's been the home of Moloney and his wife, Alison, for about five years. The four-bedroom house sits on a 664-square-metre block that comes with jet pool, studio/workshop and space for four cars. Bennison Mackinnon agent Andrew Luke and Will Trenchard are holding the auction on March 24. Inspectees have commented that Moloney likes his horse racing and cards judging by his attic-style retreat in the house. Moloney, who never followed the Neighbours trend and released a pop single, became a regular on the show in 1996.
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Kate Aujard from Pulse Pharmacies has snapily sold her imposing Hawthorn residence (pictured above). With a tennis court in its 2,800-square-metre grounds, the five-bedroom, four-bathroom English-style house is set on Scotch Hill. It last traded at $9.1 million in 2007 when bought from head hunter David Dick and wife Sandra, so it represented a good test of Melbourne’s prestige market. Tim Picken and Scott Patterson at Kay and Burton haven’t revealed the sale price, but Title Tattle reckons its likely to have sold at around the realistic quote price of $8 million in quick time – within two days of offers being due earlier this month.
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Collingwood’s 2011 Best and Fairest winner, Scott Pendlebury, still hasn’t sold his Newport cottage (pictured above) through Barry Plant Yarraville agent Niels Geraerts. And he’s committed to a $1.3 million Albert Park cottage, which was snapped up post-auction last spring. His two-bedroom Douglas Parade property – just a stroll to Williamstown’s cafes – went to late November auction with $780,000 to $840,000 expectations. Pendlebury bought it for $657,000 around 2007. His latest price guide is between $780,000 and $820,000. The house is being advertised with a sale by set date marketing campaign – with a March 29 desired sale date.
His Albert Park purchase (pictured above) had previously sold at $1.28 million in 2010. The Albert Park cottage came with the former local dairy outbuilding that had been converted to self-contained office.
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Celebrity interior designer Tina Chalabian from Channel Ten show The Renovators has sold her Willoughby home pre-auction for a record price. It was on the market for about three weeks and sold to a family from Mosman, who were among the 160 inspectees. There were 72 inspectees on its first Saturday open. “While we can’t disclose the exact price, we can say it certainly eclipsed the previous suburb record of $2.855 million for a house in Chiltern Avenue,” selling agent Mark O’Brien from Richardson & Wrench Castlecrag. “But it wasn’t beyond expectations, as we were quoting high $2 millions to low $3 millions.” Title Tattle gathers about $2,955,000 was secured for the Remuera Street house. The five-bedroom, four-bathroom house was just a few years old with a huge, level yard and European-style swimming pool. Built by Meadowbank to a Tina C design, it sits on a 911-square-metre block, which cost $1.18 million in 2006. The Chalabians, the 34-year-old interior designer and mother of three who appeared on The Renovators television series and her lawyer husband Sevag, are moving to Northbridge, where they will renovate their $2.2 million acquisition. Since Tina bought her first house 11 years ago, she has renovated five houses and says each sold for a profit. The one in Castlecrag sold for $2,525,000 in 2006 with the block costing $899,000 in 2002. The Killarney Heights property was a closer call having cost $525,000 in 2001 and sold for $610,000 in 2002.
Title Tattle aims to tell its readers first – and if possible before the Radicalterrace blog – so the word from Bondi Beach is that Mark Blumberg has spent $4.75 million buying a two-apartment amalgamation in Pacific Terraces on Notts Avenue. Its a good buy at that price being 232 sq m internal space plus 62 sq m carparking. The units were consolidated in 1989 at a $1.15 million acquisition cost. The latest sale equates to $20,000 an internal square metre in the block where the top priced sale of $3.1 million was paid in 2010, equating to $27,000 an internal square metre. The late Kerry Packer helped finance the Pacific Terraces development by Bill Shipton in the early 1980s. Longtime Bondi Beach agent Ron Doff once recalled that initial sales were difficult. ``The apartments were Surfers Paradise-style, with overly ambitious asking prices,” he said. And there was a credit squeeze.
And don’t say that Title Tattle told you, but Sean Bartholomew, sometimes referred to as Australia’s biggest punter, has listed in Dover Heights. The four-bedroom oceanfront cost $4.8 million in 2006. It’s going to March 29 auction through Michael Pallier at Raine and Horne Double Bay.
