Merchant banker Jim Dominguez and his wife, Suzanne list their Ken Woolley-designed triplex Darling Point apartment

Merchant banker Jim Dominguez and his wife, Suzanne have listed their Darling Point apartment (pictured below), in the Ken Woolley-designed triplex complex, The Point Villas. It has been listed through Blacket & Glasgow agent Peter Blacket. It last traded in 2005 when bought from the retired solicitor Jim Creer for $6 million. It previously had traded in 2002 when acquired by the Creer family for $4.7 million from developers Bill Shipton and Mark Bouris. The Creer's previous home, a Darling Point villa, was sold to superstars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman for $4.75 million in 1998. The Dominguezes sold the 1877-vintage Bulwarra, their two-storey, sandstone house on the Hunters Hill riverfront, to actress Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, for $10.25 million in 2004. The Dominguez couple plan to downsize given they spend plenty of time at their Palm Beach retreat. Title Tattle credits Dominguez - who co-founded the Dominguez Barry Samuel Montagu broking house turned investment bank - and his 1988 purchase at Palm Beach - snapping up a double block for just $215,000 - as starting the gradual finance industry acquisition of much of the pricey playground property.

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The retired AFL football champion Jason Akermanis has listed his Aberfeldie family home (pictured below) - reportedly given his coaching role with the North Albury Hoppers. Megan Akermanis, the wife of the Brownlow medalist has the four-bedroom house listed for June 1 auction through Lou Rendina at Rendina Real Estate Kensington. More than $2 million is being quoted to those inspecting the house which is set amid Japaense-inspired gardens. "Undeniably one of Aberfeldie's most illustrious, impressive properties, this refined, faultlessly renovated family residence's elegant formal entertaining areas give period character a fresh, vibrant feel," says Lou Rendina. "It is a home of landmark luxury - and benchmark beauty," the marketing says. The house cost $1.51 million in 2007. In 2011 Akermanis played for the local side, the Abers in the Essendon District Football League for one game. He has been appointed captain-coach of the Hoppers for 2013, with the option of an extension in 2014. Akermanis played with Brisbane, and then almost three seasons at the Western Bulldogs.

Motor racing legend Allan Moffat and his wife Sue have listed their Toorak apartment (pictured below) with price expectations around $2.5 million. The Martin Court property is within a boutique duplex spread over the entire 312-square-metre top floor. It features three bedrooms, four bathrooms and a home theatre room. Marcus Chiminello of Marshall White has listed the apartment for a private sale. Title Tattle recalls the couple paid $2.25 million in 2011. It had been passed in at its 2010 auction at $2.7 million.

Austria-based film producer John Weiley and wife Susanne have sold their Seven Mile, their 3.5-hectare Broken Head property set in coastal scrub on the outskirts of Byron Bay. The four-bedroom Neville Quarry-designed house comes with an infinity pool, which overlooks the ocean. Title Tattle gathers about $3.75 million was secured. Graham Dunn of Byron Bay Property Sales had the property listing which had been rebranded as Oceania in its latest marketing endeavours. Seven Mile was the last house designed by Neville Quarry, who died in 2004.

Half the land is rainforest and the other is pony paddocks. Title Tattle recalls when the filmmaking sea-changer sold his Paddington terrace, Jersey House in 2004 to move into their then new house which comes with a mix of tallowwood walls, brushbox floorboards and rosewood framed sliding glass doors in the main house. There's also a beach shack and studio in its grounds. With $100 million box office takings, Weiley's first IMAX big screen film, Antarctica, ranks as the second highest grossing Australian production, after Crocodile Dundee. The couple reside in Austria, Susanne's home country to be closer to their children, who are in Europe. Originally from the NSW north coast, Weiley left the region for about 12 years to work for the BBC in London, and bought at Broken Head in 1997 for $770,000 from local solicitor Bob Friend and wife Vera. The Seven Mile Beach Road property is set 33 metres above sea level, close to the 8.49-hectare holding sold by Melbourne's Smorgon family for $6.3 million to former WorleyParsons executive Russell Staley. The Staley purchase came with approval for an eight-bedroom, Kerry Hill-designed house on its holding of 460 metres beach frontage. The Staley holding had been previously traded at $5,020,000 in 2005 when sold by actor Paul Hogan and long-time colleagues John Cornell and Allan Johnston, who had paid $265,000 in 1983.

The modernist 1968 house (pictured below) designed by architect Peter Hirst of Harry Seidler & Associates, has been listed with $3 million-plus hopes through Tim Fraser of LJ Hooker Wahroonga-Pymble for May 30 auction. Set on 2384 square metres, the five-bedroom, two-bathroom property was built for the Blunt family in 1969. Its the home of George Pethard, owner of steel-manufacturing business Nevco Engineering, and his wife, Karen. They bought the property with pool for $2.8 million in 2007 from the Heath family. It was renovated in 2006 by lawyer Derek Heath and his wife, Elizabeth with oversight from Lesiuk Architects.

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The Wenona School has purchased the Independent Theatre, at 269 Miller Street, North Sydney, from the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust for $4.97 million. The Edwardian theatre, originally named the North Sydney Coliseum, opened in January 1911, and from 1939 to 1977 was home to the grand dame of Australian theatre, the late Doris Fitton. It has been used as a boxing hall, a vaudeville hall, car service depot and even an ammunition store. It now has a recently refurbished 300 seat two-tiered auditorium and reception foyer on the 916 square metre land holding. The artists who have current booking with the Independent Theatre throughout 2013 will continue to perform. The sale followed an apporach by the AETT to Wenona, the AETT chairman, Lloyd Waddy confirmed. Waddy thanked the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and previous donors to the Seaborn Broughton and Walford Foundation, and The Friends of the Independent. The AETT bought the theatre in 2004 for a second time from a group of philanthropists headed by Dr Rodney Seaborn who had saved the venue when purchasing the Independent Theatre at North Sydney for $600,000 in 1993 after the financial collapse of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust which had bought it in 1988 for $450,000, with plans to restore it.

Penhallow, the prestige 1950s Castlecrag residence has been listed with $15 million plus hopes for the first time in 28 years. It comes with water views from the two houses set on 4400 square metres of landscaped gardens.

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It has been listed through Mark O'Brien of Richardson & Wrench Castlecrag in conjunction with Bob Guth of BradfieldCleary Double Bay. It was built by David Blacklock, the Slazenger sports equipment company managing director, in 1953 to a design by architect John Brogan. The Blacklock family were responsible for much of the suburb's post-war subdivision re-development.

Its subsequent 28-year ownership by Richard and Joan Crebbin saw the 1960s installation of Marion Best Hall furnishings into the home including, according to the NSW Historic Houses Trust, a circular Marengo striped wool shag rug. The accompanying images show details of the front and back of the rug. Richard Crebbin headed Marrickville Holdings whose brands included Miracle margarine, Mother’s Choice flour and Eta peanut butter.

The Crebbins were among Marion Hall Best's most important clients throughout the 1960s and 1970s as she refurnished Penhallow with expensive international imports on more than one occasion.

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The Crebbins acted as patrons to artists, craftspeople, and to Best herself. The Crebbin's had a collection of Australian art that included paintings by Sir William Dobell, Sir Sidney Nolan and Charles Blackman along with sculptures by Robert Klippel, Gerald Lewers and Clement Meadmore. In 1966 the Sydney Morning Herald reported his chauffeur drove him to work each day in a 1962 maroon Cadillac with the number plate RC 900. The Linden Way grounds come with tennis court and swimming pool. The vendors Sandra and Paul Salteri, who is the chairman of Tenix Ltd secured the house in 1985 for $1 million. Title Tattle seems to recall its name, Penhallow stems from a Cornwall hamlet.

The veteran technology investor Neill Miller has sold his Rose Bay mansion for a rumoured $30 million. Its the third sale in Sydney at $30 million or above so far this year. There was no public marketing of the contemporary Rose Bay abode built on the harbourfront reserve location at the base of the steep cul-de-sac sandwiched between the Kambala and Kincoppal-Rose Bay schools. The land was bought for $7.75 million in 2002 along with a $3 million acquistion in 2005 of a portion hived off from Sacred Heart convent land holdings.  Their dress circle virtual property is close to the $15 million sale recorded last year when the Anne Lewis harbourfront house (pictured) sold for $15 million through Ken Jacobs of Christie's International inconjunction with Andrew Livingston of McGrath.  While not out of the woods yet, Sydney's prestige property market has made an emphatic start to the year with the Point Piper harbourfront Altona selling for more than $50 million after six years on the market. And there was also the recent $33 million sale of the Point Piper waterfront mansion nicknamed the Bang and Olufsen house. Both mansions have been sold to Chinese buyers. Neill Miller and his wife, Katherine, aren't moving far, having bought elsewhere on the Rose Bay foreshore. The latest unconfirmed deal is reputed to have been notched up through Michael Pallier, the principal of the newly opened Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty. The drums were beating about the mooted sale on twitter over the weekend. Miller moved to Sydney in the early 1980s, having started an IT database system in a garden shed in South Africa with his first cousin Derek Miller. Since November 2010 Miller has been involved in Energy & Carbon Intelligence System, an enterprise software solution that streamlines for businesses the capture, reporting and management of environmental data such as energy, fuel, water and carbon emissions. The retired IT entrepreneur Neill Miller sold a prized oceanfront North Bondi Beach residential building site for $14 million in early 2011 to Michael Darling, the chairman of Caledonia Investments and scion of the pastoral and mining family, and his wife, Manuela Darling-Gansser. The somewhat neglected five-storey apartment block is being transformed into a luxury condominium compound for the family who will be exiting establishment Bellevue Hill. The Darlings meanwhile live in a 1935 Hardy Wilson-designed colonial Georgian revival residence which they bought in 1991 from the merchant banker James Yonge for $8.2 million. Set on the rock shelf known as Mermaid Rocks on the ocean shore at North Bondi, the building which comprises 10 apartments that Miller consolidated at a cost of $14 million between 2006 and 2008, is being rebuilt to a design by Nick Tobias of Tobias Architects. The Art Deco 1930s Ramsgate Avenue block was marketed as the only privately owned apartment building with direct ocean access on the Ben Buckler peninsula through Martin Maskin at Raine & Horne Double Bay in conjunction with Mary Anne Cronin at Raine & Horne Bondi Beach.

Moebius House, the Sydney eastern suburbs coastal home (pictured below), has been listed for sale. Its owner-architect, Tony Owen practices liquid architecture design - projects parametrically designed using 3D software. The Dover Heights home's name derives from the geometrical term, Moebius Strip, a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. With views of the CBD, Opera House, Bridge and Sydney Harbour, the curvaceous passive solar design has been recognised as setting a benchmark in environmental innovation. Its had international focus when Lady Gaga was interviewed at the home by the US internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton. The listing agents Andrew Hennessy and Michael Pallier of Sydney Sotheby's International Realty will be seeking offers above $4.5 million for the four-bedroom, three-level house which was completed in 2007. The 525 square metre block had cost $1.97 million in 2007.

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