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The two level penthouse atop Woolloomooloo's Crown Gardens has sold for $6.25 million.
The apartment, that last traded for $2.7 million in 2001, spans 460 sqm of the <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-apartment-nsw-woolloomooloo-127836002" target="_blank">north east corner of the resort-style block.</a>
The lower level of the apartment holds the living and entertaining areas.
There's a state-of-the-art kitchen, lounge room and a large outdoor terrace with Weber gas barbecue.
Upstairs homes the three bedrooms, as well as a walled courtyard. 
Lifestyle Property agent Rohan Alexander sold the apartment which has just been leased at $3,000 a week.
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Woolloomooloo penthouse fetches $6.25 million

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The redundant Potts Point apartment of printing magnate Michael Hannan has sold for a building record $6,025,000.
The fourth level 2000 built block cost Hannan $4.85 million in 2015, reflecting over seven percent annual price growth.
Spanning 280 sqm, the apartment has has three bedrooms and three bathrooms, plus a loggia style space adjoining the outdoor terracing.
Hannan, a non executive director at PMP, has recently upgraded to the $8,325,000 duplex penthouse crowning the Ikon building up the street.
The three bedroom apartment spans 340 sqm of living space with 95 sqm of terraces. It was bought from New York-based private equity boss Leonard Harlan and wife Fleur.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 
 
 
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Printer Michael Hannan upgrades in Potts Point

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The luxury Cottesloe apartment of Elizabeth Gaines, the new CEO to Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's mining company Fortsecue Metals, and husband Kevin Manuel, is under contract.
There was no price indication through Andrew Porteous at William Porteous Property International.
The apartment cost the couple $3.57 million in 2016 when they bought from the Hughes car dealership family, just after Gaines was made CFO at the company.
It became their WA base after they sold on Sydney northern beaches, the former home of model and Myer ambassador Jennifer Hawkins and builder husband Jake Wall at North Curl Curl.
The three level Cottesloe apartment is in a block of just four designed by the architect Blane Brackenridge. 
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
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Fortescue Metals boss Elizabeth Gaines' Cottesloe apartment goes under contract

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Former World Cup winning Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer and wife Ruth have sold their Centennial Park bolthole.
<a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-apartment-nsw-centennial+park-126602142" target="_blank">The apartment</a> fetched $703,000, easily above the suburb's $622,500 one bedroom apartment median price.
The Southern Highlands based couple had sought $720,000.
They have owned the Cook Road apartment for five years.
It was a bolthole when they visited Sydney, every few weeks from the Southern Highlands.
“We are coming to Sydney less and less, and we thought it was not really a good use of the money,” Dwyer said.
Dwyer, who coached Sydney club Randwick before becoming the Wallabies coach in the early 1980s, have been in the Highlands since 2002.
They downsized in 2014 when they sold Two Gates Farm, a 40-hectare property at Robertson.
They had bought it as land in 2002 for $865,000 then secured $4.7 million for the Richard Rowe-designed pavillion-style house that sat in Annie Wilkes-designed gardens. 
They spent many years living in the English countryside and were looking for a similar feel for their rural retreat.
The couple downsize to a three-bedroom house on 2,000 square metres in Bowral. 
Dwyer won the Rugby World Cup in 1991 against England at Twickenham.
Dwyer coached Australia in 74 Tests and in 144 matches overall, winning 99 of them. His 70 per cent strike rate makes him the most successful coach in Australian rugby history. 
Earlier this year Dwyer says he would be interested in joining a national coaching panel that Michael Cheika signalled he wanted to be established by the end of the year. 
Dwyer attended his first coaching education course at Hawkesbury Agricultural College in the mid-1970s.
After playing 347 matches as a backrower in Randwick's Myrtle Green, Dwyer went on to coach Randwick to six premierships.
This article was first published in the Daily Telegraph.
 
 
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Former Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer departs the east

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Paul H Dainty and Moreen Anderson, authors of The Capable Executive, have spent $1.5 million on an apartment in Melbourne's Docklands.
The 27th floor in the 2013-built Yarra Point building has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a study.
A balcony off the open plan living and dining area looks out over the Yarra River and the city skyline.
The unit last traded for 1,590,950 in 2013.
This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian Mansions Australia section.
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Paul H Dainty and Moreen Anderson buy Docklands apartment

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<div>Waratahs backorder Michael Wells was the buyer of an $890,000 Lane Cove apartment at onsite auction earlier this month.</div>
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The 24 year old Wells, who is studying commerce law at Macquarie University, gave his girlfriend, Amelia a big hug after the hammer came down.
They were up against six other registered bidders, at the auction conducted by Belle Lane Cove agent Patrick Lang.
The auction was broadcast live on Sky News's Saturday afternoon real estate show.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property/9-19-ralston-st-lane-cove-north-nsw-2066" target="_blank">pre-auction price guidance was $825,000</a>, but the opening bid was $845,000.
Wells' first bid was next at $860,000.
At 6 foot 3 inches he stood out in the auction crowd.
The refinished 1960s unit last sold for $575,000 in 2011.
CoreLogic calculate the Land Cove two bedroom median unit price sits at $830,000.
It had been a $600 a week rental during 2016.
As a youngster he was selected to the Australian Sevens Program for the 2014/15 Sevens World Series after strong performances for the North Harbour Rays in the 2014 National Rugby Championship.
He has also represented Australian Schoolboys in 2011 and Australia at the U20 level and has played for Northern Suburbs in Sydney’s Shute Shield.
 This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Waratahs backorder Michael Wells buys in Lane Cove

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The king of Melbourne casual dining Chris Lucas has bought a Sydney bolthole ahead of the opening of the Chin Chin restaurant in Surry Hills this month.
Lucas, head of The Lucas Group, has quietly paid $3.4 million for a two bedroom Potts Point apartment. 
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It is in the 2015 built SJB Architects designed Wylde Street building ensuring the Geelong-born restaurateur gets gun-barrel views over Sydney Harbour.
Lucas is spending time in Sydney as any day now his first restaurant outside of Melbourne will be opened.
Chin Chin in Melbourne still sees lines of customers seeking meals at the popular Flinders Lane eatery which opened in 2011.
It will be located on the ground floor of the Griffiths Teas Building on Wentworth Avenue.
Lucas is viewed as something of a serial restaurateur, being joined in his next Melbourne project with Sydney restaurateurs Martin Benn and Vicki Wild, who closed their acclaimed fine diner Sepia to make the move to Melbourne to join Lucas in running the new venture. His group are set to employ 1000 staff, including 200 chefs by year's end.
His two bedroom, two bathroom Potts Point apartment last traded off the plan in 2013 when Oceanlinx chief financial officer Colin Parbery paid $2.45 million.
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Michael and Judy McMahon, the longtime owners of Rose Bay's iconic restaurant Catalina's, were previous owners in the complex.
The couple sold their Potts Point apartment late last year for $3.3 million having paid $2.6 million for the three bedroom apartment off the plan in 2013.
This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. 
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King of Melbourne casual dining Chris Lucas buys in Potts Point

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The children's TV show host Jack Yabsley has settled on his first apartment in Sydney's inner west.
Yabsley, who is best known for hosting Seven's Saturday Disney when he was in his early 20s, paid $715,000 for the Ashfield apartment with girlfriend Lauren Wiley, a production and casting administrator at Michael Cassel Group. 
Yabsley, now 31, has also taken to directing.
He has directed as written short films The Virgin and Super Nice, as well as directing Kings of Baxter, a documentary following 14 juvenile justice detainees creating a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Set in a 1940s block of eight, the Art Deco style two bedroom apartment on the ground floor matched the $715,000 CoreLogic median price for a two bedroom unit in the suburb.
It came with a study and a renovated bathroom.
Belle Property Ashfield agents Tommy Ajaka and Rick Nicholson sold the apartment that last traded for $437,000 in 2012, reflecting near 12 percent annual growth.
Yabsley, who has worked extensively in children's TV, was recently the host of Seven gameshow Match It.
He is occasionally a reporter on Sydney Weekender.
Jack's hosting career began in 2004 when he was a regular presenter on Totally Wild on Network Ten.
He moved to the Seven Network and hosted Saturday Disney from 2007 to 2011.
Last year he was a voice in the family animation series Hoot Hoot and Go!
Wiley has previously worked at the Sydney Theatre company under the co-artistic directorship of A-listers Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton.
This article was first published in the Daily Telegraph.
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Children's TV show host Jack Yabsley buys in Sydney's inner west

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The former Federal Minster Ian Macfarlane has bought an apartment on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
He has paid a savvy $1.25 million for an apartment in the Jedda complex which <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-apartment-qld-mooloolaba-123072514" target="_blank">overlooks Mooloolaba Beach</a>.
The apartment last traded for $1.25 million in 2006 and then was completely refurbished three years ago.
Villa Prestige Property agent Linda Shore-Perez was asking $1.5 million for the apartment that had been on the market for nearly 200 days.
Set on the top floor, the unit has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a private rooftop with jacuzzi.
There are views to the Point Cartwright lighthouse and Old Women Island.
The Mount Lofty-based Macfarlane represented the Groom electorate for 18 years before retiring last year, then becoming the chief executive of the Queensland Resources Council.
This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian Mansion Australia section.
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Ian Macfarlane buys Sunshine Coast apartment

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The Sir Norman Foster-designed Lumiere Sydney CBD apartment of cyber bullying warrior Tara Moss is under contract.
Moss, who recently hosted the critically acclaimed ABC documentary Cyberhate, has taken advantage of the <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/68978-tv-presenter-tara-moss-relists-sydney-cbd-pad" target="_blank">booming Sydney property market</a>, although it did spend 88 days on the market.
She had failed to sell the two bedroom Lumiere apartment back in 2012 when it came with $1.06 million hopes. After the five year property boom, that seems to be slowing down, it's been sold presumably around its $1.65 million asking price through Focus Property Management agent Bernie Mitchell.
It's a huge win for Moss, who will have scored nearly 100 percent price growth since her $850,000 purchase in 2008, a year before she married poet and philosophy professor Brendt Sellheim, 
The unit had also been a consistent rental after Moss' tree change eight years ago to the Blue Mountains with her Sellheim.
The couple live in a three bedroom Blackheath retreat with their six year old daughter.
The acreage on the outskirts of town had been operating as the popular weekend cafe Bushrock Cafe before they bought it for $585,000 in 2009. 
In the Sydney rental market, Moss found tenant for the Bathurst Street apartment initially at $895 a week, then $1,000, and most recently $1,150 a week, a steady increase over its five years rental stint.
Set in the 2007 Foster + Partners designed Lumiere Tower, the 107 sqm apartment features a large courtyard from its commanding 15th level position.
The Canada born TV presenter has been handy with the pen since she published her debut novel when she was 23.
Named Fetish, the novel went on to win the Sassy Award for Best Novel in 1999 and was shortlisted for the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel.
Moss, UNICEF Australia's national ambassador, has written 11 bestselling fiction and non-fiction books.
The much in demand public speaker recently gave a keynote talk in Adelaide at the Mobile-ising Women in Business conference.
Her ABC six part series tells her own story of dealing with online threats and examines the phenomenon of online abuse.
This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
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