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The former Kensingston home of the popular chef and owner of Melbourne’s iconic Vue De Monde restaurant Shannon Bennett and his wife, Madeleine West, has been re-sold.
It's a chef’s dream within the Nicholas Murray-designed residence.
The 5 Bruce Street, Kensington property was for private sale with an asking price of $2,325,000.
A young professional couple from Port Melbourne snapped up the five-bedroom Victorian for $2,265,000 earlier this month, the Herald Sun reported.
Decked out in the best appliances on offer, the home also includes is a barbecue kitchen with a pizza oven.
The property boasts Jack Merlo-designed gardens, a Japanese pond and a self-cleaning lap pool.
The Kensington<a href="https://www.urban.com.au/property-observer" target="_blank"> </a>property last listed with price hopes of $1.5 million to $1.65 million fetched $1.65 million in early 2013.
Located on Bruce Street, Kensington, the four-bedroom home has a Joost Bakker herb wall plus a vegetable garden on the roof of the double garage.
It had been sold to Bennett for $820,000 in 2004.
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Former Kensington home of chef Shannon Bennett resold

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The buyer behind Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart's Port Hacking home is former politician Robert McClelland.
The former Labor Party member turned judge bought the five bedroom waterfront from Stuart late last year as the coach had set up camp nearer his club, moving in to the home of former prime minister Kevin Rudd. 
Stuart owned the home since paying $2.65 million in 2011 when he was the coach at the Parramatta Eels.
He bought it from Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe who made a loss on the property, buying it for $2.9 million in 2003.
Stuart spent over $500,000 on extending the property by 437 sqm.
Set on 940 sqm, the home has a rumpus room with bar, an inground pool and a waterfront which includes a pontoon, jetty, ramp and slip rails.
McClelland was a Labor Party member from 1996 until September 2013 and between 2007 and 2011 was the Attorney-General of Australia.
He and his wife Michelle, who sits on the board of St George Rugby League Club, listed their five bedroom waterfront home with swimming pool in Oatley for $1.975 million.
It cost them $1.4 million for in 2010.
 
  
 
 
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Ricky Stuart's Port Hacking home bought by former politician Robert McClelland

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The interior designer Darren Palmer has snappily sold his home in Edgecliff, as the judge from the hit Channel 9 renovation show, The Block heads off to Bondi Beach.
Stylishly transformed since it was purchased for $1.35 million in mid-2013, the Walker Avenue property was tipped to fetch upwards of $2 million.
The three bedroom, two bathroom home secured a bullish $2.1 million on Friday evening through Pauline Goodyer of Goodyer Real Estate who had the listing inconjunction with David Malouf at LJ Hooker Double Bay.
It sold to a young couple who fancied the walk-in, do nothing design offering. 
The fully renovated Federation Edgecliff home had been scheduled for December 1 auction by Darren and his partner, the cosmetic industry CEO, Olivier Duvillard. 
The couple have decided to live the beach style with their son.
Spread across 470 sqm, it is a five bedroom, four bathroom Bondi Beach house with a detached self-contained studio surrounded by lush gardens for their three dogs and a cat to roam around. 
No doubt Darren, channelling classic Hamptons influences, will give it a soothing coastal palette.
It was bought from ABC’s Four Corners reporter Deb Whitmont and her partner, Q&amp;A executive producer Peter McEvoy.
The nice guy judge on The Block, who came to prominence in 2011 after he started filling in for estate agent John McGrath, runs his own successful interior design called Darren Palmer Design Studio.
Raised in central Queensland - which he once described as living in pretty much a design void - Palmer started out in graphic design. 
He turned to interior designing aged 27, with the work of Christian Liaigre an early inspiration.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
 
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