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Morgan Stanley’s Bryce Thompson and JBWere’s Renata Das have emerged as the mystery buyer of a former Wallaby’s Centennial Park home.
They paid $7.25 million for the Lang Rd, Centennial Park, home of former Wallaby Paul Darveniza.
The residence also had a second residence on its 1080 sqm block.
It sold for $7.25 million in May through Ray White Double Bay agent, Nic Krasnostein and colleague Alan Fettes.
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Darveniza, is an associate professor and neurologist at St Vincent’s, and his wife, Anne Charteris, also a doctor, are moving to a garden apartment in The Benson in Rose Bay that cost $4.25m off-the-plan.
They’d lived at the six-bedroom home set behind a sandstone fence for 23 years.
They paid $1.6m in 1997.
The Centennial Park mansion is an investment for the couple who planning to stay in Paddington home that they bought for $3.18m in 2015.
Marketing material suggests the property will likely see the main house renting out for $3000 a week and the second home $1000 a week.
Darveniza was one of seven Wallabies known as the “magnificent seven”.
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Buyer of former Wallaby Paul Darveniza's Centennial Park home emerge

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Australian cricketer Ed Cowan and wife, TV and radio presenter Virginia Lette have sold their Centennial Park apartment well before its scheduled auction.
It sold well above its $950,000 to $1.045 million price guide according to Ray White Double Bay selling agent Evan Williams.
The left-handed opening batsman has owned the <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-nsw-centennial+park-122660386" target="_blank">penthouse level apartment</a> since 2012 when he paid $775,000. There was a fire at the apartment block several years ago which triggered a renovation.
The property has two bedrooms, one bathroom, a study and features a 59 sqm rooftop terrace with district views.
Cowan made his Australia test debut in 2011 and turns out for Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League when not on international duty.
Cowan recently spent $2.9 million on a Paddington property.
 
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Ed Cowan scores early Centennial Park exit

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Television executive producer Nick Murray and his wife Lizzy pulled their Federation-era Centennial Park home from last weekend’s intended auction.
It was offered with $7.5 million plus hopes through McGrath agent Ben Collier.
It has been updated since they bought <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-centennial+park-121107166" target="_blank">the five-bedroom home on Robertson Road</a> in 2009 for $5.81 million from fund manager Neil Carter and his wife Alison.
The Murrays intend to spend more time planting vegies and raising chooks at Scribbly Gums, the Berrima property they bought for $1.8 million last year, since their children have finished school.
Nick is the managing director and co-owner of Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder. Its shows include Bondi Rescue and The Checkout.
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Centennial Park Federation pulled from auction

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Sydney has unsurprisingly dominated the latest most expensive housing suburbs.
The figures, correct as of December, show Centennial Park topping the list with a median value of $6.29 million per house.
Point Piper edges Darling Point after it's $39 million sale of Villa del Mare, $39.9 million of Mandalay and two more on Wunulla Road which sold for $28 million and $18 million.
Peppermint Grove in Perth is the only non-New South Wales suburb.
Vaucluse's surprisingly misses out on the top three despite Jamie Packers $70 million sale of La Mer in August. 
Whale Beach comes in at 10th place. It's latest sales see Google Australia boss Maile Carnegie and her executive consultant husband Charles outlay $3.52 million <a href="https://www.domain.com.au/7-malo-road-whale-beach-nsw-2107-2012010652" target="_blank">on a Whale Beach weekender. </a>
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Maile Carnegie was appointed to head Google in mid-2013, moving across from her role as managing director at Procter &amp; Gamble.
Charles Carnegie heads The Waypoint Group corporate advisory firm. The Malo Road property last traded when bought by the Hatty family for $180,000 around 36 years ago. It was listed through LJ Hooker Palm Beach’s David Edwards.
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Sydney dominates most expensive housing suburbs

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Dual international Craig Wing has quickly sold his former Centennial Park home.
Just back from playing rugby union for five years in Japan, along with the recent World Cup, Wing figured the 1900 terrace was too big for him.
Spread over <a href="https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/https://www.ourestates.com.au/15599085" target="_blank">two levels on a 210 sqm parcel</a>, the home has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Adam Regan and Dean Emerson of Our Estates had an asking price of $2.85 million for the terrace that cost $1.3 million in 2003 when he was playing in the NRL for the Sydney Rooster.
Wing, who has done some media work since being back in Sydney, retains his Bondi apartment which cost $666,000 in 2004.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Dual international Craig Wing sells Centennial Park home

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Lactura, the long-time Centennial Park home of high profile TV executive David Leckie and his charity cheerleader wife, Skye, was pulled from scheduled auction.
It seems the interested parties just weren't ready to buy. The new auction date is now September 17 with no amendments to the $11.5 million price guide by McGrath agents Ben Collier and Dominqiue Ogilvie.
The Leckie's have owned the grand two storey home on the tightly held Lang Road since 1998 when David was chief executive of the Nine Network under Kerry Packer.
He paid $2.5 million for the 1910 residence. They are looking towards the inner east harbourside suburbs for an apartment along with a working farm on their radar too.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Leckie's Lactura, Centennial Park auction delayed

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The newly formed The Agency website went live yesterday.
But with no sign of their star recruit.
Matt Lahood isn't allowed to take the helm until April after his <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/59566-mcgrath-loses-head-of-sales-matt-lahood-after-two-decades" target="_blank">defection from the McGrath group</a>.
The months of speculation has obviously been accompanied by a few secret signups, lesser-known agents who have joined an array of the many existing agents within the Perth-based group being launched nationally by Ausnet Financial Services.
There are just the nine Sydney residential property listings.
The group's sales team is now headlined by Ben Collier who kicks off his listings with Kathy Ward's Centennial Park offering.
The<a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-centennial+park-124601802" target="_blank"> Lang Road holding</a> (below) was bought for $2,505,000 in 2001 by the boss of modelling agency Chic Management. 
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Collier's colleague Brad Gillespie has three listings.  
The Agency will reportedly offer more lucrative splits for the agents.
Franchise agencies usually take a 50:50 split on all the agents’ sales commissions, with more generous 60:40 splits in the agents’ favour in some cases.
However, The Agency offers agents a starting split of 75:25 split in the agents’ favour, rising to 80:20 and 85:15 as higher targets are met.
The ASX was advised yesterday that Perth-based real estate and financial services group Ausnet Financial Services Limited has entered into a licence agreement and an option to acquire Top Level Real Estate Pty Ltd as part of its planned national roll-out of its The Agency platform, its so-called disruptive and fast growing real estate sales and property management business.
Top Level is the eastern seaboard real estate business with 17 agents, including the following:
Matt Lahood (CEO) – Commences 3 April 2017
Steven Chen (Director of Projects) – Commences 15 February 2017
Maria Carlino (Director of Property Management)
Thomas McGlynn (Director of Sales and Chief Auctioneer)
Ben Collier (Property Partner)
Shad Hassen (Property Partner)
Ausnet advised subject to completion of two non-binding agreements by 30 June 2017, Top Level will have expand by a further 23 agents, with 3,700 properties under management.
Under the licence agreement, Top Level will have rights to use The Agency brand and intellectual property on the East Coast of Australia, while Ausnet will retain an option to acquire Top Level within the next 12 months.
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The Agency unveils website with Chic model boss Centennial Park offering

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The retired veteran television chief David Leckie and his wife Skye have briefly rented out their long-held home, Lactura home in Centennial Park.
It's whispered it has been leased to Boy George, while he's in Sydney for upcoming The Voice Australia television show. The legendary Culture Club singer is set to sit on the singing contest judging panel, together with Seal and Delta Goodrem after Jessie J and the Madden brothers ruled out the role.
The home could be securing some $27,500 plus a month during the three months of the series.
Past judges from The Voice have stayed in expensive homes including Ricky Martin who rented The Bronte Wave House, a Walter Barda designed beach house that sold last year for $15.65 million.
The former high profile TV executive and his charity cheerleader wife will divide their time between their recent Woollahra acquisition and their Robertson, Southern Highlands retreat, Mulberry Farm.
Their $8 million plus Woollahra acquisition marked a return to Holdsworth Street where they have Charlotte O’Neil working on the new interiors after the purchase through The Agency’s Ben Collier.
The giants of the Sydney social scene initially wanted more than $12 million for Lactura on its listing last July.
The listing agents Ben Collier and Brad Pillinger were rushing potential buyers through ahead of the leasing.
They signalled $10.5 million would secure the 1910 residence on three month delayed settlement terms.
Skye, who rose to prominence in the late 80s as the group public relations officer for retailer David Jones, has been a devoted charity fundraiser helping raise millions over the years especially as the Gold Dinner ambassador for Sydney's Children Hospital Foundation.
The couple have owned on Lang Road since paying $2.5 million in 1998 when David was chief executive of the Nine Network under Kerry Packer.
He recently finished up his consultancy at Kerry Stokes' Channel 7.
This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph.
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Boy George rumoured to have leased David Leckie's Centennial Park home

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Telco Amaysim co-founder and former executive chairman, Peter O'Connell and modelling agent, Kathy Ward have sold their home in Centennial Park for $6.5 million.
Contracts on the five-bedroom 110 Lang Road home were reportedly on Monday evening with a local buyer.
The 1920s character house, which sits on a 834sq m site, last sold for $2.5 million in 2001.
O'Connell, a former commercial lawyer at Minter Ellison and Gilbert &amp; Tobin, and Ward also co-founded top modelling agency Chic Management.
It was sold by the newly formed The Agency that has sold properties worth more than $40 million in its first six weeks of operation in Sydney.
James Ledgerwood (below) has joined The Agency as partner after selling property for 13 years in Queensland. 
He has moved back to Sydney, where his family is from, and will be focussing on Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
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The group's sales team is headlined by Ben Collier who kicked off his listings with Kathy Ward's Centennial Park offering.
 
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Chic sale in Centennial Park

Sydney&#39;s high profile retired TV executive, David Leckie and his charity cheerleader wife, Skye, have finally sold their Centennial Park home, Lactura

Whispers are their patience yielded a $10 million plus buyer, which was an impressive price given eleventh hour competitive interest.

The grand two storey Lang Road home hosted many private soirees during their near two decade ownership.

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They had paid $2.5 million in 1998&nbsp;when David was chief executive of the Nine Network under Kerry Packer.

The 1910 residence has five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a grand formal lounge and dining room with marble fireplaces.&nbsp;

The Will Dangar designed gardens surround the Hamptons style outdoor entertaining area which&nbsp;features a heated pool.

There is a pool house with guest studio and tiered TV room where Beckie was able to watch the evening news and sports from when he ruled the network, at Nine and then Channel 7.

Earlier this year Boy George rented the home while he was a judge on The Voice Australia for around&nbsp;$27,500 plus a month.

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Ben Collier at The Agency sold the home after near neighbour, estate agent Bob Guth introduced the eventual underbidder.

It missed out on the suburb record set by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and his wife Annie two years ago some eight doors away. They paid $12 million for the 1918 trophy home Braelin.

The Beckie&#39;s initially thought on downsizing to a harbourside apartment, but instead paid $9 million for a house in Woollahra.

They also spent $1.2 million, on a two bedroom apartment for their son, Harry around the corner.

This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph.

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