Colette Dinnigan

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Fashion designer turned tourism property entrepreneur Collette Dinnigan has sold her Paddington charmer for $1.7 million.
It was on the market for 80 days after failing to draw any bids at one of the last March onsite auctions before shutdown.
There had been two bidders who declined to go higher than the $1,725,000 vendor bid for the two-bedroom Mary Pl 1850s home.
The BresicWhitney agency negotiated its sale as market confidence bounced back.
The investment was bought in 2017 from her brother, creative director Seamus, who paid $1.08 million in 2015. They retain a Darling Point house, with retreats at Bowral, Milton and a Rosedale Airbnb cottage which burnt down during the bushfires.
Dinnigan and her husband Bradley Cocks, have been in Italy, where they were quarantined in their 500-year-old Puglia farmhouse, but flew back to Sydney last week on Qatar Airways.
“While lockdown has been difficult in many ways, it’s given us time to work on our property, planting vegetables, repairing the dry stone walls, painting, cooking and experiencing a more sustainable, simplistic life which we have loved and don’t want to leave behind when restrictions lift,” Dinnigan noted.
Sydney has 18,000 listings, 30 per cent down on the same time last year. Private treaty vendors typically face a 36-day wait for a sale, with a 3 per cent discount required on asking ­prices, according to CoreLogic.
This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph
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Collette Dinnigan sells Paddington investment

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Colette Dinnigan and her husband Bradley Cocks are set to implement grand plans as international boutique tourism operators.
Underpinned by their popular decor style, they got their start with their two cottages at Milton on the NSW South Coast, but now see glamourous international horizons.
They have secured a 400 year old Puglia, Italy farmhouse (above) which they will be converting into an luxury airbnb offering after its restoration.
It was one of 20 prospective homes they spotted when they spent their year in Italy as suiting their new-found brief.
Puglia is popular with English tourists.
Their yet to be launched Bespoke Homes website suggests they have also quietly picked up a 1915 Darling Point offering which could headline the local rental offerings.
The home was recently listed through Ben Collier at The Agency off market with $6.5 million hopes.
With secluded garden oasis swimming pool, it was once owned by another fashionista legend, Maggie Taberrer paid $710,000 in 1987 and sold four years later for $1.16 million.
Dinnigan, who this month was awarded an AO, is now concentrating on interiors and property development with Cocks.
She reckons the world of interiors is not too dissimilar to fashion.
"It’s about colour, textiles — but it’s something you can do without being on a program like Paris Fashion Week,’’ Dinnigan advised recently.
This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph.
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