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Greenwich&rsquo;s newest luxury apartment development Akoya will offer facilities including a virtual golf simulator.

It is an eight-storey, 40-apartment seniors living development currently being built at 2 Greenwich Rd.&nbsp;

The project is being developed by the Alceon Group in partnership with NGS Super, which was established in 1988 as an industry super fund for people who work in education and community-focused organisations. Alceon is headed by Trevor Loewensohn and Phil Green.

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The 2140 sqm site was bought in late 2019 at $18 million after Northside Group&rsquo;s Greenwich clinic, the second hospital to open under entreprenuer Paul Ramsay in 1973, was closed in 2016.

Artazan Property Group has been appointed the project manager.

Designed by renowned Architects Marchese Partners, all its one, two and three-bedroom apartments will have studies.

The shared facilities include the Club Lounge, with its virtual golf driving range simulator.

There will also be a 10-seat cinema, private dining room, wine cellar and a library with fireplace.&nbsp;

There will be an on-site cafe/restaurant.

Apartment prices start from $1.35 million to $4.85 million through Alex Hillston and Tim Abbott at Ray White Lower North Shore Projects.

Greenwich’s newest luxury seniors apartment development Akoya will offer facilities including a virtual golf driving range simulator

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Greenwich luxury seniors apartment block Akoya will have virtual golf simulator

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A Hollywood Hills-style mansion in Greenwich has hit the market with $2.9 million hopes. 
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-greenwich-133450890">Bellevue Avenue property</a> was once owned by the late American talk show host Don Lane. 
The home comprises five bedrooms, two bathrooms and parking for four vehicles. 
It also features grand entry with pivot door, resort-style outdoor zone, water feature and glass-fenced pool. 
Surrounded by lefty outlooks, it is within close proximity to primary school, shops, cafes and bus links. 
The property is being sold by Amanda Mifsud, CEO and director of window furnishings company Blind Inspiration.
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Don Lane's former Greenwich Hollywood Hills-style home hits the market 

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TV presenter Antonia Kidman, the younger sister of actor Nicole Kidman, is seeking tenants for her long-held lower north shore home — which has for some time been an executive rental.
Kidman is now based in Singapore with her businessman husband Craig Marran and their children.
Kidman is seeking a $2500-a-week tenant for the two-level Greenwich home with harbour views, which sits in sprawling 1785 sqm wraparound gardens­ and lawns. It has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, open-plan kitchen and a formal dining area.
SydneySlice Woollahra agent Melanie La Pouple is offering it at the same rental as two years ago, when it had been freshly painted. “It suits a family, large or small,” the marketing says.
The Kidman clan haven’t called Greenwich home since 2009 when they left for Singapore. 
Once dubbed Bisley, the Edwardian-era grand manor was built in 1912 for rifle importer Harry Motton, who had bought the block from Dr Walter Burfitt.
According to Motton’s granddaughter, a time capsule­ was buried in the grounds by a member of the original family. 
Kidman and her late husband, businessman Angus Hawley, paid $4.3 million in 2005 for the home — which was not far from her parents.
The late psychologist and author Dr Antony Kidman and his wife Janelle­ had purchased their 1882 sandstone former drapery shop home in 1998 from Sydney advertising guru Simon Collins for $1.65 million.
Kidman and Hawley, who were married for 11 years, had four children.
She now has two children with Marran.
The family retains a holiday­ home at Whale Beach, which cost $2,025,000 in 2011.
Antonia’s first Sydney property was a hand-me-down, a one-bedroom unit above shops in Mosman which her older sister had secured in 1987.
The elder Kidman had spent $81,000 on the Military Rd unit but when Hollywood and Tom Cruise beckoned, Antonia took up occupancy.
The unit was sold in 1998 for $265,000.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 
 
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Antonia Kidman seeks tenants for Greenwich home

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A Greenwich four bedroom home designed by architect Michael Suttor with manicured gardens by Paul Bangay has been listed for sale with a price guide of $5.5 million. 
Hugh Macfarlan, of Raine &amp; Horne HM Group, has scheduled an October 20 auction. 
Set on a 615 square metre allotment, the harbourside house at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-greenwich-129360526" target="_blank">52 King William Street </a>comes with four bedrooms, formal lounge with fireplace, and open plan living and dining areas served by marble kitchen.
It also features study, self contained teenage retreat, wine cellar, plant room and rainwater tanks.
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The home is just a stroll to the local shops, Greenwich primary school, parks, Harbour foreshore walks and CBD ferry transport, moments to RNS Hospital, and surrounded by Sydney's best private schools.
The suburb's median house price sits at<a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/3852-greenwich-nsw" target="_blank"> $2.56 million</a> according to CoreLogic. 
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Harbourside Greenwich trophy home set to go under the hammer

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A five-storey commercial building and residential dwelling in Greenwich on Sydney’s blue-chip Lower North Shore has hit the market with around $30 million expectations. 
The two adjoining properties are being sold by Ramsay Health Care, Australia’s largest owner of private hospitals, which has operated a hospital on the site since 1973. 
Ramsay Health Care has recently built a replacement hospital in St Leonards. 
Billed for mixed-use or residential development subject to council approval, 2 Greenwich Road (above and below) and 3 Anglo Road occupy 2,464 sqm of Commercial Core and Low Density Residential land.
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Savills Australia’s Neil Cooke, Stuart Cox and Johnathon Broome have been appointed to manage the international expressions-of-interest campaign, saying they expected significant enquiry from mid- to long-term investors, as well as “sophisticated developers looking to finalise the permit-planning process and develop a landmark boutique residential project”. 
“Such prestigious development opportunities rarely come to market in this tightly held Lower North Shore location,” Cooke said.
“The property offers genuine income potential with the additional upside of a future mixed-use development (STCA).”
For the 2 Greenwich Road parcel, the planning proposal recently received “Gateway Approval” to include “Shop Top Housing” as a permitted use, and an increased building height limit from 25 metres to potentially 33 metres, with the proposed floor space ratio maintained at 3:1.
“The existing building enjoys outstanding panoramic and uninterrupted views back to the Sydney CBD and Sydney Harbour, which will only be improved through further redevelopment of the site,” Cox said.
“This asset is strategically positioned to do just that, by capitalising on its mixed-use or residential redevelopment potential in the future (STCA).”
 
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Savills list Greenwich development site with $30 million hopes

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Oxalis Cottage, the humble house in Greenwich that was the longtime home of columnist Ross Campbell and his widow Ruth, was sold for $2,301,000 at auction last weekend.
Campbell, who wrote for the Sunday Telegraph from the mid-1950s through to the 1970s, paid £500 in 1949 for the building block at the end of Coolabah Avenue.
It was up for sale with $2 million plus hopes.
The property was once described by Ross as "a suburban house of 15 squares, including myself".
The name sounds picturesque, but oxalis was the name of a weed that flourished there.
Campbell, who was once suggested as being the Jerry Seinfeld of the times, retired in 1978.
The couple tried to sell the house to go travelling, but only managed to find a buyer for the adjoining garden block.
The son of a Melbourne estate agent died in 1982, while Ruth passed away earlier this year, aged 95. 
<a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-greenwich-129042198" target="_blank">Oxalis Cottage</a> was listed by their four children, the home’s celebrity redheaded occupants.
The eldest Sally Campbell is a textile designer, Patrick Campbell is a solar energy scientist, Laura “Nell” Campbell is an actor and former New York nightclub owner, and youngest Cressida Campbell is an artist.
They appeared in his columns which detailed ordinary family life with his four children, known by pseudonyms, Cressida as Baby Pip; Sally was Theodora, Nell was Little Nell and Patrick was Lancelot.
Its been suggested only the Seven Little Australians were a better-known family than the Campbell clan.
Remarkably the the two-storey cottage is a time-capsule, still has the milk bottle servery by the front door. There's a kitchen dining nook.
Campbell once wrote of the rise of refrigerator snobbery with his children asking: "Why hasn't our fridge got a light in it?"
It was editor-in-chief David McNicoll who recruited Campbell to the Telegraph from the Sydney Morning Herald where he felt his levity wasn't wanted.
Three collections of Campbell's columns were published in his lifetime, and his memoir, An Urge To Laugh, was published just before his death.
The neighbours’ children held an 80 cents lemonade stall at the onsite auction which Campbell would have surely made into a column item.
This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph. 
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Late columnist Ross Campbell's Greenwich home Oxalis Cottage sold

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The Sydney hoarder’s house, deplete of the mummified body found earlier this year, sold at weekend auction for $2.07 million.
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The result was $270,000 above the $1.8 million reserve for the Greenwich offering.
The purchasers of <a id="x_mcntLPlnk337040" class="x_mcntOWAAutoLink" href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-greenwich-128954682" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">31 Greendale Street</a> were an expatriate family in Singapore who beat off keen bidding from a young Marrickville couple.
There are plans to initially renovate and rent it out until it is knocked down.
The skeletal remains of a suspected murder victim Shane Snellman were found rolled in carpet inside a bedroom in June with police revealing the corpse had likely been there for at least a decade.
The owner Brian Roberts, who died of a heart attack last year, had bought the freestanding double-brick house on its 557-square-metre block, in 1991 for $200,000. 
The police theory was Snellman, who had suffered several injuries, was trying to rob the house when Roberts killed the intruder.
The Sunday Telegraph reported the notoriety, cobwebs, peeling paint, disgusting kitchen and mouldy bathroom was no discouragement for the 11 registered buyers.
Domain suggested it was like a macabre museum exhibit.
Sydney's top sale was nearby when <a id="x_mcntLPlnk514211" class="x_mcntOWAAutoLink" href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-greenwich-128928586" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">15 Vista Street, Greenwich </a>sold pre-auction for $3.55 million.
Built in 1935 by architect, Nigel Ashton, the home had been by the same family for 83 years.
It came with views of the harbour bridge and the city skyline. 
Sydney's highest sale under the hammer result was at Willoughby where $3,265,000 was paid for <a id="x_mcntLPlnk24636" class="x_mcntOWAAutoLink" href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-willoughby-128925434" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">3 Hollywood Crescent</a>.
It was a 1930s bungalow last sold at $1.95 million in 2009.
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There were 717 auctions held in Sydney returning a preliminary clearance rate of 59.1 per cent. One year ago, 832 auctions were held and the clearance rate came in at 67.4 per cent.
In Melbourne, a preliminary auction clearance rate of 58.6 per cent was recorded across 898 auctions on the weekend. This time last year, 1,124 auctions were held, returning a clearance rate of 72.3 per cent.
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Melbourne's top sale was also secured ahead of its Saturday scheduled auction, a South Yarra home renovated under the guidance of INARC design.
It was the $6.25 million sale of <a id="x_mcntLPlnk447497" class="x_mcntOWAAutoLink" href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-vic-south+yarra-128158838" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">23 Airlie Street, South Yarra</a>, which had an asking price of $8.25 million earlier this year.
It had been listed this time with $6.5 million hopes through RT Edgar. 
Under the hammer, Melbourne's top result was in Camberwell when <a id="x_mcntLPlnk615615" class="x_mcntOWAAutoLink" href="https://www.realestateview.com.au/real-estate/12-derby-street-camberwell-vic/property-details-sold-residential-12017091/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">12 Derby Street</a> sold for $3.8 million through Jellis Craig.
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The indicative selling price had been $3,500,000 to $3,800,000 for Gladstone Villa, a graceful four bedroom 1889 Victorian residence.
Not far away a 1930s Canterbury changed hands for $1.91 million for the first time after competition between five bidders at its Kay &amp; Burton auction.
Given its one family ownership, Laurel-Leigh, the heritage-protected three-bedroom home <a id="x_mcntLPlnk376881" class="x_mcntOWAAutoLink" href="https://www.realestateview.com.au/real-estate/26-maysia-street-canterbury-vic/property-details-sold-residential-12021336/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">at 26 Maysia Street</a>, came with intact lead lighting, stucco walls, ornate ceilings, terrazzo flooring and bow window.
Its pre-auction price guidance was $1.7 million to $1.8 million.  
There were five bidders.
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On the latest weekend of winter, CoreLogic calculated 1,909 homes were taken to auction across the combined capital cities, up from 1,684 over the previous week. 
"Auction volumes have slowly started to increase over the last couple of weeks however current volumes remain lower than this time last year when 2,270 auctions were held," Corelogic auction analyst Kevin Brogan noted.
"Through winter, the number of homes taken to auction has been tracking roughly 20% lower than a year ago, highlighting a substantial weakening in vendor confidence driven by the softer housing market conditions and consistently lower clearance rates."
Preliminary results show a clearance rate of 57.9 percent this week, increasing from last week’s final clearance rate of 53.3 per cent, although this will revise as the remaining results are collected. 
Over the same week last year the final clearance rate was 68.3 percent.
Canberra's 66.7 percent weekend clearance rate result was the top selling capital city.
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