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Dunk Island has been relisted for sale off Mission Beach.
The Brisbane businessman Peter Bond is seeking buyers having repossessed it five months ago after a $31.5 million vendor financed deal with the developer, Mayfair 101 fell over.
Bond said the decision to repossess the island was "not taken lightly".
"Unfortunately under the circumstances we have been left with no alternative but to foreclose," the Bond family spokesperson said in a statement. 
"We have spent several months working with Mayfair in an attempt to engineer a solution. 
"However, despite several extensions to payment terms Mayfair have remained unable to meet their obligations."
JLL Hotels &amp; Hospitality Group’s Nick Roche and Andrew Langsford are the listing agents.
Mayfair 101 had intended <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/expert-insights/investing/104260-mayfair-101-to-spend-1-6-bullion-on-cassowary-coast-expansion-after-dunk-island-purchase" target="_blank">a $1.6 billion hospitality project</a> on the freehold Great Barrier Reef island which also included 200 mainland dwellings it had agreed to buy up last year.
The island's prior owners include P&amp;O Australian Resorts.
Bond purchased Dunk Island after the Yasi cyclone.
 
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Dunk Island gets relisted by Peter Bond 

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ASIC has obtained interim orders in the Federal Court of Australia against companies in the Mayfair 101 group and their director, James Peter Mawhinney, including the appointment of provisional liquidators to M101 Nominees Pty Ltd, the issuer of the M Core Fixed Income Notes promoted by Mayfair 101.
On 13 August 2020, the Court appointed Said Jahani and Philip Campbell-Wilson of Grant Thornton as provisional liquidators of M101 Nominees, pending an application by ASIC to wind up M101 Nominees on just and equitable grounds. ASIC alleges that M101 Nominees has been involved in breaches of the corporations legislation, and there is a justifiable lack of confidence in the conduct and management of its affairs that gives rise to a risk to the public that warrants protection.
In particular, ASIC alleges that M101 Nominees raised approximately $67 million from investors through debentures called the M Core Fixed Income Notes, based on representations that there would be security for the full amount invested. ASIC further alleges that those funds were not fully secured, and consequently, M Core Fixed Income Note investors may be unable to recover the full amount of their principal investment.
The provisional liquidators will provide a report to the Court by 24 September 2020 about the provisional liquidation of M101 Nominees, including identifying its assets and their value, and providing an opinion as to solvency and the likely return to creditors if the company is wound up.
On 13 August 2020, the Court made additional interim orders restraining Mr Mawhinney, and any company of which he is an officer or shareholder, from:
Receiving or soliciting funds in connection with any financial product; Advertising or promoting any financial product; and Removing from Australia any assets acquired with funds received in connection with any financial product.
These orders apply to all products currently offered by Mayfair 101, including the M Core Fixed Income Notes, the M+ Fixed Income Notes and Australian Property Bonds, as well as any other financial product.
The Court also restrained Mr Mawhinney from leaving Australia until further order.
The Court made interim orders restraining Sunseeker Holdings Pty Ltd, of which Mr Mawhinney is a director, from dealing with the units in 14 trusts which hold property at Mission Beach and Dunk Island in Queensland. The units in those trusts are part of the security held on behalf of investors in the M Core Fixed Income Notes.
ASIC’s investigation is ongoing.
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ASIC Investigation ongoing against Mayfair 101 director James Mawhinney

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Receivers have been appointed to IPO Wealth Holdings, a Mayfair 101 entity.
The receivers were appointed on May 22 after <a href="https://www.mayfair101.com/post/ipo-wealth-fund-update" target="_blank">IPO Wealth Holdings</a> missed two repayments totalling almost $3 million.
The payments were due a week earlier, according to the fund's trustee, Vasco.
“We have received no communication from the borrower as to why these payments were not made despite a number of attempts to contact them,” Vasco said in an update to investors.
But Mayfair have advised its considered it "a premature and imprudent measure by Vasco given the current economic conditions imposed by COVID-19, and one that is likely to result in the unfortunate and unnecessary destruction of value for investors in the IPO Wealth Fund."
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It advised Vasco Trustees Limited appointed receivers without the consultation of the investment manager, IPO Wealth Pty Ltd, and no attempts were made to understand the steps that are currently being undertaken by the Mayfair 101 Group to protect its investors and portfolio companies."
"No attempts were made by Vasco to contact the Group in the week leading up to the appointment of receivers. Furthermore, no response was received to an email sent to Vasco’s managing director, Craig Dunstan, on Wednesday 20 May 2020 advising that the Group was working on initiatives with its various advisers regarding restructuring to improve liquidity for the benefit of the fund’s investors."
It advised the group "has been working with top-tier restructuring experts and its panel of advisers to assist with the preservation of value for the benefit of the group’s investors.
"It is therefore immensely disappointing that the IPO Wealth Fund’s trustee has made this decision and compounded the already significant detrimental impact of ASIC’s actions on the Group and its many loyal investors.:
IPO Wealth Holdings Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries are cooperating with the receivers as required, it advised.
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Company searches show IPO Wealth Holdings’ sole director is James Mawhinney, Mayfair 101’s founder.
The receivership is the latest issue for Mayfair 101, which has suspended contracted property purchases for its proposed tourism project in North Queensland.
The investment group Mayfair 101 had mooted a $1.6 billion spend on the Cassowary Coast over the next 15 years after the group's initial purchase of the Dunk Island Resort.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has recently alleged misleading advertising for Mayfair Platinum products.
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The AFR reported the IPO Wealth fund started in 2017.
It makes a loan to another Mayfair entity which in turn made investments in portfolio companies.
 
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