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EXPERT OBSERVER
With Australians now having to holiday domestically, perhaps a local ski resort chalet might be on the minds of property seekers.
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This property in Thredbo is recently under offer. Picture: realestate.com.au
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Thredbo is currently the most popular ski resort for property seekers in Australia, closely followed by Falls Creek.
There are too few sales to see if COVID-19 has impacted pricing at these resorts but we can see that the most viewed property in Thredbo is <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-alpine-nsw-thredbo-131373914" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">3/8 Cascades Close</a><a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-alpine-nsw-thredbo-131373914"></a>.
It features iconic chalet wooden panelling appropriate for an Alpine getaway and is all yours for $790,000.
<img src="https://www.urban.com.au/images/2020/7/5/REA%20ski%20resort.JPG" alt="">
NERIDA CONISBEE is the Chief Economist at the REA
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Thredbo the most popular ski resort for property seekers: REA's Nerida Conisbee

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There's a Thredbo price record after its current holder, Tussock, has been snappily sold, having been listed with $4 million to $5 million price hopes.
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Tussock, the alpine chalet located on one of the highest blocks in Thredbo, was designed to be a soft edge between the village and the national park.
It last traded for $3.5 million in 2005 when sold by Melbourne architect Andrew Norbury and his then wife Jane Parker, one of the founders of Country Road. It has been purchased by another Sydney family.
Norbury had designed the home on Crackenback Ridge, with its construction costs put as $1.2 million.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-alpine-nsw-thredbo-131259662" target="_blank">two-storey, five bedroom residence</a> features remote-controlled 15 zone underfloor heating, plus floor-to-ceiling windows looking out on snow gums and passing skiers.
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Crackenback Ridge changed mountaintop living with its ski-in, ski-out location.
The ground floor of the home is essentially subterranean with only one of the four elevations revealing itself to the viewer.
Six hundred cubic metres of earth were carved out to slot the home into the hill.  
The upper level is a pavilion structure that sits in a field of Tussock's native grasses and flowers.
The pavilion structure is substantially glazed, creating living areas with a sense of lightness and allowing filtered views of the surrounding alpine environment.
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The entry is lit via flashing at the upper level, producing a diffused light that filters through an open staircase and into the subterranean entry foyer. This creates an unexpectedly light and warm entry which then leads up into the pavilion spaces.
Reducing conventional height and visible bulk, the main sleeping quarters were buried into the site with a lightweight living pavilion stepped back into the slope above it.
A wide V-shaped wall of local granite forms the camouflaged outer edge to the subterranean portion. 
"The idea was the bulk of the bedrooms would be warm and cozy downstairs, in a space where you don't need much light, and the spaces above, which you inhabit by day, would be all glass," Norbury of METIER3 noted after its construction.
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"The knock-on effect is that the living spaces have a great view out across the ski runs.
"This house is actually very inconspicuous given how big it is [450 square metres]."
By pushing one level underground, the architect halved the permitted site coverage, allowing more space between buildings.
The initiative also broke with the comparatively uniform typology of houses in the village, a conscious goal of the architect.
"You just see a single pavilion," said Norbury. 
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Before this design, Norbury had another residence on Crackenback Ridge a little further down the hill which won a commendation in the premier national architecture prize for housing, the Robin Boyd Award, in 1997. 
They sold the home when it became "built out" by other lodges.
Over recent years the most significant sale was De Dacha lodge, set in the village, which fetched $2.25 million.
Overlooking the duck ponds, the four-bedroom European alpine-style lodge ranks among the loveliest of the village’s private abodes.
Former society model Fiona Campbell sold the chalet, which has been an $8000-a-week peak season rental, to the ski-loving Punch family through local agent Doug Edwards at Mountain High Real Estate.
Lendlease resort manager Albert Van der Lee had built it for a mere $28,000 and lived there from 1962 to 1984.
It traded in 1994 for a record $810,000 when Campbell and her then husband, publisher Matt Handbury, bought it from village developers Lendlease. 
Around $240,000 will get you a studio apartment in Central Thredbo. 
Being in Kosciuszco National Park, buyers secure a Torrens Title Leasehold, with leases running until 2057/58.
Owners buy the right to occupy a certain number of beds within a building.
Even out of season, Thredbo is buzzing with crowds clad in sports-luxe, trekking and pedalling up summits.
In summer "it's like having a farmhouse", Norbury said of Tussock. 
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Fresh Thredbo price record after sale of Tussock ski chalet on Crackenback

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Winter has come and that means heightened interest in snow property on Mount Kosciusko.
The Thredbo price record is set to be broken with its current holder, Tussock, now listed for sale.
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Tussock, the alpine chalet located on one of the highest blocks in Thredbo, was designed to be a soft edge between the village and the national park.
It last traded for $3.5 million in 2005 when sold by Melbourne architect Andrew Norbury and his then wife Jane Parker, one of the founders of Country Road.
<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/c_scale,w_580,q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/po.images/2019/6/28/thredbo%203.jpg" alt="">
Norbury had designed the home on Crackenback Ridge, with its construction costs put as $1.2 million.
The <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-alpine-nsw-thredbo-131259662" target="_blank">two-storey, five bedroom residence</a> features remote-controlled 15 zone underfloor heating, plus floor-to-ceiling windows looking out on snow gums and passing skiers.
<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/c_scale,w_580,q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/po.images/2019/6/28/thredbo%204.jpg" alt="">
Crackenback Ridge changed mountaintop living with its ski-in, ski-out location, Tussock's listing agent, Michelle Stynes at Forbes Stynes Real Estate recalls.
The ground floor of the home is essentially subterranean with only one of the four elevations revealing itself to the viewer.
<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/c_scale,w_580,q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/po.images/2019/6/28/thredbo%205.jpg" alt="">
Six hundred cubic metres of earth were carved out to slot the home into the hill.  
The upper level is a pavilion structure that sits in a field of Tussock's native grasses and flowers.
The pavilion structure is substantially glazed, creating living areas with a sense of lightness and allowing filtered views of the surrounding alpine environment.
<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dz9xllyip/image/fetch/c_scale,w_580,q_auto:good/https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/po.images/2019/6/28/thredbo%206.jpg" alt="">
The entry is lit via flashing at the upper level, producing a diffused light that filters through an open staircase and into the subterranean entry foyer. This creates an unexpectedly light and warm entry which then leads up into the pavilion spaces.
Reducing conventional height and visible bulk, the main sleeping quarters were buried into the site with a lightweight living pavilion stepped back into the slope above it.
A wide V-shaped wall of local granite forms the camouflaged outer edge to the subterranean portion. 
"The idea was the bulk of the bedrooms would be warm and cozy downstairs, in a space where you don't need much light, and the spaces above, which you inhabit by day, would be all glass," Norbury of METIER3 noted after its construction.
"The knock-on effect is that the living spaces have a great view out across the ski runs.
"This house is actually very inconspicuous given how big it is [450 square metres]."
By pushing one level underground, the architect halved the permitted site coverage, allowing more space between buildings.
The initiative also broke with the comparatively uniform typology of houses in the village, a conscious goal of the architect.
"You just see a single pavilion," said Norbury. 
Before this design, Norbury had another residence on Crackenback Ridge a little further down the hill which won a commendation in the premier national architecture prize for housing, the Robin Boyd Award, in 1997. 
They sold the home when it became "built out" by other lodges.
Since established in the late 1950s, Thredbo has become Australia’s premier ski destination, and home to some special chalets.
It was 1958 when Garry Richardson, son of Merv who'd created the first Victa mower, asked friend and architect Peter Muller to design his ski lodge in Thredbo.
There's Seidler Lodge, with massive angled beams, designed by the Austrian expatriate Harry Seidler which won NSW's top housing prize, the Wilkinson award, in 1965.
Sastrugi Lodge, designed by Otto Ernegg in 1958, was renovated with a Dawson Brown Architecture-redesign three decades later and won the RAIA Canberra Medallion in 2000.
Over recent years the most significant sale was De Dacha lodge, set in the village, which fetched $2.25 million.
Overlooking the duck ponds, the four-bedroom European alpine-style lodge ranks among the loveliest of the village’s private abodes.
Former society model Fiona Campbell sold the chalet, which has been an $8000-a-week peak season rental, to the ski-loving Punch family through local agent Doug Edwards at Mountain High Real Estate.
Lendlease resort manager Albert Van der Lee had built it for a mere $28,000 and lived there from 1962 to 1984.
It traded in 1994 for a record $810,000 when Campbell and her then husband, publisher Matt Handbury, bought it from village developers Lendlease. 
Around $240,000 will get you a studio apartment in Central Thredbo. 
Being in Kosciuszco National Park, buyers secure a Torrens Title Leasehold, with leases running until 2057/58.
Owners buy the right to occupy a certain number of beds within a building.
Even out of season, Thredbo is buzzing with crowds clad in sports-luxe, trekking and pedalling up summits.
In summer "it's like having a farmhouse", Norbury said of Tussock. 
This article first appeared in The Weekend Australian. 
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Thredbo price record set to fall with listing of ski chalet Tussock

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The ski-loving Punch family have bought Thredbo's De Dacha lodge for $2.25 million.
It was sold by former society model Fiona Campbell, now known as Lady Dartmouth through Doug Edwards at Mountain High Real Estate who had a guide of $2.5 million.
It last traded in 1994 when a record $810,000 was paid by Campbell and her then publisher husband, Matt Handbury.
Following their split in 2001, Fiona famously sold Altona in Point Piper but kept the ski lodge. 
It was followed by a marriage to the 10th Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, the grandson of the romance novelist Barbara Cartland, the son of Countess Raine Spencer, and stepbrother to Princess Diana.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.
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Punch family buy Thredbo's De Dacha lodge 

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De Dacha, the cute ski chalet in the Thredbo village which came with a $2.5 million asking price, has been sold by the former society model, Fiona Campbell.
It last traded in 1994 when a record $810,000 was paid Campbell and her then publisher husband, Matt Handbury to the the village developers, Lend Lease.
Overlooking the duck ponds, the European alpine-style lodge ranks as the loveliest of the village's private abodes.
The red-shuttered Da Dacha is a stand alone chalet which offered four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a lounge room with wood burning fireplace and a dining area with an office nook.
It was a $8000 a week peak season rental.
The lodge was designed by Lend Lease resort manager Albert Van der Lee, who occupied the lodge from 1962 to 1984.
Its building cost was a mere $28,000.
Following her split with Matt in 2001, Fiona famously received Point Piper's Altona, one of Australia's great harbourfront trophy homes, and De Dacha in the matrimonial settlement.
She sold Altona in 2002 for a record-breaking $28 million to hotelier Deke Miskin and his wife Eve.
It was followed by a marriage to a titled Englishman, the 10th Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, the grandson of the romance novelist Barbara Cartland, the son of Countess Raine Spencer, and stepbrother to Princess Diana.
De Dacha was listed by local estate agent Doug Edwards at Mountain High Real Estate. No sale price has yet emerged on the Kosciusko Thredbo sale records.
It has been a busier than usual snow season for property sales with whispers the famous Bernti's premises have been sold.
It still retains the name of the former hosts, Bernd and Tricia Hecher, the always welcoming couple who built their mountain ski lodge in the late 1970s.
He was the stonemason, turned ski instructor and she was the clerk of works, who became the leader of opinions in the tiny village. 
Iconic Athol Lodge is in the process of duplex subdivision with one of the five bedroom apartments just listed at $2 million. Orthopedic surgeons outlaid $1.69 million for Jodee Rich's Athol Lodge back in 2004. 
Obergurgl, located on the corner of Buckwong Place and Brindle Bull, seems set for alterations with a two storey master suite being proposed by the Malouf family. They have consulted the original architect Peter Muller.
The Bellevarde is the newest approved development with construction starting early next year by the veteran snow developer John Fielding.  
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
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