Victoria 

George Jelbart to Sell Hawthorn East Apartment

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OLYMPIC rower George Jelbart is selling a renovated two bedroom apartment he bought while at the 2004 Athens Games.

Jelbart, who was a member of the youngest ever rowing crew in the history of the Olympic Games, can expect about $500,000 from the sale of the ground-floor Hawthorn flat at 4 Hill Street.

The apartment includes a private entrance, and video security access. It includes a north facing deck and a pebble courtyard, and is a short stroll to the suburb’s popular St James Park.

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Victoria 

Hawthorn East School Converted Into Prestige Street

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HAWTHORN East’s former Preshil School site has re-opened as a small, new housing estate.

A spokeswoman for the Boroondara Council said a Plan of Subdivision was certified on July 9, in which Daniel Court replaces a site previously known as 462 – 466 Barker Road.

The planning application to replace the school with a new street was lodged in early 2006.

Daniel Court has eight blocks, ranging in area from about 550 square metres to just over 720 square metres.

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Victoria 

Hawthorn FC Executive Stuart Fox to Sell Gherang Estate

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HAWTHORN Football Club chief executive Stuart Fox, and wife Sybella, are selling the Wirraminna farm they acquired in 2002 in Gherang, via Moriac – some 10 minutes north east of Anglesea, and 15 minutes east of Torquay.

Translated as “peaceful beside the water”, Wirraminna spreads over two hectares and includes three rainwater tanks, two paddocks and a dam which could accommodate horses or cattle.

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Victoria 

Gillon Group Acquires Brighton East Supersite

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BAYSIDE developer Gillon Group has quietly acquired a supersite at one of the south-eastern suburb’s busiest corners.

Gillon has negotiated with residential home owners, commercial property owners, VicRoads and the council to amalgamate some seven Brighton East lots into a 7500 square metre development site. At the north-west corner of Nepean Highway and South Road, the site incorporates Barr Street, and former public land.

It plans to rebuild the site – opposite the Kingston City Hall and Moorabbin train station – into a $100 million-plus mixed-use village with around 200 apartments in what could be a seven level tower.

Gillon has not disclosed the price it paid to buy and amalgamate the sites. Local agent sources however value the land at about $2000 per square metre, meaning Gillon’s block could fetch about $15 million if onsold.

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Victoria 

Arthouse Cinema Coming to Hawthorn

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TRAFFIC in busy Glenferrie Road looks set to intensify if the Boroondara council approves an application to redevelop a dank, part-vacant arcade into a new shopping centre, topped by a 1050 seat arthouse theatre and a 100-seat rooftop cinema.

Independent theatre operator Eddie Tamir has applied to rebuild The Glen arcade at 673 – 681 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, with The Lido, a new ITN Architects designed cinema complex.

Tamir owns Belgrave’s Cameo Cinema and is a co-owner of renovated movie house The Classic, in Elsternwick.

With his father David, who owns Prahran’s Station Hotel and the Argo, in South Yarra, Eddie paid $15 million for the double-storey Hawthorn facility last August.

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Victoria 

Site on Busy Hawthorn Intersection Sells For $11.2 Million

A FIRST-time property investor has paid $11.2 million for an office building at one of the south-eastern suburbs busiest intersections.

The two-level office sits on a 2439 square metre block at the corner of Auburn and Toorak roads, and is prominent around the busy Citylink freeway junction – which is also the suburb border for Malvern, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East and Glen Iris.

The building, with a street address of 461 – 465 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East, is leased for about four more years, but offers redevelopment potential, being in a pocket of the south-eastern suburbs that is seeing higher density redevelopment.

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Victoria 

Clinton Casey’s Outgoing Avon Court Mansion, Hawthorn, Expected to Set New Price Record

Avon Court, HawthornFORMER Richmond Football club president Clinton Casey can expect to make about $16 million from the sale of his Avon Court mansion, in Melbourne’s ritzy eastern suburb of Hawthorn – setting a new price record for the suburb.

The 4,645 square metre estate includes a 4-storey historic and heritage protected mansion, swimming pool and tennis court.

Mr Casey paid $5.7 million for the property in 2003 before undertaking a major renovation.

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Victoria 

Mirvac Abandons Plans to Build $120 Million Office in Hawthorn, Puts Site on the Market

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MIRVAC has abandoned plans to build a $120 million office building in Burwood Road, Hawthorn, in Melbourne’s leafy eastern suburbs.
 
The Sydney-based developer has decided to sell the 5,000 square metre development site, months after obtaining VCAT approval to build a 5-level, 18,800 square metre office, with 557 car parks.
 
Mirvac can expect to make about $12 million for the 291 – 311 Burwood Road site. 

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Former home of Sir Owen Dixon Subdivided, Offered For Sale

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ANOTHER block of land in Hawthorn East’s ritzy Harcourt precinct has been sliced and diced.

This time, at 4 Higham Road, an estate that was formerly home to Hawthorn born chief justice of Australia Sir Owen Dixon has been split into nine blocks.

Two of the blocks measuring 615 square metres have now been listed for sale with an asking price of $1.4 million. The vendor is esteemed senior counsel John H Karkar QC.

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