Cranleigh Mansion Smashes Canberra Record
Canberra mansion Cranleigh has regained the title as the territory’s most expensive property, after selling for almost $4.6 million to an as-yet-undisclosed party.
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Top Gear Host to Build Lego House in Surrey
TOP Gear television show host James May is looking for labourers to help build a new home almost made entirely of Lego.
The life-sized double-storey house will include a staircase, toilet and shower, and is expected to use more than three million Lego bricks, that have been donated by the Czech Republic.
The new Lego home is earmarked for a site at the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey, and its development will appear as part of a new television series: Toy Stories.
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Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Centre Opens in Heidelberg, Melbourne
TWENTY years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Australian entertainer Olivia Newton-John opened a landmark rehabilitation centre in Melbourne’s north-east this month (pictured, far right).
Olivia Newton-John thanked the Baillieu Liberal government for finalising funding for the $189 million Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre, which includes day and radiation oncology and complementary therapies such as acupuncture, massage, yoga, meditation and homeopathy.
Read moreSydney Swans Ruckman Tony Smith Sells Hedges Avenue Home for Bargain $28 Million
Internet magnate Daniel Tzvetkoff has paid a "bargain price" of $28 million for a prestigious Gold Coast mansion, offloaded by former Sydney Swans ruckman and Breakfree founder Tony Smith.
Read morePaintings Conservator Sells South Melbourne Home
Paintings conservator Jacqueline Macnaughtan is selling her "sea captain’s cottage" and sailing out of South Melbourne.
Read moreElwood Art Deco Apartment to be Sold
Life members of Victoria’s Art Deco Society, Helen Graham and Cliff Skinner, are moving from the renovated Elwood penthouse they have enjoyed for almost 14 years.
Read moreV8 Supercar Racer Todd Kelly Sells Patterson Lakes Home
V8 Supercar legend Todd Kelly and his wife Kristy are selling their waterfront home in Patterson Lakes.
Read moreBruce Mathieson to Retain Brighton Mansion
Pokie king Bruce Mathieson has withdrawn his Brighton mansion from the market. The five-bedroom property in Sandown Street on Brighton’s Golden Mile was mysteriously whisked off industry websites last month, sparking speculation that the house – on the market for more than $9 million 12 months ago and later reduced to $7.5 million – had actually been sold.
Read moreMerchant Banker Keith Tuffley Laughing All the Way to the Bank
MERCHANT banking heavyweight Keith Tuffley is laughing all the way to the bank, after his five-bedroom mansion in Barry Street, Kew, sold after auction for $5.8 million.
Read moreCricketer Jon moss Sells Elwood Apartment
VICTORIAN cricketer Jon Moss has put his Elwood apartment on the market after moving locally.
Read moreGood Guys Andrew Muir Pays $17.75 Million for Steve Vizard’s Orrong Road Mansion
INSIDERS are all but certain the mystery buyer of Steve Vizard’s Orrong Road mansion is Good Guys electrical retailer Andrew Muir. Early speculation was that the house had been bought by Peter Edwards of the Smorgon family but he has vehemently denied this. Mr Muir is overseas and unavailable for comment.
Read morePlanning Eagle Clem Newton Brown Sells Toorak Site
FORMER Melbourne deputy lord mayor and planning legal eagle Clem Newton-Brown has sold a unique 508-square-metre block of land on the banks of the Yarra in Toorak.
Read moreSkilled Group Boss to Sell Luxury City Apartment
LESS than a year after paying a record $7 million for a block of land in Flinders on Western Port, former managing director of the Skilled Group Greg Hargrave and wife Mardi have put their luxury city apartment on the market, in a deal expected to be worth more than $3.7 million.
Read moreSuzie Wilks Changes Rooms
A Hawthorn home once owned by television show host and model Suzie Wilks has for an undisclosed price, believed to be around $1.3 million.
Read moreMary Coustas Sells Waterfront St Kilda Road Apartment
COMEDIAN and actress Mary Coustas sold her beachfront apartment before a scheduled auction last weekend, for an undisclosed amount believed to be around $660,000.
Read moreLou Abrahams Almost Sold Out of Luxury Brighton Apartments
Year 2008 will indeed be one of closure for colourful business identity, and yachting veteran Lou Abrahams.
Read moreDave O’Neill Wrongly Judges Bill McHarg
Comedian and radio show personality Dave O’Neill proved to be a poor judge of character at the Property Council of Australia’s monthly luncheon at Crown Casino on Wednesday.
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Swimmer Michael Klim Turns his Hand to Property Development
ANOTHER sportsman is turning his hand to a property development, this time in Brighton.
Swimmer Michael Klim is developing two luxury townhouses in the prestigious pocket of Martin Street, between St Kilda Street and the bay, in the precinct known as the Golden Mile.
JP Dixon selling agent Nick Johnstone expects about $5 million for the one townhouse that is on the market, which is opulently decorated in Balinese style.
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Celebrities Oppose Development of Third School Around Their Streets
CELEBRITIES Kate Ceberano and Gina Riley have opposed the development of a new Jewish School, on the former Regent Lodge site, in Elsternwick.
An application has been received by the Glen Eira Council to develop the 2,989 square metre site at 46 Regent Street into a three-level school, capable of accommodating 325 students.
Kate Ceberano, and Ms Riley’s husband, Rick McKenna told the Herald Sun traffic caused by the added school would cause chaos around the small suburban street.
Read moreBrighton Prestige Residential Market on Fire
The top end of the market has been on fire this week – alleviating any concerns rising interest rates, an uncertain share market or even a new political party could destabilise the booming market.
Read moreCanterbury Mansion of Anthony Podesta Fails to Sell After Expression of Interest Campaign
Any chance of a new price record being set in the leafy eastern suburb of Canterbury looks unlikely to occur anytime soon, after the Monomeath Avenue mansion of business identity Anthony Podesta failed to sell after an expression of interest campaign.
Read moreStawell House of Former Cricketer on the Market
The former family home of Stawells most famous sporting export, Leslie OBrien Fleetwood-Smith, has been put on the market for sale.
Read moreLooksmart Founder Turned ALP Member Smashes Record for Kew House
Described as one of the 100 most influential people in the digital world, businessman turned politician Evan Thornley, and wife Tracey Ellery, are believed to have quietly smashed the record for a house price in Kew.
Read moreSell off on Brighton’s Esplanade
Prospective Brighton’s Esplanade buyers are spoilt for choice at the moment.
Read morePamela Anderson House Sold
On the topic of iconic homes – the “Pamela Anderson House” in St Kilda West has sold off market, after an auction last month failed to attract one single bid.
Read moreMoving Experience for Vizard
All eyes turn to Toorak this month, with the pressure on for disgraced businessman Steve Vizard to find himself a new family home, and soon.
Read moreFive Shops at Chevron Development Sold
Five retail shops on the ground floor of St Kilda Roads Chevron Hotel have sold via an expression of interest campaign, in deals worth more than $6 million.
Read moreGlyndyn Ringrose Sells Phillip Island Home
Former world professional surfer Glyndyn Ringrose and wife Kate will bid farewell to Cape Woolamai next month. The championship surfer, who manages Phillip Island’s Island Surfboard store (which once competed with another surf store owned by Skyhooks lead singer and keen surfer Shirley Straun), is moving locally.
Read moreBusiness Identities Turn Property Developer
With pundits saying Melbourne is in the midst of a property boom, it’s no wonder the city’s wealthiest business and sporting identities are turning their hands to property development on an all too regular basis.
Read moreAustralian Gardener Wes Fleming Sells City Apartment
The man who proved Australian garden designers are the best in the world, is selling his city warehouse and heading bush.
Read moreEspy Apartment Penthouse Asks $5.85 Million
A pricetag of $5.85 million has been slapped on the last remaining penthouse at the controversial Esplanade Apartment complex in St Kilda.
Read moreSullivans Property Sold
A piece of Australian television history sold at auction last week.
Read moreFormer Tattersalls Executive Buys in Berry Street East Melbourne
Former Tattersalls chief general manager Peter Gillooly has paid around $3.6 million for a yet-to-be-constructed four-storey townhouse in East Melbourne.
Read moreMelbourne Waterfront Property Sales Boom
Prospective buyers of waterfront homes are in luck – with luxury properties in all directions of the CBD recently being listed for sale.
Read moreRose Porteous Building Prix D’Amour in Toorak?
One of Toorak’s most exclusive streets may get its own Prix D’Amour, if rumours that Rose Porteous is planning to build her next home are correct.
Read moreGraham Underwood Buys Mount Hotham Home For $2 Million
Melbourne-based businessman Graham Underwood has smashed the sale price record for a house in the snow, paying $2.05 million for ‘Under the Moonlight’ – a Giovanni D’Ambrosia designed luxury cabin at Mount Hotham, described as the most dramatic snow home ever built in Australia.
Read moreWilliam “Polly” Perkins Sells Bentleigh House
Football legend and broadcaster William ‘Polly’ Perkins has sold his Bentleigh family home for $670,000.
Read morePeter Hellier to Sell Montmorency Home
Having recently secured themselves one of the most luxurious homes in the north eastern suburbs, Melbourne funny man Peter Hellier and wife Bridget have put their much more modest Montmorency home on the market.
Read moreMyer Family Member Turns Property Developer
In an interesting twist this week, a member of the Myer family has emerged as a joint developer of a The Well, a 7-storey mixed use building in Camberwell.
Read moreLuxury Apartment Project for Caulfield North
Prominent real estate turned property developer Henry Birner has unveiled plans for a $30 million luxury apartment complex in Caulfield North.
Read moreRose Porteous Sells Luxury Toorak Penthouse
Melbourne socialite Rose Porteous has sold the second of her twin Toorak penthouses, just 18 months after buying them. The properties are just a few hundred metres from a site Rose is rumoured to be developing into a new home.
Read moreFilm Director Buys Luxury City Apartment
Award winning film director Frank Schepisi has quietly been undertaking some property plays in Melbourne.
Read moreRobyn Boyd House II in South Yarra Saved
Selling agents are still tight lipped about which white knight has saved one of South Yarra’s most significant homes from falling into private hands.
Read moreLeoncelli joins Hamton to Develop Toorak University Site
Former Melbourne Football Club champion Andrew Leoncelli has joined boutique property developer Hamton, as a development manager.
Read morePeter Hellier Sells Montmorency Home
Comedian Peter Helliar has sold his Montmorency property two weeks before a scheduled auction.
The 3-bedroom plus study home, sits on a sizeable block of land on the outskirts of Montmorency, near the Eltham border in Melbourne’s north-east.
Read moreRichmond Football Club Coach Terry Wallace Former Home Sells
The sprawling Kangaroo Ground property Richmond Football Club coach Terry Wallace built for his family in 1993, is on the market.
Read moreOlympic Medallist Matt Welsh Sells Port Melbourne Home
Triple Olympic medalist, and father to be, Matt Welsh sold his Port Melbourne terrace home after auction last week for $1.1 million.
Read moreSacked Coles Executive Sells Brighton Home
Sacked Coles executive Peter Scott won’t have any trouble paying his upcoming legal bills, after offloading his historic Brighton pad for $5.4 million.
Read moreAustralian Punk Rocker Sells Box Hill Home
The musician many Australian music experts credit with introducing the punk rock movement to
Marina Berths at Docklands a Sales Success
It’s the place Lloyd Williams keeps his monster boat – when it’s not parked in the south of France.
Read moreFormer State Liberal Leader Robert Doyles Sells Out of Armadale
Former state Liberal leader Robert Doyle ended up selling his home in Armadale after it passed in at auction last weekend.
Read morePaul Kelly’s View Over The Bridge Changed Forever
Now, when Paul Kelly looks over the bridge to the MCG, he’ll see a Nylex clock – and high rise apartments.
Read moreRussell Morris to Sell Balwyn Home
Former Hawthorn and St Kilda footballer Russell Morris is the latest AFL identity to bid farewell to the leafy eastern suburb of Balwyn.
Read morePaul Little Buys South Yarra Office Building
Proving that private investors haven’t been muscled out of the commercial property market by listed property developers, just yet, Toll Holdings managing director Paul Little is believed to have paid $33 million for a B-grade office building in a bustling pocket of South Yarra.
Read moreBrighton Property Prices Increase for Warne Family
Proving time has its rewards in Brighton’s real estate game is cricketer Shane Warne, and entertainer wife Simone.
Read moreThe Future of Melbourne’s Northern Suburb Office Market
Melbourne businesses ambassadors including television personality Eddie McGuire and Crazy John founder John Ilhan will be guests at a luncheon next month, discussing the future of office accommodation in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Read morePlus Architecture Wins New York Contract
Boutique Melbourne-based architect firm Plus Architecture is about to make its mark on the big apple, winning a contract to design a cultural centre in New York.
Read moreLachlan Thompson Represents JLL International Rugby Tournament Asia
Commercial property agent Lachlan Thompson returned to Melbourne with a winner’s trophy earlier this month, after representing Jones Lang LaSalle at an international rugby tournament in Asia.
Read moreSailor Lou Abrahams Sells Brighton Luxury Apartments
Residents in the millionaires playground of St Ninians Court in Brighton will at last see what all the fuss is about at # 9, when veteran yachtsman turned property developer Lou Abrahams unveils his luxury apartment project.
Read moreOwners of Chapel Street Tokyo Tepanyaki to Sell Albert Park Home
The owners of Chapel Street dining institution Tokyo Tepanyaki, are selling a triple storey terrace home at 148 Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park.
Read moreRetired Test Cricket Umpire Tony Crafter Sells Out of East Melbourne
Retired Australian Test cricket umpire Tony Crafter expects prospective buyers to be bowled over by his boutique apartment, in one of the city fringe’s most secluded pockets.
Read moreNew St Kilda Road Apartment Record
An undisclosed international business identity has paid a record $8.59 million for a luxury St Kilda Road apartment.
The sale price eclipses the $8.325 million record set by Wimbledon ace Lleyton Hewitt in 2005, for the Yve penthouse on levels 19 and 20, at 576 – 578 St Kilda Road.
Read morePamela Anderson House Fails to Sell at Auction
Whether residents want to admit or not, St Kilda West’s most prominent home is not on Beaconsfield Parade. Nor is it on tree-lined Mary or Park Streets.
Read moreCathy Freeman May Rent Out Brighton Home She Just Bought
The fastest rumour doing the rounds this week is that Olympic runner Cathy Freeman will not move into the Brighton home she bought in September last year.
Read moreToorak Estate of Art Collector Alex Copland Goes Under the Hammer
Collectors of fine art, and fine property, have a week until March 3 to inspect the Toorak mansion of art collector Alex Copland before it goes under the hammer.
Read moreNeighbours Actress Helps Sell Kew Home
Spectators at a recent twilight auction in Kew were treated to a bit of street theatre, with television actress Anne Scott Pendlebury (who played Aunt Hilary in Neighbours for more than ten years, and was also a star in Prisoner) dressing up in garb and greeting the crowd with cold drinks and stories, spoken in a plebian cockney accent.
Read moreBusiness Heavyweights Buy Into Sorrento Apartment Project
The most expensive apartments to be built on the Mornington Peninsula look unlikely to ever be offered to the public – with some of Melbourne’s biggest business identities flagging almost all of the units on offer, just weeks after the complex was given a permit.
Read moreTV Personality Sells Milford Mansion in Kew
A Victorian couple has outbid two international parties for the landmark Milford mansion in Kew.
The Italianite mansion, built in the height of the 1850s gold rush, sold for in excess of $4 million after an international marketing campaign which saw five parties hotly contest the property to the very end.
Read moreFormer Labor Minister Sells Home in Thornbury
Former Labor party MP and the third women ever to be elected as a minister in the lower house Kay Setches, is selling the Edwardian terrace in Thornbury she’s called home for 7 years and preparing for a move to Docklands.
Read moreSteve Vizard Tipped to Stay Put at St Kilda Home
Steve Vizard is understood to have given up plans of buying a new home, and is undertaking a massive renovation at his existing home and office at St Kilda.
Read moreFilm & TV Executive Ted Gregory Pays $1 Million For Port Melbourne Apartment
Film and television executive Ted Gregory has paid more than $1 million for a luxury Port Melbourne apartment.
Read moreFunny Man Carl Barron Has Last Laugh
He may have failed in an old tour promise to make bald, skinny men "sexy” _ but comedian Carl Barron can at least live among the glamorous people, after apparently picking up a luxury apartment in an exclusive Melbourne CBD warehouse.
Read moreBlue Duck Retreat, Near Omeo, Close to Sale
Fancy a tree-change fit for a Princess?
The picturesque hideaway social activist Jacqueline Pascarl sought refuge, after being reunited with her daughter Shahirah 14 years after she was kidnapped, is expected to be sold soon.
Read moreDouglas Briese Carlton Investment Property to be Sold
Twenty eight Carlton investment properties purchased by rally car driver Douglas Briese before his tragic death in 2004, have been put to the market as a portfolio, or individually.
Read moreFooty Show Co-Host James Brayshaw Pays $4.3 Million For Unrenovated Brighton Home
Footy show co-host, and recently appointed chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club James Brayshaw is believed to be the mystery buyer to fork out $4.3 million for a mansion in Martin Street Brighton yesterday.
Read moreSouth Yarra Society Project Sells Fast
If rising interest rates and share market volatility is supposed to have sapped the heat out of the real estate market – nobody has told investors in South Yarra.
Read moreRichmond Tiger Sells Out of Hawthorn East
The AFL footballer who scored an unprecedented three winning nominations for Mark of the Year in 2006, is selling an investment property in Hawthorn East.
Read moreThe Living End Singer Buys in Society, South Yarra
The Living End lead singer Chris Cheney has proved he is a “Prisoner of Society”– snapping up a luxury apartment in Society, a new high rise apartment block to be built in ultra trendy South Yarra.
Read moreANZ CEO Michael Smith forks Out $10m on Toorak Mansion
Recently appointed ANZ Bank chief executive officer Michael Smith has spent every cent of his $9 million “sign on fee” and then some – to snap up a mansion in Toorak’s AAA-belt, just hours before a scheduled auction.
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