prestige residential

Victoria 

Chris Tarrant and Wife Lauren to Auction Armadale Home Today

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AFL footballer Chris Tarrant may be returning to Victoria to see out the rest of his career wearing a black-and-white Guernsey for Collingwood.

But the renowned forward has chosen not to live at the Armadale address he previously used as his Melbourne base – and will instead auction that property today.

Tarrant and his wife, model Lauren Strauss, can expect about $4 million, sources say, from the sale of the Adelaide Street house, which is near the High Street shops and the suburb border of Toorak and Malvern.

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Victoria 

Former PM Residence, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Listed For Sale

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ONE of the few remaining historic mansions in Melbourne’s grand St Kilda Road is being offered for sale – but its fate – as a luxury home, or as an equally lavish office – is now in the hands of whoever waves the biggest cheque.

The prominent Airlie mansion at 452 St Kilda Road, on the north-west corner of Arthur Street was once occupied by Prime Minister Stanley Bruce whose Nationalist-Country coalition governed the country between 1923 – 1929.

Built in 1891, Airlie was eminent during a period St Kilda Road was revered as the address of Melbourne’s wealthiest aristocrats and where some of the city’s most grandiose residential real estate was developed.

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Portsea Golf Club
Victoria 

Portsea Golf Club Resort a Step Closer After Club Sells Enough Sites to Fund Redevelopment

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Portsea Golf ClubPLANS for a new $12 million clubhouse and hotel resort at the prestigious Portsea Golf Club have teed off, officially, after the Club successfully sold enough of its land to fund the new development.

Four of the five double blocks put to the market in February have now sold, with another two blocks now released for sale.

The Club is expected to bunker another $4 million from the remaining three blocks.

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Michael Schildberger
Victoria 

Auction of Journalists Canterbury Home Makes the News

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Michael SchildbergerTHE family home of late broadcaster and reporter Michael Schildberger has been listed for sale.

The Canterbury home served Mr Schildberger and his family for 31 years, but is being sold after the respected journalist died in June of prostate cancer, aged 72.

Forging an impressive career which saw him climb from the Channel Nine publicity department into the newsroom, Mr Schildberger is most recognised for his role as the host and executive producer of A Current Affair, and other news shows, until the late 1970s.

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Michael Schildberger
Victoria 

Auction of Journalists Canterbury Home Makes the News

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Michael SchildbergerTHE family home of late broadcaster and reporter Michael Schildberger has been listed for sale.

The Canterbury home served Mr Schildberger and his family for 31 years, but is being sold after the respected journalist died in June of prostate cancer, aged 72.

Forging an impressive career which saw him climb from the Channel Nine publicity department into the newsroom, Mr Schildberger is most recognised for his role as the host and executive producer of A Current Affair, and other news shows, until the late 1970s.

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Victoria 

Former Elwood Reception Centre Hits The Market

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HERE’s an open for inspection you might have already been to.

A huge Elwood property which operated for almost 40 years until about 1990 as the Fontainebleau Reception Rooms, has hit the market and is expected to sell for about $5 million.

Now a private home and simply called Fontainebleau, JP Dixon Brighton selling agent Nick Johnstone says the fully renovated four bedroom home, overlooking Point Ormond, could set a new price record for the waterfront suburb, between St Kilda and Brighton.

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Victoria 

Alannah Hill Stitches $1.68 Million From St Kilda Apartment Sale

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FASHIONISTA Alannah Hill has stitched up $1.68 million from the sale of a three-level St Kilda apartment she bought in 2004 as an impulse buy.

The apartment is built into the walls of an 1888 mansion in trendy Fitzroy Street – a property previously a home to squatters, a brothel, and later a French Consulate.

With a double garage, three bedrooms, wine cellar and a rooftop garden with city views, the apartment was decorated in Ms Hill’s unique style.

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Victoria 

New Record Set in Lower Plenty, Melbourne

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FOR the second time in a year, the record price for a home in Lower Plenty has been broken.

This time, in Beckett Court, a 4738 square metre estate with a tennis court, pool, spa, steam room, and 929 square metre mansion, sold for $3.6 million.

Morrison Kleeman director Rocco Montanaro said the sale price eclipses a record set last October, when a six-bedroom colonial style house on another massive block at 140 Bonds Road sold for $3.51 million.

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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 

EG to Redevelop Former Hedley Sutton Retirement Village, Canterbury

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IT was described as the “best bargain development site” to sell during the economic downturn, and now builder EG Funds Management is ready to cash in.

The former Hedley Sutton Retirement Village, on the corner of Canterbury Road and Gascoyne Street, is being replaced with a medium density housing project, called The Canterbury.

EG paid Baptcare just $12.53 million for the 8161 square metre site in late 2008, at a particularly depressed time in the residential development site market.

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Victoria 

Kew’s Sholom Lodge Likely to be Melbourne’s Next Historic Home to be Demolished

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ANOTHER historic home in Melbourne’s ritzy east is set to be replaced with apartments.

The grand Kew home, currently known as Sholom Lodge and used as a 14-bed aged care facility, is being sold as a residential development site with a permit for 12 flats.

Sholom Lodge is near the busy roundabut of Princes Street, and the entrance to the Kew Cottages redevelopment, being undertaken by Sydney-based private developer Walker Corporation.

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Victoria 

David Parkin to Sell Mothers House, Hawthorn

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AFL legend David Parkin, and his brother Des, a medical researcher, are selling the Hawthorn home that his belonged to the Parkin family for five generations.

The five-bedroom rendered bungalow at 39 Denham Street is located directly opposite St James Park where the Parkin boys perfected their football, cricket, and lawn bowling skills.

Currently configured as a three bedroom house, with formal and informal dining areas, the 1920s dwelling includes many original features such as a panelled entrance foyer, leadlights, open fire places, beamed ceilings and timber floors.

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Victoria 

Bruce Mathieson to Retain Brighton Mansion

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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.

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Victoria 

Some New Records Set in Melbourne’s West

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INTEREST in the streets regarded as “the best in the west” appears to be rampant, with the record price of a Moonee Ponds home speculated to have been smashed twice in the last two weeks.

No sooner had builder Raffaele Aiello set a record, paying about $4.65 million for a home on ritzy Ardmillan Road, did Secret Agent get tipped off about an off-market $5.2 million deal, on Park Street and near the sprawling family home of ex North Melbourne VFL footballer Kerry Good.

Nelson Alexander’s Matthew Febey, who marketed Ardmillan Road, declined to comment on any deals when contacted by Secret Agent.

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Victoria 

Record Price for a Melbourne House Smashed For the Third Time in Four Months

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The record price for a house in Melbourne has been smashed for the third time in four months.

Former soft drinks distributor turned property developer Harry Stamoulis is speculated to be paying $25 million for a massive estate at 39 St Georges Road, Toorak, which includes a seven bedroom unrenovated mansion – once the family home of Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu.

The Baillieu family put the house at a trough in the prestige property market in 2008, where it eventually sold for $14.8 million to private investors the Zig Inge Group, who develop mainly retirement communities.

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Michael Klim
Victoria 

Swimmer Michael Klim Turns his Hand to Property Development

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Michael KlimANOTHER 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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Victoria 

Canterbury Mansion of Anthony Podesta Fails to Sell After Expression of Interest Campaign

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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.

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Victoria 

New Australian Record Price of $57.5 Million For Home, Perth

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A WATERFRONT mansion in Perth’s Mosman Park has smashed the record price for a home sale in Australia.

The Saunders Street home offloaded by iron ore heiress Angela Bennett, includes three buildings, a cinema, tennis court and a private jetty. The 7,567 square metre property can be subdivided.

The price breaks the $45 million record set for a home in Sydney, and the $23 million previous Perth record price, set in 2007, for a mansion in Claremont.

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