Espy 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 moreA pricetag of $5.85 million has been slapped on the last remaining penthouse at the controversial Esplanade Apartment complex in St Kilda.
Read moreStonington, the historic Malvern mansion at the centre of last year’s battle between community lobbyists and the State government, will soon be available for sale for the first time since it was built in 1890.
Read moreA LANDMARK property on the suburb border of Newport and Williamstown is expected to smash the record price paid for a home in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
Hocking Stuart Williamstown’s Wayne Elly is expecting up to $8 million for the Sea Gates estate at 62 The Strand, which has rear access to Yarra Street.
The massive 3,500 square metre property includes two historic homes – Sea Gates and the smaller Dachet – and enjoys postcard views over Hobsons Bay to the Melbourne CBD.
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 moreProspective buyers of waterfront homes are in luck – with luxury properties in all directions of the CBD recently being listed for sale.
Read moreOne 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 moreJayco Caravans managing director Gerry Ryan is paying c$18.5 million for a Toorak mansion with no tennis court. The deal
Read moreFootball legend and broadcaster William ‘Polly’ Perkins has sold his Bentleigh family home for $670,000.
Read moreFORMER 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.
Read moreMelbourne 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 moreFORMER AFL Premiership player Shannon Grant is selling an investment property at 180 Beach Road in Mordialloc.
The modest three-bedroom, single level home, on a 653 square metre block, is expected to sell at auction next month for around $1.250 million, according to Hocking Stuart Brighton selling agents Rod Richardson and Stuart Kelso who is auctioning the property at 3:30pm on November 28.
AN 8,000 square metre slice of Elsternwick’s historic Rippon Lea estate, compulsorily acquired by the State Government in the 1950s for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation – is likely to be sold to residential developers, if the ABC vacates the property in 2012.
ABC project director Ray Moore told Secret Agent it is considering selling two Elsternwick properties, currently occupied as studios and offices, including a major complex on Gordon Street abutting Rippon Lea – built on what was once the property’s southern boundary.
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 moreTHE entrepreneur nephew of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Patrick Handbury, is selling a Geelong waterfront mansion.
Mr Handbury is seeking $2.69 million for the 77-year old, 5-bedroom property at The Esplanade, in Drumcondra, at the suburb border where North Geelong meets Geelong.
The mansion sits on a 949 square metre block and also includes two studies, a billiard room with open fire place, sheltered pool area with gazebo, and living areas overlooking Corio Bay.
THE former Toorak Veterinary Hospital will be developed into a luxury 15-unit apartment complex.
The 646 Malvern Road hospital, in Prahran – renowned in the area for performing animal acupuncture – will be cleared to make way for the complex, which is due for completion in early 2011.
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 Peter Scott won’t have any trouble paying his upcoming legal bills, after offloading his historic Brighton pad for $5.4 million.
Read moreTHE founder of online careers website Jobs Jobs Jobs, Guy Sigston, is understood to be close to selling his near-new French Provincial style Toorak mansion for about $7 million.
The 6-bedroom, 80 square Selborne Road home, which includes a 5-car underground garage, gymnasium, wine cellar and rooftop terrace with city views, was listed for sale in May.
Rumour doing the rounds in Toorak Village is that interests associated with the Chinese Government are the frontrunners to buy the property, but this could not be confirmed.
It was with some amusement Secret Agent read real estate agency Jellis Craig’s blurb for a ripe-for-demolition home in one of Toorak’s best streets.
Read moreFormer Hawthorn and St Kilda footballer Russell Morris is the latest AFL identity to bid farewell to the leafy eastern suburb of Balwyn.
Read moreOne of the Dandenong Ranges most imposing homes was put to the market this week.
Mount Royal Manor, a 143 square mansion set on two hectares of manicured gardens at 1317 Burwood Highway, Upper Ferntree Gully, is expected to sell for around $6 million after an international marketing campaign.
Read moreA 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 moreFLAMBOYANT socialite Rose Porteous has listed her Toorak home for sale, again.
The 60-year old grandmother, who with husband Willie purchased her first Melbourne home in 2005, could reap as much as $7 million for the three-bedroom plus study home, on a 650 square metre block in ritzy Irving Road.
Rose paid a reported $4.9 million for the home in July 2007, before undertaking a renovation. The home includes a double height entrance hall with return staircase, formal and informal living and dining rooms, several private courtyards, and a triple car garage.
BUSINESSWOMAN, and BRW Rich 200 member, Iris Lustig-Moar has made about $4.75 million from the sale of an apartment shell, adjoining her own penthouse, on top of the luxurious Lucient building, at 430 St Kilda Road.
The co-director of architect and development firm Lustig & Moar, had originally planned to incorporate the apartment into her own, to create a super-penthouse some speculate could have had an end value of more than $12 million, and be one of the most expensive in the boulevard.
THE South Yarra motel at the centre of a saucy scandal involving Hollywood actress Ava Gardner, and crooner Frank Sinatra 50 years ago, is for sale.
Rooms within the St James Motel, at 35 Darling Street, accommodated Ms Gardner and a production crew during the 1959 filming of “On the Beach”, parts of which were shot in Berwick.
It was reported Frank Sinatra would often visit Ms Gardner during filming, despite the fact the couple divorced two years earlier. Sinatra left his wife and three kids in 1951, to marry Gardner – who had already been married twice before.
INTERIOR designer David Hicks is understood to have paid more than $3 million for a luxury St Kilda Road apartment, built on what was once the site of a rundown office and shopping plaza.
Hicks, who was a judge on Channel Nine’s recent television show homeMade, is speculated to have purchased a 3-bedroom apartment at 401 St Kilda Road, a boutique complex developed by Pan Urban, the construction company of business identity and publisher of The Monthly, Morry Schwartz.
FORMER St Kilda footballer Stewart “Buckets” Loewe is tackling Melbourne’s unpredictable housing market, listing for sale a new 3-level townhouse in Brighton.
The 41-year old former Saint, who after retiring from football in 2002 turned his famous massive hands to property development, can expect to make between $1.15 million and $1.25 million from the sale of 357 New Street, the latest creation by his development company Progressive Properties.
The townhouse includes 3 bedrooms, home theatre room and a double garage, and is within walking distance to the North Brighton shopping strip, the Middle Brighton Pier and the Seacombe Grove Beach.
A NEW price record is believed to have been quietly set for the ritzy bayside suburb of Brighton.
Sources say an undisclosed Geelong-based business identity has agreed to pay about $15.5 million for a waterfront mansion at 25 – 27 Glyndon Road, in the suburb’s “Golden Mile”.
The 5-bedroom mansion has a 59-metre water frontage, and includes a tennis court, swimming pool, spa, sauna, gym, home theatre and rooftop entertainment area.
THE FORMER Brighton home of Olympian-turned Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke is believed to have sold for about $12 million, and will be developed into apartments.
Boutique builder L & D O’Brien Holdings Pty Ltd has purchased the imposing but rundown 1 Bay Street mansion, which occupies a prominent waterfront position overlooking Port Phillip and the Middle Brighton Baths.
The home will be demolished to make way for a luxury apartment complex of at least six units, sources say. JP Dixon’s Jonathan Dixon is marketing the units but was unavailable for comment.
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