LUXURY

DARLINGHURST, NSW

The penthouse crowning Darlinghurst’s Top of The Town apartment complex has been listed for sale. It’s being sold by the downsizing property developer Duncan Hardie. He and his late wife Lyn paid $10.9 million in 2016 when they bought the property from former media exec Cameron O’Reilly, who had paid the Sutton car dealership family $8.25 million for it in 2007. Hardie completely renovated the vast 700sq m-plus space two years ago. Entry is via a private lift. The top level is the rooftop garden, with 360-degree views of Sydney. Alison Coopes at Agency by Alison Coopes is asking for offers from $15 million.

EAST GIPPSLAND VICTORIA

TRAVANCORE, VICTORIA

Ocean Grange, a property in Paynesville in East Gippsland dating from the 1850s goldrush, has been listed for sale. The main homestead with commercial kitchen and a number of living zones was built in the late 1880s by the Barton family and still has its soaring clock tower. The quintessential Australian beach house sits on 9620sq m, nestled between Gippsland’s Ninety Mile Beach and the Gippsland Lakes, and is only accessible by boat. Paddle steamers carrying gold from the high country near Omeo once stopped at the front of the property. Ocean Grange Homestead has been owned by the same family for more than three decades. Rural and lifestyle specialist John Castran, who is marketing the property with son Lachlan, says it is one of the most prestigious holdings to ever be offered in East Gippsland. They expect to sell the home, which has been a $950 a night holiday rental in recent times, for around $1.5 million.

Politician Bill Shorten and wife Chloe recently put Travancore on the map by upgrading to the north-western Melbourne suburb, paying a record $3 million for a bigger family home. Now one of Travancore’s best homes has been listed and is set to blow it out of the water. McDonald Upton Essendon agent Joe Zucco, who has a guide of $8.5 million to $9.35 million, describes the home as a once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece. The opulent Mooltan Street home, built with floor-to-ceiling glass to frame the Travancore Park views, is one of Melbourne’s only hand-built in-situ concrete homes. It was designed by CHT Architects and constructed by commercial builders Hamilton Marino after the then two-bedroom brick home sold for $1.38 million in 2013. Over three levels, the designer property has six bedrooms, five bathrooms and three living spaces. There’s a home gym, office, cinema room, bar and steam room. In the grounds is an infinity pool and spa, as well as an outdoor kitchen.

MT MACEDON, VICTORIA

The historic garden estate Cathlaw in the Mount Macedon district has been listed for $4 million. The 13ha New Gisborne property was originally a farm. It was the home of Blanche Ross-Watt, the first woman to hold office in Victoria as a shire council president. She was one of 11 children of pastoralist and politician Thomas Ferrier Hamilton, and grew up on the family’s property Elderslie at New Gisborne. With her daughter Betty, Blanche planned the house at Chatlaw, which dates from 1919, and planted a garden. The three bedroom home, built by the local Cherry Bros in the Indian bungalow style, has been updated. There is also a two-bedroom cottage, as well as a lawn tennis court, veggie garden, and a stable. RT Edgar Macedon Ranges Gisborne agents Rhys Nuttall and Helen Sankey are marketing the property.

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

A near new home in Perth’s Dalkeith is set to sell for the first time since its construction. The contemporary residence was designed and built by Paul Spatara and Sean Brickwood from Averna Homes, and was a finalist in the 2019 HIA Awards. The black and white home with clean, simple lines and swathes of glass has five bedrooms, several living areas, a home theatre, wine room, and a gourmet kitchen with scullery. The master retreat ensuite features an egg-shaped stone bath and a dressing room with skylight. The main living area is wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass and opens to the gardens by Ascher Smith with multiple alfresco areas, pool, outdoor shower, gas firepit and cubby house. William Porteous International Dalkeith agent Olivia Porteous has the listing, with price hopes in the low to mid $5 millions.

CLOVELLY, NSW

Star player up for sale in Sydney’s east

A Clovelly home that once appeared on ABC’s Grand Designs is back up for sale. Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agents Alexander Phillips and Anthony Puntigam have a $6.5 million guide for its March 21 auction. It was featured in Grand Designs Australia in 2012 when built by Prebuilt in Melbourne as four modules. The pods were trucked to Sydney in an oversized convoy and lifted into position to create the ubermodern, two-storey residence. Now with a jet black exterior, the zinc and timber clad home, which has undergone a renovation in recent years, has four bedrooms, a home office, a suspended fireplace and a wine cellar. An old fibro cottage was on the 600sq m Knox Street block before architect Pleysier Perkins designed the current offering. It sold for $6 million in 2017 to art collector Steve Nasteski, who had sold his nearby Gordon’s Bay property to comedian Tim Minchin for $5.875 million a year earlier.

COLLAROY, NSW

Eagle’s Nest, a new designer home in Collaroy, has been listed with $10 million hopes. The contemporary three-level home on Edgecliffe Boulevard with views across the beaches was built after the original 1950s residence on a private 540sq m was demolished. It had been sold for $2.2 million in 2013. Completed late last year, the five-bedroom, fourbathroom Eagle’s Nest was designed by Ian Bennett, who says the top floor plate was rotated north to allow optimum solar access and to frame the views. “Eagle’s Nest is considered, robust, bold and striking from every vantage point,” he says. A pool with outdoor shower and an alfresco area with built-in barbecue runs along the side of the house, which sits in gardens landscaped by Selena Hannan Landscape Design. Knight Frank’s head of prestige Deb Cullen is marketing the home.

BELLEVUE HILL, NSW

A modern Bellevue Hill home with interiors by Sarah Jane Marriott has been listed for sale. Fronting Cooper Park, the home, completed in 2016, was designed to embrace the outdoors, with a number of alfresco living spaces. A landscaped internal courtyard is the social hub of the twolevel home. The living spaces and bedrooms are all on the same level. There are four bedrooms, each with ensuites, a home office, a kitchen, living and dining room that opens on to the courtyard, and a formal lounge. A plunge pool sits just off the courtyard. Ballard Property Group agents Paul Ephron and Clint Ballard have a March 25 auction.

KANGAROO POINT, QUEENSLAND

Brisbane’s most expensive home has resold for close to $18 million. The clifftop residence on Leopard Street, Kangaroo Point is expected to have gone backwards in price slightly from the $18,488,888 secured in 2016 by City Motor Auctions Group boss Angelo Russo and wife Sandra. The initial sale toppled the former price record, set when Gina Rinehart paid $14 million for a Hawthorne riverfront. Chinese billionaire Zijian Zheng, who bought the Kangaroo Point record holder, hasn’t touched the 1445sq m split-level home in the past three years. One of its most spectacular features is a heated pool and spa with views of the river and the city.