Elton John set to make his home in the eastern suburbs for five-month tour

Superstar Elton John will move his family into a Sydney base while he performs 34 Australian concerts as part of his farewell tour. Read where the Rocketman will live for five months. Plus who’s buying what with real estate insider Jonathan Chancellor.

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Elton John will call Bellevue Hill home when he spends five months doing 34 concerts across Australia on his forthcoming tour.

The luxury home rental ­location within the pricey hillside suburb remains undisclosed, but the legendary singer has signed off on it because it delivers his most important criteria in that it is ­securely private.

Elton John will spend five months in Australia for his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour. Picture: Supplied

Elton John will be here with his family. The house will accommodate John’s husband, David Furnish, and their children Zachary and Elijah.

It is understood the home is not Barford, which steel industrialist Sanjeev Gupta is renting at $30,000 a week from property ­developer Ian Joye, who is likely to move back in later this year.

John’s three-year Farewell Yellow Brick Road world tour kicked off in September last year, consisting of 300 shows across five continents.

Some 48 years on from his debut Sydney show, it will be his biggest tour since 1986, which had 25 shows with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

John, his husband David Furnish and their children Elijah and Zachary will all live in Australia while he tours. Picture: Michael Kovac

John’s preference for years was the now -demolished Sebel in Elizabeth Bay then at the Park Hyatt.

Luxury rental accommodation, while difficult to secure, has ­become de rigueur even for short celebrity stays.

Justin Bieber ­briefly stayed on Coronation Ave, Mosman in 2017. Adele had just checked out of the home, after ­reportedly paying $20,000 a week. Ricky Martin asked for ocean views and access to Fox ­Studios, when he was filming The Voice, so his homestay was ­Bronte’s Wave House. Boy George resided at Centennial Park’s Lactura.

Justin Bieber preferred a private rental to a hotel room while here. Picture: Kevin Winter

Diana Ross paid $16,000 a week for a home away from home in 1989. Picture: Kevin Winter

I recall rentals of $16,000 a week in Mosman by Diana Ross on her 1989 tour.

The agent to the stars Bill Bridges also sec­ured $25,000 a week when Paul McCartney stayed in 1993.

These days bookings extend beyond the time the star is actually in residence because their entourage needs to install hi-tech security and communications gear.

PLAINS SIMPLE FOR DEPARTING PANTHER MCKENDRY

Retiring Penrith Panther prop Sam McKendry and his wife Kirsten have listed their Emu Plains investment property.

McKendry, who is quitting after three ACL reconstructions in as many years, bought the spacious 1970s home for $525,000 in 2014.

Penrith Panther Sam McKendry with his baby boy Isaac in 2017. Picture: Richard Dobson

There is a guide of $659,000 to $709,000 after the recent update of the three-bedroom home, which was last ­advertised for rent at $480 a week.

Brad Drew at Property Central Penrith has scheduled a November 2 auction.

The suburb has a $650,000 median for three-bedroom homes, according to realestate.com.au, based on 30 sales in the past year.

Sam and Kirsten, who married in 2015, reside on acreage at Wallacia with their two children.

Signed to Penrith in 2006, he made his first grade debut at 18 in 2008.

The McKendrys have listed their Emu Plains investment property with a price guide of $659,000 to $709,000.

Fellow injured teammate, Isaah Yeo, stepped onto the property ladder mid-season paying $910,000 for a two-bedroom Cremorne unit.

This time last year, Nathan Cleary bought a home just 5km from Penrith Stadium­. The 21-year-old half back paid $1.05 million for an updated 1970s home.

BARBARA’S HOUSE SEEKS RECORD

Callala Beach on Jervis Bay on the South Coast has a record-setting $3.8 million offering.

It is the near-new luxury beachfront of Barbara Slatyer, who started Barbara’s House & Garden in 1976.

Barbara Slatyer in one of her homewares stores. Picture: Michael Jones

Slatyer pioneered the homewares retail market after she and husband Harvey opened a shop in McMahons Point.

Within seven years the 20 stores had an annual turnover of more than $15 million.

The couple, who still run Haven & Space in Berry, paid $1.25 million for the block in 2016 before building the four-bedroom home with an internal lift.

The near-new home on Callala Beach could set an area record.

Kellie Sprowles and Maddison Clark at Callala First National have the listing. 

In May a property a few doors along sold for $2.31 million setting Callala Beach’s record. The Slatyers are off to Far North Queensland to be near family.

JOHNS MYSTERY KILLCARE BUYER

Former longtime Westfield director, Stephen Johns, who had been looking to buy a weekender at Palm Beach, is tipped as the mystery buyer of the vast mall-like Jorge Hrdina-designed clifftop home at Killcare Heights.

Stephen Johns and his wife Michelle. Picture: James Croucher

The purchase price is put at around $3.7 million having been listed with $5 million hopes in February, then revised to $4 million by June.

The pavilion-style home with plenty of sandstone was marketed as one of the Central Coast’s most spectacular by its Belle selling agent Cathy Baker.

It was listed by Chris Lee, widow of former AAPT executive Lee Casey.

Johns, recently downsized to a $16 million Darling Point penthouse with wife Michele Bender, after selling in Bellevue Hill for $21,165,000.

Originally published as Elton John set to make his home in the eastern suburbs for five-month tour