The Sell: ‘King’ Kyle finally starts renovating Glenorie weekender
Radio king Kyle Sandilands has admitted renovations are finally under way at his Glenorie farmhouse weekender after a listener said she’d seen him at the local award-winning bakery.
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Renovations are finally under way at the Glenorie farmhouse weekender of Sydney radio king Kyle Sandilands and his wife, Tegan Kynaston.
The start was announced by the Vaucluse-based Sandilands when a listener called, advising that she’d seen him at the local award-winning Glenorie Bakery.
He then confirmed: “The renovation has started, we are renovating right now.”
The gutted 1970s house on acreage has been fenced off, with signage advising the works are being undertaken by Alter Build Co, a two-decade-old construction company headed by Andrew Kabourakis and William Teixeira.
The all-white home, which comes with dramatic porte cochere, was bought for $3m in 2022.
The eight-bedroom, five-bathroom brick house sits on 9580sq m. A record $11.75m was paid recently for a nearby three-storey, eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom home on a private 16ha holding in Sydney’s Hills district.
The KIIS FM breakfast king had first revealed details on his intended renovation plans last May.
It arose during an on-air discussion about Elvis Presley’s Graceland family estate in Memphis.
“That Graceland looks exactly like the house I own in Glenorie. It’s exactly the same,” Sandilands suggested.
This week, co-host Jackie “O” Henderson told Sandilands that “the mystic mums who clear out bad spirits” wanted her to pass on a message that they needed to visit the Glenorie house.
“These are the nice white witches that genuinely have your best wishes at heart,” she said.
Sandilands owns a Vaucluse home that cost $14m in 2023.
He has also started looking for a Toorak bolthole, given they now broadcast to Melbourne.
ROOSTERS STAR ABOUT TO MAKE ANOTHER BIG MOVE
Star signing Mark Nawaqanitawase is selling his vacated low-rise North Parramatta apartment, with the intention of moving into Sydney Roosters heartland.
Nawaqanitawase, the 24-year old code-swapping winger who debuted in the NRL last September, wants to be closer to his teammates in Sydney’s east.
He’s selling his two-bedroom, two-bathroom Pennant Hills Rd apartment that was bought in 2021 when he was with the Waratahs.
The spacious modern apartment opposite Belmore Park comes with a $520,000 price guide through Tanya Hatton, of Bentley Estate Agents.
It has 84sq m internal space plus 17sq m parking and 8sq m storage.
The 2006-built apartment has a likely current rental income prospect of between $580 to $600, reflecting about a 6 per cent yield.
His switch to rugby league hasn’t seen him shift too far from a playing perspective, remaining at Allianz Stadium but just pulling on the tricolours instead of the blue jersey.
He spent the first year of ownership commuting to the east, but secured a tenant for the apartment in 2022 when asking for $480 a week.
The two-bedroom median apartment price in North Parramatta sits at $572,500, which is up 4.1 per cent over the past 12 months based on 104 sales, according to PropTrack.
Listings typically spend a median 19 days on market.
There have been 20 two-bedroom apartment listings in the last month.
Nawaqanitawase, of mixed Fijian and Italian heritage, was raised in Burwood, playing his junior footy at Concord-Burwood Wolves and Leichhardt Wanderers.
He swapped to rugby union at 14.
The speedster started playing for the Waratahs in 2020 and made his Wallabies debut against Italy in the 2022 spring tour.
He arrived at the Roosters earlier than envisaged after his union commitments concluded, making his debut last September in a 36-28 win over the Rabbitohs, scoring a try with his first touch.
Joseph Sua’ali’i, who went the other way and left the Roosters to join the Waratahs, owns property in Double Bay.
Most of the Roosters camp, including Angus Crichton, Victor Radley and Lindsay Collins, own in the east.
SIBLINGS SETTLE DISPUTE ON MOTHER’S ESTATE
Sydney barrister Louise McBride, who was recently appointed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, has agreed to the settlement of her family-provision court dispute.
The NSW Supreme Court case over her mother’s estate – before Justice Michael Meek – was resolved earlier this month, with the terms not revealed.
Earlier court proceedings heard the 2022 probate of Dr Patricia McBride’s estate left the bulk to her daughter, Louise – “mainly an apartment in Neutral Bay where she lives”.
The case was launched by Dr McBride’s son, David, whose benefit was some personal items and about $10,000.
Their court dispute between Louise and David – a former soldier and Afghanistan war crimes whistleblower – attracted headlines this time last year.
It centred on whether his social media video comments in August 2023 had constituted an offer to resolve their conflict outside the traditional courtroom setting.
Last February, Judge Michael Elkaim dismissed Ms McBride’s claim that it did and ordered she pay her brother’s legal costs arising from his representation by barrister Margaret Pringle, who was instructed by Glass Goodwin Solicitors.
Ms McBride, who represented herself, cited a 2016 US class action involving issues around singer Kanye West’s album The Life of Pablo.
However, Judge Elkaim noted there had been no legal judgment. The court heard Mr McBride was depressed at the time of his video, which remains online, given mounting costs fighting his whistleblower case.
“My mother died a couple of years ago. She left pretty much everything she owned in a $2m apartment to my sister,” he said to his 61,000 social media followers. “Now obviously I need money for my case and I’m making a claim as you can do under the law to get some sort of provision.”
Mr McBride pleaded guilty to releasing classified information to ABC journalists and was last May sentenced to five years in jail.
Dr McBride was the widow of obstetrician William McBride.
BUYERS AGENCY SCORING BIG GOALS
Aurum Advisory – the buyer’s agency recently opened by Tammy Soglanich and Leon Jacques – has found a Bondi Beach property perfect for the next project of interior decorator Jodie Gillman.
Gillman and husband Jayden Yarrow secured the semi-like, art deco Lamrock Ave apartment off-market through Goodyer Real Estate for $1,825,000.
A $7.1m Balmain sale has been posted as another of the agency’s client purchases.
Soglanich, the sassy prestige buyer’s agent who starred in the discontinued Amazon Prime reality series Luxe Listings Sydney as Simon Cohen’s sidekick, did a total of $241m in sales in her last full year in 2023 as a buyer’s agent.
The Jacques team, which includes former NRL West Tigers player Tim Moltzen, did $138m in business last year, with purchases ranging from $800,000 to around $19m.
“Big and exciting things ahead,” Soglanich recently told her 33,700 Instagram followers.
“We have combined our years of experience in buying property, bringing a proven track record to our new venture.”
Saturday Confidential reported last November that Soglanich and the agency pioneer Cohen had gone their separate ways, “with mystery surrounding the breakdown of their personal and professional relationship”.
Soglanich, who is married to estate agent James Bennett, took maternity leave last April following their first child, Holland.
WILLIAMS’ BEACH PAD ON MARKET
The contemporary Coogee Beach house of former Channel 9 sportscaster Cameron Williams has been listed for sale.
The four-bedroom property, set in an elevated location some 500m from the beach, comes with ocean views from both levels.
It has $5.7m guidance for its March 22 auction through James Ball and Mark McPherson at Sydney Sotheby’s.
It had been listed in late 2022 with $6m expectations.
PropTrack puts the median four-bedroom Coogee house at $4,385,000, up from $3.65m when last listed.
The home, set in lush gardens, has terrace walls using 130-year-old ironbark timber from the Hampden Bridge in Wagga Wagga.
Williams, who presented sport on the 6pm evening news until early 2022, bought it for $1.725m in 2007.
He and former wife Natasha also listed their Hunter Valley retreat in late 2022.
The couple’s pavilion-style rural retreat, Wareng, at Howes Valley near Singleton, was sold for $1.3m in early 2023.
Wareng offered several income streams, including vines and olives planted on the 17ha estate.
The property cost $850,000 in 2018, having been initially sold by its architect Ian Poole for $655,000 in 2015.
READY FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER
The 1920s Edgecliff home of literary agent Grace Kee Heifetz, an “oasis of calm loaded with books and family art”, has been listed for a February 26 auction.
Pauline Goodyer at Goodyer Real Estate has issued a $1 million price guidance for the offering in the tightly held area, which is just across the road from the Edgecliff Centre.
The two-bedroom, one-bathroom space has timber floors with a northerly aspect from Darling Point Rd.
HANG A BID ON A MASTERPIECE
Bouddi Farm, the former 4.6ha estate of acclaimed artist Sir Russell Drysdale and his second wife Maisie, has been listed for sale.
The 1966 Guildford Bell mid-century modern masterpiece of a home was designed as three separate pavilions – for working, living and sleeping – connected by a 50m-long hallway with views to Brisbane Water.
The Sandes family bought The Scenic Rd property back in 2001 for $1.525 million.
FAREWELLING THE HIGH LIFE
Ben Tilley has listed his 51st floor, two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Sydney’s One Barangaroo Crown Residences through the Black Diamondz Group with $12 million hopes.
It cost Tilley $8.9 million in 2021, when he was James Packer’s personal assistant.
The 161sq m space, which comes with decor by Meyer Davis, had been a $5500 a week rental in 2023.
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