Genevieve and Chris de Campo have chosen the peak of summer to sell their architect-designed, five-bedroom holiday home set among lush Moonah trees in Portsea, a prestige postcode for Victoria’s rich and powerful.

In Tasmania, Paul Moran, a Melbourne-based financial adviser, is renovating a three-bedroom Victorian-era house he bought in Launceston near the Tamar River, which he plans to live in during the tourist off-season.