Jasmine Stefanovic’s childhood Brisbane home sold for $4.1m

It’s the end of an era for Mara & Mine co-founder Jasmine Stefanovic – wife of TV star Karl Stefanovic – with the historic Brisbane home she grew up in selling for $4.1m.

2 Towers St, Ascot, sold for $4.1m.

It’s the end of an era for Mara & Mine co-founder Jasmine Stefanovic – wife of TV star Karl Stefanovic – with the historic Brisbane home she grew up in selling for $4.1m.

The circa 1890 six bedroom home, bought by her parents Bob and Cheryl Yarbrough 25 years ago, was so hot that it was snapped up almost as soon as it was listed for sale.

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Karl and Jasmine Stefanovic own a Noosa property together.

Jasmine’s childhood home in Brisbane’s prestige suburb of Ascot.

The family bought the home in 1997, when Mrs Stefanovic was 13, in blue chip Ascot for $485,000. Fast-forward to today’s hot market and the 2 Towers St property landed a whopping $4.1m, a gain of $3.615m in 25 years.

Despite having St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School directly across the road from their home, her parents chose to send her to Brisbane Girls Grammar School in Spring Hill. Mrs Stefanovic set up her popular Mara & Mine shoe business with Tamie Ingham of the Ingham’s Chicken richlist family.

The home is a classic Queenslander with wraparound veranda.

Every bedroom has its own colour scheme.

The Stefanovics own one home in Queensland, according to CoreLogic – a luxurious four bedder with ocean views in one of Noosa’s hottest streets, Seaview Terrace in Sunshine Beach. They’d paid $3.6m for it in January 2020.

Agents Patrick McKinnon and Jill Wright of Place Ascot had put 2 Towers Street on the market in late January with Mr McKinnon posting that it was “offered for sale for the first time in 25yrs”.

The home has multiple living spaces.

Modern design mixed in with traditional touches.

He said the “opulent Ascot residence takes pride of place at 2 Towers Street. Grand in stature and vast in size, this stunning residence epitomises Ascot family living at its very best”.

Surrounded by a white picket fence, with a wraparound veranda, the home has multiple formal and informal living zones, a large kitchen with built in study nook, a unique United Metal Industries wood fire oven, six bedrooms and four bathrooms, a billiard room with home theatre, custom plantation shutters, fully fenced landscaped yard, a garage for four vehicles and a pool.

A claw foot bath adds to the traditional charm of the home.

The design even fits in a pool, perfect for Brisbane summers.

“A location that speaks for itself,” was how it was described. “You are in close proximity to a wide range of amenities, within the Ascot State School catchment, walking distance to St Margaret’s, St Agatha’s, St Rita’s, Clayfield College and bus routes for many of Brisbane’s finest schools.”

The part of Ascot the home was in was said to be a “supremely quiet, tightly held pocket”.

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