Dale Dickson, Ashy Bines, Daryl Holmes, Samantha Harvey buy luxury Gold Coast homes in July
Former Gold Coast council CEO Dale Dickson has made a profit after selling his multi million-dollar Runaway Bay home after just 12 months. WHO ELSE BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR BIG BUCKS IN JULY
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Former Gold Coast council CEO Dale Dickson and wife Kerrie have made a profitable downsize, selling their Runaway Bay home after living there for just 12 months.
The Dicksons sold the waterfront four-bedder at Pebble Beach Dr for $2.625m – $550,000 more than they’d paid in 2021.
It appears the pair have left the canals in favour of the beach, having settled the $1.94m purchase of a two-bedroom apartment in a luxury Main Beach high-rise.
The Dicksons’ Runaway Bay sale was among 434 property transactions to settle for $1m or more on the Gold Coast in July.
The biggest home sale settled in July was the $13m purchase of a Jared Poole-designed manor on Nerang-Broadbeach Rd at Carrara.
Derivatives trader Andrew Killion broke the suburb’s sale record when he bought the riverfront home, which was named House of the Year in 2019 and has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a tennis court and pool on the 3860sq m property.
Mr Killion previously made a splash in Sydney’s housing market when he paid $30m in 2020 for the Vaucluse home of media scion Alexander Ma.
Also among the top sales settled last month was a beachfront four-bedroom home on Main Beach Pde, bought by Townsville dentist and 1300 Smiles founder Daryl Holmes.
Dr Holmes already owned the house next door – he bought it for $6.5m from another dental figure, Mike Timoney.
Dr Holmes paid $9.8m at auction for the five-bathroom pad on 405sq m, which had last sold for $4.2m in 2014.
The four-level home has hit the rental market since it changed hands, currently advertised and requiring a $30,000 bond, suggesting a weekly asking rent of $7500.
The seller was a company held by Son Mi Bolton, who made headlines in September after paying $10.9m for a glamorous riverfront Carrara mansion built by Australian race-car driver Paul Weel and his wife Emma.
Also among the highest-priced sales of July was the $7.075m paid for a palatial three-storey home on Wombat St, in the exclusive Bundall pocket of Sorrento.
The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom, riverfront home had been owned by Anna Digiannantonio, who had embarked on a major overhaul of the 751sq m property since picking it up for $950,000 in 2008.
Among the home’s many features is a two-level ”gold class” cinema room, lift, 6.3m vaulted ceilings, and infinity edge pool with spa jets.
The buyer, Samantha Harvey, settled the buy on July 18.
The sale figure was followed closely by another Bundall mansion, in nearby Freyburg St, which settled for $6.6m.
Chantal Lack settled the brand new Bayden Goddard five-bedder on July 13.
The 670sq m home on a 684sq m waterfront block features a pontoon, boat shed, sunken lounge area by the infinity-edge pool, grand loungeroom and full-height windows to take in the views.
The luxurious master suite is accessed via a concealed timber door.
The home spent just 18 days on the market after it was listed by seller Karl Svobodan at $6.65m.
Ms Lack paid $1.6m more than her next-door neighbour paid for the home’s identical twin exactly one year earlier.
Back at Main Beach, Computershare founder Chris Morris’s $7m purchase of the Xanadu penthouse also figured in July’s top settlements.
The buy would have left plenty of change in his pocket after selling his Mermaid Beach beachfront home for $21m.
Seller Lasite Albert had picked up the apartment, once owned by failed childcare magnate Eddie Groves, for $5.3m in 2018.
Also at Mermaid Beach, Claire O’Brien sold an Albatross Ave apartment for $2.011m and bought another on the same street with doctor husband Denis for $6.5m.
The two-level, four-bedroom penthouse boasts a breathtaking rooftop terrace with pool and outdoor kitchen to enjoy its absolute beachfront views.
Seller Pilbeam Investments, held by Rod Pilbeam and Judy Gray, had picked it up for $3m in 2018.
Also settling for $6.6m in July was the Sanctuary Cove mansion described as “Australia’s best golf course house”, which was picked up by Susan Eelman and Graham Gilbertson.
The 900sq m home, on Arnold Palmer Dr, has a sunken lounge, six alfresco dining areas, bar, fire pit, and a pool and spa terrace
The home was the weekender of entrepreneurial retired executive David Baird and his wife Marion. They bought the home, which fronts the 14th and 15th fairways, for $6.5m in 2018.
Meanwhile, Hedges Ave resident Rosa Raso, the wife of Austworld plumbing products group head Sam Raso, settled on one of the most-viewed properties on the Gold Coast for a suburb record of $5.607m.
Ms Raso had bought the Lagoon Way home, in the Mudgeeraba enclave of Jabiru Park, for $4.6m in August 2020.
At the other end of the Coast, Raymond Tahi Tahi paid $4.15m for a flashy mansion in a surprising location.
The architect-designed 775sq m home is on 846sq m at Poinciana Pl at Jacobs Well, in the fast-growing new estate of Calypso Bay.
The home features marble flooring, a high-end French Provincial-style kitchen, heated 12m infinity pool with spa, chandeliers and pontoon.
Fitness influencer Ashy Bines and husband Steven Evans settled the $1.85m purchase of their new home at Lancelin Dr in Mermaid Waters.
The pair bought the home from Ricky and Vicky De Ruyter, who’d paid $810,000 for it in 2020.
The Gold Coast Turf Club has expanded its holdings in Bundall, picking up a modest home on 1015sq m opposite the track on Ken Russell Ct for $1.5m.
The horse trainer’s home, known as Bounty Lodge, is next to some of the club’s existing stables, used by Magic Millions.
Property records reveal its sellers, Michael Walsh and Gary Clark, had picked it up for $470,000 in 2001.
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