Nat Bassingthwaighte moves from Melbourne to Byron Bay
Former Neighbours star Natalie Bassingthwaighte, her drummer husband Cameron McGlinchey and their two children will move to Byron Bay after selling their Melbourne house, Jonathan Chancellor reveals.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte and her family are set to make the move to Byron Bay.
The Wollongong-born former Neighbours star, her drummer husband Cameron McGlinchey and their two children have sold their home in Melbourne’s bayside Brighton.
They’ll be renting first before buying acreage in the hinterland.
The redundant Brighton home cost $2,525,000 shortly after selling her former Elizabeth Bay apartment for $830,000.
The couple, who wed in 2011, have been together since 2006 when they met while in the band Rogue Traders, which is reforming.
“I’m ready for the next chapter in my life,” she told her social media followers.
Bassingthwaighte has also closed her children’s clothing label Chi Khi.
She soon finishes up as Roxie Hart in what she has described as her “dream role” in the production of Chicago in Melbourne.
They’re joining the rush of Melburnians making the move to the NSW hot spot for influencers.
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Model and Myer ambassador Elyse Knowles and boyfriend Josh Barker did it last year, fresh from winning The Block Elsternwick.
The couple have been renting a home 700m from Tallow Beach, with plenty of space for their much photographed Weimaraner dogs Isla and Harlow.
It came with an established organic fruit tree orchard, including mangoes, bananas and papaya.
The big news out of Byron this week was the entrepreneurial sea-changers Tom Lane and wife Emma are seeking buyers for their organic business incubator, The Farm at Ewingsdale. The buyers are being offered the whole, or just a stake in the farm.
ONE BIG UGLY POTATO YOURS FOR $920K
Surrounded by picnic benches, the Big Potato on Robertson’s main street has again hit the market at $920,000.
The vendors, Heather and Neil Tait, bought the 2000sq m site in 2014 for $450,000 to potentially extend their supermarket site, which is also up for sale at $1.2 million.
The Big Potato is 10m tall and 4m wide. Tourist buses stop on Hoddle St and the visitors take selfies.
Modelled on the sebago variety of potato, the landmark was built in the 1970s by potato grower Jim Mauger, who hosted the Babe set.
The Southern Highlands’ rich red soil is ideal for potato growing, with 100 growers back in the ’60s.
The Big Potato joined the fad which at last count sees 140 big things across Australia — including the 1960s Big Banana at Coffs Harbour.
The Taits acknowledge it’s among the ugliest of structures, with the listing agent Steve Myers suggesting it could be demolished or cheekily even relocated to behind the Big Merino down the highway at Goulburn.
RACHEL RELISTS BONDI BUNGALOW
The film and television director Rachel Perkins is attempting to sell her former Bondi Beach bungalow on its second attempt.
There is a $2.8 million guide through Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agent Debbie Donnelley for its February 29 auction.
Perkins and her former partner, filmmaker Richard McGrath, sought $3 million in late 2018, when Sydney was still in the midst of a downturn.
There was only one bidder who offered $2.4 million.
The former couple paid $1.5 million in 2010 for the three-bedroom California bungalow.
Perkins, who directed outback crime drama Mystery Road, has spent $2.22 million on a freestanding home in Leichhardt.
Late last year Perkins gave the ABC’s annual Boyer Lecture, which she titled The End of Silence.
PRICE DROPPED ON FASHIONISTA’S PAD
Fashion designer Kit Willow has relisted her four-bedroom Vaucluse home, with her price expectations again reduced.
Willow and her husband, property developer Mark Podgornik, had anticipated pocketing $5.8 million last May.
The redesigned 1930s home came with revised $5 million auction hopes late last year.
Now there’s $4.4 million guidance for its March 10 auction through Ray White agent Gavin Rubinstein.
Perched on the hillside above Vaucluse House, they paid $2.1 million a decade ago with a subsequent two-year renovation.
The three-level residence comes with a glass-fronted living area and a separate au pair suite.
Realestate.com.au puts the suburb’s four-bedroom median house at $4.1 million. There were just 68 house sales last year, down on the five-year prior average of 118 annual sales.