Sydney real estate: Ex-NRL star Todd Carney offloads in Sans Souci
Former NRL star Todd Carney has offloaded a property investment in south Sydney while ex-bookie Bob Blann has sold his redundant Rose Bay abode after paying Australia’s third-highest off-the-plan price for an apartment in One Barangaroo.
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Former NRL star Todd Carney has offloaded one of his Sydney property investments. The one-bedroom Sans Souci apartment fetched $600,500.
It was bought in 2012, when playing for the Cronulla Sharks, for $460,000 off the plan. The third-floor 83sqm Rocky Point Rd apartment sold to another owner in the block.
The block attracted sport stars with fellow NRL player Trent Hodkinson buying for $460,000 and cricketer Steve Smith spent $435,000 on his still-retained investment.
After his NRL career ended in 2014 following alcohol-related incidents, Carney went overseas, then Cairns and last season was captain at the Byron Bay Red Devils in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League whose 2020 season has been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Red Devils, who had been expected to push for the premiership, missed the semi-finals last season with Carney having his fair share of injuries along with his teammates, making it difficult to cover injuries with no bench.
Guided by financial adviser Trent Tavoletti, the former Dally M medallist retains an $880,000 apartment in Coogee and a $607,000 Waverley apartment.
He sold his first property in Wentworth Point, for $500,000 in 2018 having bought it for $395,000 when he was a young Canberra Raider in 2007.
The Goulburn-born Carney, who turns 34 next week, opened Islands of The Gods, a tattoo studio in Bali earlier this year with Bondi Rescue’s big-wave surfer Jesse Polock. He got his first tattoo as a teenager.
Carney has been dating former MAFS intruder, Susie Bradley who runs the cosmetics enhancement business, Injectables by Susie Pearl.
LECKIES TAKE SMALL LOSS ON WOOLLAHRA UNIT
The subdued price hopes of the Leckie family for their redundant Woollahra apartment have been realised with a small loss being taken.
The two-bedroom top-floor Queen St apartment was bought in 2016 for a bullish $1.2 million as a bolthole for Harry Leckie, the son of former high-profile TV executive David Leckie and wife Skye.
It sold midweek for $1.1 million.
On the bright side, buyers had been given a $990,000 guide and it was snapped up ahead of its June 6 auction through Alexander Phillips and Vince Licata at Phillips Pantzer Donnelley.
The 59sq m apartment is set on the second floor northeast corner with leafy views in The Alpha, a classic block of 12 which has its columned entrance on Alton St.
It was offered as a $775-a-week rental in 2018 when, after a stint at the Potts Point lifestyle concept store Becker Minty, Harry relocated to London to study interior design.
The block’s highest recent sale was the 59sq m unit directly below at $1.13 million last September.
Overall, Woollahra has a $1.04 median price for two-bedroom units, according to realestate.com.au.
Its two-bedroom units have a $695-a-week median rent reflecting a 3.4 per cent rental yield. Based on five years of sales, Woollahra has experienced a compound growth rate of 5.7 per cent for units, which suggests the family overpaid on purchase.
BARANGAROO BOB LISTS ROSE BAY APARTMENT
Retired bookie Bob Blann has listed his redundant Rose Bay abode, having paid Australia’s third-highest off-the-plan apartment price in the One Barangaroo complex.
His 288sqm Rose Bay Ave apartment, for which he paid $3.5 million, has been his home for 10 years. The four-bedroom residence, located directly opposite the harbour, has been listed through David Malouf at L.J. Hooker.
Blann paid $40 million plus for the entire 61st floor in One Barangaroo, securing a 515sqm apartment.
Earlier this month Crown held a ceremony for the topping out of the 275m-high complex with a short site visit by the NSW Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet hosted by Crown’s chair, Helen Coonan.
Its construction through the pandemic enabled more than 1300 workers to be employed daily on the development, first proposed to the state government by James Packer in 2012.
Packer, who spent $60 million for his two-floor apartment, ranks among the $650 million plus buyers in the 82-apartment tower.
Packer’s mate, Ben Tilley is mooted as likely to show up a buyer when settlements occur next year.
Bexley hotelier Angelo Elliott has bought along with the Tartak waste collection family.
Blann, a venture capitalist, was said to be the biggest bookie when he retired in 1984 in an era when punters were pitted against the likes of Mark Read, Bruce McHugh, Jack Muir, Harry Barrett and Dominic Beirne.