The Sell: Burgess bub prompts Rabbitoh to offload penthouse
Rabbitoh George Burgess has called on a former teammate to sell his Little Bay penthouse, following the birth of his first child; while jeweller and sculptor Robert Clerc has listed his Bellevue Hill home after completing a stunning renovation on it.
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Tom Burgess, who will be the only Burgess brother to pull on green and red next year for the Rabbitohs, is now selling both his Little Bay apartments.
It comes after the first-time dad and his partner, model Tahlia Giumelli had their first daughter Sophie in August.
He initially put his investment pad on the market last month, with hopes of $975,000. Now he’s decided to also sell the penthouse which they have called home since moving from Coogee.
The three-bedroom, two-bathroom penthouse with two wraparound entertaining areas cost $1,405,000.
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NG Farah agent Beau Champion, who previously played alongside the brothers at the Rabbitohs, is seeking $1.5 million.
Tom’s twin brother George, who is moving back to the UK with wife Joanna and their three kids, offloaded his $1.35 million investment in the same block last December. He got the same price he paid off the plan in 2015.
The twins had attended the VIP launch of the development as guests of the then McGrath Projects boss Dennis Vertzayias.
Big brother Sam still retains a foothold in the building, having failed to find a buyer for his $955,000 purchase.
Sam’s Maroubra matrimonial home is likely to hit the market soon.
JEWELLER TO THE STARS LISTS
Jeweller and sculptor Robert Clerc and wife Samara have listed their Bellevue Hill home after completing its stunning renovation.
The society couple paid $3.75 million for the dated 1960s home when the freestanding, two-level property was described as a renovation project during its 2015 marketing.
The Bellevue Hill trophy home had been the long-held home of the late Veronica Strasser, widow of the property developer Sir Paul Strasser, the father of modern property development in Australia.
Now the four-bedroom abode has a marketing campaign that hails it as reminiscent of mid-century mansions in the Hollywood Hills. Indeed it now looks something akin to a Slim Aarons poolside setting.
The resort-style swimming pool is flanked by private alfresco areas that open from the glass-walled living and dining spaces.
There are new floorboards, a state of the art Carrara marble kitchen, as well as a second kitchen, and four designer ensuite bathrooms.
Raine & Horne Double Bay agent Jane Schumann and son Samuel have the listing with $7 million hopes.
Clerc’s previous homes include an 1830s Double Bay cottage sold for $5.54 million.
The picturesque Mort Cottage with white ornate gables on Ocean Ave was modernised by Thomas Jacobsen Architects.
Clerc gained international attention when he was commissioned to create a two-tonne steel sculpture of a scarab beetle for singer Tina Turner’s boyfriend, Erwin Bach.
MASTERCHEF SELLS CBD ‘NEST’
MasterChef season 10 fan favourite Metter Chin has secured the sale of his 21st floor Sydney CBD bolthole for nearly twice the price paid eight years ago.
The IT project manager paid $1.875 million in 2011 for the then two-bedroom, plus study, apartment in The Hyde, overlooking Hyde Park.
Over his eight-year ownership Chin has reconfigured the 120sqm Liverpool St apartment into a one-bedroom plus study.
City Residential Property agents Kristian Nelson-Marshall and Richard Rawle secured $3.6 million.
Chin, who champions hakka-style cuisine, made it into the MasterChef top 24 before being eliminated at the tarte tatin pressure test last year.
Chin, who was born in Malaysia, retains a Kendalls Beach home, near Kiama, where he hopes one day to set up a wine and tapas bar.
He says he has sought to follow the “snowbird” trend well known in the US.
A snowbird migrates from the colder to warmer locales, typically during the winter. Snowbirds used to be mostly retired people but are increasingly of all ages.
MODEL’S POTTS POINT PAD SOLD
The Potts Point apartment of the late international model Annalise Braakensiek has been quietly sold by the executor of her estate.
The $635,000 sale was slightly higher than the $600,000 Braakensiek had paid for the one-bedroom apartment just a few months before her death earlier this year.
The apartment, on Victoria St, was set to be a bolthole for the jetsetting model who divided her time between Europe and the US.
The Sunday Telegraph reported she left her estate to friends and family, but nothing
to her estranged husband, Danny Goldberg.
She had planned to decorate the 53sqm unit, in a recently refurbished 1980s complex, with Balinese accents.
NEWPORT LUXURY
The Mitala Newport, a collection of four luxury houses, has seen a $5 million deal as its first sale to a Castle Hill buyer.
The homes were designed by architect Mark Hurcum, who is keeping one.
Hurcum, along with an investor family, paid $6.1 million for the 3665sq m Pine Lodge estate in 2017.
The homes have been listed through LJ Hooker agents Peter Robinson, David Edwards, Claudio Marcolongo and David Watson, as well as Domain Residential agents Peter Grant and Nik Vuko.
Peninsula locals say other than one-offs, there hasn’t been a quality housing project like it since John David’s Palm Beach triplex, The Boatshed.
Realestate.com.au puts the Newport house median at $1.7 million.