The Sell: Healy and Starc purchase easily surpasses Terry Hills record
Australian cricketing power couple Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc have settled on their purchase of the luxury Terrey Hills estate Charlotte Park. And another Trbojevic brother is making a move in the real estate game.
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Australian cricketing power couple Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc have settled on their purchase of the luxury Terrey Hills estate Charlotte Park but are busy also seeking tenants for their impressive rental portfolio.
The outstanding Napa Valley, Californian ranch-style estate designed by Cadence and Co cost $24m with funding from their longtime lenders Suncorp-Metway.
Set atop a natural escarpment adjacent to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the two-storey dwelling features lofty proportions.
The home on the 1.8ha estate was designed by architect Michael Kilkeary for Simone Mills, the wife of Cadence & Co construction firm co-founder Darren Mills.
It comes with equestrian facilities, an American-style barn, a pool, a tennis court, chicken coop, a kitchen garden and garaging for 13 cars.
Built on the site of a former Italian market garden, Charlotte Park took two years to create.
Their purchase price easily surpassed the $14.1m local record secured last spring by Oxanda Education childcare entrepreneur Adrian Fonseca and his wife, Nancy Reardon-Fonseca, for their 1.76ha Myoora Rd holding, which features a home constructed by Cadence and Co.
The luxury equestrian property sold to local Mark Allsop.
The prior suburb record was $12m when rugby league legend Brad Fittler and partner Marie Liarris sold their 2.2ha property to Telstra’s former chairman John Mullen and his wife Jacqueline in 2022.
Healy and Starc have yet to register the sale of their North Curl Curl home. The designer home, built by Jennifer Hawkins and her husband, builder Jake Wall, had initial $9m guidance. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house cost $5.235m in 2016 when Starc’s Mosman residence sold for $5.95m.
The pair married in 2016, with the North Curl Curl home being their first home together.
The couple rank among Cricket Australia’s highest-paid contractual players, and also in the Indian Premier League competitions.
They have accumulated a property portfolio while sticking to the Northern Beaches.
They paid $1,625,000 for a house in Killarney Heights in 2017, then renovated parts of the 1970s, three-bedroom home before securing an $850-a-week tenant, which reflected a 2.7 per cent yield. It dipped to $650 a week in the 2020 pandemic.
After its rebuild costing $827,304 in 2023, it is currently seeking tenants at $2000 a week through Zoe Thackeray of Clarke and Humel.
They are also seeking $2200 tenants for their $1.95m Collaroy Plateau investment property with wraparound deck and pool.
OH BROTHER, FLEDGLING LANDS FIRST PROPERTY
Manly Sea Eagle emerging young star Ben Trbojevic is following in the footsteps of his older brothers both on and off the field.
Trbojevic, the younger brother of Sea Eagles and Blues Origin stars Jake and Tom Trbojevic, has secured his first property.
The 22-year-old first-home buyer, who has quickly established himself as an important part of Anthony Seibold’s starting team this year, has spent $1,175,000 on a two-bedroom apartment on the Northern Beaches.
Chris Gamarra, of Laing & Simmons Narrabeen, had been offering a guide of $1.12m for the Narrabeen apartment, opting to sell pre-auction.
Trbojevic will be a rentvestor for now. He has sought $750-a-week tenants, which would score him a 3.3 per cent yield. The first-floor unit in the Tambu building, near Narrabeen Surf Club, last sold for $535,000 sale in 2011.
Realestate.com.au puts the median for two-bedroom apartments at $1.22m, which is up just 0.4 per cent over the past year after 85 sales. The Narrabeen two-bedroom median hit a peak in late 2022 at $1.35m.
The overall Narrabeen apartment median sits at $1,152,500 from 144 sales with its $700-a-week median rental reflecting a 3.5 per cent yield.
Narrabeen was where Jake, the eldest of the three Trbojevics, started his property-buying journey back in 2014 when he spent $680,000 on a two-bed apartment. He followed that up in 2020 paying $1,555,000 for a two-bedroom apartment in The Bathers block, just off the beach.
Both Jake and Tom own houses in the same Warriewood development, which they bought as house and land packages for $964,000.
Tom’s first purchase was in 2016 when he spent $895,000 on a two-bedroom unit in Manly Vale. He followed that up 12 months later with another two-bedroom apartment, costing $1m, in the same suburb.
BETTER ASKING PRICE SET FOR TV STAR’S HOME AND GARDENS
Better Homes and Gardens celebrity gardener Charlie Albone and his wife, interior designer Juliet Love, have snappily relisted their longtime Ourimbah retreat on the NSW Central Coast.
There is a $2.45m to $2.65m price guidance through the local Ray White office.
The 2.07ha property had been initially listed in early February through other agents with a $3m to $3.2m price guidance.
This time there is a video of the couple showing off the grounds at Evergreen Acres.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom single-level English cottage-style house sits on a circular driveway in privacy deep behind its grand entry gate.
There are garden alcoves, a stunning wisteria-covered arbour, fruit trees, plus garden beds for vegetables. There is a feature dry-stone wall fire pit built by Scottish stonemason Callum Grey for the Chelsea Flower Show.
The five paddocks come with animal shelters, plumbed water troughs and a three-stall stable. The Ourimbah Creek Rd property has town water, plus 100,000-litre tanks.
The inclusions include a robotic lawnmower that services the lawns at the acreage, which was bought in 2012 for $840,000. Ourimbah’s top acreage sale sits at $3,725,000 for a 13.93ha Dog Trap Rd holding with a six-bedroom house, which sold in 2021.
There has been a $2.3m sale of 12ha Bumbles Creek Rd acreage earlier this year with a four-bedroom 1940s house overlooking paddocks, with two dams, plus horse stables.
In late 2019, the couple, who have two sons, bought a two-storey red-brick semi in Maroubra for $2.355m, which has been transformed into a weatherboard coastal look.
They secured permission in 2021 for works, including a pool and spa, on the 316sq m holding.
Albone quit Foxtel’s Selling Houses Australia in early 2020 to join the BH&G team, replacing fellow celebrity landscaper Jason Hodges.
RECORD SET BY OUT-OF-TOWNERS
The big surprise about the record Tweed Coast house sale by electric skateboarder entrepreneurs Jeff and Fleur Anning was that the purchaser comes from Adelaide.
The $14.05m Cabarita Beach buyer was John Falzon, founder of landfill biogas company LMS Energy, and his wife Donje.
They live in Springfield, Adelaide.
The Annings had purchased the 718sq m property in 2019 for $4.075m, then commissioning the modernist-style residence from architect Luke Henderson they dubbed Caba Hill Beach House.
Constructed two years ago, it was listed with $15m hopes through Smile Elite Real Estate.
It has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a four-car garage. The three-level home with robust concrete exterior has rainforest on its southern boundary.
It comes with 360-degree views from Norries Headland to Round Mountain in the west and Kingscliff to the north.
Falzon founded LMS in 1996, pioneering landfill biogas-based renewable energy use in Australia. Each year, LMS’s 26 carbon abatement projects reduce over four million tonnes of greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere, making LMS one of Australia’s largest emissions reducers.
The Tweed Coast record stood at the $9.45m paid for a Kingscliff beachfront property sold by Nick Witheriff of LJ Hooker.
It was purchased by Allan Greenfield, majority owner of cable company TriCab.
He is from Melbourne, which has long been a rich source of buyers for the strip.
North Point, a resort-style offering spanning three blocks, had been on and off the market since late 2019.
Designed by Paul Uhlmann, the 2009 house bettered the previous nearby $8.97m record, which was set in 2022 by Gail Kellow, wife of Glenn Kellow, the former chief of Peabody Energy.
A-LISTINGS DYNASTY IN FRESH DEAL
The Tzaneros dynasty, which warrants its own soap opera on Amazon Prime to replace Luxe Listings Sydney, is back in the headlines with its property dealings.
ACFS Port Logistics executive Anthony Tzaneros and his wife, interior designer Poppy O’Neil, are undertaking a $25m upgrade in Bellevue Hill.
They have bought the Vivian St home from businesswoman Deborah Ricci, so their renovated Boronia Rd home is up for May 1 auction with mooted $17.5 million plus expectations.
It was bought for $7.45 million in April 2021 prior to a major renovation.
O’Neil and Tzaneros tied the knot in 2020, taking over the Rockpool restaurant for their reception after a traditional Greek ceremony.
Celebrations continued next day on the luxury superyacht Quantum.
Anthony’s older brother Arthur bought nearby, paying $61.5 million for the Bellevue Hill home of flower wholesaler Leo Lynch last year.
But Arthur Tzaneros is yet to sell his redundant Vaucluse home, which he listed last June with $50-55 million price hopes, having paid $32 million in September 2021.
Their, Terry and Anne Tzaneros, nabbed a $38 million Point Piper harbourfront home in 2021 from Sarah Cooke, which had initially been listed with $60 million hopes.
VENDOR BID FOR STAR’S ABODE
The family of late entertainer Barry Humphries placed a $6.3m vendor bid when his Quay West apartment in The Rocks went to mid-auction.
The three-bedroom 30th-floor abode was bought direct from Paul Ramsay, the late founder of Ramsay Health Care, for $2.5m in 2004 in the name of Bandicoot Corp.
Its Ray White agent Francis Fusco now has a $6.3m guide.
MPS REFORM THEIR HOUSING
Illawarra’s political power couple – Paul Scully, the state Minister for Planning, and his federal MP wife Alison Byrnes – have purchased a Sydney CBD apartment in the King St Wharf precinct.
The one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit cost $810,000.
No doubt Scully especially needed a bolthole away from his Wollongong electorate given his ministerial duties, which include overseeing housing reforms.
FOURTH TIME LUCKY FOR ROOSTER
After a brief attempt seeking $2650-a-week tenants, Sydney Roosters top tackler Victor Radley has listed his Waverley home for an April 20 auction.
The renovated Wallace St address had unsuccessful November and February auction campaigns through R&W agent Jason Boon.
Now PPD agents Thomas Fuller and Alexander Phillips have similar $4m guidance for the 240sq m holding.
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