The Sell: Kurtley Beale lists updated Federation home
Wallabies legend Kurtley Beale has listed his longtime eastern suburbs home with a $4.5m guide for a December 7 auction.
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Wallabies legend Kurtley Beale has listed his longtime eastern suburbs home. PPD’s Kenji Fukushima and Alexander Phillips have a $4.5m guide for a December 7 auction.
Sixteen parties inspected the property during its first open.
Randwick’s median house price is $3.5m – up nearly 10 per cent in the past 12 year after 125 house sales, according to Proptrack.
The 35-year-old fullback, who has been living in Perth while playing for Super Rugby team the Western Force, has owned the 1920s Randwick home – featuring a two-storey rear extension – since 2015.
It was bought shortly after he returned from Melbourne to play for the NSW Waratahs, where he’d started his Super Rugby career in 2007.
Beale paid $2,651,000 for the freestanding Federation home, which has been updated during his ownership. The rear living, kitchen and dining area opens to the rear lawns on the 250sq m block that has a garage with a second-level bedroom and bathroom.
It has a rental estimate of $2600 to $2800 a week based on its recent tenancy.
Beale, born in Blacktown, has been capped 95 times by the Wallabies and has had four stints at the Waratahs, in between playing in England and France.
He signed for the Western Force in April on an injury replacement deal, until the end of the 2024 season.
Beale is married to sports administrator Maddi Blomberg.
They wed in 2020 at a ceremony at Swifts, the landmark Darling Point mansion.
Earlier this year, they had their second child, Mila, having had a son, also named Kurtley, in 2022.
They met at Icebergs in 2013. Maddi’s family is from Perth.
HASLERS SADDLE UP FOR THE MOVE FROM COLLAROY
Gold Coast-based NRL coach Des Hasler and wife Christine, who secured $9,715,000 when they sold their Collaroy oceanfront, have bought on Saddleback Mountain on the Illawarra coast.
Their two-bedroom, one-bathroom 1850s cottage purchase, which sits on 8000sq m overlooking pasture down to the Kiama oceanline, cost $4.7m.
The Collaroy sale concluded a decade-long ownership by the two-time premiership-winning coach, who bought the historic home for $2.82m in 2014.
Moana, the classic sandstone and weatherboard beach house built in the early 1900s for the Minnett family of Ord Minnett stockbroking fame, had a $9m price guide. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom Frazer St home sits on a 967sq m parcel with a 28-metre beach frontage.
Collaroy prices hit $16m in 2021, with another sale in 2021 at $10,121,000, so Moana ranks as its third-highest sale. PropTrack puts the median four-bedroom house price at $4,165,000.
The listing followed the Haslers’ move to Queensland after his appointment as coach of the Titans when he was sacked from the Sea Eagles in 2022. The subsequent court proceedings were settled earlier this month, with Sport Confidential reporting Manly had initially offered Hasler a $565,000 settlement.
Hasler took a Burleigh Heads penthouse rental when he moved.
Under him, the Titans finished in 14th place after eight wins.
Hasler, 63, had been associated with the Manly Sea Eagles since 1984, first as a player, then coach. He played 257 games over 12 seasons with premierships in 1987 and 1996.
The couple’s first purchase was in Manly in 1988 at $220,000. They bought in Collaroy in 1991, for $365,000 on Bedford Crescent.
Moana has been bought by Fiona Karren, the wife of retired Accenture executive John Karren. They are selling at Seaforth, with their 1193sq m property The Caves having
$10m-plus hopes.
It suits boats up to 58 feet on a 20-year maritime lease.
It has a heated pool, spa, gym, sauna, and state-of-the-art outdoor GC Quad golf simulator.
John Karren was a director at Golf Australia.
IT’S BACK TO THE FUTURE TO EASE SYDNEY’S HOUSING SHORTAGE
Pattern housing books have been around since colonial times.
The latest issued this week by the NSW government comes with six designs eligible for accelerated planning approval, making the houses ready for mass production in an endeavour to address Sydney’s housing crisis.
The designs are for low and mid-rise housing, ranging from new terrace housing concepts to apartment blocks up to six storeys.
The designs – selected by a jury chaired by NSW government architect Abbie Galvin – will be built initially on sites owned by Homes NSW, Landcom and Sydney Olympic Park.
Premier Chris Minns noted it was a case of back to the future, with pattern books for housing used to shape Sydney in the 19th century.
Many of the colonial pattern books are held at the Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection, at Sydney Living Museums, on Macquarie St.
Described as a treasure trove, it includes an 1806 booklet brought to Sydney in 1810 by Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of governor Lachlan Macquarie.
Dr Matthew Stephens, the research librarian, said the collection also held Robert Lugar’s The Country Gentleman’s Architect, which was published in London in 1815.
It had been used by Berry & Wollstonecraft, a business partnership established in 1819 between Alexander Berry and Edward Wollstonecraft that grew crops such as tobacco for the colony and export.
There’s also John Hall’s Novel Designs for Cottages, Small Farms & Schools, which was published in 1825 by the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Class.
The library also features pattern books from the 1950s housing boom, with brochures by the Grace Bros Home Plans Service, in association with the Sunday Telegraph, which published plans each week.
The service was launched in 1954, operating from its furniture store in Broadway, and then a second outlet in 1957 at its Parramatta store. The consulting architect had 2000 sample designs for suburban and beach homes.
The booklets were also on sale in newsagencies.
TV REALITY STAR JESS QUICK OFF THE BLOCK
Jessica Johansen-Bell – a cast member on the Netflix series Byron Baes – has listed her building block near the popular tourist town.
The fashion designer, who first garnered international attention in 2018 when Kylie Jenner wore one of her dress designs, spent $860,000 for the 800sq m vacant block at Bangalow.
“Bought my first property” she told her 34,000 Instagram followers after the purchase in July last year.
The block had been listed at $990,000 in 2022. It previously sold for $370,000 in 2016.
The Blackwood Crescent holding has been listed at $900,000 to $990,000 through Peter Randall and Brad Rogan, of Sotheby’s International, who are conducting an expressions-of -interest campaign that closes on December 11.
The buyer could proceed with the approved dual-occupancy plans, as a construction certificate has been issued by the Byron Shire Council.
The approval is for one three-bedroom home and one four-bedroom that have been costed at $793,500.
Bangalow has a special place in Johansen-Bell’s life.
It’s where she opened her first boutique of her fashion brand Johansen in 2016 – a year after the business, which has 177,000 social media followers, was founded.
The Lismore-born 29-year-old expressed disbelief earlier this year when reality TV star Jenner’s collection featured twisted straps similar to those designed by her five years ago.
CUTTING DEAL FOR A BYRON BEACH BEAUTY
TripADeal co-founder Norm Black and his wife Fiona have upgraded their Byron Bay base.
They have spent $6.975 million on an original home on Belongil Beach through Jeremy Bennett at Byron Bay Property Sales.
The two-bedroom shack on 835sq m sold by Jurgen Greiner was marketed as having an open-plan design “ready for a new owner to embrace and refine this beachfront position to their own style”.
They had offloaded their Byron bolthole for $2.3 million earlier this year.
The John Burgess-designed home had been bought in the 2020 pandemic boom for $2.6 million.
Black calls himself an “entrepreneur and farmer based in the hills of Byron Bay with my tribe’ on his social media.
Black and Richard Johnston launched online travel agent TripADeal in 2011, selling the remaining 49 per cent of the Byron Bay-based business mid-year in an agreement worth $211 million.
Qantas had acquired a majority stake in TripADeal in 2022.
The Black’s run Black Cockatoo Retreats, a collection of luxury farm stays in the Byron Bay hinterland.
They recently spent $5.36 million on Aloha Byron Bay, which has villa-style holiday rentals.
The Shirley Rd property, operating since 2008, can cater for 27 guests.
ORDERING UP A RIVER SALE
There is $9 million guidance for the vacated Chiswick home of Toplace Group property developer Jean Nassif, which hit the market midweek under the instruction of administrators.
The Burns Cres riverfront property that cost $4.9 million in 2015 has been scheduled for a December 6 auction.
The 2019-built home is registered in Nassif’s name, although his estranged wife Nisserine has a caveat claiming a stake “by virtue of marriage”.
NEXT PHASE FOR UNION MAN
The former Wallaby Jed Holloway, now at the San Diego Legion rugby union team, has sold his house at Mount Ousley for $1.25 million.
Set near the university campus about 4km northwest of Wollongong, the property was bought by the lock for $1.14 million in 2022.
The 1960s-built, recently renovated, two-level brick home has five bedrooms plus an alfresco deck and lawn on its 670sq m block.
EX-HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
St George Illawarra Dragons player Kyle Flanagan has sold his two-bedroom Woolooware apartment for $748,500.
Currently tenanted at $750-a-week, Flanagan had been seeking mid-$700,000s.
He was a $650,000 first home buyer in 2018. The 1960s ground-floor apartment sold through Gibson Partners.
Flanagan and wife Caity Airey recently bought their first home for $2.65 million in Burraneer.
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