The Sell: No buyers for scene of gang shooting
A Guildford home, caught up in gangland murders of Toufik and Salim Hamze languishes on the market after being passed in at auction last weekend. Sophie Monk sells on the Goldie while James Maloney offloads his Maroubra home.
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A Guildford home, caught up in gangland murders, languishes on the market after being passed in at auction last weekend.
The auction guide was $1.3m through Eddie Bechara and Andy Zgair of Hunters Agency & Co.
Toufik Hamze, 64, and his son Salim Hamze, 18, were seated in a red ute in the cluttered Osgood St frontyard when shot in October 2021. The younger Hamze died at the scene, while his father later died at Westmead Hospital. The pair, distant relatives of the Hamzy crime family, had been renting the property.
The homicide squad released footage of the shooting last December as, despite arrests, detectives are still looking for the man who pulled the trigger.
Mr Bechara consulted auctioneer Tom Panos to ensure the sales contract referenced the property having had a dark past. It’s a disclosure required under the legislation that followed the three family murders by convicted killer Sef Gonzales at North Ryde in 2001, with the NSW government making it illegal to “fail to disclose information that could have a substantial impact on the value of a property”.
The 689sq m Guildford parcel is for sale with Cumberland City approval for demolition. The construction of a two-storey detached dual occupancy with pools has an estimated cost of $1,349,875.
“This immaculate piece of real estate serves as a pristine canvas for manifesting your ideal home or investment endeavour,” the marketing advises. The vendor bought for $1,255,500 last March.
PALEO PETE DISHES UP HIS COOKING RETREAT
Controversial former television chef Pete Evans and his wellness advocate wife Nicola Evans are selling their Northern Rivers cooking retreat.
They’ve updated the Byrrill Creek rainforest property, around 66km northwest of Byron Bay, since 2020 when they paid $1m for Mount Warning Forest hideaway.
They’ve renovated the seven cabins, which they now run as Evolve Sanctuary.
The 7.9ha listing by JET Real Estate agents Tania Sheppard and Elizabeth Hickey advises the property is “a leader in wellness tourism with a strong cashflow”.
Recent events at the Byrrill Creek Rd property have also included fasting retreats with Pete in a five-day juice, water and broth fast, costing $2250 per person.
There’s still a number of events coming up for the $1650-a-weekend cooking retreat.
“Our weekend cooking retreats offer our guests to learn the fundamentals of a paleo and keto lifestyle,” their website reads.
The course involves ferment food, making bone broths, and cooking with seafood, meat, and local organic fruit and vegetables.
They offer ice baths, red light treatment, a float tank and an infrared sauna.
The vendors are offering a leaseback. There have been just the two property sales over the past year, including one offering set in the multiple-occupancy community of Pretty Gully. It was one of the 14 shares in the 84ha estate that sold through Nimbin Hills Real Estate agent Sundai Harrison.
Evans and Robinson won’t be exiting the tiny enclave of just under 40 properties as they have owned next door since 2021 when they spent a record $1.75m to secure the 72ha Gunjal estate with its five-bedroom home.
Late last year they submitted $44,000 plans for a pool and deck.
Evans and Robinson sold their longtime 10ha Tweed Shire hinterland property at Round Mountain for $3.15m in 2021, having paid $1.2m in 2014.
The couple exited Sydney after Evans was dropped by Channel 7 from My Kitchen Rules, the popular show he had hosted for 11 years until 2020.
They sold two Malabar homes for a combined $6m when heading north.
A HIDEAWAY IN THE HILLS (LITERALLY)
The Earth House in the Goobarragandra Valley, at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, west of Canberra, has been listed for a February 17 auction.
Built into the side of the hill, the three-bedroom, three-bathroom residence was the work of Trevor and Jeanette Robinson, who purchased the land for $270,000 in 2016.
The 5.87ha Walls Creek Rd estate has untouched rolling hills and 500 metres of Goobarragandra River frontage, part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin.
It featured on Foxtel’s Grand Designs Australia with Peter Maddison in 2022 on season 10.
It ranked on last year’s 50 best NSW homes list by The Daily Telegraph, ranking 18th.
The single-level home has been likened to “a doona” given how seamlessly the earth home fits into the landscape southeast of Tumut.
The home, with floor-to-ceiling glass doors on its northern facade and outdoor decking, is 100 per cent off the grid. With a focus on sustainability, and achieving an 8.5-star energy efficiency rating, it features a 92,000-litre water tank, a 15 kVA inverter, solar panels and a 30.8 kWh premium lithium battery bank.
It was designed to be wheelchair-accessible by Architecture Republic, with input from T Keenan Constructions and Xeros Piccolo Consulting Engineers.
The home’s timber interior palette contrasts the hard concrete flooring, with its plywood walls and ceiling providing space for insulation and to soften echoes from hard surfaces.
There is a covered breezeway with an outdoor kitchen as well as a shed with bedsit and kitchenette.
It has had more than 39,000 page views since being listed through Jane Macken and Andy Greenberger, of LJ Hooker Woden/Weston, on realestate.com.au and is expected to sell around the $2m mark.
SOPHIE SELLS INVESTMENT FOR TIDY PROFIT
Love Island host Sophie Monk has sold her Gold Coast riverfront investment property at Helensvale.
Steve and James Weir, of Harcourts, managed the sale guiding $1.75m-plus for the five-bedroom, three-bathroom dwelling set on a 4020sq m parcel in the Riverdowns Estate. Monk paid $1.1m for the property in 2016.
Built in the late 1990s, the home features a renovated kitchen, which overlooks the entertaining area, outdoor alfresco area and pool. There’s a master bedroom with triple wardrobes and ensuite.
There are multiple storage sheds, plus a boat ramp with covered boat storage and jetty.
The Helensvale offering has been a $1200-a-week rental over the past few years following the singer, actor and TV host’s move to Sydney.
Monk, who was born in London to English father and Australian mother Andrew and Sandi, moved to the Gold Coast when she was two years old in 1982. She attended Helensvale Primary School.
Monk is based in Matcham on the NSW Central Coast, where she spent $2.3m in 2020 on a four-bedroom home set on 8356sq m.
She also retains a Mermaid Beach unit, bought for $165,000 in 2003.
Monk, who spent a decade in Los Angeles before returning to Australia in 2015, lives with her husband, photographer Joshua Gross.
DALLY M ROOSTER SELLS MAROUBRA HOME
The two-time premiership winner James Maloney and his wife Jess Anderson have listed their former Maroubra home given he has joined the North Queensland Cowboys’ coaching staff for the next two seasons.
The four-bedroom, two-bathroom Manwaring Ave home is set for February 24 auction with a $2.3m price guide significantly lower than the $3,167,500 PropTrack median. The offering has three levels on its 247sqm holding with garden.
It was bought in 2012 for $1,160,000 through Ellison Zulian Property.
Buyers have been told it has been a $1400 per week rental.
It had become a $1200 per week rental in 2018 when the couple bought at Glenmore Park when the star five-eighth started playing at the Penrith Panthers.
Their $1,265,000 home purchase was just 10km south of the ground.
The couple recently leased out their five-bedroom, three-bathroom Glenmore Park house given Maloney has launched his NRL coaching career as a specialist attack coach at the Cowboys on Todd Payten’s staff.
Maloney retired as a player last year, having led French Elite One club Lezignan to the semi-finals as a player-coach in his initial coaching foray.
The 2016 Dally M five-eighth of the year featured in 247 games as player, debuting at the Storm in 2009 before playing at the Warriors, Roosters, Sharks and Panthers.
It was a chance meeting with player agent Isaac Moses at a Penrith chicken shop that led to Maloney passing on a part time offer at the Sydney Roosters and accepting the full-time job in Townsville.
Maloney had told his Jess he was happy to stay in Sydney if she wanted him to, the Townsville Bulletin reported.
The couple, who have four children, have spent $640,000 at Idalia, a southern suburb in Townsville. The AP Williams-built family home cost $242,000 in 2008 on its $210,900 building block.
It traded in 2017 at $380,500.
SALE AIMS TO REBUILD VALUE
A Drummoyne home that last sold at a $1.3 million loss is on the market following its remediation.
The gutted Bowman St offering sold last July for $2.8 million with issues arising from a faulty building slab in a 2020 extension. It had fetched $4.11 million in 2021.
Adrian Oddi and Adrienne Williams at BresicWhitney have issued $3.5 million guidance for its March 2 auction.
RIVER INTEREST RISES YET AGAIN
The De Angelis family has further expanded its significant riverfront holdings on the Hunters Hill peninsula, this time with Alcide De Angelis emerging as a $13 million buyer.
His wife Robyn is the sister of pub baron Arthur Laundy.
Located on Viret St, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom house had been the home of the late Bob Mostyn, of exporter Craig Mostyn and Co.
The home last sold for $71,600 in 1966.
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Ooralba, the luxury Barrengarry estate of Hong Kong-based businessman James Chen and his Sydney-schooled wife Su, has hit the market with a $24 million-plus expectations.
It was the 2017 wedding venue of TV power couple Sylvia Jeffreys and Peter Stefanovic, who recently emerged as the $6.3 million buyers of a Californian bungalow with an extension nicknamed “the fighter jet” at Bronte.
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