Tom Burgess and Tahlia Giumelli sell apartment for $100k above the asking price
Rabbitohs star Tom Burgess has sold his Little Bay flat for $100,000 over the asking price, and Little River Band frontman Glenn Shorrock offloads his palatial pad in Double Bay.
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Rabbitohs star Tom Burgess and his model fiancee Tahlia Giumelli have little time to find themselves a new home before the official start of the NRL season in mid-March.
The pair are celebrating the midweek sale of their Little Bay apartment for $100,000 over the asking price, securing them a profitable $1.55 million.
The sweeping coastal views from the two large wraparound balconies must be what attracted interest in the three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment that is part of the 180-unit Little Bay Cove complex, Illume.
Burgess, who will go into the premiership season the only Burgess brother left playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, bought the apartment in 2015, three years after he arrived in Australia from the UK.
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He sold another apartment in the same complex two weeks ago for $992,500 and his twin brother George, who recently returned to the family’s native England to play for Wigan, also sold an apartment there for $1.35 million in December.
Burgess, reputed to be the NRL’s highest paid prop with a $700,000-a-season paycheck, recently made an investment of another kind when he became an Australian citizen.
Burgess, who came to Australia with his brothers Sam, George and Luke to play NRL for a year, said he fell in love with the country and decided to stay.
Property Confidential presumes Burgess, who became engaged to his longtime partner on New Year’s Eve, must be on the lookout for a family home now that the couple have a baby — six-month-old Sophie.
Listing agent for the midweek sale, former NRL player-turned agent Beau Champion of NG Farah, appears to be the real estate agent of choice for NRL players, securing many sales for the Burgess brothers as well as Nathan Peats and Aidan Sezer.
BIG DOLLARS FOR LITTLE RIVER MAN’S APARTMENT
Little River Band frontman and founding member Glenn Shorrock has sold his palatial Double Bay apartment overlooking Sydney Harbour for $8.5 million.
The ARIA Hall of Famer lived in the converted National Trust building with his wife Jo for close to 20 years, one of the original owners when the Gladswood Gardens property was converted to luxury apartments.
They paid $3.4 million for it then as a downsize move from the Birchgrove building they had lived in for 20 years since Shorrock made the move from Melbourne to Sydney in the mid-1980s. The sale comes two months after Shorrock announced the shock split from his wife of 35 years. Property Confidential understands Shorrock has not been living in the apartment since the split.
Agent for the sale, Clint Ballard of Ballard Property Double Bay, said Shorrock is looking to relocate within the eastern suburbs and has been inspecting architecturally-historic properties, the style he prefers.
The rocker, who was made an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia this year for his contribution to the arts, will perform with Wendy Matthews at a March 20 primary school fair in Little River, Victoria — the town that gave the band its name back in the mid-1970s.
The Double Bay apartment is a mix of heritage and contemporary, occupying the northern half of the ground floor, with a parterre garden that runs the entire length of the north side to a western terrace.
CUTE HOME IS PICKET OF THE WEEK
The dream of owning a home with a white-picket fence could become a reality for one family today, when a much-loved property on Manly’s swanky Eastern Hill goes under the hammer.
The home at 91 Stuart St was the most viewed residential listing on realestate.com.au this week and experts say it’s the three-bedroom house’s historic charm and spacious build that has buyers in a frenzy.
“Free-standing houses in Manly on the Eastern Hill are as rare as hen’s teeth and what’s attracting buyers is it’s cute but a lot bigger than it looks,” Belle Property agent Luke Burgess said. “To get a cottage with a three-car garage underneath — it’ll be the only one in Manly. It’s attracting downsizers and also young families. I’ve had a few international buyers asking about it. I’ve got one flying in from Singapore to have a look.”
Mr Burgess expects the home — with three bathrooms, three store rooms, a family-sized laundry and two balconies — to go for about $4.8 million. “The Eastern Hill is a very tightly held area, almost no houses come up there,” he said. “You’d absolutely consider this a final destination home because people strive to move into the cul-de-sac end of Stuart St.”
A four-bedroom home on a sprawling 588m block in West Ryde (right) was the second most viewed property and sold on Thursday ahead of a weekend auction. The home on Mahon St impressed with a renovated kitchen, spacious rooms, glossy floors and manicured lawns.