The Sell: Bachelor 2021 Jimmy Nicholson buys North Bondi unit

Bachelor Jimmy Nicholson is rumoured to have bought a unit near the beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Bachelor 2021 Jimmy Nicholson is whispered to have bought himself a beachside pad.

The North Bondi acquisition is unconfirmed, with the two-bedroom apartment snapped up just a day into its marketing with $1.4 million hopes.

Channel 10’s Bachelor for 2021 Jimmy Nicholson. Picture: Richard Dobson

Neighbours spotted 31-year-old Nicholson, a Jetstar pilot, at the 1970s apartment block midweek, just as McGrath Coogee agents Bri­anna Pike and Chris Volpatti secured its sale. The agents confirmed the apartment had sold, but wouldn’t comment on the buyer.

The North Bondi unit might only be a bachelor pad for a short-time, with Nicholson set to hand a rose to one of the bachelorettes with whom he’s apparently fallen in love.

The betting sites suggest the ninth Bachelor is set to go with either Holly Kingston and Brooke Cleal.

The renovated apartment, with two bedrooms, one bathroom and a covered balcony, last sold for $1,075,000 in 2018, the highest sale in the block of 12. The apartment had been a $795-a-week rental last year.

The renovated North Bondi apartment sold a day into its marketing.

Nicholson comes from a property-loving family.

His father Noel Nicholson has been a northern beaches estate agent since 2005, having previously been in the airline industry for three decades starting out as a flight attendant.

Noel, who has already featured in an episode of The Bachelor with his wife Susan, an organisa­tional psychologist and ­estate agency business manager, once noted whether it was “standing at the door of the aircraft cabin greeting passengers who have paid $10,000 for a first-class ticket or showing people a $10 million property” it was important to know how to read people.

BARNES LIST THEIR BOTANY BASE

Jimmy and Jane Barnes have listed their Botany warehouse residence for August 28 auction.

The warehouse offering comes as the family are spending almost all of their time at their longtime Southern Highlands home.

Jimmy and Jane Barnes are selling their Botany warehouse residence. Picture: Mark Mohell

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom warehouse has been listed through Steve Pappas, at Firmstone Pappas Properties and John Higgins from MyPlace.

Over $4 million is being tipped.

It was 2004 when the family purchased in the then industrial suburb, paying a residential record for a home.

Taking him back to his working-class roots, the former hard-drinking frontman of Aussie rock band Cold ­Chisel spent $1.6 million for the two-storey converted warehouse.

The striking two-storey warehouse is tipped to sell for more than $4 million.

One of two music studios in the Botany property.

There had been a $400,000 makeover undertaken by the previous owner, who worked as a smash repairer and dabbled as an amateur musician, so the Daphne St warehouse had a fully recording studio. There are now two sound-proof studios.

Barnes had architect and builder Moon Lim undertaken some renovation work.

In 2010 Barnes opened up his home to musicians as he filmed his 10-part MAX television series My First Gig.

HUTTON’S BRONTE PAD ON MARKET

The first thing that serious buyers of Deborah Hutton’s $12 million Bronte listing will likely check are the development application files at Waverley Council.

Hutton’s neighbour lobbed a new home application 10 days ago, seeking to go up a floor.

The paperwork suggests there will be no impact on the views of neighbours, that are set higher on the hillside. But the application will certainly mean anyone who buys Hutton’s home will face a noisy time on arrival in the neighbourhood.

Model and television presenter Deborah Hutton is heading for a sea change. Picture: John Appleyard

Hutton, who is reportedly set for a south coast sea change, paid $3.8 million in 2015 for the 1920s bungalow on 322sqm.

Hutton’s own development saw an $870,000 rebuild in 2017, when she created what is currently a bespoke one-bedroom abode with Ann Carin interiors.

The video marketing for her Hamptons-style home dates back to May, suggesting it has been an off-market listing.

Of course the marketing features homewares from her own range.

But it is the knockout views to the ocean, taking in the sweep from the sand of Bronte beach to the graves of Waverley Cemetery, that prompted its 3000 views in the 48 hours after going up on Thursday on realestate.com.au.

Hutton’s Bronte home has glorious views out to sea.

Potential buyers were there on Friday morning, shortly after Hutton took off in her Mini Cooper, which is a comfortable fit in its off-street carparking spot. Parking is at a premium on Pembroke St, given its proximity to the vibrant cafes, and the new Woolworths Metro on Macpherson St.

Friday morning’s inspection saw potential buyers accompanied by the low-key buyers’ agent Oskar Harrington, who unlike the showy Luxe Listings Sydney depiction of the industry, pulled up in his dated ­Mazda2 from John Newell Mazda.

Meanwhile, the flashiest buyers’ agent, Simon Cohen, has spent $5.5 million on an Ikon, Potts Point apartment for himself.

The Bronte bungalow also has a stylish garden.

His Cohen Handler buyers agency co-founder Ben Hanlder, who has dabbled in Ripehouse Con­cierge and Buyer’s Agent Institute since ending his partnership with Cohen, recently sold his Hensley, Potts Point, apartment.

Bought off-the-plan for $1.85 million in 2016, it sold at an undisclosed price through Richardson & Wrench, but was tipped at $1.7 million, a bothersome loss in the boom.

Elsewhere in Potts Point, the former Manar apartment of Hutton’s former partner Harry M. Miller has been listed for August 25 auction.

It was bought from Miller for $2.75 million in 2009 by artist Eleonore Solomon, whose work is held at the National Gallery of Australia. Her executors expect $4.8 million through BresicWhitney agent Zak Abdallaoui, who has been studying for an MBA.

SALE WITH A SERIAL KILLER PAST

The Mosman home where the late serial killer John Wayne Glover resided has been sold again. It fetched around $5.4 million through Ray White midweek.

The Wyong St property was home to the “Granny Killer” from 1969 until his 1990 arrest.

The former Mosman home of ‘Granny Killer’ John Wayne Glover sold last week for $5.4 million.

The pie salesman lived in the lower levels of the Wyong Rd split-level house owned by his in-laws.

It was sold by the Glover family in 1992 at $455,000, and again in 2013 at $2.45 million. Estate agencies have an obligation to reveal the history of listings, but only if the property was the actual scene of a murder within the past five years.

Glover committed suicide in 2013 at ­Lithgow jail.