The Sell: Luke Burgess sells Chifley home in southeast Sydney

Former South Sydney Rabbitoh Luke Burgess has sold his home in southeast Sydney, enlisting a former teammate to take care of the marketing and sale.

Former South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL player Luke Burgess, who now runs the Burgess brothers’ burgeoning 4B Label fashion brand, is selling his former Chifley home.

The two-level home has four bedrooms, including a master suite with an ensuite and a study nook.

Brothers Luke and Sam Burgess wearing their 4B clothing label. Picture: Tim Hunter

There are custom interiors throughout the southeast Sydney home, which opens to a rear north-facing backyard with a pool.

Burgess’s former teammate, NG Farah agent Beau Champion, who has previously sold coastal eastern properties for brothers Sam, George and Tom, is handling the marketing campaign.

Champion has been giving buyers a $2.1 million guide for its scheduled online August 28 auction.

A nearby duplex, without a pool, sold for $2 million earlier this year. There are just five houses for sale in Chifley, where realestate.com.au puts the median house price at $1,970,000, based on five years of sales which has seen a compound growth rate of 4.9 per cent for houses.

Luke Burgess’s Chifley property has a price guide of $2.1 million.

Luke played 51 NRL games for Souths between 2011 and 2014, and had a later brief stint at the Sea Eagles.

The eldest of the siblings was the first to retire from the game, having spent most of his career in the Super League playing for Leeds Rhinos.

Burgess runs the 4B casual menswear label that he Sam, Thomas and George came up with at a family catch-up in 2016.

Its online offerings range from $12.99 socks to $120 ­hoodies. Commando Steve Willis, Erin Molan, Russell Crowe, Jessie Wynter and Cameron Murray are among those who wear the label.

GUY SEBASTIAN OFFLOADS AT HERVEY BAY

Singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian has sold his Toogoom, Hervey Bay, ­investment.

He secured $735,000 for the ­coastal Queensland home, having sought offers over $730,000 during its 72-day marketing campaign.

It had been a $390-a-week rental.

The absolute beachfront on 1030sqm has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an open-plan living area overlooking the rear yard.

Aussie singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian has sold his ....

... beachfront investment property at Toogoom, Hervey Bay.

It was marketed as “beachfront bliss” by its Ray White Hervey Bay agent Samantha Scott, although thick vegetation prevents any water views.

The Maroubra-based Voice judge paid $675,000 in 2007, which was four years after he won Australian Idol.

The price reflects ordinary annual price growth of 0.6 per cent for the pre-global finance acquisition.

It was only four years old on purchase, with the single-storey home having been built with brick and Colorbond in 2003.

There have been six sales along the Kingfisher Pde foreshore this year ranging between $670,000 and $875,000.

WIPPA SELLS OFF BRISBANE UNIT

NOVA 96.9 radio presenter Michael “Wippa” Wipfli, has sold his Brisbane investment apartment which had been yielding $650 a week over the past few years.

He pocketed $775,000 from investors who are now seeking $700-a-week tenants.

Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli and on-air partner Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald. Picture: Getty Images

Wippa’s two-bedroom Brisbane investment unit sold for $775,000.

Wippa has owned the 15th-floor Casino Towers apartment since he paid $620,000 for it in 2008. At the time he was on air in Perth, where he got his start on the Em, Wippa and Ollie breakfast show.

The 90sqm, two-bedroom, two-bathroom George St apartment was listed seeking $799,000 following its April auction through Ray White agents Colin Walsh and Drew Xerez.

The median two-bedroom unit price in Brisbane City sits at $570,000, according to realestate.com.au. Wippa and wife Lisa upgraded to a $6.35 million Rose Bay mansion in 2019 from a $2.4 million Centennial Park semi.

KEPU CASHES IN

Wallaby Sekope Kepu, Australia’s most-capped prop, has sold the former ­family home in southwest Sydney.

Kepu and wife Anna have ­quietly offloaded the Prestons home for $830,000 through Oscar Montes de Oca at Wiseberry.

Sekope Kepu, pictured at a Wallabies training session, ...

... has sold his family home at Prestons.

They bought the 2000-built home in 2009, shortly after Kepu began his 11-year stint with the NSW Waratahs.

The couple retain a Coogee investment apartment that was bought for $1.22 million in 2018. It became a $760 a week rental at the back end of last year, however the Covid-­impacted rental market saw its asking price drop to $730 for the two bedder. The Kepu’s and their four children have been living in the UK however have now moved to New Zealand.

THRUPP MOVES TO DOUBLE BAY

Much celebration has followed the first-home purchase by aspiring conservative political commentator Jake Thrupp in Double Bay.

It seems his rental days amid the Paddington almond latte crowd will be over soon, following his off-market $1.08 million purchase late last month through PPD agents Kane Dunkley and Catherine Dixon.

Political commentator Jake Thrupp ...

... has bought a unit in Double Bay.

Set in an art deco block of 19 close to Redleaf Pool, the two-bedroom unit last traded in 1995 at $185,000.

Thrupp is a senior producer for Alan Jones on Sky News, along with being the social media manager for the controversial broadcaster.

Thrupp also writes the occasional column, with his most ­recent Spectator column arguing that NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had lost “all the good faith and political capital” during the ­recent Greater Sydney lockdown. It was only a few months ago when, to mark Jones’s 80th birthday, Thrupp joined Berejiklian for a late-night private dinner at Matt Moran’s Aria restaurant.

Thrupp, 24, moved to Sydney in 2018. He studied politics at Queensland University before transferring to Sydney University to complete his degree last year. He briefly worked in the marketing arm of Justin Hemmes’s Merivale restaurant group.