The Sell: Erin Molan selling her two-bedroom unit at Randwick
Radio and TV presenter Erin Molan has listed her eastern suburbs apartment for sale, with plans to move closer to her work in North Sydney.
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Erin Molan, the sports presenter with the Nine Network and 2Day FM breakfast show crew member, has listed her Randwick apartment.
Adrian Bo at NG Farah has the recently vacated, two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment listed for September 18 auction. It comes with $1.4 million expectations.
The apartment was bought for $1.2 million just weeks after Molan’s 2017 engagement to police officer Sean Ogilvy.
Molan, who is now the mother to three-year-old daughter Eliza, wants a house and to be closer to her work at North Sydney.
The Randwick unit was her first Sydney purchase, having moved from Canberra in 2010 after something of a nomadic military family upbringing.
Molan had been previously renting at Willoughby, not far from Nine headquarters at the time.
The apartment, which has views across Centennial Park to the city skyline, would rent for around $1000 a week, according to Bo, who will now be permitted to allow investors to inspect the property in person during lockdown.
The public health orders had previously stated a person could only leave home to inspect a potential new place of residence for that person.
The median sales price for two-bedroom units in Randwick was $945,000 when Molan bought in 2017. It is now $1.27 million, according to realestate.com.au.
There are just two other similar sized Randwick apartment listings at the moment as the market moves into what will be a spring with reduced stock levels, and likely continued price growth.
Molan, who has 95,000 Twitter followers and 176,000 on Instagram, does breakfast radio on 2DayFM with comedians Ed Kavalee and Dave Hughes.
They have all been active on the property front.
Hughes, who has been back in Melbourne during the current lockdown, has suspended his own property purchasing plans for the time being.
Hughesy had been forlornly looking since he moved to Sydney in January following his appointment to headline the new 2DayFM show.
The comedian, who reckons he’s met every real estate agent in Sydney, has appointed buyers’ agent Jack Henderson to assist his search.
And Kavalee recently spent nearly $300,000 on a Sydney retirement village apartment for his mother.
Molan is ambassador for a number of charities, including Save Our Sons and Defence Cares.
ARTIST’S RETREAT AT DARLINGHURST
Artist Andrew Taylor, the husband of actor Rachel Griffiths, has secured a Sydney retreat — a $2.01 million buy in Darlinghurst through his private investment company.
His purchase came just ahead of his current Sydney exhibition at the Olsen Gallery in Woollahra. The remaining works for sale are priced from $880 to $24,000.
The terrace, near Hyde Park, was snapped up through BresicWhitney agent Nick Gil, who had a $1.75 million guide. It was marketed as having a European villa-feel on the outside and a modernised inside.
Only the outside walls remain from the 1850s terrace on 57sqm, which had been run as the boutique bed-and-breakfast, Coppertop Cottage, which yielded around $200 a night for one of the bedrooms.
Last traded for $1.4 million in 2014, the corner terrace has three bedrooms, a floating staircase, minimalist kitchen, a study annex and a roof deck garden.
Taylor, Griffiths and their three children Banjo, Adelaide and Clementine, are based in Melbourne, where they retain an 1890s-built St Kilda home bought for $2.01 million in 2014.
The duo had a Palm Beach home base, which was sold in 2014 for $2.2 million.
Griffiths, infamous for protesting bare-breasted at the opening of Melbourne’s Crown Casino in 1997, has recently been working on the ABC comedy-drama series Aftertaste as an executive producer.
She presented a series in 2017 on eight painters vying for the coveted Archibald art prize, noting The Archibald was an important antithesis to today’s world of Instagram selfies.
CHANNEL 7 STAR SWOOPs ON BEROWRA
Another Channel 7 TV presenter has bought at Berowra Waters.
Weekend Sunrise presenter Matt Doran and his fiance Kendall Bora have bought in the small waterfront enclave in the Hornsby Shire.
They’ve secure a home located in what locals call Sunny Corner, paying $1.75 million for the early 1905 waterfront that was trading for the first time in nearly two decades.
It last sold for $1,005,000 in 2002 when bought by Tom Wallace, the former manager of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck.
The home was originally a schoolhouse, and part of the landholdings of George Peat, the first official European resident in the Brooklyn area, who received a grant of 50 acres (20ha) in 1836.
Set where Berowra Creek joins the Hawkesbury River, the four-bedroom home doesn’t have electricity, power comes from the generator, or solar system. And it’s accessible by boat only.
Caelia Collins from Riverfront Real Estate Bar Point secured the sale.
Bora is the executive producer of rival breakfast show Weekend Today.
As reported last week by The Sell, the popular TV presenter Larry Emdur and wife Sylvie have taken a shine to Berowra Waters. The Emdurs recently secured their second property, a $1 million tree-filled block on Neverfail Bay.
CASHING IN AT ENMORE
Former model Nikki Phillips and her husband, jeweller Dane Rumble, sold their inner west former home at online auction on Saturday for $1,725,000.
The New Zealand-born couple, who have been renting in Cronulla for the past two years, wisely decided it was the right time to cash in on their Enmore property.
The opening $1.4 million bid came an anxious two minutes after its 10.02 commencement. But a quick jump to $1.55 million came from the next bidder, who clearly didn’t want to waste time at the lowball levels.
The property had been bought in 2015 for $1.05 million. They had it up for sale briefly for $1.4 million last Christmas, but the marketing was pulled.
Ray White’s Ercan Ersan had the listing again with the same guidance, securing 1500 views within its first five days.
There are just two houses for sale in Enmore, which realestate.com.au calculates has seen a compound growth rate of 7.5 per cent for houses in the past five years to a $1,742,500 median.
The opening bidder came back at $1.56 million, and ended up securing the home.
It was announced on the market at $1.57 million, with five bidders competing for the keys. There were 24 bids during the 16-minute auction.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom Enmore home was bought shortly after the couple tied the knot in Bali.
The Simmons St home, on 95sqm and with its own courtyard, became a $1050-a-week rental upon their move south.
They moved to a Cronulla designer duplex two years ago, with their $1400-a-week, four-bedroom rental coming with landscaped garden and pool.
THOMAS BUYS CITY BOLTHOLE
Having sold her Point Piper harbourfront apartment, magazine industry veteran Deborah Thomas has bought a city bolthole for when she’s not at her recently acquired Southern Highlands home.
The whisper is she’s purchased off-market in Altair, the Tina Englen-designed Rushcutters Bay high-rise, after almost buying in the Rex at Kings Cross.
Her three-bedroom, art deco beachfront Point Piper pad, which has yet to settle, has been her home with husband Vitek Czernuszyn since paying $1.8 million for it in early 2009 when making the move from their 1886 residence Holthenham in Annandale.
The former editorial director of The Australian Women’s Weekly and her vodka-entrepreneur husband are tipped to have bought the French Provincial-style riverside Berrima estate, Ashrowen that was being marketed at $2.9 million and sold at $2.65 million.
It has the main four-bedroom residence plus a cottage in its 2175sqm with delightful garden.
It last sold in 2014 at $1.45 million.
BARNES DELAY BOTANY SALE
Jimmy and Jane Barnes postponed this weekend’s scheduled auction of their Botany warehouse residence until September 11.
The four-bedroom, four-bathroom warehouse is listed through Steve Pappas at Firmstone Pappas Properties, and John Higgins from MyPlace. They said the lockdown restrictions had made it difficult for potential buyers to get through the two-storey offering.
More than $4 million is being tipped for the space that comes with 6m-high ceilings, exposed brick walls, polished concrete floors and industrial lighting.
The family are now spending most of their time at their Southern Highlands home. It was 2004 when they paid a $1.6 million residential record for the home.
Six No. 1 albums were created in the soundproofed recording space at Botany by the former frontman of Cold Chisel.
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