Gold Coast property: Alan Jones revealed as owner of $12m Southport home

Long-time media personality Alan Jones has snapped up a Gold Coast home for more than $12 million.

Alan Jones, long-time media personality and former Wallabies rugby coach, has his name on the title of a $12.25 million riverfront Southport home.

The coalminer’s son owns the four-bedroom Wildash St home, previously home to car dealer Brett Frizelle and wife Rebecca, in tandem with niece Tonia Taylor and Justin Taylor.

Alan Jones. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Jeremy Piper

Eighty-one-year-old Alan, whose Gold Coast assets have included a Palazzo Versace condo, is mooted to be leaving the bulk of his net worth to Tonia.

The Wildash St home was built in the early 90s by disgraced former Coles Myer chief Brian Quinn.

RAPTIS BACKS AWAY FROM BROADBEACH VENTURE

Jim Raptis, a bounce-back developer who’s on a project spurt, appears to have shelved plans for one of his Broadbeach ventures and the site is on the market.

Developer Jim Raptis. Picture: Glenn Hampon

The Chelsea Ave three-lot holding was assembled last year at a cost of $6.06 million and plans were unveiled for a $190 million project close to the Gold Coast Highway.

A development application for a 41-level tower with 180 apartments was lodged in March but the Raptis plans have yet to get a green light.

PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS AFTER 40 YEARS

Geoff Burchill, part of the furniture in the Gold Coast property arena for decades, finally has found a buyer for riverfront Nerang high-rise land that’s been in the family for more than 40 years.

Geoff, visionary structural engineer, has been chasing a deal for more than six years and apparently has come up with one that settles later this year.

The retiree, in his 80s, gained approval in 2015 for five apartment buildings of from nine to 17 levels on the 2.55ha site, close to the Nerang train station.