Incredible features of Mayor Tom Tate’s new home

Mayor Tom Tate has splashed out on an incredible new home which includes a 25-metre pool, tennis court, wine cellar - and even a putting green. SEE THE PICTURES >>>

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TOM Tate is shaping up as the Gold Coast’s most restless mayor – he has just changed homes for the 12th time in little more than two decades.

Mr Tate and wife Ruth have sold a waterfront house at Paradise Waters which they paid $2.7 million for in September last year.

They have come out nearly $1 million ahead, selling the 36 Buccaneer Crt home for $3.65 million.

The Tates, the day before they signed the sale contract, bought a $3.825 million property in Carrara.

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The 25-metre pool at Mayor Tom Tate’s new property.

Russell Rollington, of First National Surfers Paradise, yesterday said the Buccaneer Crt home was not openly on the market.

“We were allowed to show the house to a Gold Coast couple who had approached us over another property.

“They loved it and they agreed to a price that satisfied the Tates.”

A putting green at the property.

The new Tate abode is a single-level house, built in 2006, on a 6139sqm acreage lot at the head of a cul de sac and is made for active people.

It has, as well as manicured gardens and lawns, a 25-metre pool, a full-size tennis court, a wine cellar, eight-car garaging and a putting green.

A pool house has a bedroom, two living areas and a kitchen.

Stunning features of Mayor’s new home

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The Tates’ master suite in the four-bedroom home includes a spa and dressing room and there also is a his-and-her executive study.

The five-bedroom Buccaneer Crt home sold by the Tates is on a 1037sqm block on a point and has a 49-metre water frontage and sandy beach.

The main living area.

Paradise Waters has been a favourite spot for the Tates – they have owned 10 properties there since 1999.

In addition, they owned the home of the late Bruce ‘Kelly’ Small on the riverfront at Sorrento.

They bought the Waterview Cres property from a receiver for $3.3 million in 2015, upgraded the house and added garaging, and last year sold it to a Chinese industrialist for $4.85 million.