Biggest sales on the Gold Coast in 2021
This year has been phenomenal for prestige sales on the Gold Coast. Here we reveal who bought what from whom in this list of top 30 sales: SEE THE FULL LIST
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From businessmen, to supercar champions to clothing icons, here is who has exchanged homes with whom over the past 12 months.
1. 5 McMillan Court, Southport
Sale price: $23.75 million
Sale date: March 2021
Seller: Transport tycoon Peter Smith, founder of SCT Logistics
Buyer: A former Adelaide businessman
Agent: Amir Mian, Amir Prestige
It was the biggest sale on the Gold Coast this year. There are no official records as to who the buyer is, but the property is now home to a former Adelaide businessman, whose identity has been suppressed by the Queensland government.
2. 13-17 King Authurs Court, Sovereign Islands
Sale price: $20 million
Sale date: August
Seller: German super yacht builder Klaus Lilischkies and his wife Leigh
Buyer: Clive Palmer
Agent: Patrick Pancur, Bespoke International
This futuristic-looking mega mansion adds to Clive Palmer’s expansive property portfolio worth more than $50 million statewide, including many on the Gold Coast.
3. 7354-7356 Marine Dr East, Sanctuary Cove
Sale price: $17.7 million
Sale date: November
Seller: Johnson Property Holdings director Terence Johnson
Buyer: Tony Quinn, entrepreneur and rich-lister
Agent: Matt Gates, Ray White, Sanctuary Cove
The local business tycoon and property developer recently became the owner of this opulent five-bedroom, 11-bathroom waterfront home. Mr Quinn made more than $400 million from the sale of VIP Pet Foods, which he founded, and $200 million selling most of his stake in confectionary giant Darrell Lea.
4. 139-141 Hedges Avenue, Mermaid Beach
Sale price: $17.5 million
Sale date: August
Seller: Nava Abedian, wife of prominent Gold Coast developer Solheil Abedian
Buyer: Andrew Fahey, co-founder of online bookmaker PointsBet
Agents: Troy Dowker, Michael Kollosche and Harry Kakavas of Kollosche
The sale of this prime beachfront block broke the record for the highest price paid for a lot of land along Hedges Avenue. It works out to almost $20,000 per square metre.
5. 65 Albatross Ave, Mermaid Beach
Sale price: $15.9 million
Sale date: December
Seller: Anna and Vincent De Pasquale, co-owners of Nanda, the pasta company
Buyer: Undisclosed
Agent: Amir Mian, Amir Prestige
In last-minute sale of this Millionaire’s Row home is the end of an era for the De Pasquales who have owned this beachside mansion for decades.
6. 159 Hedges Ave, Mermaid Beach
Sale price: $15.75 million
Sale date: January 2021
Seller: Baiyan Cheng and Jinmin Qu
Buyer: Computershare co-founder Chris Morris
Agent: Michael Kollosche and Ryan Ward, Kollosche
This six-bedroom beachfront home has a lift, basement that takes six cars, gymnasium, sauna and wine cellar. It was built by Jill Mathieson, wife of pubs and pokies billionaire Bruce Mathieson, in 2007.
7. 127 Hedges Ave. Mermaid Beach
Sale price: $15.6 million
Sale date: June
Seller: Michael Brosnan, owner of health science company Metagenics
Buyer: Undisclosed
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
Few details have been revealed about the offmarket sale of this oceanfront home, which equates to $25,700/sq m for the 607 sq m lot. The buyer remains a mystery, but the seller made a healthy fortune out of the natural supplements business. He’s also a part-owner of the Parkwood International golf course.
8. 95-97 Hedges Ave, Mermaid Beach
Sale price: $15.5 million
Sale date: June
Seller: Bridget Deer, wife of Ignite Travel founder Randall Deer
Buyer: Michael Power, founder of BMD Group
Agents: Michael Kollosche and Ryan Ward, Kollosche
Construction industry veteran Mick Power, founder of BMD Group, and his wife, Denise, plan to build a family home on this north-facing site after moving away from the Northcliffe Tce-Garfield Tce area which he said was going to become too high-rise orientated.
9. 7001/4 The Esplanade, Surfers Paradise
Sale price: $15.25 million
Sale date: May
Seller: Tech businessman Andrew Koloadin, founder of Digital Pacific
Buyer: Tah-nee Beard, Culture Kings streetwear brand founder
Agent: Tolemy Stevens, Harcourts Coastal
This property had a huge international campaign and was one of the first properties in Australia to offer payment in bitcoins. While the buyer was young Tah-nee Beard of Culture Kings streetwear fashion brand she opted to pay the old-fashioned way.
10. 87-89 Monaco St, Broadbeach Waters
Sale price: $14.5 million
Sale date: October
Seller: Tara Walsh
Buyer: Undisclosed
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
No one is willing to give away any details about the offmarket sale of this property in October. Even the seller seems to fly under the radar.
11. 3-7 Sir Lancelot Close, Sovereign Islands
Sale price: $14.18m
Sale date: May
Seller: Zewei Wu
Buyer: Ian Paterson, a director of Melbourne-based aluminium trades supplier Dias Aluminium
Agents: Ivy Wu and Isaac Kim, Ivy Realty
The giant home with six ensuite bedrooms, once owned by fallen developer John Fish, broke the Sovereign Islands record when the contract was signed. It has 1890sq m of living space, a gym with steam room, a home office, a 3600-bottle, temperature controlled wine cellar and a 25m lap pool.
12. 139-141 Monaco St, Broadbeach Waters
Sale price: $12.8 million
Sale date: January
Seller: Natalie Miller
Buyer: Frostheath Pty Ltd (Andrew Bassat, co-founder of jobs website Seek!)
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
The deal on this humble, five-bedroom home on a 1813 sq m waterfront parcel changed hands quietly. The seller, Natalie Miller, an interior designer went on to by another property in Carrara while Andrew Bassat, the Melbourne-based businessman makes himself at home on riverfront.
13. 1039 Edgecliff Pl, Hope Island
Sale price: $12.8 million
Sale date: July
Seller: Gold Coast Cove, sole shareholder is Leng Gao
Buyer: Australian Innovation Centre CEO Mark Winfield and wife Lynette
Agent: Danny Zhang, Australian Homes Management
Business appears to be booming for the Winfields, who live down the road in Sanctuary Cove from this lot that they bought, which has 130m of water frontage. The seller was Gold Coast Cove, a company whose sole shareholder is Chinese resident Leng Gao.
14. 297-299 Monaco St, Broadbeach Waters
Sale price: $12.4 million
Sale date: January
Seller: Entertainment entrepreneurs Billy and Jackie Cross, Cross Promotions
Buyer: Undisclosed
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
Despite this sale being penned in January the ink is yet to dry on it with the property still awaiting settlement. The buyer remains hush-hush at this stage, while the Crosses put the home on the market after committing to a $6m-plus penthouse in the yet-to-be-built Main Beach tower “White”.
15. 2 Wildash St, Southport
Sale price: $12.25 million
Sale date: November
Seller: Brett and Rebecca Frizelle, Frizelle Automotive Group and co-owner of Gold Coast Titans NRL Club
Buyer: Undisclosed buyer from Sydney
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
This Southport abode was the long-time family home of the Frizelles, who earlier this year spent more than $7 million securing themselves a beachfront position at Main Beach where they intend to build. The buyer remains unknown but is from Sydney.
16. 506 The Esplanade, Palm Beach
Sale price: $12 million
Sale date: September
Seller: Rex and Josie Neale
Buyer: A farmer from southwestern QLD
Agent: Troy Dowker, Kollosche
The unnamed winning bidder on this home secured two houses on an 826sq m site that runs between The Esplanade and the Gold Coast Highway, which were used as a family compound, with each of the houses having basement parking. The $12 million price was the highest paid south of Mermaid Beach for a Gold Coast residential beachfront property.
17. 8-12 Riverbend Ave, Carrara
Sale price: $12 million
Sale date: September
Seller: Natalie Miller
Buyer: Undisclosed
Agents: Michael Kollosche, Brad Coyne, Claire Dai, Kollosche
In an usual twist, this property sold twice in the same year — both times for more than $10 million.In the first sale in February, interior designer Natalie Miller paid $10.45 million for the 1.75ha riverfront Carrara estate that former water-ski park owner Otto Pfeiffer had been trying to sell since the 1990s (see entry 25 below).She then onsold the property for $12 million in September.
18. 293-295 Monaco St, Broadbeach Waters
Sale price: $11.6 million
Sale date: October
Seller: Bruce Jack, Gold Coast-based radiologist
Buyer: Undisclosed
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
This stately mansion has featured in several international film productions, including the UK’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2017; Aussie kids’ series, Elephant Princess; and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, shooting San Andreas in 2015.The property struck a chord with buyers, ranked as one of the most viewed properties in Queensland on realestate.com.au.
19. 16 Darwalla Ave, Currumbin
Sale price: $11.3 million
Sale date: August
Seller: Kathryn Conforti
Buyer: Noel Holmes, former accountant turned property investor
Agent: Ed Cherry, Harcourts Coastal
This house is on the largest beachfront site in Currumbin and was not on the market when it sold after an approach to the owner. Property records show the seller as Kathryn Conforti, who is a director of Neumann Constructions and the buyer is understood to be retired celebrity accountant, Noel Holmes. The four-bedroom house, completed in 2018, is on a 1283 sq m site.
20. 14-16 Sickle Ave, Hope Island
Sale price: $11.11 million
Sale date: September
Seller: Central Point Developments
Buyer: Undisclosed international investor
Agent: Evan Molloy, Hope Island Realty
A group of interstate investors originally bought this block at auction and land banked it until selling in September. The buyer remains anonymous, but is understood to be a large, international developer looking to build a world-class project on the northern Gold Coast, and this was the one of the last sites remaining with development approval already in place
21. 30 Seafarer Court, Paradise Waters
Sale price: $11 million
Sale date: February
Seller: Leonie and William Manton, former coffee grower
Buyer: John Ramsden, high-profile lawyer
Agents: Russell and Bob Rollington, First National Surfers Paradise
This commanding home was snapped up by high-profile lawyer John Ramsden, managing partner of Ramsden Lawyers earlier this year. Marketed as one of the largest single holdings in the exclusive enclave of Paradise Waters. The home has six bedrooms, a home cinema, rooftop entertaining terrace, and internal lift between levels..
22. 10 Goodwin Tce, Burleigh Heads
Sale price: $11m
Sale date: April
Seller: Brian and Lauren McMaster
Buyer: Spyre Group, developer
Agent: Amir Mian, Amir Prestige
Spyre Group is planning a luxury, three-apartment residential building at 10 Goodwin Tce — a 546 sqm site that has been home to a 100-year-old house. The $11m purchase price equates to more than $20,000 a square metre, one of the most expensive on the beachfront. The Brisbane developer has enjoyed a run of success on the Gold Coast with projects such as Elysian at Broadbeach, Natura at Burleigh, and Maya at Kirra.
23. 14 Maryland Ave, Carrara
Sale price: $10.9 million
Sale date: May
Seller: Emma and Paul Weel, V8 Supercar champion
Buyer: Son Bolton
Agents: Amir Mian and Matthew Biviano, Amir Prestige
This six-bedroom home was built by the Weel family, with the help of award-winning architect Bayden Goddard, after they purchased the block with an existing house in 2011 for $2.4m. Spread over three storeys and making full use of the elongated one acre block, the home has with a tennis court, infinity pool, pavilion on the river, media room, home office, wine cellar, cold room, gym, 15m pontoon and double jetski dock.
24. 62 Admiralty Dr, Paradise Waters
Sale price: $10.5 million
Sale date: November
Seller: Maree Anderson, wife of Hayman Homes founder, Steve Anderson
Buyer: Undisclosed Sydney buyer
Agents: Michael Kollosche, Ryan Ward, Harry Kakavas, Kollosche
Property investor Steve Anderson and his wife, Maree, sold their five-bedroom house at Paradise Waters and bought another home in the same street in 2021.
The Andersons sold the house to a Sydney couple planning a permanent move to the Gold Coast.
25. 8-12 Riverbend Ave, Carrara
Sale price: $10.45 million
Sale date: February
Seller: Otto and Stephanie Pfeiffer
Buyer: Natalie Miller, interior designer
Agent: Michael Kollosche, Kollosche
26. 8 Darwalla Ave, Currumbin
Sale price: $10m
Sale date: July
Seller: Ashley and Nicholas Mynott, construction industry identity
Buyer: Gregory Hamilton
Agent: Ed Cherry, Harcourts Coastal
Known as The Dunes, this absolute beachfront property is one of only eight in Currumbin. It sold ahead of its auction date for what was at the time a record price for the southern beaches before it was soon trumped by an $11.3 million sale for No. 16 (see above).
27. 8085 Riverside Dr, Sanctuary Cove
Sale price: $10m
Sale date: February
Seller: David and Loraine McLaren
Buyer: Ann Knipe
Agency: Ray White
This immaculate, waterfront home on a huge 1800 sqm site quietly sold to Gold Coast local Ann Knipe. Ms Knipe previously sold 87 Admiralty Drive, Paradise Waters, for $8.7m in November last year and 2/209-211 Hedges Avenue, Mermaid Beach for $6.7m in February 2020.
28. 22-24 Admiralty Dr, Paradise Waters
Sale price: $10m
Sale date: November
Seller: Anthony Quinn
Buyer: Undisclosed sale to a Gold Coast family
Agent: Robbie Graham, Ray White Surfers Paradise
29. 15-19 Parklane Tce, Sovereign Islands
Sale price: $10m
Sale date: November
Seller: Bina Stevenson
Buyer: Andrew and Suellen Osborne, founder of mining company Timor Resources
Agent: Alex Phillis, Phillis Real Estate
This was the last remaining triple block on Sovereign Islands bought by local Gold Coast couple, Andrew and Suellen Osborne, who own an oil and gas exploration company, and plan to build a mega mansion on the lot. The sale made a neat profit for local resident owner Bina Stevenson, who picked up the block off-plan in 2006 from Lewis Land Corporation for $2.47m.
30. 101 Commodore Dr, Paradise Waters
Sale price: $9.95m
Sale date: March
Seller: Robert and Nerolie Rye
Buyer: Glenn Molloy, company director
Agents: Amir Mian and Alex and Victoria Fleri, Amir Prestige
Tulsa, a three-level mansion, comes with the city’s only approved waterfront helicopter landing pad. The four-year-old home, which in 2019 was marketed at $14.5 million, also has a pillar-less seven-car basement garage. Tulsa was sold by the Ryes, who built it on an 1129 sqm lot bought from the Bairds for $2.25 million in 2013.
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