The Sell: Champion Sea Eagle finds the ideal nest near Brookvale Oval
Sea Eagles star Reuben Garrick and his fiancee, Riley Wishart, have bought in the Manly heartland – an apartment 3km from Brookvale Oval.
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Sea Eagles star Reuben Garrick and his fiancee, Riley Wishart, have bought in the Manly heartland.
Garrick, a first-home buyer, and Wishart, the daughter of Illawarra Steelers legend Rod Wishart, have spent $1,165,000 at Freshwater – just a few months after becoming engaged.
The early 1970s apartment is 3km from Brookvale Oval – the only home ground Garrick has known since starting his NRL career in 2019.
The top-floor, two-bedroom apartment had been recently renovated before being listed by Sea Freshwater agents James Smyth and John Lang.
After being last sold in 2020 for $758,000, the apartment got a new bathroom, kitchen with white stone benchtops, Italian gas cooktop stove, Miele dishwasher and a custom laundry room.
The open-plan kitchen living and dining area has a breakfast nook with bench seating. The living area and the master bedroom open to a full-width, north-facing balcony.
Garrick and Wishart got engaged at Jonah’s Whale Beach in February.
He signed with the Sea Eagles for the 2019 season having scored 10 tries with St George Illawarra Dragons juniors in the 2018 NSW Cup.
At 26, Garrick is fifth on the Sea Eagles’ all-time points-scoring list with more than 1000 points.
He is contracted to the end of 2027 and will likely pass the 1917 total points scored by club legend Graham Eadie that has stood since 1971.
Garrick’s captain, Daly Cherry-Evans, started his property journey in Freshwater in 2012 when he bought a two-bedroom apartment for $500,000, which he still has.
It was up for lease at $700 a week in March last year through Cunninghams Real Estate – up on the October 2020 asking rental of $625, having been initially tenanted in 2014 at $540 a week.
$30M FOR FASHION COUPLE’S LUXURY ABODE IN THE SKY
Millionaire sneaker heads Simon Beard and his wife Tah-nee, founders of Culture Kings, have listed their Surfers Paradise penthouse after the recent completion of their Gold Coast mega-mansion makeover.
Emil Juresic of NGU Real Estate holds the listing with a $30m guide.
The global streetwear fashion brand founders purchased the Soul tower penthouse for a then record $15.25m in mid-2021 from Andrew Koloadin, a few months after they sold their stake in Culture Kings for around $600m.
The 70th-level penthouse, spanning the top four floors above the Surfers Paradise glitter strip,
has 1070sq m space.
Koloadin, who sold his website hosting business Digital Pacific in 2017 in a $52m deal, had paid $6.5m for the concrete shell in 2018 from Hong Kong casino tycoon Tony Fung. Fung had bought it off the receivers in 2015 for $7m.
There had been an off-the-plan $16.85m proposal by Juniper Property Development to a Queensland businessman in 2006, but it didn’t proceed to settlement.
The five-bedroom penthouse comes with a sneaker wall which Simon said in a video interview with The Courier-Mail’s property reporter Liz Tilley had been installed in his Zoom room. The collection is valued at more $1m.
He dubbed them “alternative investments” which do not come with the sale. Beard advised his collection included prized Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1 by Virgil Abloh sneakers.
The sky home features two lounges, a study, a kitchen, a butler’s pantry, a cigar lounge and a bar.
The penthouse pricing anticipates smashing the Queensland apartment record, which stands at $24m for the off-the-plan three-level penthouse in the The Glasshouse at Burleigh Heads by Spyre Group.
Juresic said: “If this was in Sydney, it would be $100m.”
The Beard couple have moved into Encore, their sprawling riverfront mansion.
The three-level Surfers Paradise mansion cost $11.75m with a neighbouring house added at a $2.5m cost. The property now spans some 3570sq m with a private sandy beach.
The Beards started out in 2008 selling imported clothing from the US from a stall in the Carrara Markets.
MYSTERY OVER BUYER OF FORMER PACKER HOME
Mystery surrounds the purchasing company – and its intentions – following the mid-week $12.6m settlement of a prized Woollahra home.
Built for late media family scion Clyde Packer, it was snapped in 12 days when offered last month for the first time in 33 years.
The property came with a $12.5m guide through BresicWhitney agent Shannan Whitney, in conjunction with TRG. The 545sq m holding has been purchased by Clanricarde Investments, a shelf company dating back to the 1960s.
Mr Packer had bought the Queen St property for $74,000 in 1970 from economist Dennis Shannon – the year he was made joint managing director of the Nine Network alongside his father, Sir Frank Packer.
Architect Guilford Bell was commissioned to design the house, which was sold when Clyde relocated to California in 1976, where he died in 2001.
His brother, Kerry, had taken over the reins on their father’s death in 1974.
Eye surgeon John Elder and his travel agent wife Susan bought the property for $145,000 in 1976 and sold it for $950,000 in 1991 to retired judge Kenneth Raphael and his wife, Deborah.
Clanricarde Investments has been directed by Vaucluse-based company director Dennis Broit since the late 1980s. Its most recent non-beneficial appointee was Clementine Whyte, daughter of longtime Packer associate Robert Whyte, the 80-year- old card-playing property devotee who lives at Darling Point.
Clanricarde Investments, which gives its registered office address as MBP Advisory, has intriguingly been associated with Packer property plays by both Kerry and son James over five decades.
Its first known property acquisition was in the Consolidated Press-backed Bondi Beach Pacific Terraces development by Bill Shipton in the 1980s. More recently, Clanricarde Investments paid $12.85m to buy off the plan in Crown Residences at One Barangaroo.
LATE ARTIST KINGSTON’S HOME GOES FOR $5.75M
Landscape architect Andrew Leuchars and wife Liz have bought the longtime four-bedroom, two-bathroom Lavender Bay home of late artist Peter Kingston for $5.75m.
Known for capturing activity on Sydney Harbour, Kingston bought half the Walker St property in 1975 paying $30,250, then added next door in 1977 for $35,250.
Kingston died from lung cancer in 2022, aged 79, and is survived by sisters Caroline and Fairlie, niece Annie and nephew Clary.
His father Percy, who studied at Julian Ashton Art School and became the Sydney agent for 20th Century Fox, died in 1974, leaving an inheritance enabling the purchase.
It was listed with a $6m guide by Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty, who marketed it as “a landmark Harbourfront residence of size, creativity and scope” under instructions from Kingston’s solicitor Nicholas Eddy.
The home is set in a lush location with views towards Luna Park and the Harbour Bridge. It adjoins the abode of his artistic friends, Wendy Whiteley and the late Brett Whiteley, who bought their property for $50,000 in 1974 when it was a wreck.
In 2019 he was a part of a significant exhibition titled Bohemian Harbour: Artists Of Lavender Bay alongside the work of Whiteley at the Museum of Sydney.
“It was a bay of boatsheds back then,” Peter recalled of his early times in the neighbourhood when interviewed in 2019 by the northsider website.
Kingston was described as an architect on title records at the time of his purchases. He tutored in architecture at the University of Sydney.
The Leuchars family have been recently based at Perrys Crossing in the Hawkesbury. The 17ha farm was bought in 2020 for $360,000 when marketed as having national park on three sides and St Albans Common on the other.
APARTMENT IS A STAR ATTRACTION
Actor, singer and dancer Chloe Dallimore’s Randwick apartment is scheduled for auction on June 24.
Mark McPherson and Georgia Stewart of McGrath hold the listing, which has a $1m guide.
Best known for her performances in musical theatre, Dallimore has owned the double brick Art Deco apartment since 1996 when she bought it for $265,000.
Built in 1945, the two-bedroom apartment with a study has ornate detailing and original timber joinery as well as leadlight windows. It has a lock-up garage.
After 226 sales in the past 12 months, Randwick’s two-bedroom apartment median sits at $1.2m – just above its overall $1,145,000 apartment median.
The overall yield sits at 3.8 per cent, given the $780 a week rental. Randwick has experienced an annual compound growth rate of 11.7 per cent over the past five years.
CoreLogic says the property has been periodically rented out, securing about $600 a week.
After winning a Sir Cameron Mackintosh Scholarship and moving to London at 17, Dallimore’s credits back home kicked off in the mid 1990s as a Crazy for You cast member and a lead role in The Producers, for which she won five awards.
For a time, she was president of Actors Equity.
HILL TURNS INTO CASH MOUNTAIN
Poppy and Anthony Tzaneros have sold in Bellevue Hill.
The Boronia Rd residence, reimagined by Poppy’s Poco Designs, was listed last year with a $17 million guide.
There has been no price release, but they won’t go poor since its $7.45 million purchase in 2021 was followed by works costed at $528,000.
It is tipped to have been bought by rag traders Steven and Carol Moss.
$500K JUST TO PARK YOUR CAR
An oversized garage in Roslyndale Ave, Woollahra, has been sold off market by retired estate agent Robert McGuaig.
Ben Collier at The Agency secured $500,000.
The separately titled 30sq m offering was a few doors away from where the Anderson family spent $6 million in 2022 with no enclosed parking.
The garage has power. There was a pesky section 39 strata schemes restriction to be a Claverton apartment owner.
BUYER DEVOURS NEXT COURSE
The third luxury off-the-plan apartment sale in the redevelopment of the former La Strada restaurant premises in Potts Point has occurred through Ben Stewart at Stewart Residential/CBRE.
The mid-level space secured $7.5 million. Stewart’s earlier sales were $5.4 and $6.5 million.
Its three-level, 411sq m penthouse remains, priced at $20 million-plus in the six-storey Macleay St corner complex.
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