The Sell: John and Shelley Longmire sell – and buy – in coastal Malabar
Retired AFL Sydney Swans coach John Longmire and wife Shelley have quietly sold their Malabar home – not for another coaching role interstate but staying in the small coastal suburb.
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Retired AFL Sydney Swans premiership coach John Longmire and wife Shelley have quietly sold their Malabar home.
He’s not heading interstate for another coaching role, but rather opting to stay in the small coastal suburb they’ve been living in since 2011.
The couple have secured their third home in Malabar, spending $3.6m on a renovation or rebuilding project that overlooks The Coast Golf Course.
The vendors built the four-bedroom, one-bathroom single-storey brick home in the mid-1970s on its 510 sqm holding.
NG Farah Malabar agent Conor Howard sold the Waddell family home, marketing it as ranking as one of the first built on the dress circle Malabar Heights position.
“The home offers comfortable living now while presenting scope to add further value with a luxury new coastal design,” the sales marketing advised.
Malabar’s median house price sits at $3.41m, up over 20 per cent in the past year – based on 31 sales, according to PropTrack.
The couple’s current three-level home with ocean views has been sold on undisclosed settlement terms. It cost $3,712,500 in 2018.
The couple paid $1.7m for their first Malabar house in 2011, shortly after Longmire was given the top coaching job, taking over from Paul Roos. It was sold in 2018 for $2,725,000.
Having played with the North Melbourne Kangaroos, he took up an assistant coaching position in 2002 at the Swans.
Longmire, who works as an administrator at the Swans, was ranked last month by The Hobart Mercury as on a “top-shelf list of potential coaches” to take the Tasmania Devils into their inaugural season in 2028.
Longmire is from the NSW-Victoria border town Corowa and his wife Shelley is from nearby Mulwala.
COOGEE CONNECTION FOR LOVED UP CELEBRITY PAIR
Thor: Love and Thunder actor Samantha Allsop and her fiance, photographer Charles Grant, have bought in Coogee.
The recently engaged couple have spent $1.795m on a three-bedroom apartment.
It had come with a guide of $1.775m to $1.825m.
The apartment sits on the top floor of a 1970s block of six with views over Coogee Valley. The open plan living space opens to a balcony.
The Alison Rd apartment sold through Peter Fotopoulos of MGM Martin after it was on market for 107 days, according to CoreLogic, which has been rebranded as Cotality. PropTrack puts Coogee’s median time on market as 45 days, but 61 days for three-bedroom apartments.
The couple gave credit to buyers agent Will Hotson at Buyers Market Buyers Agents, whose social media had separately noted the buyers agency had bought $25m worth of property for clients in just the one busy week.
The median Coogee apartment price sits at $1.5m, up 7 per cent in the past 12 months, based on 236 sales, according to Cotality. The three bedroom median sits at $2.4m, up 8 per cent annually with 52 sales.
The apartment had last sold for $1,075,000 in 2015 through estate agent Adrian Bo and then listed for rent at $930 a week. It jumped to $950 in 2017.
Currently, typical apartments in Coogee rent out for $900 a week, reflecting a 3.6 per cent rental yield.
Allsop posted their purchase to her 31k Instagram followers, with the couple hovering over the elevated signage board above the off-street garage parking with the sold sticker.
Allsop, represented by Chic Management, recently completed filming for RUR, an upcoming science fiction musical film alongside Richard Roxburgh and Anthony LaPaglia.
Her most notable role was as one of the Zeusettes in Thor: Love and Thunder, and she has also appeared in Last King of the Cross and the ABC series Ladies in Black.
She studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
Grant is an art director and photographer, specialising in fashion and advertising for magazines.
The couple were engaged last month, with their friends, Tim Robards, the chiropractor turned television personality, and Anna Heinrich, revealing the engagement on their Instagram.
The diamond ring was designed by jewellery designer Charlotte Heinrich.
DON’T SHIRE AWAY FROM THIS LIFESTYLE LUXE-HAVE
The contemporary Burraneer home of Sutherland Shire couple, Matthew and Kelsea Doyle, has been listed for sale through Highland Property. Buyers have been advised it should fetch more than $2.5m.
Matthew Doyle was a property developer who went to prison after trying to smuggle $85m worth of cocaine into Australia in 2019.
The then father-of-one was sentenced in 2020 to a non-parole minimum of five years after he pleaded guilty to commercial drug supply and dealing with proceeds of crime.
Kelsea Doyle, who was not involved in the plot, stood by her husband.
He was released back in the community with an ankle monitoring bracelet last year, but photos taken last week by The Daily Telegraph suggested it appears that it is now off.
After his release, the couple had a second child in December.
Their 2019-built home is registered solely in Matthew Doyle’s name.
It had a caveat placed on its title in 2019 by the NSW Crime Commission which prevents any sale or mortgage refinancing by Doyle without the permission of authorities. It remains on title.
Last week another caveat appeared on title described as arising from a loan agreement executed in April by the registered proprietor and the caveators, Jorden and Tallie-Bree Minos as the lenders.
Tallie-Bree is the sister of publicist Kelsea Nagel Doyle, who had previously worked as a publicist for fashion brands including Ksubi, Josh Goot and Camilla and Marc.
The Burraneer home replaced an older style brick home which Doyle bought in 2017 for $1.64m and then demolished. He created dual-occupancy homes costing $969,000, according to plans lodged by Couvaras Architect.
Doyle had sold the other half of the duplex in 2018 for $2m. Doyle’s prior projects in the shire included the Cronulla apartment complex, Tara Maree, and townhouses on Dudley Ave, Caringbah South.
ALL BARK NO BITE WHEN IT’S PROPERTY
The Waverley house that was in the news this week after the recent felling of its 110-plus-year-old magnolia tree sold ahead of Saturday’s scheduled auction.
The Fanuli furniture retailing family avoided a possible hostile neighbourhood turnout by selling midweek after Channel 9’s A Current Affair (ACA) reporter Nat Wallace aired neighbourhood outrage over video footage showing the family supervising the destruction of the towering tree that bisected the shared side fence in January this year.
The semi was listed by Sam Capra at Ray White with $3.3m hopes. The sale price has not been revealed, but it is understood $3.5m was achieved.
It was offered with second storey potential – with its development application including permission for “corrective” pruning of the tree – advised as being “in good health”.
Marco Fanuli acquired the Henrietta St home for $2.2m in July 2023 from a family company directed by his parents, Fabio and Anna, who had paid $2.02m in 2015.
Safety concerns after an intense storm had prompted a subsequent apology from Marco Fanuli, who was fined $3000 in February, the maximum available to council. The tree loppers were fined $6000.
The penalty amounts are legislated by the NSW government, not council, which considered it “unlikely that a more favourable outcome could be obtained in civil enforcement proceedings.”
The tree sat directly between the semi and Airthrey, a five-bedroom 1890s villa.
WIN-LOSS WITH FAHEY’S BYRON BETS
Andrew Fahey, the PointsBet cloud-based wagering platform co-founder, and his partner Katrina Luland have secured the sale of their two Bryon properties.
Their Myocum retreat, Las Palmas, listed with a $9m hopes in 2023 has finally been sold. Myocum, a small town 16km northwest of Byron Bay, in the foothills of the Nightcap Mountain Ranges, saw a record price when Fahey paid $8.2m in 2021.
There has been no sale price reveal of what the online betting entrepreneur secured earlier this month for the retreat, but the recent guidance had been considerably lower for the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home on 2.4 hectares.
The 2020 house came with mid-century influenced design, inspired by architect Robin Boyd’s iconic Fenner House, when crafted by DUO Architects in association with Davis Architects.,
It was initially listed in 2023 by Fahey after the couple secured a beach shack across the road from Clarkes Beach in Byron for $5.4m.
The Lighthouse Road cottage onsold last month for $5.85m.
Andrew Fahey co-founded PointsBet with brother Nick and Sam Swanell in 2015.
The ASX-listed bookmaker remains in play with suitor Japanese entertainment giant Mixi.
DESIGN DELIGHT IN DOUBLE BAY
The price guidance for the Darling Point apartment of nude artist Dina Broadhurst has been dropped from $11.5m to $8.4m for its June 5 auction.
The Etham Ave garden apartment, with water views to Double Bay, showcases the design by StudioJos, and is co-owned with her ex-boyfriend, property developer Max Shepherd. The apartment, with 280sq m of indoor-outdoor living space, cost $5.2m unrenovated in 2022.
ROOSTERS CROW OVER BLOCK BUY
It’s all happening on Moore Park Rd, Paddington. The Sydney Roosters have bought a 26-room serviced apartment block across from Allianz Stadium for $10m for attendees of the Sydney Roosters Academy.
The 523sq m property has been a UKO complex that sits behind the two terraces sold by the Thorpe family.
Meanwhile, a single terrace has been sold by Mirvac boss Campbell Hanan for $9.75m. It traded in 2011 for $2.95m.
BRONCO COACH PILE FINALLY SOLD
No sign of his next buy but NRL Brisbane Broncos assistant coach Trent Barrett’s Barrack Point trophy home has finally sold.
The five-bedroom, five-bathroom Hamptons-style new-build was listed in October 2023, with $7.5m hopes.
It sold after the guidance was recently reduced to $6.4m to $6.8m through Ray White.
The 757sq m building block cost $1.764m in 2021.
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