Max Twigg: Harkaway party pad with its own go-kart track sells
The lucky buyer of this Tuscan-style estate will soon be tearing around a go-kart track built by its race car driver seller, after splashing a multimillion-dollar record price on the property.
Race car driver Max Twigg’s Tuscan-style estate has left the Harkaway residential price record in the dust, selling for more than $9 million.
The sale price more than doubled the previous $4.41 million benchmark, held since 2011 by a 8.23ha property on Hyde Rd, according to CoreLogic.
Barry Plant Berwick director Paul Dabb wouldn’t comment on the price, but confirmed the 5ha estate had set a new record for Harkaway.
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Twigg built the resort-style property over four years to feature a four-bedroom house, a pool, spa, tennis court, gym, cabana, guesthouse, ornamental lake and designated helicopter landing space.
The GT endurance racing champ also indulged his love of the sport by installing a go-kart track — which has a 19.5-second lap record held by V8 Supercar driver David Reynolds — plus a triple garage, vehicle “display shed”, and a 30x20m workshop featuring car hoists and an office.
The sale of 181 Harkaway Rd came almost a year after it first hit the market for $13.5 million.
The property got plenty of attention in that time, racking up more than 75,000 views on realestate.com.au last year to be one of Victoria’s most popular listings, and attracting inquiry from near and far.
Mr Dabb said buyers from Asia as well as “city dwellers looking to relocate” to the outer southeastern suburb were among the 25 qualified buyers who inspected the estate.
But a local family pipped them all at the post.
Mr Dabb said they were drawn to the “resort-style lifestyle the property offered, the views and the level of accommodation”.
The property was the site of a horse racing and agistment facility before Twigg — who also ran a successful waste management business and sold Byron Bay’s Beach Hotel for $70 million in 2017 — secured it in 2005.
CoreLogic records show it sold for $2.25 million then.
Mr Dabb said Twigg had now moved to Queensland.
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Originally published as Max Twigg: Harkaway party pad with its own go-kart track sells