Christopher Pyne receives quick offer for home
Christopher Pyne and wife Carolyn have had a quick offer on their their Adelaide home.
Christopher Pyne and wife Carolyn, heading to the Adelaide Hills after his retirement from federal parliament, have had a quick offer on their Adelaide home. The Wattle Park house has been the family home for nine years. They had been seeking $1 million-$1.1m offers for the 1970s property listed through Klemich Real Estate. The couple have about an acre in the Hills, plus an old town cottage at Robe, the fishing port located on the Limestone Coast that was bought in early 2016 for $520,000. Two of the five bedrooms were added by the Pynes after their $800,000 purchase in 2010. Pyne will draw the curtain on a 26-year political career this weekend. He was still living at his parents’ home in Burnside on gaining his preselection in 1992.
Low-profile offload
The former Malvern East home offloaded in 2017 by Real Housewives of Melbourne star Chyka Keebaugh and husband Bruce has been sold again, this time without the fanfare, indeed shrouded in price secrecy by Marshall White selling agent Rae Tomlinson. The celebrity couple sold the then much-televised home for $3.95m to Hayley and Tim James, from recruitment firm Ampersand International. Their love of Byron Bay, and its emerging innovation hub, sees an end to the Melbourne commute for the couple. They tried to sell the 1935 manor last year and this time it came with a revised guide of $3.6m-$3.96mn.
Sale the goal for soccer star
Socceroos legend Stan Lazaridis is selling his Perth home. The left winger bought the City Beach property in 1997 when playing for West Ham in London. He joined Perth Glory from Birmingham in 2006, the same year he knocked down the old 1970s home and built what is being marketed as influenced by Versace’s mansion. Past its grand entry foyer with piano, the custom-designed home on 900sq m has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a cinema and games room. An alfresco entertaining space overlooks the swimming pool, spa and bar. Ray White Dalkeith Claremont agents Vivien Yap and Phoebe Shi have the listing. Lazaridis was capped 60 times for the Socceroos. He retired in 2008.
Ex-MP’s investment pay-off
Northcote-based former ALP politician turned private citizen David Feeney and lawyer wife Liberty Sanger have sold their East Melbourne investment apartment for $3.9m. They had been asking $4m-$4.4m for the apartment in the 150 Clarendon block when listing in February. It has an entertainer’s terrace with views across Fitzroy Gardens. They paid $2.875m in 2007, a year before Feeney was elected member for Batman in Melbourne’s north. In 2016 Feeney was caught in a controversy over his declaration of his property interests, which briefly morphed into a political attack over Labor’s negative gearing policy. Feeney is a fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think tank, studying a PhD at university. The Clarendon Street block’s sub-penthouse was listed this week with $46m hopes.
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