Dean Lukin sets sales bar at $6.495m for Mermaid Beach home
Australian weightlifting legend Dean Lukin is selling the family’s Mermaid Beach holiday home.
Australian weightlifting legend Dean Lukin is selling the family’s Mermaid Beach holiday home. The Olympic gold medal-winning weightlifter bought the home with brother David and mum Ann shortly after the death of his father Dinko Lukin, the millionaire Port Adelaide fishing entrepreneur. The Adelaide-based family paid $4.8 million for the timber beach house on the dress circle Hedges Avenue in 2013. Set on 405sq m on a prime corner block, the three-level Hamptons-style home has three bedrooms and four bathrooms. The Lukins have modernised the home, which now comes with concealed TVs and a sunken jacuzzi on the alfresco deck that runs off the lounge with a sandstone-clad fireplace. The master suite is hidden behind a solid wood pivot door. It comprises its own sandstone terrace, ensuite and custom walk-in wardrobe. Kollosche Broadbeach agent Eddie Wardale is asking $6.495m. Dean Lukin was the first Australian to win the super-heavyweight weightlifting gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
New tenants for ex-Gale home
The former Malvern cottage rental of model Megan Gale and her retired AFL footballer husband Shaun Hampson has found new tenants. The new occupants appear to be paying less than the glamour couple. Neither rents have been formally disclosed, but Gale and Hampson moved into the home when it was offered as a $1400-a-week rental. Since their $3.12m Glen Iris purchase, the vacated four-bedroom cottage has been advertised at $1200 a week. Gale previously owned at Aberfeldie, selling for $2.967m in 2017, up on the $2.375m paid four years earlier when moving to Melbourne from Sydney.
Lawyer settles on ‘heaven’ acreage
John Wacker, the Hong Kong-based lawyer, has bought acreage in Brisbane’s west. He’s recently settled on a $4.1m Brookfield estate. The hilltop home, known as Lani Mauna, Hawaiian for “mountain reaching heaven”, had been on the market for more than a year. It was designed by architect Tim Ditchfield with strong references to modern tropical architecture after the 1ha block traded for $1.5m in 2011. Built with a no expense spared budget, Lani Mauna has five bedrooms, a library, home office, gym, temperature-controlled wine cellar and a 22m infinity-edged solar-heated pool. Johnston Dixon agent Josephine Johnstone-Rowell sold the home. Wacker also owns a Noosa retreat.
TV travellers’ new destination
Travelling reality-TV regulars Kevin Moloney and Janetta Stones have bought again in Maldon, the historic village in rural Victoria. The couple, who feature on the Nine Network’s hit series Travel Guides, sold The Brambles, their 1860s cottage, for $685,000 earlier this year. The Brambles was built in 1866 as the manager’s residence and assayers office to the South German mine. They restored and extended the miners cottage on it 2265sq m holding. They’ve gone from one historic cottage to another, paying $420,000 for Rose Garden Cottage on 1100sq m. It has Airbnb potential, according to the Waller Realty marketing.
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Built in the 1870s, this massive pile on 2.83ha in NSW’s Hunter Valley is one of Australia’s finest heritage estates. Asking price: $10 million.
‘Relief needed to lure buyers back’
Interest rates would need to be cut five or six times to motivate buyers back into the property market, with younger Australians likely to purchase sooner.