Elevated design with room to roam in WA; and the price power of Potts Point

Former corporate adviser Sara Clafton and her retired lawyer husband Peter Wright are expecting more than $3.5m for their lavish home 414km southeast of Perth.

The architect-designed house in Shadforth, WA, is set amid extensive farmland as well as six dams.

Former corporate adviser Sara Clafton and her retired lawyer husband Peter Wright are expecting more than $3.5m for their lavish home 414km southeast of Perth.

The 47ha elevated property fronting McLeod Rd, Shadforth, features an architect-designed house set amid extensive farmland as well as six dams. Apart from the main house there’s a 9m heated saltwater pool and pool pavilion, while 45 cattle are agisted. Designed by Perth architect Michael Lyons, the house was built in 2012 and features a master suite with freestanding bath.

651 McLeod Road, Shadforth, WA.

Agent Peter Robertson of William Porteous International is handling the marketing campaign of the luxury estate which features hydronic underfloor heating and cooling as well as a Jetmaster wood fireplace.

Fully reticulated gardens are fed by bore and harvested rainwater storage. Clafton, a former real estate editor with The Australian, and Wright plan to return to Perth.

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Potts Point power

Proving the strength of the inner city residential market, PR woman Emma Van Haandel has just knocked back $18m for her grand Victoria St terrace in Sydney’s trendy Potts Point in an off the market offer through agent Jason Boon.

Van Haandel, owner and director of boutique PR agency EVH, and her husband Joel Williams, paid $5.75m back in 2016 for the terrace – which recently appeared on the cover of Vogue Living.

The freestanding villa, built in 1855, comes with three parking spaces across a 19.3m-wide frontage. The couple lodged a development application for $1.7m worth of internal work and the addition of a swimming pool in 2017, Sydney City council records reveal.

Van Haandel told The Weekend Australian she received the $18m offer about two months ago, at the start of the present Covid lockdown.

“So it wasn’t the right time for our family then,” she said. Would she sell now? “Yes/maybe,” Van Haandel said. Boon said there are only 107 terraces in Potts Point and 10,500 units, hence the price surge in the former.

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Garden magic

Retired orthodontist Dr Philip Kinsella and his wife Mary are selling “Weeamera” fronting 30 Wattle St, Killara, on Sydney’s north shore.

Built around 1897, the four-bedroom house sports four working fireplaces and original Kauri floorboards, and has a price guide of $5m.

Positioned on 1274sq m of land the gardens were designed by award-winning landscaper Peter Fudge. Nearby 30A Wattle sold for $5.35m in January.

The auction through McGrath Lindfield agent Greg Mooney is slated for September 25.