Ex-Crow Patrick Dangerfield’s nest in Adelaide up for grabs

The redundant home of the former Adelaide Crow Patrick Dangerfield and wife Mardi Harwood is under contract.

The Ascot home of dancer Li Cunxin.

The redundant home of the former Adelaide Crow Patrick Dangerfield and wife Mardi Harwood is under contract. His former Henley Beach home hit the market earlier this year, 12 months after he returned to Victoria to play for Geelong. The five-bedroom Lawrie Street home had $779,000-plus price hopes through Harris Real Estate agent Hannah Delmenico. It’s been renovated since Dangerfield’s $605,000 purchase in 2010. It now comes with dual living across two storeys. Dangerfield recently upgraded his property holdings in his home town of Moggs Creek. He spent $2.08m on a 1980s beach house on a dress circle block. Dangerfield initially bought into Moggs Creek in 2012, paying $850,000. He sold that home recently for $1.25m.

Last Dancer’s sale performance

Professional ballet dancer Li Cunxin has sold his Ascot, Brisbane, family home. The sale was for about $2.25m through Ray White agent Damon Warat. Li paid $1.825m in 2012, having relocated from Melbourne with wife Mary and family, when he joined Queensland Ballet as their artistic director. The five-bedroom home features an open-plan kitchen that opens to an oversized alfresco area overlooking the swimming pool and gardens. Li was the subject of the 2003 book Mao’s Last Dancer, his story about being plucked from a poor Chinese village to study at Madame Mao’s Beijing Dance Academy. It was adapted into a movie in 2009. The upgrading Li had more luck in the Brisbane property stakes than he did in Melbourne, where he retains a South Yarra mansion. The renovated six bedder, which once traded as the boutique Tilba Hotel, had been expected to fetch more than $5m. It was listed through Abercromby’s agents Rob Vickers-Willis and Hugh Hardy.

$5m release from director

South Yarra-bound Village Roadshow director Graham Burke sold his four-bedroom St Kilda sub-penthouse late last year. The price has come through at $5.05m for the eighth-floor Esplanade complex apartment that cost Burke and wife Robyn $7.3m in 2007. They bought the apartment off the plan from developer Max Beck, and had a hand in its interiors design through Stephen Jolson Architects. It was a collaboration between Melbourne’s Fender Katsalidis Architects and British-Italian minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin and Hecker Phelan & Guthrie.

Sefton heads for the hammer

Sefton, the Mount Macedon garden estate, will be auctioned this month. The property dates back to the days of Lord William Baillieu., who created the summer retreat in 1907. The 910sq m homestead is a Tudor-style mansion with seven bedrooms. Its 8.8ha English garden was laid out with influences from Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens directors Baron von Mueller and W.R. Guilfoyle. It’s listed by Gribbles Pathology founder Wallace Cameron and wife Joan, who paid $8.17m in 2005. It had $12m hopes in 2010, but $7 million this time. JP Dixon’s Jonathan Dixon and Paul McKenzie are marketing the home with Keatings agent John Keating.

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