Gold in their sights

A Gold Coast mega-mansion has been listed with record-breaking hopes for Queensland.

Toorak landmark Carmyle was designed in the 1870s.

A Gold Coast mega-mansion has been listed with record-breaking hopes for Queensland. The Sovereign Islands home is being sold by civil engineer Riccardo Rizzi, with $45m aspirations. The Knightsbridge Parade East property was last sold in an unfinished state for $5.3m at a mortgagee auction in 2013. Some $21m had been spent on the initial construction and consolidation of the four blocks. Set on 4255sq m, the finished home has six bedrooms and a 30m pool in a roman-inspired garden. Alex Phillis at Alex Phillis Paradise Point is marketing the home. Queensland’s current record was set in 2008 when businessman Tony Smith sold an unfinished mansion on five beachfront blocks at Mermaid Beach for $27m.

Toorak landmark

Carmyle, the grand Toorak trophy home that was among the earliest in the suburb, has been listed for sale with a guide of $12.5m-$13.75m. It’s been listed by the Gunter family, who have owned the home since the 1970s. The 23-room Victorian Italianate manor was designed by Francis Maloney White in the late 1870s for Scottish pastoralist Archibald Fisken. Spanning 975sq m, the home has up to 14 bedrooms, six bathrooms, a number of kitchens, a reception hall, a refined sitting room and a ballroom. The ballroom has hosted performances by artists such as Judith Durham, Yalta Menuhin, Olaf Baer, Paul Badura-Skoda and Anna Pavlova. Now on 2000sq m, the estate once extended from Kooyong Road to Albany Road. Marshall White Stonnington agents Marcus Chiminello and Michael Wood have the listing.

Beach idyll

Sam and Kerri-Ann Charlton, the owners of the luxury Whitsundays island escape Bedarra Island Resort, are selling Pavilions, their Sunshine Beach home. The Gabriel Poole-designed home once belonged to tennis legend Pat Rafter. Having paid $2.18m in 2003, Rafter sold eight years later for $2.25m. The home then went backwards in 2013, when bought for $2.1m by the Charltons. The two-level property on 920sq m at the northern end of Sunrise Beach has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

The most impressive feature is the lap pool and bathing pavilion in the tropical gardens. Mike Hay and Rachel Sellman at Century 21 have the listing. Sam and Kerri-Ann bought Bedarra Island Resort in 2011. They have spent 18 months rebuilding and reopened the resort as an all-inclusive barefoot luxury retreat.

Park life

A West Perth apartment owned by the late billionaire businessman Stan Perron and wife Jean has been listed for sale. The couple paid $8.6m for the 340sq m apartment in the Miama complex in 2010. The level-four apartment on Kings Park has three ensuited bedrooms, a home office and a temperature-controlled wine cellar.

It is just one of five full-floor apartments in the 2000-built complex on the dress circle Bellevue Terrace. Dempsey Real Estate agent Mal Dempsey is marketing the apartment.

Last year the apartment below fetched $8m. Perron, who was the founder and chairman of property and car distributor behemoth Perron Group, died late last year. His net worth was estimated to be $4bn.

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