Katie McMillan puts her luxury Cairns Queenslander on market

Cairns Hospital director of speech pathology Katie McMillan is selling her Cairns Queenslander ahead of her relocation to Brisbane.

Offers of more than $660,000 are expected for the luxury, fully renovated four-bedroom home on 809sq m in the up-market Cairns suburb of Whitfield.

Cairns Hospital director of speech pathology Katie McMillan, who has just become engaged to one of Queensland’s leading businessmen, property developer Don O’Rorke, executive chairman of Consolidated Properties Group, is selling her Cairns Queenslander ahead of her relocation to Brisbane. Offers of more than $660,000 are expected for her luxury, fully renovated four-bedroom home on 809sq m in the up-market Cairns suburb of Whitfield. The low-set Queenslander sports 3m ceilings and a poolside entertaining deck. The property has a double car port for boat or caravan access through to a large shed. It also features a granny flat. The listing agent is One Stop Property’s Nickoli Obersky. O’Rorke is well known in Cairns given he was the original developer of Bluewater Cairns on the regional city’s northern beaches. The pair, who met on safari in Kenya, plan to live in Brisbane on a 4ha property called Hampton Farm.

Plans for the development of Sydney Harbour’s Sirius building have been lodged for 76 luxury apartments.

Sirius interest in Brutalist rebuild

The developers behind one of Sydney’s most famous Brutalist buildings, Sirius, lodged a planning application this week to reconfigure and redevelop the building into 76 apartments. Designed in 1978-79 for the Housing Commission, the NSW government made the controversial decision to sell the building in 2015. Marketing agents CBRE’s Ben Stewart and Justin Brown will start selling the apartments off the plan from the second quarter of next year — provided the project wins development approval. The plan is for a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments plus several pools by developer JDH Capital. Prices are yet to be set, but Stewart says there is already a lot of inquiry. The apartment tower, with interiors by British designer Kelly Hoppen, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2022.

Richard Pegum. Picture: AAP

Handing over weekender’s reins

Prominent racehorse owner Richard Pegum has quietly sold his Mittagong weekender, Range Park, in the NSW Southern Highlands, with Lawsons to handle the auction of the homestead’s furnishings including several horse prints, bespoke furniture and designer clothes. The Range Road property, spanning nearly 41ha, will be open for viewing this Sunday with several Anthony Lonergan-designedcustom-built cabinets on offer as well as Royal Crown Derby dessert sets, Royal Worcester cups and saucers, and five reindeer pelts that are expected to fetch between $150 and $200. Pegum paid $5.1m for Range Park when he purchased it in 2006, according to CoreLogic records. Lawsons’ Shauna Farren-Price is handling the sale of furniture, fittings and women’s garments, which include designers ranging from Anya Hindmarch to Max Mara.