Luxury homes for sale: Noosa trophy home on the market
In what's expected to be one of the most significant listings of the year, a Noosa trophy house is back on the market.
A Noosa Heads trophy home on the river has been listed for sale.
Adrian Reed and Darren Neal of Reed & Co. Noosaville have the five-bedroom listing, with Reed envisaging that it will be one of the most significant ones of the year.
The property was last sold in 2005, for $6.46 million. Since then there have been 12 higher sales across the Noosa Shire, five of them last year.
The north-facing mansion, at 54 Noosa Parade, has a 20m water frontage. Its riverfront facilities include a boat ramp and a drive-through boat garage. There’s a spa and infinity-edge pool, and plenty of alfresco entertaining spaces.
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Darlinghurst delight
A redesigned three-level property in Sydney’s Darlinghurst has been sold for $4.6 million. It was owned by architect Jonathan Richards, a former director of SJB Interiors, who last year set up Richards Stanisich with colleague Kirsten Stanisich.
The project won a commendation in the 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards, with Richards acknowledging it was very much a collaboration with his wife, Olivia Beynon.
Dating from the 1890s, the building had a reworking of its floorplan by Promena Projects and its space rationalised to meet the needs of a young family of four. Located on West Avenue, it comes with a four-bedroom house-like main residence plus two ground-floor studio apartments. It was sold by BresicWhitney agents Shannan Whitney and Melinda Antella.
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Tudor revamp
Stratford, a reimagined 1920s Tudor-style home on Sackville Street, Kew, has been listed for sale with $11 million to $12.1 million hopes.
Hardware merchant James Macneil moved into the grand two-storey, five-bedroom home in 1925. Recent renovations have created new internal spaces, lifted the ceilings, replicated fireplaces and reintroduced diamond leadlight windows. The home has a Herringbone theme throughout in its wood panelling and timber borders. Even the expansive 2300sq m gardens have been revitalised.
Melbournia Group agent Kevin Phuong says the adjoining 940sq m tennis court block could be available separately for around $6 million. But if sold in one line, Stratford could challenge the suburb record, set in 2007 when the 130-year-old La Verna down the road sold for $12 million.
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Rock star appeal
Adjoining homes on lush Currumbin Hill, at the southern end of the Gold Coast, have been listed for sale by Rob Cinelli and Leanne Frohmuller of LJ Hooker Palm Beach.
Just 5km north of Coolangatta Airport, at 23a Katta Avenue, is a three-level home designed by architect Shane Denman, the winner of the 2006 RAIA Best House South East Queensland Award. The narrow design makes full use of views from every angle, with extensive glass and sliding balcony doors. There are polished timber floors over the three levels, and three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The home comes complete with two-car stacker parking.
Over the past 15 years it has generated an average rental income of $120,000 a year. Rock musician Sting once stayed there, pronouncing the property “peaceful, beautiful and inspiring”. A French actress who rented it while working on what turned out to be an unpleasant film wrote in the guest book “Even in hell you can sometimes find heaven”.
An adjoining four-level, six-bedroom home at 23 Katta Avenue (pictured above) is also on the market. It was built in 1979 and there have been several renovations over the years.
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Record-setter
Ten Bellevue Terrace, a newly completed block on one of Perth’s most prominent apartment rows, on the fringe of Kings Park, comprises just six sky homes. The sculpturally innovative, six-level West Perth complex has extensive views of the city skyline, the Swan River and the Park. The lush internal decor is by Claude Giorgi.
Heritage campaigners had protested the loss of the last freestanding residence on the crest of the Mount Eliza escarpment, a 99-year-old mock-Tudor home that the complex replaced. The block has one apartment per level, except for the two-floor penthouse, which has its own pool. The penthouse sold off the plan for $12.25 million in 2015, setting West Perth’s apartment price record on settlement in 2017. Other sales have ranged between $9.75 million and $11.85 million. Vivien Yap at Ray White Dalkeith/Claremont, in conjunction with Andrew Porteous from William Porteous Properties International, has listed the third floor for auction on June 12.
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View point
Designed by architect Nonda Katsalidis, a striking home that captures bay views has been listed in Melbourne’s Hampton. The multi-level Wave Street residence on a 1200sq m block has a spectacular indoor pool in its north-facing glass atrium. There is a main bedroom with dressing room, plus three other bedrooms and a large home office. The timber-topped entertainment terrace has views of Port Phillip Bay.
Matt Cleverdon and Alan McGillivray of Nick Johnstone Real Estate Brighton have the listing, with a $5.4 to $5.94 million price guide.
The property last sold for $2.315 million in 2008. It was first traded for $600,000 in 1990 and the block cost $130,000 in 1984. Katsalidis, co-founder of Fender Katsalidis, extended the original period home in 1989 for property developer Harvey King, with a more recent update by the vendor.
The architectural firm recently undertook the design of a nearby 22-apartment complex, Piper, for developer Peter Butterss.
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Deco gem
Ascot’s Lancaster, which exudes all the elegance of Brisbane’s Art Deco era, has been listed for auction on June 1. It was designed in 1938 for its 825sq m Kitchener Road block by celebrated architect Charles H. Griffin, who said his houses conveyed a “feeling of solidity” he felt was missing from Queenslander-style homes.
Ray White New Farm agent Christine Rudolph says the four-bedroom residence has been meticulously cared for by the vendors, chartered accountants Carmela and Paul Balbuziente, for almost two decades. The couple is downsizing close to the water.
Griffin was famous for designing homes with a cream textured finish above a red brick base, and with red Wunderlich roof tiles. Set behind wrought iron gates, Lancaster features original cornices, double French doors, leadlight windows and crystal chandeliers.
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Japanese accent
A mid-century influenced residence designed by Ed Lipmann and nestled on a lush Wahroonga block is on the market. With 365sqm of internal space, the four-bedroom, four-bathroom Hillcrest Street offering, just off Water Street, has been listed by Amanda and Norman Mighell through Jesse Zammit at Belle Property with $4.6 million price expectations.
The couple purchased the property in 1998, then rebuilt in 2001 with the assistance of specialist Japanese garden designer Ken Lamb of Imperial Gardens. Its grand 6m atrium entrance features a Japanese internal courtyard complete with pond and waterfall.
Amanda researched both Japanese and mid-century architectural design, and in search of their own inspiration the pair discovered that both Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier had a fascination with Japanese architecture.
The property’s garden features ornamental deciduous exotic plants and trees to provide seasonal changes in colour and foliage. The interiors, too, have distinct Japanese elements, including Shoji screens between rooms. The rear garden has an 11m pool and an irrigation system sourced from a 30,000-litre underground concrete water storage tank.
The 1015sq m cul-de-sac property had been initially listed with $4.9 million hopes.
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Murcutt landmark
Beacon Hill, one of the most distinguished architecturally designed homes in the NSW Southern Highlands, has hit the market with hopes of more than $6 million.
The late judge Roddy Meagher QC and his late artist wife Penny bought the 40ha property, subdivided from their friend James Fairfax’s Retford Park Estate, for $260,000 in the early 1980s and then commissioned architect Glenn Murcutt to design a weekender. Murcutt, assisted by Andrea Wilson and James Grose, chose to build the house at the base of the grassy slope to shelter it from strong winds while leaving the natural shape of the relief unaltered.
With views in all directions, the 40ha Old South Road estate is named after a World War II radio beacon that once stood on its highest point to transmit signals from Sydney to Canberra.
The hill now features a Hui Selwood sculpture commissioned by gallery owner Robin Gibson. It was unveiled at a soiree where Meagher’s guests walked up the hill in black tie and sandshoes to watch the sun set over pre-dinner drinks.
Completed in 1992 and in Murcutt’s classic light and open pavilion-style, the north-facing home is surrounded by leafy gums. It comprises four large bedrooms, multiple open living areas, a gourmet kitchen, a separate studio/office and a resort-style heated pool. The house has been altered since its completion.
There are several corrugated iron tanks, with a rainwater storage capacity of 33,000 litres.
The property, with fully-fenced grazing land, horse paddocks, arenas and stables, is only moments from Bowral and Mittagong town centres, 150km south of Sydney.
After Meagher’s death in 2011 at the age of 79, the Bowral property was left to his horseriding daughter Amy Gerstl, who has it listed with Ben Olofsen of The Agency Southern Highlands.