Music star Troy Cassar-Daley releases his getaway

Country music star Troy Cassar-Daley and wife Laurel Edwards have secured $550,000 for their Queensland farm getaway.

Country music star Troy Cassar-Daley and his 4KQ Brisbane breakfast radio presenter wife Laurel Edwards secured $550,000 when they recently sold their Queensland farm getaway, Carinya, through Ray White. They had relisted the Vernor property, an hour from their Brisbane base, having failed to find a buyer on its original $680,000 listing mid-last year. Cassar-Daley said the farm, for which they paid $630,000 in 2007, had inspired several of his songs. He said I Love This Place was written at the kitchen table. Cassar-Daley loved fishing on the river while Edwards rode horses across the 4ha. The family, now with grown-up kids, are set to spend more time on the Sunshine Coast. Laurel met Troy at the Gympie Music Muster in 1993.

Modern classic snapped up

The Neil Clerehan-designed Barwon Heads mid-century modern has been snapped up just weeks into its marketing campaign. It was built in the late 1960s after the Gubbins family purchased their block on the river near Geelong for $1960. It traded for the first time in more than three decades, having last sold for $160,000 in 1986 when bought by the Stasiuk family.

The Barwon Heads home

The Gubbins family sold the home in 1978 for $111,000, and there have only been two subsequent owners since. Set amid Moonah trees on a 1620sq m double block, the single-level, double-brick modernist home is strategically located as close to the water as possible. Its Fletchers Bellarine Peninsula listing agents exceeded their record-breaking $6.5 million hopes. The record stood at $4.4m, set in 2017 when a Paringa Lane waterfront sold quietly.

Race driver’s new pole position

Professional Supercars racing driver Will Davison has bought a new build on the Gold Coast. He’s spent $1.71m on a Hope Island waterfront that overlooks the Links Hope Island golf course. It was built just last year after the 605sq m vacant land parcel sold for $705,000 in 2017. The home has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a media room. An alfresco with outdoor kitchen overlooks the saltwater pool. Hope Island Resort Realty agents Warren and Wendy Hickey secured the sale. Davison, who drives a Ford Mustang GT for 23Red Racing, is a two-time winner of the Bathurst 1000.

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Grenfell, a Kooyong home with rich publishing history, fetched $4.72m post-auction last weekend. It was built in the early 1930s for Hugh Randall Syme, a grandson of David Syme whose family successfully ran The Age for decades. He was a highly decorated bomb detection naval officer in World War II who later became general manager of David Syme & Co. The arts-and-crafts-style home, in remnants of an Edna Walling-designed gardens, was designed by Godfrey & Spowers, who designed 1920s The Argus building on the LaTrobe and Elizabeth street corner. The Mernda Road home was sold by the Syme family to the current vendor, accountant Rick Romanin, in 2001 for $1.49m.

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