Patrick Dangerfield takes a $2.08m ‘speccy’ with new house

AFL midfielder Patrick Dangerfield and wife Mardi Harwood have upgraded houses on the Surf Coast near Geelong.

Pat Rafter’s Sunshine Beach property. Picture: Tom Offermann Real Estate

The champion AFL midfielder Paddy Dangerfield and wife Mardi Harwood have upgraded houses on the Surf Coast following his move to Geelong from Adelaide. Their $2.08m acquisition is in his hometown Moggs Creek, where he initially bought in 2012 for $850,000. The redundant property was recently offloaded at $1.25m. Not far from the Great Ocean Road, the acquisition is a two-storey 1980s home that sits on a substantial 1500sq m dress circle block with a track to the long beach directly opposite. The Dangerfield family has been at Moggs Creek, southwest of Melbourne, since the early 60s. Great Ocean Properties agent Marty Maher secured the sale for the Freake family, who paid $26,000 for the block in 1983. The four-bedroom, two-bathroom home has open fireplaces. Dangerfield retains his Henley Beach, Adelaide, home, which cost $605,000 in 2010.

Swinging from the Rafters

As they look to relocate to Byron Bay, tennis legend Pat Rafter and wife Lara aim to double the price of the record Sunshine Coast house sale with their masterpiece listed at $18m-plus through Tom Offermann. Their John Burgess-designed seven-bedroom home in the Noosa suburb of Sunshine Beach comes with a path straight to the beach. The official Noosa record stands at the $8.25m paid in 2009 when Origin Healthcare founder Bob Biddle and wife Renee bought from Mosman stockbroker Graeme Cutler through Jennifer Carr at Richardson & Wrench. There are whispers that $9.25m has been paid nearby on delayed settlement terms for a 1450sq m beachfront holding last sold in 1986 at $200,000. The Rafters are building on the Byron Bay outskirts. With 28ha, they had locals wondering if there’d be a tennis academy on the cattle farm. But it will be a family home.

Bop Girl no longer on a mission

Melbourne’s Bop Girl, Pat Wilson, has listed her charming Spanish mission home in Elwood. The 1920s Wave Street home adorned with original features previously sold for $320,000 in 1997. Chisholm & Gamon director Sam Gamon is auctioning it with a $1.9m-plus price guide. Wilson is a singer and journalist, having written for 60s and 70s pop music newspaper Go-Set under the pen-name Mummy Cool. Her 80s hit single Bop Girl — written by her then husband, Ross Wilson of Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock — came with a music video that was the screen debut of a 15-year-old Nicole Kidman.

Brighton rocks for Warnie

Shane Warne’s recent $14m-plus Brighton buy-back was pretty unusual as property transactions go. About nine years have passed, and he has paid $6m more for the elegant home, Melville, in Melbourne’s best beach suburb. Sydney stockbroker Rene Rivkin, who died in 2005,also did a buy-back with Carrara in Bellevue Hill. He sold the Rose Bay Avenue trophy home for $2.9m in 1983 through Laing + Simmons Double Bay agent Bart Doff, then bought it back for $3.29m the same year. He, like Warnie, had been residing in Britain in the interim.