Paul and Tami Roos make their mark in property with unit sale

Retired AFL coach Paul Roos and his wife, Tami, have listed their South Melbourne penthouse with a guide price of $5m-$5.5m.

The Penthouse at Palmerston Crescent, South Melbourne, comes with a heated saltwater pool with views back to the city’s southern skyline

Retired AFL coach Paul Roos and his wife, Tami, have listed their South Melbourne penthouse. It will be a quick flip by the property-loving couple who bought the two-floor apartment last Christmas Eve, after it had been on the market for seven months.

There is direct lift access to the entrance foyer of the three-bedroom apartment that sits atop The Crescent, a boutique building of 11 on Palmerston Crescent.

Tami and Paul Roos. Picture: Fiona Byrne

There are two bathrooms finished with desert silver marble and Roger Seller fixtures along with sub-floor heating. It comes with a heated saltwater pool with views back to the city’s southern skyline.

Its home office comes with a bookcase lined with AFL tomes including The Red Fox, the biography of Norm Smith, the legendary Melbourne coach, plus Micky O, on the Swans champion Michael O’Loughlin.

The apartment was bought for $4.2m from Sadie Balla, of the local building family who worked with MIM, to design the seven floor complex.

It comes with a $5m to $5.5m price guide through Emma Pierson and Jock Langley at Abercromby’s Real Estate who are running a November 16 expressions of interest campaign.

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Edwardian elegance

A decorative Edwardian home in Albert Park fetched $7.725m at Melbourne’s priciest weekend auction, when three bidders sought the keys to the five-bedroom, red-brick residence with modern extension and a pool.

This Kerferd Rd, Albert Park, home sold for $25,000 above its reserve

The Kerferd Road home sold for $25,000 above reserve, having had a $7m to $7.5m pre-auction price guide from Simon Gowling and Greg Hocking of Greg Hocking Jellis Craig Port Phillip.

The home on 463sq m had traded at $4.9m in 2011 and then in 2014 for $5,808,000 when bought by Bruce Crome, the tea entrepreneur, from travel agency founder Geoff Harris.

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Wave goodbye

Wave House at Brighton has been listed for sale with $9.5m to $10.45m hopes.

It is a striking Kinane Street abode that features a curved stainless-steel facade crafted by artist Darryl Cowie.

It was designed by Fender Katsalidis as developer Michael Buxton’s house in 2002.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom residence rises three levels from its six-car basement garage. Featured in Vogue Living, the marketing suggests the architectural transformation has been from 1915 elegance to 21st-century family indulgence.

The Kinane St, Brighton, abode that features a curved stainless-steel facade

Ignoring all the artwork that lines the walls, the home comes with four ground-floor living and dining spaces, a home office with its own entrance, and a glass surrounded staircase made with reclaimed wharf timber.

The house sits on 650sq m with gardens by landscape architects Tract, including a pool.

The listing quickly attracted 2200 page views in its first two days on realestate.com.au. The Marshall White Bayside expressions of interest campaign by Kate Stickland and Andrew Campbell closes November 23.

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Artistic licence

Artist Kerry Armstrong’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom Brighton home is set for auction this Tuesday evening. Marshall White’s Andrew Campbell has scheduled it as an online auction.

There’s been a $4.5m to $4.95m price guide for the 1920s St Kilda Street home on 817sq m with a rear garden studio and pool. The home features oak herringbone floors. There’s a mud room that doubles as a dog-wash station.

The property last sold for $2.21m in 2015. The whitewashed two-storey property has been Armstrong’s home and site of her successful pivot to acclaimed abstract expressionist status.

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Slow growth

The nation’s cheapest sale came pre-auction in Melbourne’s Carnegie when $335,500 was paid for a one-bedroom apartment. The Woodards price guide had been $300,000 to $325,000 for the garden apartment offering on Woornack Rd. It had last sold in 2010 at $322,000, so reflected woeful price growth over the decade. Its rental price growth wasn’t that much better, being offered as a $295 a week tenancy in 2011 and at $330 a week in 2019.

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Bronte brilliance

The Bronte home of Colinton Capital Partners head Simon Moore sold ahead of its scheduled weekend auction at an undisclosed price, but probably the nation’s highest sale outcome.

The coastal Sydney property was listed with $18m expectations, set to topple the suburb’s $17.9m record held by green energy entrepreneur Carl Prins last year.

Following its pre-auction sale to Joanne Huyng, Moore and his partner Lucinda Cowdroy are off to Vaucluse where they bought the $35m trophy home of Hong Kong arts patron Yang Yang.

Twenty four inspections were conducted at this Shirley Road, Roseville, residence

Sydney also saw a $10.1m pre-auction in Roseville.

Its McGrath agent Glenn Curran conducted 24 inspections at the 6480sq m Shirley Rd offering, and issued six contracts and took four offers. It was bought in 1990 at $1,125,000 by Steve Crane, currently a director at Shopping Centres Australasia Property, and a former chief executive of BZW Australia and ABN AMRO.

A four-level Redfern residence designed by architect Luigi Rosselli, sold pre-auction for close to $5m.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom Thurlow St terrace has a studio over its garage and sits on a 168sq m block with 5m width.

It was built in 2019 after being bought seven years ago for $1.5m by Scott Innessand Abby Summerton of Kinn Construction. It was sold to a young professional woman upgrading from nearby.

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Belanglo bonanza

Retired Pickles vehicle auctioneer Storm Jacklin’s Belanglo farm has been listed for sale in the NSW Southern Highlands. More than $4m is expected by listing agent Angus Campbell-Jones at Campbell-Jones Property Bowral.

The family have owned the 20ha holding for nearly six decades. It comes with two hectares of sprawling gardens, with a stone, brick and wood house along with a cottage and a tennis court.

Belanglo farm is on the block with expectations of more than $4m

Most of the Belanglo Rd land is cleared, complete with fencing and stockyards, five dams and a bore.

The farm is located opposite the prized Mereworth Aggregation which is currently up for sale.

The 1308ha holding, including the historic Mereworth homestead, has been listed through Ray White Rural agent Kim Watts by Hume Coal, which undertook the vast acquisition in a joint venture between Korean steelmaking giant POSCO and Cockatoo Coal.

It then unsuccessfully sought to exercise its exploration permit, which dates back to 1967. More than 460 properties were located within the mining leases, including the home of celebrity couple Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, whose front gate at their Bunya Hill property at Sutton Forest once carried a placard saying “No Coal or Coal Seam Gas”.

Offers closed September 30, and it’s set to soar well past the $60m price guide. Everyone assumes Mike Cannon-Brookes leads the field of buyers who’ve apparently pushed the price to near $85m.