Record apartment price for Noosa

Melbourne’s Liberman family have emerged as the buyers of Noosa’s most expensive apartment.

The Spring Farm features a wet-edge pool

Melbourne’s Liberman family have emerged as the buyers of Noosa’s most expensive apartment. They paid $8.25m for a second floor apartment on Hastings Street. The three-bedroom apartment last traded for $7.2m in 2015. Tom Offerman Real Estate agent Mal Cox marketed it as one of the finest available. But the apartment probably won’t hold Noosa’s record for long. Roark Walsh, also of Tom Offermann Real Estate, is marketing an apartment in the nearby Noosa Court with $11m hopes. And the nearby Starlight Suite apartment recently added to the wave of big sales when $5.5m was paid.

Farm’s rich harvest

Following its completion by owner-architect Daniel Ash, The Spring Farm in the Yarra Valley, north of Melbourne, has been listed for sale. Abercromby’s Armadale agents Robert Macarthur and Ada Taylor have the listing. Four years ago Ash, who runs Daniel Ash Architects in Burnley, bought The Spring Farm in Gruyere for $1.34m. All that stood on the 21 hectare parcel was a 50-year-old solid brick homestead and a few cattle yards. Now there’s a four-bedroom, four-bathroom designer residence with its own gym. The grounds come with an outdoor stone fireplace and a 25m solar-heated wet-edge pool and spa. The homes for the horses are equally impressive. There’s an architect-designed barn with eight over-sized stables with Comfort Stall rubber flooring, a hot wash and dedicated tack, feed and rug rooms. There’s an indoor arena with geotextile surface and 26 post and rail paddocks in the grounds.

Crime writer selling up

Best-selling crime author Tom Noble has listed his South Yarra home. Noble, who wrote true crime books including I, Mick Gatto, Untold Violence and Neddy — which was turned into the multi-award-winning TV series Blue Murder — has owned the three-bedroom home for over two decades. He paid $560,500 for the sold brick freestanding home on 300sq m in 1996. Kay & Burton agent Andrew Smith has a $2.4m to $2.6m guide. Noble also wrote Walsh Street, about the tragic police slaying which inspired the acclaimed Australian movie Animal Kingdom.

Nobel home for sale

The former Adelaide summer home of the Nobel Prize winner Dr Howard Florey, the co-inventor of penicillin, has been listed for sale through South Australia Sotheby’s agent Grant Giordano. The renovated Victorian sandstone villa in Belair, in the foothills east of the city, was built in the early 1900s for Howard’s father Joseph, who was a successful boot manufacturer from England. Howard lived at the home until 1921, when he sailed for England, where he died in 1968. Last traded for $850,000 in 2007, the property has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a two room stone cellar. It sits in 2400sq m of manicured gardens.

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