Rumours persist of Miranda Kerr buying Hunter Valley wine estate

Rumours that Miranda Kerr is buying a wine estate developed by the late connoisseur Len Evans continue to swirl around the NSW Hunter Valley.

Los Angeles-based Miranda Kerr has previously holidayed at the Loggerheads property in the NSW Hunter Valley.

The rumours international model Miranda Kerr is buying a wine estate developed by the late connoisseur Len Evans continue to swirl around the NSW Hunter Valley. Adding fuel is the fact that the Los Angeles-based Kerr has previously holidayed at the 87ha Loggerheads holding with her family. Local agent Alan Jurd has negotiated a sale of the property,but is refusing to comment on whether Kerr is the buyer. But the seven-bedroom homestead and estate has definitely sold, with a company known as Sunflower Fun Pty Ltd recently placing a caveat over the entire 97 Palmers Lane, Pokolbin property. Sunflower Fun is a nominee company controlled by the commercial law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler. Settlement of the sale is expected as early as Monday. The estate is planted with shiraz and gammay wines and is widely regarded as having the best position in Pokolbin.

International model Miranda Kerr. Picture: Getty Images

Prices snowball at Mt Buller

While some of Victoria’s Falls Creek and Mt Hotham ski chalet owners are closing down for the entire winter season — and lifts will be inaccessible until mid-August due to new COVID 19 induced temporary border restrictions — apartment sales are apparently booming at the Grollo family owned Mt Buller. Agent John Castran reckons prices have risen 18 per cent since the COVID-19 outbreak in March. “The lockdown has not touched sales of apartments at Mt Buller — it has worked in our favour because (wealthy) people from Melbourne have cabin fever, they can’t travel overseas so they have been walking in, inspecting an apartment and saying “I will take it”. Last weekend, before the new Victorian lockdown regulations came in this week, Castran sold a record five apartments at Mt Buller ranging from $1m to $3m.

Rare rainforest opportunity

Former Liberal National Party MP Michael Trout is poised to list his family’s 189ha holding at the southern end of the Atherton Tableland, bordering the World Heritage North Johnstone and Beatrice Rivers. The property, known as Mungalli Falls, has rare council approval to develop a 240-bed accommodation holding. Trout says his family are the only people with accommodation approval so close to and overlooking a heritage park, the oldest rainforest in the world. “This property has the only freehold waterfall in North Queensland,” he adds. The property, just south of Cairns, includes five freehold titles. The Trout family has previously run an outdoor education centre on the site with several different types of accommodation.

Upsizing to St Kilda

The directors of Brearley Architects & Urbanists, J ames Brearley and Fang Qun (Shirley Fang), have sold a newly developed townhouse at 14 Queen Street, St Kilda East for $1.15m. The pair designed and built the two-level townhouse with an emphasis on northern light. Although there is no garden associated with the townhouse, the buyer is a local landscape architect from the St Kilda area upsizing from an apartment. McGrath St Kilda agent Michael Townsend negotiated the deal.