Steven Bradbury sale: get your skates on

Winter Olympics gold medallist Steven Bradbury and and wife Amanda are selling one of their Queensland investments.

Octagon House at Shaddow Downs Estate.

Winter Olympics gold medallist Steven Bradbury and wife Amanda are selling one of their Queensland investments. The Northgate-based Bradburys, who are keen property investors, with homes in Gatton, Ningi and Kings Beach, paid $419,000 for a 430sq m block in Nudgee, 13km north of Brisbane. In collaboration with PlanBuild, they constructed a modern four-bedroom home with 235sq m of internal living space. The ground level is dedicated to living, with an open-plan kitchen, dining and lounge space. Upstairs are the four bedrooms and a rumpus room. Bradbury is one of Australia’s most well known gold medallists, winning the gold in 2002 from last to first when all his opponents crashed on the final corner.

Pioneer’s pad on the market

Shaddow Downs Estate, the historic farm at Gingin in Western Australia, has been listed for sale at $9.675m. Garland International agent John Garland is marketing the property on behalf of the Schofield family. English pioneer William Locke Brockman settled on 4000ha in 1842 in the Cheriton Valley on the Darling Range escarpment. The now 467ha property has three individual titles. The priciest is the largest, 236ha primed for livestock and cropping with two homesteads. That’s priced at $4.725m. One of the homesteads is known as Octagon House, an architecturally designed octagonal home with four bedrooms. The second is a five-bedroom manager’s house with a pool. The 151ha lot, also primed for livestock and cropping, is for sale at $2.7m, and the third lot, spanning 78ha, with subdivision potential and a third residence, is listed at $2.25m.

Sale flag raised in Port Douglas

Platinum Global director Andrew Carr has emerged as the most recent Port Douglas trophy-home buyer. The $5.1m sale to Carr and his wife Helen was on Murphy Street, one of the most sought after in Port Douglas. It was the holiday home of late Melbourne vet Stephen Coles. It sold after Queensland Sotheby’s agent Barbara Wolveridge had been seeking more than $5m. The three-level home had been extensively renovated after Coles paid $2.75m in 2016 from Whitehorse Resort developers Barry and Di McGinn, who had built the house in 1996. The property has five bedrooms and five bathrooms, with white plantation shutters and phantom screens throughout. There’s a swimming pool in the tropical gardens.

Gym chief sells … at a loss

Fitness First founder Tony de Leede has found a buyer for his Mermaid Beach investment mansion. He’s had to take a loss on the Hedges Avenue home he bought for $7.3m in 2009, a year after it was built. He’s recently secured $6.325m from a Brisbane couple. He bought the five-bedroom home from Lisa Frawley, the wife of former Romafree executive director Mark Frawley. De Leede still retains a strong foothold in Queensland through property investments. He owns apartments in the Burleigh Heads Aspect complex as well as properties in Port Douglas and a Gold Coast hinterland estate.

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