Sunland sale

Sunland managing director Sahba Abedian and wife Nava are selling their penthouse in the luxury Abian Residences.

Heronsdale, the Flinders weekender of architect Alan Synman.

Sunland managing director Sahba Abedian and wife Nava are selling their penthouse in the luxury Abian Residences that Sunland developed. The Gold Coast bound couple, who moved in once the building was completed in 2017 from their Newstead base, custom fitted the 325sq m Alice Street penthouse. They paid $3,448,750. It features opulent laser-cut Italian Travertine, Calacatta natural stone and the finest European inclusions. It even has a control room with a built in safe. Two art galleries flow from the main entrance to the main living and dining wing that opens to a timber-decked alfresco. The master suite in its own wing has an ensuite and custom dressing room, while a guest wing comprises an ensuite and media room. Place Woolloongabba agent James McKinley has the listing in the tightly held building where prices have peaked at $4.95m. Sahba Abedian has been managing director of Sunland since 2001.

Weekender luxury

Heronsdale, the Flinders weekender of architect Alan Synman, has been listed for sale. The Darley Court home comes with $2,950,000 to $3,245,000 price hopes through Kay & Burton agents Prue McLaughlin and Tom Barr Smith. Offers close on November 22 for the four-bedroom, three-bathroom plus study home on 2,725sq m. Synman, who paid $500,000 for the home in 2002 before renovating, was awarded an OAM in 2017 for services to architecture. In 1976 he founded Synman Justin Bialek Architects, better known as SJB Architects, and stepped down as a director in 2005.

Sporting chance

Some six months after the Hawthorn home of high-profile sport and entertainment manager Ralph Carr was listed, it has gone under offer, but the listing agents are advising it is not yet sold. Carr, who manages the likes of AFL Premiership player Dustin Martin, has been seeking $10m-$11m for the 1890s Shakespeare Grove home. When it first hit the market in April it came with $12m to $13.2m hopes. Carr has renovated since paying $7.55m in 2013. The 12-room mansion has five bedrooms, a media room with marble wet bar, a library and a stately billiard room off the imposing arched reception hall entry. It once belonged to Clinton Casey, the former Richmond president. Abercromby’s agents Jock Langley and Simon Curtain have the listing.

Shifting sands

The Castaway Beach, Queensland, holiday home bought by the WA-based Blackadder Group managing director Graeme Hearn just last year is back up for sale. Hearn snapped up the home two weeks into its marketing, paying $3.7m. Now it’s back up for sale through Tom Offerman Real Estate agent Rebekah Offerman, given the family simply haven’t found the time to use it. Built on a sand dune, the home with New England-style architecture was designed by Aboda Design Group. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a swimming pool across its three levels. The vendors were the Yardley family who had run it as a rental known as the Blue Dog Beach House.

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