Tennis veteran Wayne Arthurs sells Toorak townhouse

Tennis veteran Wayne Arthurs and wife Caroline have seemingly accepted an offer for their Toorak, Melbourne home.

Villa D’Este in the Adelaide Hills.

Tennis veteran Wayne Arthurs and wife Caroline have seemingly accepted an offer for their Toorak, Melbourne home, having listed it through Sotheby’s International at $2.95 million. The Russell Barrett-designed townhouse was bought for $2.475m in 2014. The contemporary home on 415sq m has four bedrooms, a formal sitting room and a garden courtyard. It was bought around the time the couple’s Kooyong home, with tennis court, sold for $3.525m. The former Davis Cup player, who has coached at the National Academy since 2010, retired after the 2007 Wimbledon tournament.

Boyd Baker House on block

The Boyd Baker House in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria — one of the most important Robin Boyd-designed homes — has been listed for sale. The property, which has had only two owners in 50 years, was commissioned by academic Michael Baker and wife Rosemary. It is being sold by the Mitrakas family, who bought it in 2006. It is offered at $1.65m through RT Edgar Gisborne agent Ray Cashmore. Completed in 1965, the property was listed for 2014 auction, but passed in. The heritage-listed modernist property on 12ha is surrounded by the Long Forest Conservation Reserve. It bears a Boyd signature internal courtyard and local stone finishes. It actually comprises two buildings designed by Boyd, and another by Roy Grounds, the library building, constructed during the 1970s.

Adelaide’s grand entrance

One of South Australia’s most luxurious mansions, Villa D’Este, has been listed by the Budini family with hopes of $2.495m. The property is named after the hotel Villa D’Este at Italy’s Lake Como. Set on 5745sq m, the Stirling home was designed by Berriman and Milliken Architects and built in the 1970s. Even the smallest of details were considered, including the grand entrance door handles commissioned by Sydney artist Lucy Boyd. The four-bedroom bespoke home overlooks an all-weather tennis court. The property is listed through Harcourts Williams agents Stephanie and John Williams.

Chmiel invests in the west

The expatriate Malaysia-based managing director of iProperty Group, Georg Chmiel, has spent $2.2m on an investment in Perth. It was a builder’s own home at Kallaroo with four levels connected by private lift. Behind the glass facade, the four bedroom house features four living and dining areas, a theatre, a home office and an 11m saltwater pool. There’s a breakfast terrace off the main dining area and a rooftop terrace that offers ocean views. The former LJ Hooker chief still owns property in Sydney’s St Ives.

Wagners’ snare piece of Soul

Don’t say I told you, but the Wagner construction clan, one of Queensland’s richest, has snapped up an apartment in Gold Coast tower Soul. The Toowoomba family paid $2.7m for the 46th floor, four bedroom sub-penthouse, which traded at $3.8m when bought in 2013 by the Sherrin family in the Juniper development.