Trophy homes: Playing with blocks

Denby Roberts, one of the heirs to the billion-dollar Multiplex fortune, is selling some of her Mosman Park super block.

The Armadale trophy Moorak, which was held by the Salter family for nearly six decades, has sold to a local buyer in a private auction

Denby Roberts, one of the heirs to the billion-dollar Multiplex fortune, is selling some of her Mosman Park super block. Roberts and her former husband Robert Macgregor, heir to the Mrs Mac’s pie fortune, bought five adjoining parcels around a decade ago. The 3665sq m block stood as Perth’s most expensive consolidation, costing more than $30 million. They had planned a mega mansion. Roberts is keeping 1400sq m but selling 2225sq m, which is being offered in three or four blocks. Mack Hall Real Estate agents Mack Hall and Adam Lenegan have the listing. Roberts is one of three children of the late John Roberts, who founded the construction giant back in 1962. Other building blocks are set to be listed next year at the former Taj on the Swan site in Peppermint Grove.

Marvellous Moorak

The Armadale trophy Moorak, which was held by the Salter family for nearly six decades, has sold to a local buyer in a private auction. The property last traded for £20,000 in 1961. Abercromby’s agents Jock Langley and Emma Pierson sold the property, which was constructed in 1888 for warehouseman William Walker. The Italianate style home with squat entry tower has four bedrooms and two bathrooms. A swimming pool and a coach house are set amid the 1925sq m grounds. The garden features soaring trees, flowers and fruit gardens. “Every city has them — those handful of homes in those handful of streets that evoke a sense of yearning from just about everyone who passes by,” Langley said. “Moorak oozes heritage, provenance, nostalgia and an understanding that they simply don’t, and can’t, make them like this any more.”

Seabird ready to fly

Seabird, the Mornington Peninsula weekender of embattled bikie lawyer John Voitin, has been sold. Voitin built it in 2000 after paying $150,000 for the 1235sq m block in 1999.

The four bedroom, architect-designed home features a limestone open fireplace that adjoins a sunroom with wet bar. Glass walls open to the pavilion-style entertainment deck which meets the tennis court in the private garden.

Sale of the Sanctuary

Property guru Andrew Winter and wife Caroline have accepted $3.05m for their Sanctuary Cove home. They had been asking $3.995m. They renovated the Gold Coast home, having paid $1.9m in 2017. Amir Mian Prestige agents Charlon Delos Angeles and Alister Billingsley secured the sale. The Winters are on to their new project in Mermaid Beach where they recently spent $1,525,000 on a single storey, three bedroom home. The home got helpful renovation tips from the Selling Houses Australia duo of interior designer Shayna Blaze and landscape gardener Charlie Albone. Now the home is an all-white villa with a terracotta roof, five bedrooms and a resort-style swimming pool in the tropical palms surrounds.

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