Webjet chief’s Sunshine Coast purchase; Sefton sale; Peter Siddle in Black Rock

Webjet director Steven Scheuer may be booking more flights after buying on the Sunshine Coast.

Sefton in Mount Macedon, Victoria.

Webjet director Steven Scheuer is likely to be booking more flights through his online travel agency after buying on the Sunshine Coast, far from his chilly offices in Melbourne’s Collingwood. Scheuer and Catherine Miller paid $4.1 million for a popular Sunshine Beach holiday rental through Richardson & Wrench Noosa agent Rory Williamson. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom beach house had an all-white facelift in 2009 from interior designers
Kidd & Co. It’s now listed with Richardson & Wrench as a holiday rental ranging from $350 to $975 a night depending on the season. Scheuer joined Webjet in 2000 as a non-executive director.

Sefton a spring garden offering

The Sefton estate at Mount Macedon is back for sale, unquestionably spring’s finest garden offering across the nation. Built by the Baillieu family as a summer home in the early 1900s, the 8.8ha English garden was laid out with influences from Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens directors Baron von Mueller and WR Guilfoyle. The estate includes a 910sq m, seven-bedroom Tudor-style mansion, complete with a billiards room and glass-atrium sitting room. A four-green, nine-tee golf course, tennis court, croquet lawn, heated outdoor pool and helipad are surrounded by Capability Brown-style gardens. It has been listed by Gribbles Pathology founder Wallace Cameron, who bought it through Keatings Real Estate for a then record $8.175m from the Foster’s Group, which had a reserve of $4.62m. The Baillieus sold Sefton in 1968 for $65,000 to mining companies CRA and North Broken Hill, which sold it to John Elliott’s Foster’s brewery in 1983 for $475,000. In 2010 it was withdrawn from sale after being offered for about $12m. JP Dixon has the latest listing.

Siddle bowls into Black Rock

Injured Aussie cricketer Peter Siddle and his fiancee Anna Weatherlake have secured a $1.94m building block in Black Rock, a bayside Melbourne suburb. They are ready to build their dream home 200m from the bay. They’ve commissioned McKimm Architecture to design the 900sq m block, which was offered for the first time in nearly 80 years. They’ll be moving from Ormond, where they sold their renovated 1920s California bungalow for $2.05m last weekend. Siddle paid $1.45m for the four-bed home in 2012.

Akeel dining out on Kingsbrae

Food and beverage entrepreneur Yazan Akeel has emerged as the buyer of the Kingsbrae Estate, a French-inspired mansion at Heathfield in the Adelaide Hills. It sold recently for $4.1m through Harcourts Williams. Spread over two levels with 825sq m of living space, the 2004-built home has eight bedrooms. There’s a 1860s stone cottage on the 8ha, which sports shiraz vines. The home was built by former Defence SA chief executive Andrew Fletcher. Akeel attracted attention when he opened the Dolce & Co dessert bar, having also been behind Ecotel, which has long supplied crockery, cutlery and other equipment to the hospitality industry.