Bruce Mathieson Jr buys $11.6m Gold Coast beachfront home

The son of pubs and poker machine magnate Bruce Mathieson is the buyer of $11.6m Hedges Avenue home on the Gold Coast.

The son of pubs and poker machine magnate Bruce Mathieson has emerged as the buyer of the Gold Coast’s most expensive home to be sold this year. Bruce Mathieson Jr has spent $11.6 million on the Hedges Avenue beachfront home of retired cotton farmer Alan Frost, who bought it for $6.6m in 2014. It sits less than 2km away from his parents Bruce and Jill’s $18m Albatross Avenue holding. Kollosche Prestige agents Michael Kollosche and Harry Kakavas handled the transaction. Bruce Mathieson Sr was 42nd on Australia’s top 50 Forbes Rich List last year with a net worth of $910m.

Farm getaway going for a song

Country music royalty Troy Cassar-Daley and his 4KQ Brisbane breakfast radio presenter wife Laurel Edwards are selling their Queensland farm getaway. Cassar-Daley would fish on the Vernor property fronting the Brisbane River, while Edwards was keen to get around the 4ha estate riding horses. The veranda has seen many a music jam with friends and family. The couple, who paid $630,000 in 2007 for the property an hour west of Brisbane, are reluctantly selling now their kids, Clay and Jem, have grown up.

The Vernor property has seen many a music jam.

LJ Hooker Ipswich agent Jo James is marketing the home with a negotiable $680,000 guide. The property is divided into two fully fenced main paddocks, with machinery, stables, cattle yards and a veggie garden. The couple have been based at Balmoral for the best part of two decades.

Hacked duo home at last

After a turbulent month, former MasterChef contestant Dani Venn and her husband Chris Burgess have now settled on and into their new Mornington Peninsula home. The couple were all ready to settle on their $1,375,000 Mount Eliza acquisition before becoming the unwitting victim in a hacking scandal that engulfed Property Exchange Australia, the emerging online property transfer system. The hacker of her conveyancer and estate agent email addresses diverted some of the proceeds of the couple’s home sale in Smiths Gully into the hacker’s false account. After a much publicised battle and even a GoFundMe page campaign, Venn and Burgess got their money back and have fulfilled their dream to live near the sea. Their three-bedroom home has views across the tree tops to the waters of Port Phillip Bay. Lupton Ferguson Real Estate agent Louise Lupton sold the property in 65 days. It last traded for $1,035,000 in 2015.

Eagles star sells Cottesloe nest

The Cottesloe home that AFL legend Sam Mitchell and wife Lyndall bought when Sam signed on as a player at the West Coast Eagles is under offer. The Mitchells bought the four-bedroom home less than 18 months ago when Sam played out his final year of his career at Subiaco Oval, having previously won four premierships at Hawthorn. He is now an Eagles assistant coach. The home was built in 2007, when owned by professor Edwin Jaggard and wife Pamela, who sold it for $2.1m in 2013. It only increased in value by $50,000 when the Mitchells bought it three years later. They found time to completely renovate and refurbish the Hampton-style home, which features a rear swimming pool. Wallace Real Estate Claremont agent Justin Wallace handled the marketing.

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