Ex-Bombers chairman David Evans tipped as Sunshine Beach buyer

Sonya and David Evans, the former chairman of AFL club Essendon, are tipped to emerge as Sunshine Beach buyers.

Sonya and David Evans, the former chairman of AFL club Essendon, are tipped to emerge as the $14 million buyers on Sunshine Beach, just outside Noosa. The beachfront house sold on the very first inspection just prior to it hitting the market through Tom Offermann and Nic Hunter at Tom Offermann Real Estate, who would only say the undisclosed southern buyers flew in before the marketing went online. The Melbourne couple are based at Woodfield, an 1880s Hawthorn residence they have called home since paying $6,435,000 in 2010. Their new weekender comes with 41m of ocean frontage on its 1260sq m parcel. It has five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a 23m swimming pool. It was once owned by retired rugby great Michael Lynagh. Singapore-based Equis Energy CEO David Russell emerged on settlement recently as the buyer of Noosa’s most expensive home, which he bought this year for $18m.

Magpies legend’s nest for sale

The Portsea home of late Collingwood football and TV legend Lou Richards has been listed for sale, a year after his death. It was the retreat for more than three decades for Lou and his late wife Edna Richards who paid $35,000 in 1981.

Lou Richards’ former home in MacGregor Avenue, Portsea

The 2400sq m holding, with five-bedroom house and tennis court, on MacGregor Avenue, has been listed by his daughters. RT Edgar Flinders agent Ilze Moran expects $3.5m-$3.8m at its November 25 auction. Richards captained the Magpies to a premiership in 1953. There’s a bronze statue outside the club’s HQ in his honour. After he retired he became a pioneering sports journalist.

Peever pulls stumps on townhouse

Former Cricket Australia chairman David Peever, who this week resigned after only last week signing a new three-year contract, is selling one of his Maroochydore investment portfolio properties. He’s held the townhouse property, two blocks back from Maroochydore beach, since paying $121,525 in 1992, around the time he joined mining giant Rio Tinto. He’s asking $475,000 for the two-bedroom townhouse in Fifth Avenue Terrace that he has renovated over his long ownership. Kevin Annetts at Kevin Annetts Property Mooloolaba is selling the property with long-term tenants in place.

Gardener’s cottage rakes it in

Landscape designer Rick Eckersley has sold Musk Cottage, his Mornington Peninsula weekender. RT Edgar were seeking $4m-$4.2m, with about $4.5m secured for Eckersley, who grew up on a cattle and wool grazing property in Macarthur, in the Western Districts. He studied at Burnley Horticultural College as a mature-age student, then worked for Berwick City Council for three weeks, before leaving to start his own landscaping business. The Melbourne-based gardener paid $2m for the estate off a dirt track at Flinders in 2006. The contemporary three-bedroom main residence opens as much as possible to the outdoors. The living and dining room flows to a large deck, which overlooks the picturesque dam. On the other side of the home is a swimming pool, tennis court, bocce court, pitching green and in-ground trampoline, sitting by a self-contained three-bedroom cottage.

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