Real Housewives of Melbourne star Chyka Keebaugh lists manor

Former The Real Housewives of Melbourne star Chyka Keebaugh and husband Bruce have listed their 1930s English manor.

Inside the Hepburn Springs home.

Former The Real Housewives of Melbourne star Chyka Keebaugh and husband Bruce have listed their 1930s English manor in Malvern East. The couple, who founded several hospitality businesses, paid $630,500 in 1999. Having extensively renovated, they are expecting between $3.7 million and $4.07m. The home has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a timber-panelled home office with fireplace and a rear guesthouse on the 590sq m Wattletree Road parcel. Keebaugh appeared in the popular reality show for three seasons before quitting last year. She and Bruce are looking to downsize.

Artist’s latest release

One of Australia’s most successful artists David Bromley and designer wife Yuge have listed their Hepburn Springs home. The couple have been dividing their time between the Victorian country retreat and their home in Prahran. The early 1900s dwelling is a character-filled family home, with their creative touch unmissable in the listing photos. It once had 13 bedrooms off its long central hallway, but now it comes with seven, and sits on 2200sq m of parklike grounds. Hockingstuart Daylesford agents Nathan Skewes and Glenda Rozen are asking $1.7m for the house that for three decades was a care home for dementia patients. The Bromleys bought the home for $750,000 in 2013. Bromley retains warehouse space in the town 120km northeast of Melbourne.

Former lord mayor’s pad sells

A South Yarra apartment that belonged to the late 1940s Melbourne lord mayor Sir Francis Raymond Connelly fetched $1.22m at auction last weekend, above its $1.05m reserve. His widow Lady Patricia lived at the two-bedroom top-floor Domain Road flat from 1949 until her death last year. Connelly served three terms as lord mayor in the 1940s. He was a reformer who supported a Greater Melbourne planning authority seeking a “brighter” city, urging the relaxation of laws on liquor and shopping hours and even Sunday entertainment. Connelly was knighted in 1948, then shortly after married 27-year-old Patricia Anne Holschier. Connelly campaigned to secure the Olympic Games for Melbourne in 1956. One of his last acts was to light a replica of the Olympic torch following the 1949 announcement that Melbourne had been awarded the Games. He died days later and his estate was sworn for probate at £41,750.

Ex-Kellogg boss dishes up block

David Mackay — who briefly headed the McGrath Estate Agents group — and wife Michelle are selling their Mooloolaba apartments in the Sirocco development on the Sunshine Coast. The couple, who commute between the US and Australia, bought into the block in 2005. G1 Property Mooloolaba agent Simon Guilfoyle is marketing the apartments. Mackay was CEO of US cereals giant Kellogg before retiring in 2011. A year later he joined Woolworths as a director before leaving in 2015.

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