Fit for a princess: Kylie Minogue’s former farm holding on offer

A Victorian island farm holding owned by pop superstar Kylie Minogue is for sale.

20 Main Road, Hepburn Springs has hopes of $650,000.

A Victorian island farm holding once owned by pop star Kylie Minogue is for sale. It is the farm holding she owned between 2005 and 2010, not her nearby residential retreat, Beauciel. Set in Westernport Bay, the environmentally sensitive French Island is about twice the size of nearby Phillip Island but has just 120 permanent residents. It is accessible only by helicopter, plane or boat.

Offers close on March 15 for the property at 20 Farm Road through Phil Bock at Century 21 Home Port. The 69ha elevated farmland property, which comes with building permits, was sold by Minogue for $530,000 in 2010. She had paid $292,000 in 2005. There are four dams, a private billabong, large established gum trees and natural bushland, excellent pasture and an orchard. There are koalas, too.

Beauciel last sold for $875,000 in 2016. Minogue had paid $280,000 in 2003 and sold it in 2009 for $1.02 million.

Sale locked in

Artist David Bromley and his fashion designer wife Yuge have sold one of their two central Victorian country houses. They secured the Hepburn Springs sale after asking $650,000. The couple paid $400,000 for the three-bedroom home in 2016.

Kim McQueen at McQueen Real Estate sold the house. McQueen is seeking $750,000 for the Bromleys’ Daylesford home, which cost $550,000. It sits just 4km from the Hepburn Springs property.

Buyers have the chance to secure some of the artworks and furnishings with the sale.

The Bromleys are set to focus on the Old Castlemaine Gaol, the tourism attraction that they bought last year.

In late 2017 the Prahran-based couple sold their 1800s Daylesford home for $1.7m.

Ace Queenslander

Brisbane tennis star John Millman has bought a house in Norman Park. The world No 37 snapped up the renovated Queenslander before its scheduled auction late last year.

Behind the classic timber weatherboard frontage are four bedrooms, three bathrooms and an entertainment deck with city views. Place Bulimba agent Paula Pearce sold the house, which isn’t far from that of Millman’s parents, the 130-year-old Lozellea. Millman, 29, also recently settled on a $532,000 apartment in a converted Clayfield Queenslander.

Millman exited the Australian Open in the second round after a spirited five-set defeat to Spain’s Roberto Batista Agut.

Heritage offer

Lynford, the Brisbane home of portrait artist Claire Stening and husband Jim, founder and managing director of bond specialists FIIG Securities, has been listed for sale. The heritage-listed house in inner-suburb Hamilton was built in the late 1920s by architect EP Trewern. A tennis court and swimming pool sit in the 1505sq m grounds. Ray White Ascot agent Dwayne Ferguson has the listing.

Since paying $3.6m in 2012, the Stenings commissioned Brisbane architect Richard Groves to extend and renovate the Windermere Road property.

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