Hepburn Springs back on block

Anna Corosa and Stewart Koziora have listed the still eclectic Hepburn Springs home that they bought last year

Jonathan Brown and wife Kylie’s home for sale.

Anna Corosa and Stewart Koziora, founders of Melbourne hospitality firm Retail Savvy Group, have listed the still eclectic Hepburn Springs home that they bought last year from artist David Bromley and designer wife Yuge. They snapped up the early 1900s homestead just 11 days in to its marketing campaign for $1.7 million. Now they’re asking $1.825m, as they simply are too busy to get up there. Nathan Skewes from Hockingstuart Daylesford, who sold the home last September, is marketing it again. The Bromleys, who bought the home for $750,000 in 2013, have bought tourist attraction the Old Castlemaine Gaol in Victoria. Corosa and Koziora in 2007 founded the Retail Savvy Group, whose venues include Fitzroy Social, the Asian Beer Cafe, Fathers Office, The Shaw Davey Slum and The Bank on Collins. Hepburn Springs includes seven bedrooms, three bathrooms and two living areas on a 2200sq m block.

Ex-Lion’s den up for grabs

Now happily based in Melbourne’s Camberwell, former Brisbane Lions captain Jonathan Brown and beauty therapist wife Kylie are selling their Gold Coast hinterland home. The property was bought in Kylie’s name for $2.5m in 2013 in Brown’s penultimate season at the Lions. It is set for a June 24 auction with 30 groups having inspected the home through McGrath agent Richard Snowden. There are two dwellings across the 2.3ha estate: the main Hamptons-inspired home and an American-style barn. The main residence has four bedrooms, while the barn has a further three bedrooms, a kitchen and living area and a rumpus room upstairs. The lower level of the barn is an entertaining lounge with a full bar — complete with Brown’s prized Big V state jumper in a framed wall cabinet.

Ad man’s successful pitch

Nicholas Condon, former managing director of advertising agency DDB, and his interior designer wife Kate Beadle have sold their Portsea property. They had $3.65m expectations for the Duffy Street beach home built in 2016, after the couple paid $1.105m two years earlier. Blending beach house and 21st century refinement, the Mornington Peninsula holiday home has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a swimming pool. Kay & Burton agent Liz Jensen handled the marketing. Condon stepped down as DDB’s managing director in 2013.

Billionaire’s latest asset

Having sold his Flinders and Toorak abodes for suburb and state records, billionaire Daniel Besen has secured a new property. He’s quietly spent $19m in South Yarra, on Two Birches. He’s bought the 1920s home of Ski Club Victoria board director Miranda Lansell and husband Jeremy. They paid $2.805m in 2002 for the home designed by Leslie M. Perrot, the architect who also designed the former Australia Hotel in Collins Street. Besen scored two big-money sales when he and his estranged wife Danielle sold their Flinders and Toorak projects. The Toorak mansion fetched a state record of $26.25m when bought by Phil Dreaver, the managing director at Netflow. Miramar at Flinders followed, sold for $17m to Good Guys boss Andrew Muir.

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