Quade Cooper on the move to Melbourne

Rugby star Quade Cooper and model girlfriend Laura Dundovic are to list their luxury Brisbane pad.

Rugby star Quade Cooper and model girlfriend Laura Dundovic are to list their luxury Brisbane pad as he heads to Melbourne to play with the Rebels. The Bulimba near-riverfront home got a complete makeover last year by Graya Construction. Cooper paid $1.845 million for it in 2015 when moving from Hawthorne. The two-storey home, near popular Oxford Street, has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. There’s also a 20m glass-framed pool and 12m marina berth. The New Zealand-born star offloaded his Hawthorne house for $1.6m in 2015.

The art of the sale

Melbourne gallery owner and art consultant Anna Pappas is selling her striking Prahran home. Pappas paid $360,000 in 1998 for what was then a timber cottage. She commissioned Toby Reed,of Nervegna Reed, to create The White House, an ultra-contemporary residence with polished concrete and black steel. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a courtyard and a rear garden on a 285sq m plot. Marshall White Armadale agents Dean Gilbert and James McCormack have a $2.7m to $2.9m guide for the December 1 auction. Pappas is the head of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and is chairwoman of the Melbourne Art Foundation.

Horn blows in

Boxer Jeff Horn and wife Jo have bought a $1.71m contemporary home in Brisbane’s Sunnybank. They secured the outer-Brisbane home just weeks out from his upcoming fight with Anthony Mundine. It has five bedrooms, a media room, gym. and a resort-style swimming pool on 1020sq m. Peter Florentzos, at LJ Hooker, sold the home. Jeff and Jo had called the neighbouring suburb of Acacia Ridge home since 2013 when they paid $347,000 for a 1950s three-bedder. Horn was a part-time teacher before he announced himself on the world stage by shocking Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao last year to become WBO welterweight world champion.

Record tipped to tumble

Canberra is set to see its record broken with the listing of Woodleigh, the vast garden estate in the Old Red Hill heritage precinct. It’s on Mugga Way, Canberra’s most sought-after street. The only two homes to clear $7m are on the same strip. Berkely Residential agent Bill Lyristakis is marketing it. Woodleigh was a record setter when it sold for $2m in 2000, topping the previous $1.79m high. It was sold by Gordon and Doreen Smith, the owners of Discount Tyre Service, to the current vendors, economist Clive Rodger and wife Lynlea. Woodleigh has hosted the Open Gardens scheme, and a number of musical events have been held on the sweeping front lawns of the 7965sq m grounds. Built in the 1980s, the two-storey home with more than 500sq m of floor space has four bedrooms, a games room and an underground cellar and home office. In the gardens there’s a 13m heated saltwater swimming pool and cabana, international-sized floodlit tennis court and an adjacent barbecue area and koi pond.

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