Sanctuary Cove home on offer

Car dealer Phil McCarroll is selling his Gold Coast holiday home

Car dealer Phil McCarroll is selling his Gold Coast holiday home. The Sydney-based McCarroll paid $2.4 million for the Sanctuary Cove home in 2008. McCarroll has fully renovated the waterfront property over his decade-long ownership. There are four bedrooms, split into two wings, and a central living space that opens to a terrace that adjoins the tennis court on its 1740sq m block. An alfresco entertaining area with built-in barbecue looks over the 11m infinity-edge pool, etched with the term “La dolce vita” (the good life). Queensland Sotheby’s agents John and Marie Manning are seeking $3.95m. Last year McCarroll spent $6m on Craboon, the luxury 1920s stone cottage at Palm Beach, north of Sydney while retaining a Duffys Forest acreage.

Lodge sold before auction

Churston Lodge.

Churston Lodge, the 1930s Armadale home, has been snapped up before this weekend’s scheduled auction. The four-bedroom home renovated by the late Stuart Rattle sits on a 1370sq m Hampden Road holding. It had a guide of $6m-$6.5m, having last traded for $1.05m in 1995. It was listed by Toorak dentist George Paltoglou, who’s little-used Twitter handle is the “flossdaddy”. The home features an entry foyer with timber panelling. There’s a music room, a formal dining rooms and a formal sitting room with open fireplaces. RT Edgar agents Holly Gillham and Warwick Anderson sold the home, without price disclosure other than saying it fetched “significantly above” the reserve price.

Quick turnaround in Dalkeith

A custom-built Dalkeith home with French provincial country charm has been sold for the second time in a year, and gone up in price. Local agent Amanda Gray at Gray & Co Realty secured $4.46m for the Davies family, who had paid $4.3m last September. It first traded for $3.87m in 2014, when sold on a walk-in basis to a Scottish couple after the building block cost $1.65m in 2011. On completion, Oswald Homes suggested a replacement home would cost about $2.5m. The home has five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a study across its three levels. It offers 626sq m living space on the 815sq m block with outdoor kitchen and gas-heated pool. About 34 homes have been sold in Perth’s Dalkeith this year, ranging in price from $1.6m to $11m.

Ad man’s latest pitch

Advertising copywriter Tom Vizard, son of the former prominent television and radio personality Steve Vizard, is selling in South Yarra. Vizard has listed his two-bedroom Edwardian brick semi with approved renovation plans. He has updated the two-bedroom home since paying $785,000 in 2015. A rear courtyard sits on the 100sq m Myrtle Street parcel. Marshall White Stonnington agents Fraser Cahill and Michael Martin have a guide of $900,000-$990,000 for its September 15 auction. Vizard was a creative copywriter at St Kilda-based agency Cummins & Partners for five years before joining Melbourne marketing and ad agency Thinkerbell.

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