Trophy homes: Socceroo Tommy Oar sells Surfers Paradise property

Socceroo star Tommy Oar has sold his Surfers Paradise investment apartment for $417,000.

Bob Scarborough has finally sold Wood Nook Farm in Nagambie.

Socceroo scores a sale

Socceroos star Tommy Oar has sold his Surfers Paradise investment apartment for $417,000. The investment property was bought by Liberal Party politician John-Paul Langbroek and wife Stacey. Set in the Chiltern Court complex, 50 metres from the beach, the renovated two-bedder cost Oar $360,000 in 2012. Gold Coast Residential Properties agent Roger Haddad sold the home after asking for offers over $415,000. Oar, who plays for A-League club Brisbane Roar, maintains a Mermaid Beach home that cost $1.31m in 2014. It had previously sold for $1.55m in 2006. In 2008, then 17-year-old Oar signed a three-year deal with the Roar. Two seasons later he signed with Dutch club FC Utrecht after being awarded the Rising Star award for the Best Young Player in the A-League. Oar spent five years with Utrecht before spending a brief stint at English lower league club Ipswich Town before returning to Brisbane Roar in 2016. He has made 28 appearances for the Socceroos, scoring twice.

Selling the Farm

Former Moonee Valley Racing Club chairman Bob Scarborough has finally sold Wood Nook Farm in Nagambie through Pat Rice & Hawkins. Considered one of Australia’s premier equine facilities, Wood Nook Farm was originally listed in June 2015 with $10m hopes. It was relisted last year with a $7m price tag. Scarborough had bought the 122ha property more than 20 years ago and has rebuilt every fence and laneway amid stately gardens on the picturesque Goulburn River. Wood Nook has bred Group I champions Marble Halls and Gallica. The equine infrastructure includes a stable complex, vet facility and foaling boxes. The main homestead is a circa 1870 four-bedroom home.

Chairman banks $5.6m

Now dividing his time between South Yarra and Shoreham, Rabobank chairman Bill Gurry sold his Sydney bolthole midweek for $5.6m. The Darling Point apartment has acted as Gurry’s Sydney base for 12 years, having paid $2.15m in 2005 when he joined the bank board. Set in the 1940s Storington building, the 173sq m Harbour Bridge view apartment has four bedrooms. Gurry owns a $3.2m, 7ha estate in Shoreham on the Mornington Peninsula, having sold his former country property, Larnoo, a 1643ha Yea farm running a 900-strong herd of cattle, to a Brighton syndicate in 2015. Gurry has been the Rabobank chairman since 2009.

Iwanoff classic up for grabs

A 1960s classic home designed by the late Perth architect Iwan Iwanoff has been listed for sale. The single-level Dalkeith home on Minora Road was built in a Modernist style by Iwanoff, who plied his trade in Perth having studied architecture in Europe. Known for his Brutalist style, the Iwanoff homes became renowned for his characteristic of working with concrete blocks. Set on a 1072sq m corner parcel, the home has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a study and a private alfresco area that overlooks the swimming pool. Anderson Davies Real Estate agent Mark Anderson is asking $1.95m.

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