Trophy homes: under the Hammer

Retired UFC fighter turned Brisbane’s go-to fitness instructor Chris Haseman is selling his Albion warehouse conversion.

The balcony at night at 2 Napier Street, Fitzroy North.

Retired UFC fighter turned Brisbane’s go-to fitness instructor Chris ‘‘The Hammer’’ Haseman is selling his Albion warehouse conversion. Haseman paid $850,000 for the home in 2011 with his CrossFit wife Diana Saffigna. The lower level of the three-level home has been the premises for Haseman’s Fitness Industry Training business. The family living area sits on the middle level and a rooftop bar on the third. Plenty of work went in at the ground-level gym. The Hammer has been responsible over the years for shaping up the likes of the Broncos, Reds and Wallabies. Ray White Ascot agent Damon Warat has a March 24 auction.

Movie star on the market

A Fitzroy residential conversion that was once home to the Victorian Movie Makers’ Society has been listed for sale. The clean-edged 1950s building — where 8mm amateur film sessions was all the rage — has been converted into a contemporary three-bedroom home. Set near the Gertrude Street design precinct, there’s a $3.5 million to $3.7m price guide through Nelson Alexander Fitzroy agents Arch Staver and Luke Chisholm for its March 17 auction. Centred around an open-plan living room with soaring 9m ceilings, the home features a master bedroom retreat with ensuite. The second living room flows to a landscaped alfresco entertaining terrace. It last traded for $2.85m in 2014. The Victorian Movie Makers signage is still etched on to the facade, despite the group selling the property for $571,000 in 2002.

What the doctor ordered

Australian doctor Philip Nitschke’s former Adelaide home is on the market. Nitschke’s wife, Fiona Stewart, purchased the property at Gilberton in 2013 for $725,000. The couple lived there for two years when they moved to Adelaide to be with his late mother while she was in the last stages of her life. They have now moved to Amsterdam. They ran the euthanasia advocacy organisation Exit International from it for about two years. The two-storey, 1920s three-bedroom is listed through Andrew Fox of Fox Real Estate with $1.05m to $1.15m price guidance.

Alluring apartment

Coffee mogul Phillip Di Bella and his wife Gianna are shuffling around their Queensland property portfolio. Having just secured a $6.5m New Farm house, the couple now have an offer on the table for their whole-floor Surfers Paradise apartment. The near 350sq m luxury apartment in the Allure building was asking offers over $3m. It cost them $2.85m in 2015. Di Bella calculated the family had only spent 20 nights at the Northcliffe Terrace apartment in the past 2.5 years. They have yet to sell their redundant New Farm Brisbane home through Matt Lancashire at Ray White. They plan to spend more time in Queenstown, New Zealand where they have built a four-level house on Queenstown Hill with views over Lake Wakatipu. Ray White Surfers Paradise Group agent Robert Graham had the apartment listing.

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