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Macquarie’s head of capital markets Hugh Falcon and wife Jenny are selling their Mornington Peninsula weekender.

The Toorak mansion of Naomi Triguboff Travers

Macquarie’s head of capital markets Hugh Falcon and wife Jenny are selling their Mornington Peninsula weekender. The 6260sq m Merricks Beach estate includes a four-bedroom homestead set in gardens designed by Fiona Brockhoff. The central kitchen, living and dining space open to outdoor spaces. On one side is a timber deck with alfreso dining, while on the other there’s a swimming pool with sundeck, outdoor shower and courtyard garden. Kay & Burton Flinders agents Tom Barr Smith and Prue McLaughlin have a guide of $3.95m to $4.34m. The couple recently sold Brinsley Place, their historic Richmond home, for $4.476m. They paid $4.8m for the classic four-bedroom 18 months earlier when moving from Toorak.

New agents

Naomi Triguboff Travers is selling her cool Toorak home after swapped agents. She’s relisted the Nic Bochsler-designed home with RT Edgar Toorak agents Oliver Booth and Abby Innes, who have a $6.85m to $7.2m guide. The four-bedroom home, with Bochsler’s signature 6m voids and extensive use of glass, has a ground-floor study, home theatre and gym. The living room with open fireplace and filled with Travers’ contemporary art collection extends to a terrace with reflection pond, while the formal dining room overlooks 510sq m gardens. It failed to sell late last year through Marcus Chiminello, who was asking $7,295,000. Travers, who was raised in Sydney, is the niece of apartment king Harry Triguboff, worked in New York as an investment banker. She moved back to Australia permanently in 1993 with her husband Jeffrey.

Naomi Triguboff Travers’ Toorak mansion

Beachfront opportunity

Peter Amour, the Hong Kong-based boss of private equity firm AIF Capital, has listed a Sunshine Beach shack. Amour hasn’t got round to knocking down the absolute beachfront home that he paid $2.32 million for in 2002. The 605sq m plot of land is one of the last undeveloped blocks on Arakoon Crescent, which saw a $4.8m sale of a vacant site the same size last year. The sale through Dowling Neylan Real Estate agent Karen Harman comes with approved plans. Amour has been the chief executive of AIF Capital since 2003, having joined Baker & McKenzie in Shanghai in 1984, then Standard Chartered Asia Limited in 1987.

Toorak mansion sold

Debbie Dadon, who chairs the Besen Foundation, has sold her Toorak home on Hopetoun Avenue. She shared the five-bedroom home with her husband Albert Dadon, the property developer, philanthropist and musician. Dadon is the daughter of the retail billionaires Marc and Eva Besen. It has been bought by Tangtang Tian from Balwyn. No price has emerged but they’d been asking $13m to $14m for the grand mansion. There are whispers Kay & Burton secured $13,999,999. Set in 1770sq m of walled landscaped gardens, the classically designed two storey home has five bedrooms.

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