Expectant redundant James Mathison sells Bondi apartment

Expectant redundant James Mathison sells Bondi apartment
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

All the big life changes have merged for James Mathison into the same scenario. Job issues, new baby and shifting home.

But the dumped breakfast TV presenter James Mathison held his nerve to knock back $1.11 million when his Bondi apartment went to auction this week, just days after the official cancellation of the Network 10 breakfast show Wake Up.

The Confidential column of the Daily Telegraph came across the listing by Mathison and partner Carlie Fowler who were hoping for $1.2 million for the two-bedroom two-bathroom apartment.

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Thankfully the Henderson Street offering through Ray White Woollahra did sell post-auction the next day, achieving the desired $1.2 million for the Bondi Vue apartment. The website says the apartment is under offer.

They paid $1.06 million in 2012 after James sold his Clovelly apartment for $700,000. The often sardonic Mathison, last spotted by Title Tattle MC-ing an REIV event, had bought the apartment for $630,000 in 2008, in his Australian Idol co-hosting days.

The couple, parents to one-year-old daughter Luca, are expecting their second child in December.

The News Ltd report says the couple are upsizing to a three-bedroom property in the eastern suburbs.

Property Observer gleans they had the apartment available for lease recently at $1,050 a week.

Mathison remains under contract to Channel 10.

The 206 square metre apartment comes with a 111 square metre courtyard.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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