Midas touch Australian Idol's Damien Leith lists Petersham house

Australian Idol 2006 winner Damien Leith and his wife Eileen Stapleton have listed their inner west 1920s Petersham house.

The four bedroom house cost $940,000 in 2011.

Title Tattle gleans more than $1.2 million is tipped for the musician with great private property success since he hit the headlines.

It has been listed for November 1 McGrath auction. The couple will be trading up to something larger.

The home has 133 square metre of space on its 278 square metre block.

In 2009 they spent $675,000 on a Marrickville house which was sold for $935,000 in 2010.

Title Tattle recalls the couple had quit their Stanmore apartment for a larger rented home in 2007 as they were expecting a second child.

Their two-bedroom Stanmore unit, which cost $291,000 in 2005, was for rent at $360 a week in 2009, and sold in 2011 for $481,000.