Mandurah, the $12 million Portsea clifftop summer offering
Mandurah, the double-storey house designed by Wayne Gillespie on the Portsea cliff top - has returned to the market this summer with a $12 million asking price.
The five bedroom, five bathroom trophy home has been listed by the former Hinkler Books publishing boss Robert Ungar who reportedly had unfulfilled $10 million plus hopes last summer.
It has been listed through Sotheby's International Realty agent Robert Curtain.
Ungar bought the then two-year-old house at 3820 Point Nepean Road 20 years ago with wife Rosemary.
It sold at the 1995 Australia Day weekend auction for $2,625,000, one of nine clifftop mansions at Portsea and Sorrento and Portsea to sell for above $1 million during 1995.
The Ungar's are off to a new home at Blairgowrie.
Mandurah is a 1,969 square metre holding with tennis court above Fisherman’s Beach.
Binnum, a Guilford Bell-designed home on the Point Nepean Road on the pricey Mornington Peninsula remains for sale.
Binnum is a cliff front property with frontage to Weeroona Beach reserve.
The recently renovated home that sits within a Paul Bangay-designed garden at 3840 Point Nepean Road has been offered by Mitre 10 CEO, Mark Laidlaw.
Set on about 2,023 square metres, it is for sale (pictured above) through RT Edgar Real Estate Portsea agents Warwick Anderson and Ilze Moran.
The very private, Guilford Bell-designed 1958 Baillieu House at Sorrento recently sold for $19 million, the peninsula's highest known sale in 2014 when bought by Good Guys boss Andrew Muir and his wife Emma.
It ranks as one of 10 Victorian dwellings featured in Neil Clerehan’s important 1961 book Best Australian Houses, which illustrated cutting-edge residential design of the day.
Portsea's highest known sale during 2014 was $4 million at 3786 Point Nepean Road.
2015 Australia Day weekend auctions aren't as prevalent or as pricey this year as local agents realised it was not productive to overload the market.