Celeb foodie Matthew Evans sells Puggle Farm to Bondi buyer
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020
The former SMH food critic-turn-SBS Gourmet Farmer, Matthew Evans and his partner Sadie Chrestman have snappily sold their redundant Tasmanian farm.
Puggle Farm had been listed with $485,000 plus hopes as they trade up permanently to their larger Fat Pig Farm which was bought in 2012 nearby.
The two-storey cottage sits on 22 acres - 8.9 hectares - in Tasmania's Huon Valley.
It was their well-televised tree-change home that they bought in 2008 for $440,000 when they left Sydney.
It was the Gourmet Farmer series one setting as Evans embraced the sustainable life of breeding pigs, chickens and cultivating vegetables.
The more commercial, 28-hectare property, Fat Pig farm featured in series three of Gourmet Farmer.
Puggle Farm had $485,000-plus asking price through TPR Property's Ian Bendall with 70% plus inquiries for 179 Guys Road coming from the mainland.
“A lot of it is to do with Matthew Evans putting Cygnet and Tasmania on the map," he concluded.
It sold to a Bondi buyer who hadn't ever watched the SBS series.
The property has a number of sheds, stables, barns and workshops with a beautiful "pickers hut" that was marketed as being easily converted into additional accommodation.
CoreLogic RP Data lists nine sales since January 2014 of six hectare plus acreages with the prices ranging from $85,000 for a 20 hectare farm to $630,000 for an 85 hectare farm.
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.