Adman Scott Whybin and Cathy Hains list redundant South Yarra mansion with $7 million plus hopes
Adman Scott Whybin and his wife, Cathy Hains have listed their redundant South Yarra home.
It comes with $7 million plus hopes.
The four bedroom Murphy Street Victorian family residence is being marketed as one of very few two storey freestanding houses in the suburb.
Title Tattle recalls its 1996 auction when it fetched $1.49 million through Bennison Mackinnon which was $290,000 over the reserve price.
But it subsequently sold to the current vendors just two years later at $880,000.
For seven decades it had been the home of Sir Harry Chauvel, the commander-in-chief of the First Light Horse Brigade, and his family, who sold the property in the late 1970s for $148,000.
He would ride the tan track in Domain every morning, except Sunday, with a horse brought up from Remount Depot near the army headquarters in Victoria Barracks until just before his 1945 death.
His guests through the years included artist Arthur Streeton and his Canadian violinist wife, Nora Clench.
The house was first renovated in 1981 under the direction of architect Wayne Gillespie.
Last year Whybin and Hains were the buyers of the South Yarra home of the former VFL footballer Craig Stewart for $8.2 million which sold through Andrew Baines of Kay & Burton, who also has the latest listing.
Whybin is the founder of the advertising agency Whybin\TBWA and Hains runs the thoroughbred breeding operation, Burnewang North.
Stewart, who played 150 games with Collingwood and Richmond between 1978 to 1986, had paid around $2.2 million in 1997 with wife, Melissa.
