Garry Lyon lists Hawthorn mansion: Title Tattle
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The much-besieged Melbourne Football Club champion and Channel 9 football personality Garry Lyon is in the midst of selling his 1890s Hawthorn residence (pictured above). It has been scheduled for August 20 auction through Jellis Craig Glen Iris agent Paul Keane, who has told buyers he expects more than $3.5 million.
The marketing began before his beloved club descended into crisis last weekend, which has triggered the call for him to take on responsibilities at the club and potentially to take on the role as its coach. The weight of the club's worries is falling increasingly on Lyon's shoulders. No one’s saying where the family are moving, but given he was about to sign up again on an improved pay package at Channel 9, there’s no doubt it’s an residential upgrade.
The stately HAWTHORN brick residence with graceful tuck-pointed façade and return veranda sits on an 854-square-metre block. Behind its façade are modern interiors with an extension giving it a 493-square-metre floorplan over two levels. There are four bedrooms plus fitted study. Lyon bought it in 2005 for $2.74 million.
The luxury Potts Point apartment of the hotelier John Chaina (pictured above) has been listed for mortgagee September 15 auction. The fourth-floor apartment at No. 1 Grantham Street, Potts Point, had failed to sell at its April auction, when it was passed in at $6.7 million bid after an opening $6.3 million offer. It's in the recently completed Alex Popov-designed block that replaced the Grantham serviced apartments. It was bought off the plan in November 2007 for $7.5 million. It's now been relisted through Jason Boon of Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay in conjunction with Rick Nolasco at Belle Property with $6 million hopes. The former unit block had been operated by the Goldstein family, who have kept the penthouse in the eight-apartment Halcyon Group development. The 250-square-metre apartments have views of Embarkation Park.
Darriwill, the 1856 five-bedroom homestead on 388 hectares at Moorabool, has been listed with $11 million hopes by the illustrator Dougal Ramsay and his partner, Nellie Ramsay, who also own the gourmet food and wine company Darriwill Farm. Marshall White agent Richard Mackinnon and Stan Lawrence Real Estate have the property scheduled for August 17 invite-only auction. The stately 560-square-metre Vogue Living-featured Victorian homestead is located about an hour from Melbourne on the slopes of the Moorabool Valley.
The property with stables, coach house, pond, pool, lakes, bluestone woolshed, cattle yards and four-hectare vineyard has two kilometres of tree-lined frontage along the Moorabool River where it meets with Sutherlands Creek. The bluestone homestead was completed in 1856 by George and Marianne Hope, and was set up as a grazing property and vineyard.
The immediate surroundings to the house were extensively replanted in 1994, when Dougal and Nellie Ramsay purchased the property. Grapes from Darriwill are used in the provenance label, which wine critic James Halliday has given a rating of 96 two years running. Ramsay family descendant William founded the Kiwi shoe-polish business, which sold in 1986 for $41 million.
Hollywood production company director Jason Schepisi secured $2.8 million for his Byron Bay retreat (pictured above and below). The Richard Neutra-inspired, Palm Springs-style, three-bedroom Brooklet hinterland house was bought by Bought by Curtis Zuber, a director at the mortgage investor 1G WST Trust.
It was built, along with a 15-metre pool, following its 2006 acquisition for $655,000. The Friday Hut Road property had been listed through Frances O'Connor of Belle Property Byron Bay, in conjunction with Unique Estates agent Nicolette van Wijngaarden. The Baby Lemonade production house director once lived in George Clooney's former pad beneath the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles and is the son of film director Fred. He kicked off his career making videos for Baby Animals, INXS and the Choirboys. Schepisi sold his 30-hectare Newrybar property for $1.8 million in late 2006.
The film and television director Mark Joffe still has his Waverley property listed for sale. Joffe's three-bedroom Kent Street terrace has ocean views. It was initially listed in September last year with hopes of $1.4 million-plus. Now it’s $1.25 million plus through Di Jones agent Jane Schumann. It cost $1.07 million in 2003.
Title Tattle aims to tell you as soon as we know – often before it happens – so the word from up north is that Darren Lockyer, the 34-time Queensland State of Origin team hero, has pulled his Brisbane home (pictured above) from this weekend’s scheduled auction. Offers are now being sought for an August 19 tender marketing campaign. The contemporary Paddington five-bedroom, three-bathroom house has been listed through Tim Douglas and Gail Miller at Place Estate Agents.
And don’t say that Title Tattle told you, but Mosman businessman Bill Pulver sold his 946-hectare Butmaroo Station (pictured above) near Bungendore on the NSW southern tablelands in May for $3.87 million. Pulver had paid $1.55 million in 2001. It was bought by Penny Allinson’s Silver Brumby Pty Ltd. Allinson pioneered Enviroballs Australia, which is an eco-friendly laundry detergent.
