Magpie Scott Pendlebury on the move, but not to Greater Western Sydney: Title Tattle
Financial adviser Paul Clitheroe, the Ipac Securities director, and wife Vicki have relisted their impressive 1902 Clifton Gardens residence, Torrington (pictured above). The six-bedroom house, with harbour views, sits on a 1,730-square-metre block with tennis court and 15-metre pool. There's a full-size billiard room, wine cellar with tasting room and self-contained guest accommodation. More than $10 million had been tipped for the Thompson Street house by its LJ Hooker Mosman listing agents Geoff Smith and Richard Harding in March last year when it was withdrawn from auction. The listing duo are now suggesting $8 million plus given there have only been the 12 sales above $10 million since the September 2008 Lehmann Brothers collapse that accompanied the global financial crisis. In the three years prior there had been 20 sales above $10 million. Keen sailing enthusiast Paul Clitheroe, who is chairman of the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board, and his wife have moved to their lower north shore harbourfront property following extensive renovations. The couple paid $3.6 million for Torrington in 1997.
Collingwood’s 2011 Best and Fairest winner, Scott Pendlebury, is on the move. But not north to GWS in Sydney as some pundits speculated. Pendles is shifting house, listing his quaint Newport cottage (pictured above) through Barry Plant Yarraville agent Niels Geraerts. Apparently he’s upgrading the renovated Victorian house for something more luxurious in the posher bayside suburbs. The two-bedroom Douglas Parade property is just a stroll to Williamstown’s shops and cafes. It features a stone kitchen and open-plan entertaining area that opens onto a deep rear garden, perfect for entertaining, or kicking the football. The property will be auctioned on Saturday November 26 at 1.30pm and is expected to sell for more than $780,000. The early 2011 speculation faded but Pendlebury still looms on GWS radar for 2013 after signing just a one-year extension with the Magpies.
Retired respected journalist Peter Luck, who hosted current affairs program Today Tonight in the late 1990s, and his wife, Penny Jane, have sold their Balmain terrace (pictured above) for $2,715,000 through Cobden and Hayson agent Danny Cobden. Best known for programs on our past, Luck presented Where Are They Now? and the 1970s ground-breaking 37-part series This Fabulous Century. Over the decades he also presented and produced most of Australia's other major current affairs programs, including This Day Tonight, Sunday, Four Corners and Inside Edition. Luck first came to Sydney in 1974 and wanting proximity to the harbour, he settled in the welcoming Balmain village before it got terribly trendy, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford it. Luck, who had a 358-square-metre holding, maintained Balmain was also the first real suburb in Australia, the first real subdivision.
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The infamous ultra-modern “Pamela Anderson” house in St Kilda West (pictured above) that football commentator Sam Newman built has been listed with $1.5 million hopes. Its large glass mural façade on Canterbury Road has been a source of controversy since it was unveiled a decade ago. The three-storey, three-bedroom house comes with a gourmet kitchen, a north-facing terrace with lap pool, a private courtyard with pond and a two-car garage. James Scarff of Marshall White has listed the property with expressions of interest due November 15 on behalf of Ned Gestos and Nuria Ruiperez. Designed by architect Cassandra Fahey in 2000, it won a Royal Australian Institute of Architects award, making news around the world given the Baywatch beauty’s appearance on the facade.
The former Geelong footballer Newman built the house at the height of his playboy notoriety, but never lived in it before he sold for $1.1 million in mid-2002 to financial adviser Sean Patrick Taylor through a company called Canterbury Park Pty Ltd. It changed hands again at $1.5 million in November 2007 after a $1.4 million opening vendor's bid at its October 2007 auction. Newman paid $150,000 in 1995 for the 175-square-metre holding.
It’s an amazing piece of Victoria's pristine coastline with absolute beach frontage and views across Waratah Bay to Wilsons Promontory, surrounded by coastal reserve and farmland (pictured above). The four contemporary two-bedroom cottages, plus manager’s barn residence, are set on 1.5 hectares at Walkerville South. It’s been listed – as an income-producing package – by vendors Gary and Jill Butterfield, who bought the vacant lot with foreshore access in 1999. They quickly opened Bear Gully Coastal Cottages, which takes its name from nearby Bear Creek, in Easter 2000. They soon expanded to the current four cottages – Gull, Shearwater, Cuttlebone and Nautilus – within another seven months. The property has been a finalist in the 2002 and 2005 Victoria Tourism Awards, the 2003 winner of the Phillip Island and Gippsland Regional Tourism Awards, and 2011 finalist in the Bendigo Bank Business tourism awards. Its listing agent Scott Hughes of LJ Hooker Inverloch has it listed at $2 million. The couple have extensive travel plans.
The Potts Point apartment (pictured above) owned by music industry manager Pete Lusty and his wife Georgia Day has been sold for $505,000 through Ray White Elizabeth Bay agent Nick Harrington. Set on the first floor of The Rex building on Macleay Street, the one-bedder had been tipped to sell for $450,000 plus. It last traded two years ago for $405,000. Lusty, who is a partner of Ivy League Records, which manages bands such as The Vines, Youth Group and Bridezilla, and his wife are upgrading to a $2,325,000 four-bedroom apartment in nearby Rockwall Crescent. There will be plenty of space to hang the rock memorabilia.
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Melbourne radio broadcaster and businessman Steve Vizard and wife Sarah have listed their St Kilda mansion, Clendore (pictured above), with $8 million-plus hopes. The three-storey Italianate Victorian terrace, with an infinity pool on the roof, was bought for $3.96 million in 2004 by Vizard's company, Fitzroy Holdings. There is a rooftop Paul Bangay-designed garden above the grand colonnaded building. Kay and Burton listing agent Alex Schiavo will take offers until November 24. It has seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. There is a 15-person Schindler commercial double-door lift that connects all four floors. One of the original three adjoining terraces was the home of Sir Graham Berry, the distinguished radical politician, for several years. The Vizard family sold their Orrong Road, Toorak, mansion for about $17.75 million in 2007 to The Good Guys boss Andrew Muir.
Title Tattle aims to tell you as soon as we know – often before it happens – so the word from the Gold Coast is that there's been another Hedges Avenue Mermaid Beach price shocker. The bargain hunter apparently comes from Caulfield North.
And don’t say that Title Tattle told you, but there's an interesting Toorak listing. It’s a newly built House and Garden magazine-featured home. But it’s being market by quite cocooned means. Of course inspections are strictly by appointment at pre-arranged times. Then the triple-storey house goes under the hammer at a private auction by invitation only by prior registration. Title Tattle sees that buyers’ agent Gina Kantzas from James Buyer Advocates has broken through the access barrier giving the Glyndebourne Avenue house a 734 rating out of 1,000 after her appraisal. However when it came to the all-important price guide, none had been forthcoming from the Marshall White agent.
