PR maven Roxy Jacenko and husband Oliver Curtis are not selling Woollahra family residence

Jonathan ChancellorJune 26, 2013

PR maven Roxy Jacenko and her stockbroker husband Oliver Curtis have not listed their Woollahra residence for sale.

Sources close to the family have denied the SMH Domain "scoop" that claimed they had listed their home of two years. 

It was instead a case of counterfactual conclusions by the fledgling SMH Domain prestige property editorial reporter.

Title Tattle understands Roxy Jacenko is selling her longheld redundant investment property elsewhere in Woollahra, but certainly not the principal place of residence.

The SMH website published the claim late Thursday afternoon making two silly suggestions as to why the couple were supposedly selling for own home.

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1 hour ago – Roxy sweats over home sale.

The SMH article came down soon after, but caught with the print version already on the streets via its Australian Financial Review publication, the inaccurate claim was expediently republished onsite on Friday morning along with video despite the growing available denials.

The SMH reporter Lucy Macken additionally alluded to Property Observer writing "contrary to an ill-informed report in trade media parroting the PR queen's claim that the off-market sale is a mix-up surrounding the couple's investment property in nearby Nelson Street, Title Deeds stands by its story."

By Friday afternoon columnist Jonathan Moran, the entertainment editor of The Daily Telegraph managed to get all the details publishing an outright denial from Roxy Jacenko.

The News Ltd headline did contain a mispelling of the exclusive eastern suburb.

Celebrity Apprentice finalist Roxy Jacenko rubbishes reports her Woolahra home is for sale

 

Title Tattle recalls the house that's not for sale was bought for $6.6 million in March 2011 shortly before the couple's first baby.

The Edward Street family home was bought from the rag-trading Karpin family through Richardson & Wrench Double Bay agent James McCowan, in conjunction with Louise Snowden from Di Jones.

The then newly built house was on a 468 sq m block that cost $5.28 million in 2007.

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom family home has since been decorated by the society pages designer Blainey North.

The Nelson Street investment property is set for sale through Ballard Property Group who indicated the marketing photographs were only taken Thursday.

It was last listed in May 2011.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom house on Nelson Street had a $2.8 million vendor bid, which was topped by a $2.9 million offer.

It last sold in 2006 for $2,791,000.

It has approved plans for a four-bedroom home on the 350 sq m block.

In late 2011 it was available for $1800 a week rental through Nikki Hamilton at Farquharsons Executive Rentals.

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.

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