Third Brighton behemoth joins the fray: Title Tattle
Graeme and Kay Kirk from the Kirk Group printing company have relisted their Camp Cove beachfront (pictured above). It was bought for $5.1 million in 2004. The four-bedroom Victoria Street beachfront – now with Elizabeth Luke interiors after its rebuild – has been listed through Elliott Placks at Ray White Double Bay with $8 million plus hopes. More than $8 million was being sought last year with another agent.
It could get a bit crowded with estate agents and their buyers in the lift to the upper floors of the Eureka tower (pictured above). Building tycoon Daniel Grollo and wife Kat have listed their Eureka Tower penthouse up for sale with an $8.2 million asking price. It occupies the entire 80th floor in the Southbank tower he built. It’s competing for buyer interest with the penthouse four floors higher. Both have 360-degree views of the city (pictured below) and bay from much of their 660-square-metre space. The Grollo six-bedroom, five-bathroom apartment comes with the option of dividing the floor in half, priced at $4.2 million each. The apartment with eight car spaces has been listed by Brett Jarvis at Hocking Stuart Melbourne.
The 84th-floor penthouse was listed for sale for more than $13 million last month. The four-bedroom, five-bathroom penthouse in Melbourne’s Eureka Tower is expected to fetch more than $13 million. It features Margie Bromilow interiors.
Brighton is another location where there's a real battle at the top end. Three of its best homes are competing for record-setting buyers this spring, testing Melbourne's soft prestige property market. Shannagolden (pictured above) is the latest among the three listings. It is the Moule Avenue beachfront home of Gribbles Pathology founder Wallace Cameron and his wife, Joan, with an estimated price of $25 million through JP Dixon.
The other two Brighton mansions listed last month where the Salvo family's five-bedroom home in Glyndon Avenue and the landmark Max Beck-built residence Kinane on The Esplanade. They came with price hopes of $20 million.
Set on an elevated 3,903-square-metre block the Moule Avenue property with pool and court last changed hands in 1998 for $5.1 million.
Plastic surgeon Robert Drielsma has sold his Tony Masters-designed Tamarama house (pictured above). The four-bedroom house last sold for $6.1 million in 2004 when it was bought from Gordon Fell and his wife, Pip. The contemporary, three-level house in Wolaroi Crescent was built after the 501-square-metre block was bought for $1.45 million in 1997.
Bordering the gully reserve of Tamarama Park opposite the beach, the three-level house is set in landscaped gardens designed by William Dangar. The house had been listed with $8 million hopes through Pauline Goodyer of GoodyerDonnelley Real Estate, and Belle Property's David Vereker.
In April Drielsma and his wife, anaesthetist Debbie Hong, bought Carrabah in Bellevue Hill for $9.85 million. The Drumalbyn Road property was sold by property developer Paul Smith and his wife, Hillary, who remodelled the circa 1930s P&O-style three-level residence after buying it for $4.9 million in 2006.
The troubled Sydney Roosters five-eighth Todd Carney, who was recently released from his contract with the NRL club, has spent $607,000 on a Waverley apartment. It was previously traded at $375,000 in 2001. Carney spent $880,000 last year on a two-level Coogee apartment to live in after his return from Canberra. When Title Tattle last looked Carney also owned a Homebush Bay investment unit, which cost $395,000 in 2007.
Actor Trevor Ashley, who plays Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, The Musical, has spent $510,000 on a Surry Hills apartment. The sixth-floor Goulburn Street renovated one-bedroom apartment last traded for $185,000 in 1993.
Title Tattle likes to tell you as soon as its happens - if not before - so keep a look out for a prestige St Vincent Place, Albert Park, listing. It seems like only three springs ago the 1892 residence Lynton was up for sale - passed in on a $5.8 million vendor bid at its October 2008 onsite auction. After the house contents auction, Title Tattle recalls it sold around May 2009 quietly at $4.8 million.
And don't say that Title Tattle told you but it seems the buyer of the Lane Cove house of renowned stylist Megan Morton and her husband, Giles, is a little shy in saying what price they paid. The house (pictured above) sold at public auction last weekend through Ray White Lane Cove agent Debbie Jepson, who's now under buyer instructions not to reveal its selling price. Australian Property Monitors and RP Data didn't get the sale price in their Saturday evening ring around.
The Coolaroo Street property had been listed to sell for an ambitious $1.3 million, and Title Tattle gathers the Mortons got their way given bidding came from the seven registered parties. Since buying the property for $890,000 in 2004, the couple have built the pool and renovated the house extensively with lots of Megan's clever design ideas. Title Tattle's spy - disguised as a coral wall feature - advises it was knocked down at $1,312,000 to a well-known buyers agent who was accompanied by an elderly couple, possibly parents of the expatriate who'd presumably spotted the offering on the Ray White website.
