Having stepped down as the boss of the Australian Film Television and Radio School to move to the UK, film producer Neil Peplow and partner, former Screen Australia executive Nathalie Peter-Contesse, dramatically secured the sale yesterday of their Bondi Junction home.

The couple paid $2.53 million in 2015 for the modernised 2005-built terrace, not far from the set-to-be redeveloped Waverley bus depot.

The terrace, which came with $3.3 million hopes through McGrath, was passed in on a $3.05 million vendor bid. But Peplow, who is joining the British Film Institute as director of international affairs, agreed soon after to accept a $3,025,000 offer, but then the only other bidder, still hovering around, bumped up her post-auction offer to $3,037,000.

Meanwhile the estate agent involved in the sale copped a parking ticket as events unfolded inside the St James Rd offering.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.