Whispers that coal miners boring into Nicole Kidman's NSW rural neighbourhood: Title Tattle

Silverton, the freestanding 1884 Italianate residence at Randwick in Sydney’s east (pictured above), has been listed for November 5 auction by the fashion designer Lisa Ho. The four-bedroom Dutruc Street property, with elegant French provincial adornments, was bought for $4 million from the interior designer Ros Palmer early last year. Palmer paid $266,000 in 1985.

Ho has undertaken some renovations, although the stately English oak-panelled living room remains. There is also a detached teenagers' retreat on the 630-square-metre holding. It's one of three original homes known collectively as the judges' houses in Randwick's sought-after northern precinct. It’s been listed through Pauline Goodyer at GoodyerDonnelly in conjunction with Alain Waitsman from LJ Hooker Double Bay. The street's last comparable sale was when Earlswood, the 1891 residence, was sold in September last year for $4.3 million.

Channel Seven television host Kylie Gillies and her husband, Tony Gillies, editor-in-chief of AAP, have sold their Putney residence (pictured above) for $1,325,000 through McGrath Hunters Hills agent John Paranchi. More than $1.15 million had been expected for the 696-square-metre property, which the couple bought for $315,000 in 1996. It’s a single-storey brick residence and has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a formal sitting room and an open-plan kitchen and family living zone.

It now means both Kylie and her Morning Show co-host Larry Emdur are on the move. Emdur of course recently splashed out $6.8 million on a huge, modern clifftop mansion at Dover Heights. No words yet on where the Gillies are off to.

Peter Everett, who was the ebullient host of Ready Steady Cook, the Channel Ten afternoon cooking show, has yet to sell his East Redfern residence (pictured above and below). The Kepos Street terrace comes with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. About $1.4 million is now being sought through Pauline Goodyer and Brighid Fitzsimons at GoodyerDonnelley.

The stately Victorian terrace retains its original façade, but the interior of the house has been completely rebuilt by a master builder in 2008. The house is set on a deep dual access block with rear off-street parking.

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The West Hawthorn home (pictured above) of former Hawthorn AFL premiership captain Sam Mitchell remains listed at $1.25 million, having been passed in at its weekend auction. The onsite auction concluded with a $1.15 vendor bid through Jellis Craig agent Peter Vigano. Mitchell paid $920,000 in early 2007, a year before his engagement to long-time girlfriend Lyndall Degenhardt. The couple now have three children. Mitchell did not attend the auction.

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The Potts Point investment apartment (pictured above) of actor Russell Crowe has been listed for sale after being withdrawn from recent auction. More than $2 million is being sought for the top-floor apartment with Harbour Bridge and Opera House views through lattice-framed balconies accessed through three french doors. It’s in a walk-up strata-titled triplex terrace on leafy Victoria Street. There’s secure parking with the two-level apartment, which has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It’s been listed by Jason Boon at Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay and Hamish Robertson at McGrath Estate Agents.

It was bought in 2001 from the theatre director Jim Sharman, who had bought it in 1984 for $310,000. In early 2011 after a four-year search, Crowe and his wife, Danielle Spencer, spent $10 million on a Rose Bay property, Te Puke, a 1909 house updated with a 1927 Arts and Crafts-style additions. They have kept his substantial Woolloomooloo apartment.

The former Collingwood Magpies wingman Graham Wright has sold his Mont Albert North house (pictured above. The price of the two-storey, four-bedroom, three-bathroom house hasn't been revealed, but Tim Picken of Kay & Burton expected more than $1 million. Wright played 200 games for Collingwood from 1988 to 1998 and missed out on the Brownlow Medal by a single vote in 1990. The property was renovated three years ago.

The Darlinghurst terrace (pictured above) of Jon Hutchison, the recently appointed chairman of the Business Events Council of Australia, and his wife Jill, the proprietor of Ruby and Min, a Woollahra fashion boutique, has been sold at an undisclosed price through the BresicWhitney agent William Phillips. Last traded for $550,000 in 1997, the three-bedroom terrace, with city views, on 82 square metres had been expected to sell for more than $1.4 million.  Jon is an adjunct professor, School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Faculty of Business at University of Technology Sydney.

The 1923 Longueville home (pictured above) of Windeyer family has now been listed with a $2.6 million plus asking price after failing to sell at its scheduled auction last weekend. Last traded for $770,000 in 1995, the four-bedroom house set high above Woodford Bay had been the childhood home of the artist Brett Whiteley. Whiteley's parents owned it between in 1941 and 1960. It’s listed through Scott Henry of Holgate First National.

The Lane Cove home of the artist Liz Cuming is now listed with $1.3 million plus hopes through Hamilton & Co, which had initial $1.5 million plus hopes for the custom-built three-bedroom home. It comes with a huge 150-square-metre studio with bushland outlook.

The designing inventor Sally Dominguez, who was a regular panellist on the recently axed ABC television show The New Inventors, and her husband, Simon Dominguez, want $1.5 million for their home at Edgecliff because they want to develop their American design business. Now living in San Francisco, the couple have listed the three-level house, which has been marketed as a fusion of sleek contemporary design and sustainable architecture. They initially had hoped their Di Jones agent Ann Ramsey-Arkins could have secured $1.6 million plus for the freestanding, three-bedroom residence.  Sally’s modular rainwater tank was featured on The New Inventors in 2005. Her original prototype rainwater tanks are still installed at the Edgecliff property, which the couple bought for $635,000 in 2000. Sally's multi-award-winning Nest high chair, which is sold worldwide, is held in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.

Title Tattle aims to tell you as soon as we know – often before it happens – and we keep hearing rumours from the southern highlands. It's a reputed $8 million farm sale in the sleepy hamlet of Sutton Forest, close to the retreat of actor Nicole Kidman. The only issue is that the buyer of the 425-hectare holding is reputedly linked to the ever-encroaching coal miners. Locals say the purchasing company is linked back to Sydney solicitors who represent coal interests. "It will create havoc if it's been bought by the coal company," one agent suggested.

Settlement is due later this month. The Canyonleigh selling agent Beat Schwarzenbach told Title Tattle that he could not speak about the sale. “It's not finalised... it's exchanged but not settled," he said.