Deltroit Station at Wagga Wagga passed in for $15 million: Title Tattle

Deltroit Station at Wagga Wagga (pictured above) was passed in on a vendor bid at its mid-week auction at $15 million, at the lower end of its $15 million to $18 million expectations. It’s a 2,545-hectare property set in Mundarlo, midway between Sydney (409 kilometres) and Melbourne (474 kilometres). It comes with a 1903 Federation brick homestead designed by Sydney architect William Nixon, which was refurbished in 2000 along with a stone-built, modernised four-bedroom Cobb and Co. coaching inn, The Junction Hotel.

Deltroit was listed by Anthony Crichton-Brown, a former chairman of Lumley Insurance, who also owns Tooronga in the Riverina and Humula Station near Yass. It was auctioned through Meares and Associates agent Chris Meares.

Three generations of the Richardson family developed Deltroit over 100 years, creating a commercial Shorthorn herd and fine wool Merino flock. In 1963 Robert Kleberg, president of US company King Ranch, who had long coveted the Deltroit Shorthorn that had won worldwide acclaim, purchased Deltroit and its entire herd for internationally renowned King Ranch Group.  With the death of Kleberg, King Ranch sold all its Australian properties, including Deltroit, in the late 1970s.  The property last traded in 1990.

The Lansell Road, Toorak house (pictured above) of Life Fitness Australia chairman Robert McClure, which was listed with $3.5 million-plus hopes, has been sold.  The circa-1940s four-bedroom house on a 740-square-metre block with heated pool, spa and covered alfresco dining area, was sold through Andrew Hayne and Marcus Chiminello of Marshall White.

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Actress Holly Brisley, best remembered for her role as a troublemaker on Home And Away, and her husband, property investor Paul Ford, have listed their Bondi Beach abode (pictured above).

The couple were among the buyers who snapped up an off-the-plan apartment in the Bondi complex, the apartment block on Campbell Parade that replaced the Bondi Beachside Inn. They are now seeking $7 million plus for their opulently appointed half-floor residence through Steven Chen at McGrath Estate Agents.

It has views that stretch across the beach and bay from North Bondi to Tamarama from the northern side of the building.It has three bedrooms, all with ensuite bathrooms. The luxurious appointments feature custom American oak joinery. There’s also C-Bus 2 intelligence system with automated blinds and curtains.

Little Joe fashion salon owners Gail Elliott and Joe Coffey are also seeking buyers for their huge apartment overlooking Bondi Beach with impressive decking. They paid $6.75 million for the 486-square-metre The Bondi apartment in off the plan in 2006 and are now seeking more than $8 million for the property, being sold through Steven Chen in conjunction with Barry Goldman of Raine & Horne Double Bay.

Mount Caeburn, the landmark hilltop residence at Collaroy with spectacular ocean views despite its Tudor-style architecture (pictured above), has been relisted for sale with $3.5 million plus hopes. It was six years ago when the Suffolk Avenue property was stuck on the market with $5 million-plus hopes. Then in 2008 the family home of fashion designer Robbie Cranfield and her brother Geoff, CEO of Collaroy Nursing Home, was on the market again, this time with hopes of more than $4 million. It was built in 1936 by an ailing Englishmen sent to restore his health. It’s been the Cranfield family home since 1972, and the title was recently put solely into Geoff name’s. The five-bedroom, three-bathroom house features timber beams, stained-glass windows, Tudor doorways and window seats. Duana Hunters from D & S Hunter Estate Agents Elanora Heights is taking offers until February.

Construction mogul Daniel Grollo is selling his Cape Schanck, Mornington Penisinula holiday house (pictured above and below) with $2 million plus hopes. The five-bedroom house comes with views of Bass Strait on the doorstep of the exclusive National Golf Club.

Set on 3,155 square metres, the house on Cape Court has five bathrooms, three living areas, gourmet kitchen, wine cellar, theatre, bar, horizon pool and a double garage. Kay & Burton Flinders agents Tom Barr Smith and Andrew Hines have the listing, as the family is relocating to New York City.

Grollo bought the property for about $2.4 million in 2008 after unsuccessful sales campaigns in which the house had been listed from $2.7 million to $4 million. In September, Grollo listed his penthouse apartment on the 80th floor of Eureka Tower (which Grocon built) for sale at $8.2 million. It is still available through Hocking Stuart.

John and Anne McDonnell, the owners of Golden Slipper-winner Sebring, have listed their Stamford Marque, Sydney CBD apartment (pictured above) with revised $2.75 million hopes through Colliers agent Gaby Rogers. The initial expectations were $3.1 million earlier this year.

The Kent Street apartment is an amalgamation of two totalling 213 square metres with two bedrooms with ensuites plus a third bedroom fitted out as an office. Its interiors were by designers Burley Katon Halliday.

Hotelier Donnacha Reidy is seeking $3 million-plus offers for her Cairo Street Coogee property (pictured above) through Clint Ballard at Ballard Property. It’s a four-bedroom remodelled ocean-view home.

Clutha (pictured above), the 1901 landmark Kirribilli estate, has been sold. It sold this week, almost three months after its September auction through Belle Property Neutral Bay agents Mark Jackson and Jessica Wolodkowicz. Listed for sale by the Cox family, the 1,116-square-metre Elamang Avenue property is one of the suburb's largest landholdings. It had initial hopes to fetch more than $4.5 million, but they aren't saying what price it fetched. Clutha's grand circa-1901 Queen Anne residence has five bedrooms, a stately central staircase, soaring patterned ceilings, beautiful formal rooms and harbour views. It last traded in 1961 for #24,000 when it was bought by the late Dr Neville Cox, one of the first orthodontists in Australia, and his wife, Alison.

Title Tattle aims to tell you as soon as we know – and even before – so the word from Adelaide is that the heritage bluestone Woodspring at Unley Park (pictured above) has been snapped up within days of offers falling due through Toop and Toop. Woodspring, now set on 2,038 square metres, was the 1870s home of the Hon. Ebenezer Ward. It last sold for $600,000 in 1997. It’s a bit busy on Grove Street – reminiscent of the late 1990s –as the last big sale was $4 million when a modernised 1890s house on 3,310 square metres sold in early 2010 having sold in 1998 for $795,000. There's currently $3.35 million-plus hopes for Allumiere, a 1930s house on 2,073 square metres on Grove Street, which sold at $491,000 in 1997.

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And don’t say that Title Tattle told you, but perhaps the gloss surrounding Jennifer Hawkins, property portfolio guru, waned a smidge this week. The Coogee home (pictured above) of the former Miss Universe, television personality and swimwear designer was passed in at auction on a $2.5 million vendor bid through McGrath agent Adrian Bo. No bids given there were reportedly no registered bidders. It's apparently redundant to her burgeoning property portfolio that stems from Sydney's east to her home town, Newcastle. And it now sits listed with a $2.6 million asking price.

The result was described by the Sunday tabloids as "a blow to Hawkins' plans to build a property empire with fiance Jake Wall." Not quite but given the 2003 built property is pretty much the same as when she paid $2.27 million in late 2008, perhaps her name isn’t worth the 15% premium. She's been hanging around Donald and Max too much.