<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developments/broadbeach-qld-4218">Broadbeach</a> offers plenty of reasons to live vertically, but moving from a substantial family home into an apartment can expose the compromises of high-density living. Privacy, room for guests and usable living space tend to matter more when an apartment is intended as a permanent home rather than an occasional coastal base.

A typical residential floor at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/the-eveleigh-broadbeach-7-9-surf-parade-broadbeach-qld-4218">The Eveleigh</a>, on Surf Parade,&nbsp;contains just four apartments. The 94-residence development by <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/hirsch-faigen">Hirsch &amp; Faigen</a> is predominantly made up of expansive three-bedroom homes, with a limited collection of half-floor penthouses above.

Across the apartment floors, <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/architects/rothelowman">Rothelowman</a> has used the relatively limited number of residences to give each home greater access to natural light and outlook. Living spaces extend towards full-height glazing, while a series of bay windows frame selected views across the Pacific Ocean, city and hinterland rather than treating the building edge as a continuous wall of glass.

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“The apartment floors deliver a collection of homes that embrace controlled outlook via a series of bay windows deliberately framing moments of view,” Rothelowman Director Kim Lowman said.

From outside, those projecting forms contribute to the tower’s faceted profile. Strong horizontal and vertical elements establish its proportions, while the changing position of the sun alters the light, shadow and reflection across the façade throughout the day.

The same attention moves inside the apartments, where the material palette combines warm timber, natural stone, metallic detailing and softer curved forms. Kitchens sit within the main living zone, with stone island benches, integrated joinery and European appliances, before the living areas extend towards the glazing and the outlook.

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Three genuine bedrooms provide room to accommodate family and guests, while two secure car spaces and storage address some of the practical considerations that can become more noticeable when moving from a larger home. Feedback from the display suite has centred on the warmth and restraint of the interiors, with buyers commenting that the residences feel like homes rather than conventional coastal apartments.

A limited collection of half-floor penthouses occupies the upper levels, increasing the scale of the living spaces and adding private balconies and elevated finishes. From this position, the outlook extends between the ocean and hinterland.

Outside the private residences, The Eveleigh separates its shared spaces between the podium and rooftop. The podium is centred on wellness, with subtropical landscaping surrounding a swimming pool and pool terrace, yoga garden, private gymnasium, sauna and hot and cold plunge facilities. Landscaped retreats and pavilions provide additional places to sit away from the main recreation areas.

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Higher in the building, a rooftop pavilion and private dining suite sit alongside resident lounge, barbecue and outdoor dining areas, opening towards panoramic views across the ocean, city and hinterland.

“Buyers are no longer just looking for an apartment, but a lifestyle where they can relax, reset, and enjoy a balanced way of living,” Hirsch &amp; Faigen Director of Sales Matt George said.

Interest to date has come from established owner-occupiers and interstate lifestyle purchasers, including buyers planning a future move to the Gold Coast. Many are coming from larger homes and want to reduce ongoing maintenance without giving up space for family and guests, privacy, two car spaces or the ability to entertain at home.

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Much of that daily life can also take place beyond the building without requiring a drive. Kurrawa Beach and Pratten Park are an easy walk from Surf Parade, while Pacific Fair, Oracle Boulevard, The Oasis, restaurants, cafés, entertainment and public transport are also within walking distance.

The Eveleigh is Hirsch &amp; Faigen's fourth Gold Coast development since entering the market in 2021, following The Hemingway at Palm Beach, The Emerson at Kirra and Yves at Mermaid Beach. Each of the preceding projects sold out before completion.

“Broadbeach had been on our radar throughout our time operating on the Gold Coast,” the developer said. “Following our projects in Palm Beach, Kirra and Mermaid Beach, Broadbeach represented the natural next step for the business.”

The Surf Parade site brought together proximity to the beach, protected coastal outlooks and walkability to dining, shopping and recreation. Hirsch &amp; Faigen also identified the street as an emerging premium residential address, with enough separation from Broadbeach's busier destinations to retain a quieter environment at home.

The Eveleigh is now under construction by Maxcon, with completion forecast for mid-2028. Three-bedroom residences are currently available from $2.87 million.

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A long-stalled Campbelltown development site is back in play, with new plans for 139 apartments set to supersede a mixed-use scheme approved almost a decade ago but never built.

The new proposal for 28 Cordeaux Street would deliver 116 market and 23 affordable apartments in a part 14-storey building, bringing a substantial new project into a Campbelltown market where new apartment supply remains limited.

Plans have been filed over the 3,092 sqm corner site at Moore-Oxley Street, around 600 metres from Campbelltown Railway Station and the city-centre retail core.

The site already carries a mixed-use residential approval dating to 2016. Doroch Architects has now been engaged on a larger replacement scheme, which is progressing as a State Significant Development Application following a Housing Delivery Authority determination in August 2025.

The apartment mix comprises 39 one-bedroom, 72 two-bedroom and 28 three-bedroom residences. Two-bedroom apartments make up just over half of the project, while three-bedroom homes account for 20 per cent.

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Of the 139 apartments, 23 will be delivered as affordable housing under the in-fill affordable housing provisions of the Housing SEPP. The affordable component represents 15 per cent of the residential gross floor area and will be managed by a registered Community Housing Provider.

Doroch has sought to break the scale of the building into two distinct elements, with a masonry podium of around four storeys establishing the street edge before the residential tower steps back above.

The corner position has shaped that approach. Cordeaux Street faces toward the commercial and civic centre, while Moore-Oxley Street leads into the lower-scale residential neighbourhood to the south, and the design verification report describes the site as "bridging the commercial core to the north and established residential areas to the south."

The podium will be expressed predominantly in face brick, while the upper levels shift to brushed and grooved concrete cladding with darker metal detailing. Recessed sections, deep balcony edges and landscaping break down the upper form, with an approximately 11.8-metre setback to the northern boundary addressing the adjoining St Peters Anglican School.

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Campbelltown has been starved of new residential developments in the last decade.

The only other notable development set to come to market this year is ALAND's Queen Square, a mixed-use precinct on over two hectares that will comprise apartments above a vibrant ground-level retail and hospitality dining precinct.

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Queensland builder-developer MAYD has revealed the first look at its major North Kirra beachfront development, lodging amended plans that reduce the number of apartments and increase the proportion of larger residences.

The project is planned across a substantial 4,742 sqm amalgamated site spanning seven lots at <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/2-6-pacific-parade-bilinga-qld-4225">2-6 Pacific Parade</a> and 27-33 Golden Four Drive in Bilin​ga, directly opposite Nor​th Kirra Beach.

<a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/developers/mayd-group">MAYD</a> secured the site for $32.5 million in 2025, in what was one of the Gold Coast's largest property transactions of the year.

The development will be delivered across two stages, with the first stage carrying an estimated gross realisation value of around $360 million.

The latest amendments seek to reduce the overall apartment count and shift the project further toward the owner-occupier market, with larger residences designed for buyers wanting considerably more space than traditionally offered in a beachfront apartment.

The residential mix will include townhomes, oversized two-bedroom apartments, substantial three-bedroom residences and four-bedroom homes.

MAYD has appointed Cera Stribley to lead the architecture and interiors, with the Melbourne-based design practice drawing on the beachfront setting through a series of ocean-facing terraces and heavily landscaped balconies.

Strong horizontal forms and curved balconies will define the exterior, with subtropical landscaping integrated throughout the building to soften the built form and increase the connection between the residences and the beachfront.

The project will also include an extensive collection of resident wellness and lifestyle facilities, continuing the broader shift across the Gold Coast's luxury apartment market toward larger homes supported by resort-style amenity.

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MAYD Founder Todd Mould said North Kirra was increasingly appealing to buyers attracted to the more established, lower-density character of the southern Gold Coast.

"North Kirra presents one of the most compelling luxury residential opportunities currently emerging in Australia, combining absolute beachfront with the character and authenticity that buyers are increasingly seeking, and the same sense of tight-knit community that defined Burleigh and Currumbin perhaps 10 or 15 years ago," Mould said.

"With Gold Coast Airport on its doorstep, it also offers a level of accessibility that broadens its appeal across almost every market demographic."

The project comes as the southern Gold Coast continues to attract an increasing share of high-end apartment development and buyer activity.

Kirra in particular has emerged as one of the region's more tightly held beachfront markets, with its relatively low-density character, established surf and hospitality scene and proximity to Gold Coast Airport differentiating it from the higher-density markets further north.

Mould said those characteristics had informed the approach MAYD and Cera Stribley had taken to the project.

"We've worked closely with Cera Stribley to create a vision that is deeply connected to its surroundings," he said.

"Inspired by the coastline itself, the architecture has been shaped around space, privacy and resort-style living, creating a collection of homes that reflects the next generation of luxury on the southern Gold Coast."

MOTIV Managing Director Carly Cottam, who has been appointed to market the project, said buyer attention had continued to move south along the Gold Coast.

"Purchasers who may once have defaulted to Broadbeach, Main Beach or Surfers Paradise are increasingly recognising the value of a genuine beachfront location that offers lower density, strong amenity and a more established sense of community," Cottam said.

"Kirra has a powerful combination of growing demand and genuine scarcity. Beachfront supply is inherently constrained, the area remains relatively low density, and buyers are increasingly placing a premium on locations that feel established, uncrowded and authentic rather than heavily developed."

Cottam said the proximity to Gold Coast Airport was also proving increasingly important for interstate and second-home buyers.

"Being minutes from Gold Coast Airport makes it particularly compelling for interstate buyers, frequent travellers and second-home purchasers who can access an authentic coastal lifestyle almost immediately after stepping off a flight."

The acquisition takes MAYD's active development portfolio to more than $500 million, with the North Kirra project representing one of its largest undertakings to date.

MAYD is targeting an early 2027 launch.

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Castle Hill, the longtime hub of the Hills District, has been one of the major beneficiaries of Sydney's Metro expansion, with improved connectivity helping drive continued population growth, development and buyer demand across the Hills District.

But despite that growth, the suburb has seen relatively few major new apartment projects brought to market over the past 18 months.

Hills District developer Reve Group is looking to fill that gap with <a href="https://www.apartments.com.au/new-apartments/nova-r-ve-castle-hill-2-garthowen-crescent-castle-hill-nsw-2154">Nova Rêve</a>, a major new mixed-use precinct on the corner of Garthowen Crescent and Old Castle Hill Road, a short walk from Castle Hill Metro Station and Castle Towers.

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The project will comprise three residential towers alongside a hotel, restaurants, cafes and a skybar, more than 1,600 sqm of ground-floor retail and almost an acre of landscaped gardens.

It represents the largest project undertaken by Reve Group, the development arm of the Kassis family, which has been building across the Hills District for more than 30 years through Kassis Homes.

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Nova Rêve also represents a significant step up from the family's first apartment development, Grand Rêve, which was delivered nearby on Garthowen Crescent.

Grand Rêve introduced larger, house-like apartment layouts and premium inclusions including Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances to the Castle Hill market.

Nova Rêve takes that approach to a precinct scale, combining the residential component with hospitality, retail and substantial public and resident landscaping.

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Reve Group Managing Director Sam Kassis said the project reflected the family's three decades of building in the Hills, which has evolved from trophy homes on quarter-acre blocks to larger-scale apartment development.

"Grand Rêve was our first apartment project here and it showed us what this pocket of Castle Hill could be. Nova Rêve is the refinement of that idea: not just apartments, but a place the whole suburb can use," Kassis said.

A key part of that approach is the hotel, which has been designed to operate as an amenity for the wider Castle Hill community rather than solely hotel guests.

It will include restaurants, cafes, skybars and all-day dining, alongside conference and event facilities catering to business functions, community groups and private events.

At ground level, more than 1,600 sqm of shops and cafes will open onto the surrounding streets and landscaped areas.

Almost an acre of gardens designed by Land and Form Studios will run through the precinct, incorporating pathways, seating, barbecue areas and children's play spaces.

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Reve Group's Romio Georges said creating an active ground plane had been central to the planning of Nova Rêve.

"There are gardens with pathways, barbecues, seating and play areas, shops and cafes opening onto the street, and a hotel with restaurants and a skybar that anyone in Castle Hill can walk into," Georges said.

The project's elevated position on one of Sydney's highest ridgelines will also provide apartments with outlooks toward the Sydney skyline, surrounding parkland and the Blue Mountains.

More than 80 per cent of the apartments will occupy corner positions, with Turner responsible for both the architecture and interiors.

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Fiona Taylor, who was portrayed as a House Rules villain, has secured the sale of her Lake Fyans property.
The near lakeside rural retreat took two months to sell after being passed in.
The striking Lake Fyans home built for Fiona Taylor on the hit Channel 7 reno series sold for $470,000 to a Melbourne family relocating to the Grampians region. 
Ray White, Ballarat, agent Phillip Lee told The Herald Sun the buyer had inspected it prior to auction but were unable to make the November date.
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The three-bedroom house on 8.3ha at <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-lifestyle-vic-lake+fyans-7992694" target="_blank">273 Kelleys Beach Rd</a> had a $525,000-$575,000 price guide when initially listed. 
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Ms Taylor had owned the site for about three and a half years, using it for camping before House Rules and dividing her time between there and Ballarat since.
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Set among the gum trees, the TV star said the build was way beyond her "wildest expectations,” 
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HGTV Host and native Australian Jamie Durie has re-listed his Hollywood Hills home at a reduced price.
The mid-century modern home located in the Laurel Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills has been re-listed for US$2.875M, down from US$2.995M.
The property is listed with Robert Kallick &amp; Justin Freeling of Compass by Durie, who is not just the host of HTGV, but the author of 11 books on furniture design and landscape architecture. 
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His show The Outdoor Room reveals the secrets behind his stunning designs, and teaches viewers how to create beautiful outdoor rooms of their own, no matter the size of the space.
Located at <a id="LPlnk636438" href="https://www.compass.com/listing/2605-laurel-pass-avenue-los-angeles-ca-90046/165224777886281393/?origin_type=Listing%20Card&amp;origin=Agent%20Profile%20Page" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">2605 Laurel Pass Avenue</a>, the house has been completely remodeled and redesigned by Durie, while preserving the vintage details of the home.
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The three bedroom two bathroom home features floor-to-ceiling windows, a pool and a detached studio space.
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According to the listing "vintage details can be found throughout along with high-end luxury upgrades giving this home a special feeling inside and out."
Set on 248 sqm the home is gated for privacy with a large garage and central HVAC.
Situated in the heart of Laurel Canyon the property is close to Mulholland Tennis Club, Wonderland School, Pace and other amenities.
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Olympic champion hurdler Sally Pearson and her husband Kieran have listed their Gold Coast home.
They've called the Helensvale acreage home since they 2015 when they paid $905,000. Now they're asking $1,119,000. 
They bought the 1990s built Helensvale home when moving from Pacific Pines, in the northern part of the Gold Coast. 
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Sally and Kieran were both born and bred Helensvale, having met at the local high scool.
The couple have renovated the property which features two residences and a swimming pool.
The main home has three bedrooms and two bathrooms and is wrapped in verandahs.
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Set separately on the 4,000 sqm parcel is an impressive home gym and office, which also features self-contained guest accomodation.
Harcourts Pacific Pines agent Julian Porter is marketing the home.
He told the local paper they have invested a lot of money into the extensive renovations over the last few years.
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The couple own two other properties in the Gold Coast.
Their first purchase before they wed in 2010 was a duplex in Oxenford, one suburb inland from Helensvale, which cost $300,000 in 2008.
They also own a home at Parkwood, near Southport, which has been a $575 a week rental.
They paid $435,000 in 2012, shortly before winning gold in the 100m hurdles at the London Olympics.
 
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LA-based Nutribullet CEO Colin Sapire and wife Caron sold their luxury Watsons Bay harbourfront home to the Halas swimwear brand family.
They paid just $15.25 million for the home which was listed with $20 million hopes.
The Sapire couple had paid $14.5 million for the Michael Suttor-designed home in 2015.
It was reported at the time that it would be their holiday home for their Sydney trips. They've only used it once.
The Pacific Street home on 1,175 square metres has four bedrooms, each with an ensuite and balcony access from the top level.
On the lower level there's a six car garage, a rumpus room with adjoining bar and a sauna, as well as another private covered terrace.
The harbour level of the home features a gym, cellar and swimming pool which is set near the water next to the manicured lawn and gardens.
There had been unconfirmed reports that the buyer was Anthony Halas of swimwear brand Seafolly fame and his wife, Andrea, with confirmation coming on its official mid-December settlement.
The Halas family secured $18.6 million <a href="/news/news-boss-buys-back-in-bellevue-hill-as-prestige-market-cools">when News Corp boss Michael Miller upgraded in Bellevue Hill</a>.
The Halas family sold their stake in Seafolly in 2014 to LVMH, having became the world’s largest independent specialty swimwear brand.
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The former Coogee home of model Jennifer Hawkins and her then builder fiance Jake Wall has hit the market for the first time since they sold to head off to Sydney's northern beaches in 2012.
It proved a bit of a baptism of fire in the world of property for Hawkins and Wall, who in recent times have made handsome profits from their property dealings.
They actually made a small loss on the 2002-built property following her four year ownership, buying for $2.27 million in 2008 and then selling for $2.22 million in 2012, just before prices began to soar across in Sydney over the next five years.
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She noted after it took six months to sell in 2012 that "Wow.... the property market in Sydney is tough."
The Moore Street home, part of a 2002-built duplex near Gordon's Bay, spans 240 sqm over its four levels.
It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and an open plan kitchen, living and dining area that flows to the rear alfresco deck with pool (current pool pictured above).
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I checked it out at yesterday's open for inspection, and the bespoke home had no traces of the celebrity couple. The current owner had recently extended the pool to run the full length of the courtyard (old pool pictured below).
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The neighbouring duplex owner failed to find a buyer after 130 days on the market last year and then sought tenants at $2,400 a week.
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Phillips Pantzer Donnelley agents Alexander Phillips and David Tyrell are marketing the former Hawkins property with a $3.5 million price guide.
Hawkins and Wall now live on Pittwater having profitably flipped properties around Curl Curl in the prior five years.
One of the projects was a luxury home they collaborated on which sold for $5.25 million in 2016 to cricket power couple Mitchell and Alyssa Starc.
This week Hawkins posted on Instagram a Pittwater poolside shot with her "two favourite men," Jake and her dad Bob, who's got just the 10 followers, a way behind Hawkin's 872,000 and Wall's 83,000.
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Quade Cooper and Laura Dundovic’s renovated Brisbane house has been given a $2.65 million price tag after failing to sell at its late 2018 auction. 
The rugby star and former Miss Universe Australia listed the near riverfront Bulimba house in November following Cooper’s signing to the Melbourne Rebels. 
Ray White has listed the 446 sqm property for $2.65 million.
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Cooper bought the property for $1.845 million in 2015. 
In 2017 the celebrity couple commissioned Graya Construction to give the property a facelift.
The property has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a pool and a 12m marina berth on the Brisbane River.
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Sonya and David Evans, the former Bombers chairman, are tipped to emerge the $14 million buyers on Sunshine Beach, just outside of Noosa.

The beachfront house sold on the very first inspection just prior to hitting the market through Tom Offermann and Nic Hunter at Tom Offermann Real Estate.

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The couple are based at Woodfield, an 1880s Hawthorn residence they've called home since paying $6,435,000 in 2010.

Their new weekender comes with 41 metres of ocean frontage on its 1,260 sqm parcel.

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It has five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a 23 metre swimming pool.

The Evans family sold their Little Cove house for $11.2 million in early 2018, after paying only half that just three years earlier.

Recently Singapore-based Equis Energy chief executive David Russell emerged on settlement as the buyer of <a href="/news/sunshine-coast-record-broken-twice-in-two-weeks">Noosa's most expensive home</a>, which he purchased through his company this year for $18 million.

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The original bachelor turned Neighbours actor Tim Robards has secured the snappy sale of the Newcastle investment townhouse he's owned for almost two decades.
Robards was seeking $400,000 to $440,000 for the Charlestown property. He scored $420,000.
It was his first home after paying $164,000 in 2001.
The townhouse was snapped up in 32 days, quicker than Charlestown's typical 41 days time on market. 
Although Newcastle district prices have begun to soften, Robard's timing was spot on too.
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House prices are down 1.6 per cent in Newcastle this year after a 16 per cent rise prior year, while he's bought into the Sydney market where prices have fallen by some nine percent this year.
Since 2008, when it became a $290 a week rental, Robards has seen the median house price in Charlestown soar from $340,000 to $625,000.
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Robards most recent tenant was paying $395 a week.
Street Property Newcastle agent Damon Sellis sold the three bedroom, two bathroom townhouse.
Robards has bought into the flattening Sydney property market with new wife, lawyer Anna Heinrich, who he gave the final rose to on The Bachelor in 2013.
They spent <a href="/news/fitness-guru-and-former-bachelor-tim-robards-buys-rose-bay-apartment">$1.9 million on an apartment in Rose Bay</a>.
The three bedroom apartment sits on the ground floor of a 1930s boutique block of six across the road from Rose Bay Marina.
Robards and Heinrich wed earlier this year in Italy at the Masseria Potenti hotel in Puglia before honeymooning in Turkey with their mates.
This article was first published in the Saturday Telegraph.
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Victor Spink, a convicted drug importer who loved his property and the punt, has died age 76.

His body was found early Monday morning in a $79 a night hotel near Sydney’s Central Station, the death likely caused by a drug overdose.

A police spokeswoman told the SMH's Kate McClymont, who has diligently followed his life and times through the decades, that there were no suspicious circumstances.

The SMH's Title Deeds column similarly followed the Sydney-born, St Ives-based Victor Thomas Spink after authorities sought to seize 10 properties that he owned across NSW from Darling Point to Byron Bay, on the NSW north coast.

In 2008 Spink told the Herald the botched 1994 $225 million drug importation had cost him much of his prior fortune.

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'I lost everything when they arrested me,' Spink said.

"Three of the properties in Byron and two at Potts Point were worth $16.5 million," he once suggested.

Born in 1942, Spink was first convicted of breaking and entering in 1960. He was jailed then deported from United Kingdom in the early 1970s.

He was next imprisoned in the late 1970s over a $54,000 mailbag robbery at Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast.

By the 1970s the Woodward Royal Commission heard evidence linking him to the heroin trade.

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In the 1990s, the Australian Federal Police were listening in on Spink’s phone calls as part of Operation Caribou, investigating cannabis importation from Pakistan.

The Herald revealed in 1995 that it had obtained AFP recordings of phone conversations suggesting Spink, then only known as Mr C, was part of a race-fixing network on Sydney tracks.

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The jockey Jim Cassidy was disqualified for three years and Kevin Moses for one year, both penalised for pretending to fix races, rather than for actual fixing.

"All I ever did was ring jockeys and get their tips," Spink said, denying any rigging.

Known as one of the biggest punters on Sydney racetracks until his arrest, Spink reportedly lost $400,000 in one afternoon.

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Spink belonged to a drug importing syndicate that unsuccessfully arranged for 15 tonnes of cannabis resin to be shipped from Pakistan to Australia in 1994, after one of the trawlers ran aground near Hervey Bay in southern Queensland. Another 10 tonnes were dumped at sea off New Caledonia.

Spink was one of the leading participants in the intended shipment along with Raymond John Dumbrell, a property developer from Maroubra, who contributed $65,000 to buy a boat.

In 1995 the SMH's Title Deeds reported Spink, who had by then pleaded guilty under Section 51A of the Justices Act to a charge of conspiracy to import cannabis resin, knocked back $917,500 when his two Potts Point backpacker terraces were auctioned to pay for his legal bills. Bought in 1993 for $760,000, the 10 bedroom terraces had a potential $6,300 weekly return, according to the listing agent John McGrath who had the terraces at $1.3 million. 

In 1996 Title Deeds reported Spink owned five Byron properties totalling a $1.046 million outlay. The properties had been bought in a five-month period, some sight unseen, in 1993.

On his release from jail he still owned three, as well as five houses in the Sydney suburbs of Alexandria, Gordon and Ku-ring-gai. 

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After leaving jail in 2002, Spink then tried to access $US500,000 funds that had been sitting in his Swiss bank account since 1987.

Spink had to wait three years until his parole conditions enabled him to leave the country and head for Switzerland.

But authorities noted his passport in the name of George Saunders was expired as well as false.

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Spink claimed the money in the Geneva account came from gambling, not drugs, and fought for access.

The Swiss Federal Tribunal granted him the money as it was deposited before his Australian drug conviction.
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<div class="_1lC_G">It was in the name of Saunders that Spink owned a Vaucluse mansion (top), bought in 1993 for $600,000 and sold in March last year <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-nsw-vaucluse-126840814" target="_blank">for $4.9 million through Di Baker Prestige Properties</a>.</div>

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<div class="_1lC_G">Spink said he listed the home to make a sea change up to the north coast.</div>

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Di Baker was seeking more than $6 million for the two-storey home on dress circle Olola Avenue.

Last year the father of two wrote on Facebook about chronic health problems and the loss of his brother and sister from cancer, while alluding to struggles with addiction.
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<div class="_1lC_G">The Daily Mail suggested he died of an ice overdose in a room at the Great Southern Hotel.</div>

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<div class="_1lC_G">A 30-year-old woman who was also in the room with him stayed to assist police with their inquiries. </div>

 
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The life and times of the late Victor Spink 

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Round the Twist creator Paul Jennings and his actor partner Mary-Anne Fahey have sold their Allansford home on the outskirts of Warrnambool.
The family are set to relocate locally in the main part of town.
The children’s author and his actor wife had an $1.35 million price on <a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-vic-warrnambool-129593494" target="_blank">the home</a>. It was initially listed with a $1.485 million upper expectation.
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Homeseeka Real Estate Warrnambool’s Paul Jellie told the Herald Sun the 21 hectare property sold for close to its initially advertised range.
"The couple have applied their skills not only to the production of imaginative books and television programs but also to the creation of a home that is unique and inspiring," he said.
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It comes with extensive bushland within 50m of the ocean.
There is a four-bedroom 1999-built home plus a separate barn currently used as a studio and garage.
The property was briefly listed in 2014 with $1.4 million plus hopes.
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