<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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First Look: Sherlock Construction pitches apartments for low-rise Deception Bay

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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Wests Tigers veteran Robbie Farah hasn't been able to sell his Concord West speculative investment project.
Passed in at $2.12 million at its early August auction, it's now up for lease at $1,250 a week.
It seems even the rental market is struggling after seeking an initial ambitious $1,375 a week.
It had been a $550 a week rental before its renovation by Farah and his two brothers Jason and Eddie who added a rear extension after paying $1.02 million in 2012.
Farah's portfolio includes a Hamilton, Brisbane holding where he's recently subdivided following the family's $1.13 million purchase in 2016.
The four bedroom 1910 home now sits on 350 sqm with the adjoining 460 sqm pool portion for sale, seeking offers over $790,000 through Core Estate agent Matthew Wall. 
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Former WMTA Light Heavyweight World Thai boxing champion Nick 'Special K' Kara is selling his Prahran investment.
Kara has owned the tuck-pointed Edwardian for nearly two decades. He paid $322,500 in 1999. 
Back and forth from living and working in Thailand, the home became a $690 a week rental. 
The contemporary three bedder still with its fret-worked hallway features a north-facing courtyard on its 180 sqm parcel.
Jellis Craig agents Michael and Craig Hingston have a $1.25 million to $1.35 million guide for its October 13 auction.
Kara has fought in Thailand at the King's request.
He has also fought at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. 
He was a coach for the UFC reality TV series The Ultimate Fighter, which was also filmed in Vegas.
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian. 
 
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Thai boxing champion Nick 'Special K' Kara lists Prahran Edwardian investment

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Former Australian Ballet leading soloist Jayne Kaplan and her husband, rally car champion and owner of Hunter Holden, Adam Kaplan, have sold their Hunters Hill home.
The couple had $8.5 million hopes for the five bedroom home that they had owned for nearly two decades.
It was 1999 when they paid $2.1 million when buying from Warwick Bates, the former executive headhunter, and wife Carol.
The home with infinity pool sits next door to Bulwarra, the former home of actor Cate Blanchett and musician husband Andrew Upton.
McGrath's Tracey Dixon and Brent Courtney sold the home.
Jayne Kaplan, formerly Jane Beddoe, is currently the ambassador to the Friends of the Australia Ballet. She recently appeared in Swan Lake at the Sydney Opera House.
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Former Collingwood player Jason Cloke and wife Nicole have sold their Williamstown home before its weekend auction.
The couple, who are moving their family to Queensland, had $3.03 million to $3.2 million hopes for the contemporary home that Jason renovated himself.
They had paid $1,565,000 in 2015 for the traditional 1910 Victorian cottage that now has five bedrooms, two bathrooms and a state of the art kitchen.
Cloke added a second level dedicated solely to the master retreat.
The rear pool has been extended and is now solar and gas heated.
There's a two hole putting green adjoining the man cave in the four car garage.
Greg Hocking Elly Partners agents Leigh Melbourne and Wayne Elly secured the pre-auction sale.
Cloke, who now runs a carpentry business, spent four years with Collingwood, following in the footsteps of their father David Cloke who was also a Richmond star. 
This article was first published in the Weekend Australian.
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Winter proved no deterrent for the continued buoyancy of the Southern Highlands trophy home property market.
The pricey hobby farm playground has just seen the arrival of the latest big name buyer, the Point Piper-based entrepreneur Peter Ivany, who was once CEO of Hoyts cinemas, and wife Sharon.
They have spent $5.7 million to secure Autumn Park, a rustic brick barn converted into a cutting edge home at Mittagong.
It comes with a contemporary butterfly roofed pavilion extension.
There's a plunge pool, a tennis court, dressage arena and four paddocks on its 40 hectares.
Sarah Wotton at Highlands Property Bowral sold the home after seeking $5 million plus. 
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New locals who could be possibly spotted at its upcoming 58th tulip time festival include the fitness guru Michelle Bridges who paid $2.7 million in Kangaloon last December and shock jock Kyle Sandilands who paid $2,982,500 in Robertson in January.
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The Wildes Meadow historic property Brookville was recently snapped up by Karen and Warwick White, the former Coca-Cola boss who now runs a coffee capsule maker.
The Burradoo trophy home, Burradoo House sold for $5.38 million to Rose Deo who then sold Rosehill Farm in Kangaloon to billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.
Leonie Simart, the wife of former banker Jean-Marie Simart, founder of Vintec Australia, recently paid $3.65 million for Wandana at Burradoo.
Hotelier Justin Malouf, who co-owns the refurbished watering hole Royal Oak Hotel in Double Bay, and his wife Sasha bought at Glenquarry, paying $3.75 million for Sittingborne.
The longtime childcare operator Marty Downs has seized the burgeoning demand for upmarket food and alcohol outlets with several strategic investments totalling close to $16 million in the past three years.
Last month he added the historic 1922 Bundanoon Hotel with the 60-room Tudor-style hotel on two hectares now set for a serious makeover.
Downs works with hotelier Peter Dean in their joint Southern Highlands Pub Group venture. They have H&amp;E Architects plans to expand the Royal Hotel Bowral after Downs outlaid $2.25 million.
Downs, who owns Trungley Stud, gets around in his Bentley.
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The architects Chris Grinham and Glenn Cunnington and Dean, whose has family has links to the Eastern suburbs drinking hole, The Lord Dudley, have been tasked with turning underperforming pub grub hotels in thriving outlets where the aim is having customers see the space as an extension of their cosy yet vast living rooms.
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Francesca Packer Barham, the media heiress seeking a career in interior design, is selling her second South Yarra investment property.
She has told fiends she plans on spending more time in London next year so was cashing in her redundant holdings. 
It was a decor project following her $1.41 million purchase in 2015.
Packer has undertaken an interior design course at the prestigious Inchbald School of Design in Chelsea.
The 23-year-old daughter of Gretel Packer and British financier Nick Barham follows in the footsteps who co-founded the interior design firm Barham and Bragg Design in 1992.
“Design is really fun," she said last year.
"It is something that I always had an interest in, which has grown recently,” she says.
“My mum used to do interior design with one of my godmothers, Adelaide Bragg, who is a cousin of Gretel.
Barham and Bragg clients included cotton farmer David Farley. 
The restoration of the 1890s South Yarra Victorian weatherboard kept the period features, such as the leadlight windows, arched hallway, soaring ceilings and timber floors.
It has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a state of the art kitchen and a courtyard off the open plan living and dining area. 
Packer Barham briefly tried to sell the two storey house earlier this year. It is close to the Chapel Street retail strip.
It now has a guide of $1.6 million to $1.76 million for its October 13 auction through Jellis Craig Stonnington agents Andrew McCann and Sally O'Connell.
Her other South Yarra investment was flipped for $7.6 million last year, having paid $6,125,000 just two years earlier.
Packer Barham has a base in Sydney since spending $2.1 million on a three bedroom, 155 sqm apartment in Elizabeth Bay in 2016.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.
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Bellevue Hill's iconic estate, Rona, is finally close to a sale.
The property developer Terry Agnew and his now estranged wife Kyril put it up for sale in 2016 seeking only the fourth owner since built for the Knox family.
It was 2005 when Agnew paid $20.5 million for the 1883 hillside home, buying it from cleaning businessman John Schaefer who paid $9.6 million for the home in 1990 from the Knox family descendants.
Schaefer then added the tennis court block for $1.235 million in 1992, reversing the 1949 subdivision of the original 3.2 hectare estate.
In 1995 he also reunited Rona with its former stables for $2.8 million, taking the holding to 5,700 sqm.
The home dates back to 1883 when G.A Morell designed and built Rona for Edward Knox, son of Sir Edward Knox, the founder of sugar giant CSR Limited.
Richard Scheinberg has shown the keenest buying interest for the Victorian Rustic Gothic Revival inspired design through Bart Doff at Laing &amp; Simmons Double Bay inconjunction with Ben Collier at McGrath Estate Agents.
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Socialite jeweller Heidi Onisforou is whispered to soon list her Potts Point apartment, pitching it as a $9 million New York style warehouse offering.
Onisforou, the former wife of millionaire property developer Theo, snapped up the neatly sandwiched penthouse in 2016.
She downsized to the third apartment, paying $4.4 million for the three bedroom, 270 sqm space high above Zinc cafe.
She raised its ceilings, but caused a few water issues for the Macleay Street apartment complex.
It had been traded just the once before at $1.7 million in 2001 shortly after the apartments were converted from office space by the plumber John Keith.
Onisforou will retain a Victorian terrace around the corner.
She paid $4.1 million for the long time home of lawyer Ezekiel Solomon, who'd bought the Victoria Street home for $75,000 in 1977, in the midst of the strip's heritage battle.
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Socialite Heidi Onisforou pulled her Potts Point ­penthouse from midweek auction­, signalling that the post-election property market­ optimism isn’t yielding sale outcomes for everyone. It had been pulled from its March auction too.
The luxury apartment was heading to auction this time with a $6 million price guide through Ray White agent Gavin Rubinstein.
The fourth-floor Macleay St offering had been initially marketed with ambitious $9 million hopes last September­ with another agent.
Styled into something resembling a New York-style warehouse, Onisforou­ had paid $4.4 million in 2016 when she was downsizing, following­ her then-record $13 million terrace sale on nearby Challis Ave.
She bought the apartment from late kitchen fit-out king Barry Griffin in a pricey off-market acquisition.
It had been traded just the once prior at $1.7 million in 2001 after the building’s conversion from office space by plumber John Keith.
After Onisforou modernised the 270sq m space above Zinc cafe, she then embarked on a Victoria St, Potts Point, terrace renovation.
The terrace has now been listed for a June 1 auction with some confusion in its price guidance, with published reports varying from $5.45 million to $6.5 million-plus.
Officially BresicWhitney agent Maclay Longhurst says $6 million.
Onisforou paid $4.1 million for the unrenovated 1880s Victorian Italianate terrace in 2017, when it was bought from lawyer Ezekiel Solomon.
Victoria St’s highest terrace sale was $5.75 million in 2016 when Emma Van Haandel, the owner of boutique PR agency EVH, and her husband Joel Williams bought historic Hordern House from rare-book ­dealers Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell.
The latest sale in the neighbourhood was the $13 million-plus deal by hotelier Justin Hemmes of the tightly held Challis Ave commercial corner premises. Tony Benjamin, whose family make their fortune in Queensland bulky goods outlets, has been much more of a regular diner at Fish Shop since his mystery purchase.
The landmark building, Wirrara, features four large apartments and two retail shopfronts.
Hemmes’ late father, John, had bought the property for $1.428 million in 1988. The property is part of the Santa Fe row of 1905 Queen Anne-style terraces­, which includes the Holiday Lodge Hotel building, also owned by Benjamin.
Richardson and Wrench Elizabeth Bay selling agent Jason Boon said that the historic Wirrara sold at a premium­ as Benjamin “just wanted a trophy building”.
This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. 
 
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SKY Racing’s popular presenter ­Jaimee Rogers is set for a big day on and off the track in mid-October.
She’ll be hoping to sell her North Sydney apartment, just hours before heading trackside for the TAB Everest, the world’s richest race on turf on October 13.
She’s seeking over $1 million through Peter Shiplee at The ­Agency. The former national swimmer who contested the 2000 Sydney Olympic trials, has been at Tabcorp since 2009.
In 2012 comedian Sam Mac’s video parody on Rogers went viral.
It was 2014 she became a mainstay on shows such as Fox Sports’ Matty Johns Show. 
Jaimee is also seen regularly on Sky Racing, hosting magazine shows, including Formline Extra.
She bought the apartment with husband David Oliver for $940,000 in 2015. 
Set on the ground floor of the ­Regency Block, the couple’s courtyard Miller St apartment spans 136sqm. It has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The Agency recently sold a one-bedroom in the low-rise block for $1.03 million.
The couple, who late last year had their first child, son Hudson, are set to upsize to a 1910 Federation home in nearby Cammeray.
They have paid around $1.7 million for the two bedroom, freestanding home with a courtyard garden.
It’s been updated but ­retained its traditional hallway with decorative archway.
The master suite has stained glass windows and an original fireplace.
The TAB Everest, an Australian Turf Club weight-for-age thoroughbred horse race run over 1200m, saw Redzel win last year’s inaugural ­running. Everest slot-holder Tabcorp has secured a spot for Newcastle mare In Her Time.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 
 
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