Peter Beattie sells in Wilston and buys in Zetland

Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and his wife Heather, who this week sold their home in Brisbane, have emerged as buying a $975,000 apartment in Zetland.

After the $2.19 million Wilston Queenslander-style sale, the Beatties will now divide their time between Zetland and their riverside apartment in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newstead.

Beattie, who is chair of the organising committee for next year’s Commonwealth Games, purchased the five-bedroom Wilston house for $310,000 in 1993.

Place Ascot’s Snezana Harris sold the home off market to a local surgeon.

Beattie, who was Queensland Premier from 1998 to 2007, then spending almost a decade in the USA, appears as a presenter on Sky News.

This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.