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The tennis champion Pat Rafter has yet to sell his Woollahra terrace.

It was listed initially for 24 May auction with $2.6 million plus hopes then again for 7 June auction&nbsp;through Paul Ephron of Run Property.

<a href="https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-woollahra-116801671" target="_blank">The contemporary Wallis Street three-bedroom terrace</a>&nbsp;cost $2.35 million in 2007.

The price&nbsp;guidance is now $2.5 million plus.

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The Noosa-based&nbsp;sportsman previously had&nbsp;his Sydney home on Hopetoun Avenue, Mosman which was sold in 2007 for $7.75 million.

Former tennis ace Pat Rafter is selling his stylish Woollahra terrace for more than $2.6 million.

The two-time US Open winner and Bonds underwear model bought the contemporary three-bedroom terrace in Wallis Street in 2007 for $2.35 million to use as his Sydney base after he sold his Mosman home in Hopetoun Avenue that year for $7.75 million.

Nowadays the Rafters are based in Noosa, where they set a record in 2006 when they bought their double block for $9.5 million.

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Pat Rafter Woollahra terrace remains listed for sale

It seems Andrew Winter and his team may have done too thorough a renovation in Wollongong, as the owners decided just before auction to withdraw the property from sale and move back in.

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&quot;They did too good a job,&quot; says listing agent Michele Lay of Ray White of the Selling Houses Australia team. &quot;If you see it on Selling Houses Australia you&#39;ll see how beautifully it came up.&quot;

The episode featuring the Wollongong house aired on Wednesday, and the auction was supposed to take place in September last year. The house was on the market for some months last year, says Lay.&nbsp;

The marketing had said &quot;With a realistic vendor and all the hard work done for you; this house MUST BE SOLD&quot;.

A short walk to the Wollongong CBD, the three-bedroom cottage last sold for $185,000 in 1999 and was on the market briefly in 2006, according to RP Data. The Selling Houses Australia team added new&nbsp;paint throughout, new blinds, new doors, new light fittings, new taps and a revamped kitchen and outdoor entertainment area. Lay says it could have attracted a rental of up to $460 per week. In 2009 it was listed for rent for $400 per week.

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Lay&nbsp;was marketing the property with price hopes of $399,000 plus.

The median house price in Wollongong fell 9.9% in&nbsp;the past year but rose 10.5% in the past five years, according to RP Data.

For more about prices and yields in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.urban.com.au/property-observer" target="_blank">Wollongong, see the&nbsp;RP Data suburb page.</a>

For real-life property lessons from reality TV shows, download our free eBook&nbsp;<a href="http://propertyobserver.com.au/ebooks/free-ebook-lessons-from-the-block-and-other-property-reality-television-shows" target="_blank">Lights, Camera, Auction!</a>

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Wollongong vendor decides to move back in after Andrew Winter's work is done

The veteran stockbroker John McIntosh and wife Marita have bought a South Yarra townhouse.

It is in a&nbsp;Nicholas Day-designed duplex.

The whole floor garden apartment, in the Botanic precinct, features private lift access to three car garaging in the duplex.

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The 390 square metre apartment last sold for $3.7 million in 2015 having cost $3.2 million in 2012.

There&#39;s whispers the upstairs neighbour, former Credit Suisse boss Marcel Kreis and partner Mimi Tang have sold their townhouse for $5.19 million.

Kay &amp; Burton South Yarra agents Tom Staughton and Robert Fletcher had the four bedroom apartment listed with a $5 million to $5.3 million guide.&nbsp;

Kreis and Tang had previously owned the garden apartment.

The long demolished home had been the abode of the producer and writer team, Nadia Tass and David Parker whose box office successes include Malcolm and The Big Steal and Rikki.

This article first appeared in&nbsp;The Weekend Australian.&nbsp;

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Veteran stockbroker John McIntosh buys South Yarra townhouse

Singer Dannii Minogue has bought back into Hawthorn East spending $3.52 million on a modern four-bedroom townhouse.

It had been for sale since April last year.

The star purchased her Hawthorn East duplex some two years after she sold another four-bedroom house in the suburb for $2.56 million.

The three-storey home on 398 sqm has three bedrooms with en suites and walk-in wardrobes, and a fourth bedroom with access to a family bathroom and powder room.

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The ground floor has a wide entrance hallway leads to a sitting and dining room, and study nook.

The rear of the home has an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area that flows out to a north-facing al fresco space with an outdoor kitchen and barbecue.

The property has a two-car garage, a lift and a cellar and gym in the basement.

It was advertised as &quot;low-maintenance luxury living.&quot;

The adjoining four bedroom, four bathroom townhouse was sold for $3.5 million in late 2019.

Cordell Connect advise the duplex development application costs were $760,000 in its 2015 application.

Dannii Minogue had previously lived in a Hawthorn East mansion with her ex-partner Kris Smith


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Hawthorn East townhouse sale to singer Dannii Minogue

The former Qantas boss Geoff Dixon and his wife, Dawn has sold their Darling Point trophy apartment.

Their New Beach Rd residence came with $10 million hopes, but sold for just over $11 million&nbsp;through Raine &amp; Horne Double Bay.

There were four buyers in the mex for the apartment that had been scheduled for May 6 auction.

The purchasers were a local family.

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The local paper, The Wentworth Courier advised the 438 sqm apartment had seen 70 people through its first two open homes.

It came with three bedrooms, three bathrooms and double garage parking in the Elandra triplex development.

The apartment was last sold when bought in 2016 for $8.65m from Acme marketing director Victor Topper and his wife, Sandra.

There were $10 million plus hopes for the Darling Point trophy apartment

Former Qantas boss Geoff Dixon sells Darling Point trophy apartment

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Scotts Honda Motors former owner turned property investor Paul Scharrer and his wife Pam have sold their Point Piper apartment.

They are the whispered buyers of the $30 million O'Neil boathouse on the Point Piper waterfront.

Ending almost 60 years of family ownership, there is still no exact price reveal on the sale.

The couple’s apartment in the Kilmory Estate was listed for $10 million. 

The Scharrers’ garden three-bedroom apartment was bought in 2016 for $6.5 million from Cynthia Cheung, of the Coogee Bay Hotel family.

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Paul Scharrer sells Point Piper apartment in the Kilmory Estate 

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Stylist to the stars Anna Bingemann has bought a Coogee bolthole.

Bingemann, who is from the Boans department store family, left Perth in the 1980s when she was 19, and never moved back.

She lives in New York with her producer and director husband Griffin Dunne, the son of the late writer Dominick Dunne.

She’s settled on an apartment in the Pinnacle Complex, paying $1.71 million for a two-bedroom garden unit in the Arden Street block of 12.

She’s currently seeking $1250-a-week tenants, reflecting a 4% yield.

Bingemann bought the apartment from fellow expat, the LA-based film producer Bruna Papandrea, who bought two units off the plan in 2017.

She made a tiny loss on selling the apartment to Bingemann having paid $1,795,000. She’s retained the other apartment, which cost $2.1 million.

Bingemann married Dunne in 2009 at their 40 hectare property at Rhinebeck in upstate New York.

They first met at a birthday party for the Hollywood actor Uma Thurman.

She reportedly oversaw fittings for Nicole Kidman’s Balenciaga wedding gown for Kidman’s 2006 wedding to Keith Urban, and has worked with the likes of Sienna Miller, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

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Stylist to the stars Anna Bingemann buys new Coogee apartment

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Morris Symonds, the Bellevue Hill-based partner of investment company Alceon, has spent $8.2 million in Palm Beach.

They've emerged as the buyers of Sandy Point Lodge, the Barrenjoey Road waterfront that once belonged to famed fashion designer Trent Nathan.

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Nathan sold the property for $5,125,000 in 2003, when bought by the current vendors, adman Lionel Hunt and his wife Judy.

The classic updated 1940s cottage has three bedrooms and a 10 metre swimming pool on its 1,075 square metre block.

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LJ Hooker Palm Beach agent Peter Robinson secured the Barrenjoey Road sale. 

Symonds co-founded Alceon in 2010.

This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph. 

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There's been some mopping up in Mosman with Sky News presenter Jacinta Tynan finally selling her home.

It was at its September auction that she saw just the one bid for the mid-century modern home.

Passed in at $2.9 million, buyers were continually given a guide of $3 million to $3.3 million throughout its Di Jones marketing. There has been no price reveal.

Tynan, who has been at Sky since 2004, bought the home for $1.8 million in 2011 with her then-partner, funds manager Liam Timms.

There were draft Corben Architect plans that modernised the classic 1960s home that sits on an 820 square metre block.

The four bedroom, two bathroom home had no heritage protection on listing.

Mosman also saw the $3 million sale this week of the bolthole of Channel 9 director Patrick Allaway and wife Elizabeth.

LJ Hooker Avnu agent Michael Coombs had $3 million guidance for the three-bedroom 1920s semi which traded at $3.1 million in 2017.

This article first appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.

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Sky News presenter Jacinta Tynan sells in Mosman

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Channel 7 presenter Angie Asimus and her husband Chris Abbott have upsized on the northern bea­ches ahead of the birth of their first child.

The couple, who wed on Valentine’s Day last month after 12 years together, have moved inland from Collaroy to Belrose.

They’ve paid $1.55 million for an original 1970s single level family home, traded for the first time since 1984 at $139,500.

It was marketed by LJ Hooker Frenchs Forest agents Troy McKinstry and Shane Broekman as an exciting ­opportunity to create a dream home.

They only had it listed for 16 days before it sold.

Set on a 700sqm block, every room in the three bedroom house opens to the outdoor areas which feature gardens, front and back decks and a pool.

The Belrose median house price is $1,555,000 according to real­estate.com.au

Asimus and Abbott have kept their Collaroy apartment which was bought for $870,000 four years ago. The two-bedroom apartment in a 1970s complex just off the beach has become a $700 a week rental.

Asimus (inset), who has ­returned to Sydney after being a newsreader in Brisbane, ­recently offloaded her former Brisbane home turned investment, for $629,000. She had paid $405,000 for the four-bedroom, 1980s Jindalee, in Brisbane’s west, in 2012.

Asimus started her career as a journalist in 2008 with Seven Queensland, working at its Townsville newsroom.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

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