Berith Park, the Wahroonga estate of the former managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil Australasia Warwick White has been listed with $15 million hopes following the family’s impending move to Dublin.

The historic 1902 Wahroonga estate comes with seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate on 7,583sq m with a tennis court, swimming pool, golf range and gym.

The Billyard Avenue listing has price guidance of $13.75 million to $15 million through Ray White, which would set a new Wahroonga record which stands at $9.21 million since 2014 on Water Street for Wairimu on a 3228sq m block.

Berith Park last sold through Burns & Burns agent Julia Burns for $5.59 million to Warwick White and his wife, Karen.

They bought after White returned to Sydney as managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil's Australian business.

The adjoining two vacant lots, totalling 4504 sq m, were sold to the Edney family for $3.5 million.

Berith Park had held the North Shore record for 11 years after retired bookmaker Bruce McHugh sold for $5 million to Vivian and Wendy King in 1990.

Berith Park was built by a Queensland merchant, Alfred Smith, in 1897, but was remodelled by Sir Arthur Rickard, whose presidency of the Millions Club assisted the establishment of Barnardos after World War I.

For almost two decades, Sir Arthur and his wife, Lady Nellie Rickard, resided in the Queen Anne-influenced house, a showpiece of the period that featured in a 1914 issue of the publication Building. Rickard, a big-time Pitt Street-based property developer he named the suburbs of Greenacre and Asquith donated the floral clock outside Taronga Zoo in 1928.

Following his subdivision woes in the Great Depression, it was Sydney Lord Mayor-to-be Stanley Crick who bought Berith Park in 1932, owning it until 1946.

It later became home to the Dominican Fathers, then the Dominican Sisters. 

To celebrate International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the Children’s Cancer Institute, PRDnationwide Newcastle & Lake Macquarie, McDonald Jones Homes and McCloy Group have joined forces to undertake an extraordinary challenge; building a house in 21 days!

Work began on 29 August, 2016 at Billy’s Lookout, Teralba, Lake Macquarie NSW to build the 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxurious Portsea One home by McDonald Jones Homes.

The architecturally designed home has been built on 600 sq m of land donated by McCloy Group using materials and labour gifted by many generous partners, including Austral Bricks.

Scott Cam of The Block revealed the completed home, fully furnished by Freedom, with all kitchen and laundry appliances provided by Electrolux and home entertainment by Panasonic.

It will be auctioned October 23, 2016 the home through PRDnationwide Newcastle and Lake Macquarie by leading auctioneer, Damien Cooley.

100 percent of proceeds from the sale of the home will go to the Children’s Cancer Institute to fund medical research. 

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Langi Willi estate, the historic Victorian Western Districts pastoral property in Skipton, has been listed after 157 years of continous ownership. 

Architect Charles D'Ebro designed a mansion of grand proportions in 1893 for the Russell family after several decades of ownership.

The 35 room historic homestead sits on 66 hectares which has been listed through Kay & Burton agent Ross Savas.

The current vendor family, the Mackinnon's, who arrived from Scotland in 1839, married into the Russell family in 1933.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian Mansion Australia property section.

An entertainers paradise in Mount Waverley has sold for $3,806,000 ahead of its auction.

Designed by En Vogue Developments and constructed around seven years ago, the two storey grand home offers five bedrooms, four bathrooms and a three car garage.

Meticulously updated, the home with home office is set on 1500 square metres of landscaped grounds and is just steps from the Riversdale Golf Course.

The outdoor comprises an oversized rear deck and the outdoor entertaining area has a steel kitchen, barbecue, wood fire pizza oven and bar fridge.

It's accompanied by a dramatic waterfall that meets a gas-heated, self-cleaning, self-refilling and self-salting swimming pool.

Harcourts Judd White agent Sin Chan secured the sale.

Funds manager Will Liley and his UK born artist wife Janice have sold their Southern Highlands retreat, Rosehill Farm.

The 45-hectare Kangaloon holding comes with Richard Rowe designed six-bedroom, seven-bathroom house.

It has been sold to entreprenuer Rose Deo for $4.8 million through Colliers International agent Deborah Cullen.

Janice enjoyed the four seasons on offer - with the change of colours - as an artist. Janice studied at the National Art School, Sydney, and before than at Cheltenham College of the Arts in the UK.

Liley, who rowed for Australia in the late 1960s and 1970s, before he founded infrastructure investment firm mInfra

Their 2005-built Australian homestead with a wrap-around verandah, incorporated elements of New England architecture.

Landscape architect Michael Bligh helped with the grounds which comes with a kilometre-long avenue lined with white-trunked Blue Mountains ash eucalypts

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Longtime Pentana Solutions finance director Rod Dux has spent $5.6 million to buy the Monticello, Toorak penthouse from the Smorgon family.

Accessed by private lift, the Orrong Road apartment has two bedrooms, two bathrooms a study and a large wrap around balcony.

It had been a $2,200 a week rental before the recent sale.

The Marshall White agency secured the sale after just seven days on the market. 

The Palladian Development project was completed in 2003. It first sold at $2.85 million in 2004 after being designed by Demaine Partnership. The 11 apartment complex was named after former American President Thomas Jefferson's residence.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian Mansion Australia property section.

Southlands, a Gerringong trophy offering tree change by the sea, has sold for $2.5 million.

Offered for the first time in 20 years, 82 Sims Road comprises 12 hectares of lush green landscape just a short walk from the beach and the local town.

The main three bedroom, two bathroom weatherboard homestead has French doors which open onto the verandah that offers sweeping elevated views over Werri Beach and the surrounding vineyards.

The views stretch around some 50km south to Crookhaven Heads.

“It’s just a beautiful spot and it’s a very grounding way to live,” vendor Paul Brady told Domain. 

“This place just becomes part of your spirit and we’ve never stopped feeling grateful for that.

“There’s no road noise, no neighbours, no traffic, nothing to break the sense of having left the world behind.” 

The Brady's added a second two bedroom, self-contained cottage in 2008 and renovated in 2014.

Michele and Matthew Lay at Ray White Kiama sold the home. They had a listing price of $2.9 million.

Michele said with Southland’s rural zoning, it could be run as a vineyard, restaurant or bed and breakfast, subject to council approval.

A small parcel of the property is home to 100 year old western red cedars listed as protected rainforest, while wildlife is abundant, including wallabies, echidnas and native birds.

The former butchery property on the corner of Gilpin Street and St Marys Lane, Camperdown sold last weekend at $2.6 million.

It started life back at the turn of the last century as a butchery with an attached residence.

It operated until the 1950s when it then fell into disrepair.

The old butcher’s shop at 38 Gilpin Street, Camperdown, has been transformed into a flexible, contemporary living space displaying a contemporary design with industrial elements.

The property has exposed steel framing, polished concrete floors, high bay light fittings and a single stringer, open tread, checker-plate steel staircase rising to the second floor.

There are two living rooms divided by an EcoSmart fireplace and twin doorways. 

Old bricks from the original structure have been used to make garden beds on the 220 sq m block.

The pre-auction price guidance had been $2.7 million to $2.8 million.

It last traded for $579,000 in 2007.

Melbourne underworld identity Mick Gatto - known as a ‘professional mediator’ within the building industry - has listed his Lower Plenty mansion.

The businessman and former boxer paid $2.1 million in 2005 for the then near-new home through a company. There's many clues it is his including Godfather movie memorabilia. The gym is special too. 

Set on 4019 sqm with tennis court and pool, the 716 sqm French Provincial-style home has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a large gym.

The home is fitted with a superior security system with CCTV, a fully monitored back to base alarm system and burglar-proof window meshing.

He told a court that he kept a loaded gun there because he feared for his life.

In 2004 Gatto was acquitted of murdering underworld identity Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin.

Adele and Sam Kocuck at Barry Plant Manningham have the listing with reported $3.8 million hopes.

The five bedroom, five bathroom home is in an exclusive residential area in Melbourne’s northeast.

His address is considered one of Melbourne's newest 'millionaire's rows'.

Carlton footballer Nick Stevens listed his four bedroom mansion on the street for $3 million in 2009 and sold for $2,125,000.

Land Title records show there are caveats on the property taken out by Mario Amenta and Sarbir Singh Jholl.

The first Consul General to Houston, Alastair Walton found a pre-auction buyer for his Leichhardt warehouse conversion.

He paid $1.55 million for the warehouse in June last year. It had marketed $1.8 million hopes this time around, and sold before auction at $2.1 million.

There'd been little more than a splash of paint since its previous use as a sign-writing business at 26 MacKenzie Street.

Walton, who was a major fundraiser for the Liberal Party, had most recently been the chairman of BKK Partners, the minnow corporate advisory firm which had Peter Costello briefly as a director, and before that been co-chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs Australia, taking over from then merchant banker Malcolm Turnbull.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.

Property developer Michael Kelly has sold his Surfers Paradise home for $10.2 million, the fourth highest sale on the Gold Coast in 2016.

The home, which took Kelly two years to build, sold to a Chinese national with a temporary visa and foreign investment approval. 

Just off the Nerang River on a block totalling 2,295 sqm, the five bedroom mansion was designed by Jared Poole. It features a home theatre, gym and temperature controlled wine cellar.

Offering 98 metres of river frontage, the home has a 15 metre pontoon, secure boat storage and ramp.

The sale was the highlight of a very quiet Golden Week for Chinese acquisitions across Australia.

Golden Week is a semi-annual holiday in China, where some of the countries richest head to Australia for holidays and a spot of property shopping.

The property was listed for Golden Week last year for $12.5 million but those expectations were slashed to $11 million by the time of its sale.

Savills QLD agents Lisa Haplin and Christopher Jones secured the sale.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian Mansion Australia property section.

An experimental 1950s Eltham house is for sale.

The Rice House comprises of two separate structures built in the mid-1950s, one with four lumps containing kitchen, living, dining and master bedroom, and the other with two lumps housing a self-contained flat.

The igloo-style building on 4000 sq m was commissioned to the mid-century Melbourne architect Kevin Borland.

It was the first commercial construction by the noted Melbourne bush builder Alistair Knox.

Its structure formed of catenary or self-supporting arches is heritage-listed. Kevin Borland was an innovative young architects having worked firstly with Harry Seidler.

Clients Harrie and Lorna Rice were seeking something "avant-garde" as their “first and only house”.

Having spent their lives there until Harrie Rice and later his wife, Lorna died, the house has now been listed for sale.

In accordance to their parents’ wishes, Mrs Parker is hoping “the extremely experimental building” will be bought by someone who will love it and restore it with due respect.

“I want to do the right thing by the house,” told Fairfax Media. 

She asked her agents, Eltham’s Morrison Kleeman, to deter developers from purchasing it “and destroying its integrity by cramming it.

"I hope that whoever gets it will reinstate it”.

She also hopes the draped concrete canopy that once connected the two buildings will be reconstructed.

In buildings that have been compared to a sequence of concrete caves, “or concrete igloos, or Nissan huts”, the construction that required wooden arches to be overlaid with hessian that was then coated in three layers of concrete, were completely hand-made.

“I spent a lot of time on that roof”, she said.

“There is something very organic and very primal about the house," she said about the house that was always full of intellectuals and academics. 

A Toorak property has been listed with hopes of more than $5 million at its Kay & Burton auction on October 22.

Denham Place sits between Albany and Hopetoun roads.

The place's highest sale to date was $4.36 million in 2013.

The modern five bedroom house hugs the pool on the 870 sq m block.

It last sold in 2003 at $2.45 million.

Tucked away at the end of a private driveway and set amid lush tropical gardens is a Chelmer home located in one of Brisbane's most prestigious enclaves.

The three bedroom, architecturally designed home offers river views from nearly every angle.

The open plan lounge and dining areas are banked by walls of glass which provides seamless integration to the poolside terrace.

Of course no absolute riverfront home would be complete without a private pontoon and access to an additional boat ramp.

A separate guest retreat with its own private courtyard completes the 1,315 sqm property.

Peter May and Brad Robson at Place Real Estate have set a November 19 auction date. 

The Melbourne restaurateur Joe Mammone has listed his Prahran townhouse with $1.7 million hopes.

He owns two of Melbourne Italian fine dining establishents, Sarti and Il Bacaro.

The three-bedroom 2000-built home features a living space leading to a balcony with views of the city.

The home is part of a complex of 10 townhouses designed by architecture firm McBride Charles Ryan whch won the Multi-Residential Architecture Award at the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter Awards in 2001.

Mammone has since gutted and renovated the interior including installing an Italian-made Snaidero kitchen.

He has bought a similar property nearby in Prahran and is pursuing another townhouse development with a friend.

Oybin, an 1880s Annandale mansion, sold at competitive weekend auction for $3.12 million.

Its sits on Johnston Street's historic Ridge Development, which commands sweeping views of the city and the harbour.

Built in the Classical Revival style, the home fell into disrepair but it has been extensively restored over recent decades.

Surrounded by 120-year-old palms, it was listed with $3 million price guidance by the BresicWhitney agent Matthew Carvalho.

There was an opening bid of $2.925 million after a $2.9 million vendor bid began proceedings at the onsite auction beneath planes flying through the cloudy sky.

The enduring existence of Oybin is due entirely to locals who rallied to form the Annandale Association and save local historic homes from 1970s unit developers.

They were just in time as high-rise unit blocks sits on two sides.

It last sold at a suburb price record of $2.1 million in 2007 when the Italianate villa was sold by Dr Dwight Dowda and psychologist Francesco Lo Pizzo.

It had previously traded at $580,000 in 1995 when sold by renovators, Paul and Yvonne Maule. 

Vendor Norma Perry researched the architect C.H.E Blackmann. The mansion was designed by, and built for, Charles Blackmann who quit Australia, so it was researched, with a local barmaid and money embezzled from his partnership with architect John Sulman. 

She published a racy tale of fraud and exile, but records his substantial contribution to architecture in Australia, along with a story of German migration, mining, family life in Victorian times and the consequences of his desertion and flight to California.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

The photographer Mark Morffew has listed his ultra bright designer pad overlooking Bondi Beach.

Accessed through an expensive private front courtyard, the two bedroom, two bathroom apartment comes with interiors by Lawless & Meyerson.

The walls are lined with photographic works.

The living and dining areas flow onto an ocean-facing terrace.

The master bedroom offers terrace access and the second bedroom opens to a rear entertaining courtyard.

Belle Property Double Bay agent Albert Sassoon has a November 16 auction date.

One of the blocks most recent sales came in May when other two bedroom apartments sold for $3.8 million and at $4.2 million. 

He paid $2.9 million for the 94 sqm Notts Avenue apartment.

The Pacific Terraces development was undertake by Bill Shipton in 1983 with financing from the late Kerry Packer.

This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.

Confirmation came last week that Australia's richest female executive, Maxine Horne was the $9.3 million buyer of a Noosa beachfront.

Listed through Offermann Real Estate, the five bedroom on 1460 sqm set a Noosa district record.  

Horne has been splashing in the property market having recently spent $10.5 million on a three-level riverfront home in New Farm.

She recently sold 28 percent of her stake in the Vita Group company that she co-founded over two decades ago, selling off $42 million worth of shares.

This article was first published in the Weekend Australian Mansion Australia property section.

A Tamarama Marine Drive, Tamarama building block has been listed by Marco Rossi, chairman and founder of the construction company Built.

There have been $15 million reported expectations.

Rossi bought the property back in 2007 for $11 million through the Blacket Agency, setting a record for the suburb at the time.

He demolished the existing building and excavated at a cost of around $1 million.

Rossi has since moved to Bellevue Hill's Yoorami with his partner, Stephanie Stokes, as they wanted the family to be closer to schools.

Plans for the five bedroom home include an eight-car garage and a lift from the street frontage.

The plans are estimated to cost another $7 million.

They were designed by internationally renowned architect Wallace E. Cunningham.

Hughesville, a heritage-listed home in Queensland's Eight Mile Plains, has sold for $1.3 million.

It is set to become real estate offices.

After spending over four years on the market, I-Sale Property bought 2497 Logan Road which had $1.7 million hopes in February 2012.

It was only the fourth time the home has traded since 1892. It last sold for $1 million in 2007 to Bennett Carroll Solicitors.

Designed by architect George Campbell-Wilson, Hughesville was originally built as a wedding gift for local horse dealer Richard Hughes. It remained in the Hughes family for a century.

Its original grandeur was restored in 2004 after plans were approved by the Queensland heritage council. 

Set on 3366 sqm, the Queenslander has three offices and a meeting room.

In the late 1990s Hughesville was featured as a home being renovated by a couple in a XXXX brewing commercial.

MV Real Estate selling agent Lynda Roberts said it was difficult finding the right buyer due to its heritage restrictions.

“There was a lot of people wanting to use it as a wedding venue, but couldn’t due to the tight restrictions,” she said.