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Silverchair bass player Chris Joannou and his wife Karissa have bought luxury acreage north of Coffs Harbour for $3.2 million, making them neighbours to singer-songwriter Wendy Matthews.
The couple’s newly acquired four-hectare property now ranks among the most expensive sales in Sapphire Beach and includes a four-bedroom house, heated swimming pool, a guest house, garaging for 10 cars and what the marketing described as the “ultimate man cave”.
The Sapphire Beach acreage bought by Chris Joannou neighbours a property owned by Wendy Matthews.Credit:Domain
Joannou and his fellow Silverchair bandmates, Ben Gillies and Daniel Johns, were barely teenagers in 1992 when they formed grunge band first known as Innocent Criminals and shot to rock stardom two years later on the back of their song, Tomorrow.
Chris Joannou sold in Newcastle earlier this month for $1.6 million. Credit:Belinda Rolland
After the band announced an “indefinite hiatus” in 2011, Joannou went into hospitality, opening a bar and restaurant in Newcastle called The Edwards.
But it looks like tree-change plans were hatched this year, given The Edwards was sold in May for more than $4 million, and Joannou’s home in Newcastle’s riverside suburb of Carrington sold last month for more than $1.6 million.
Joannou told The Newcastle Herald at the time of the sale that the couple were to move to Coffs Harbour to be closer to Karissa’s family.
Coal tycoon David Knappick is selling down his impressive Byron Bay property portfolio. Three of his boutique guest accommodation offerings are for sale in one line for about $50 million.
There is no breakdown on price expectations for each of the properties by Byron Bay Real Estate’s Liam Annesley and Tony Farrell but the pick of the bunch is clearly The Watermark at Wategos Beach.
The Watermark at Wategos Beach last traded a decade ago for $9 million, and has been turned into six luxury suites since then.
It was a duplex when hebought it a decade ago for $9 million from publican Geoff Smith, and it has been converted to six luxury suites to make it one of the few mixed residential options at Wategos.
Knappick added a Byron Bay guest house to his portfolio for $2.6 million in 2015 and in 2019 bought the Cape Vue at Ewingsdale for $3.4 million from Damien Antico, son of the late industrialist Sir Tristan Antico.
Knappick, who made his fortune in 2009 when Felix Resources coal operation was sold to Chinese company Yanzhou Coal for $3.5 billion, won’t be left homeless after the sale.
As well as owning properties at Ballina, Brunswick Heads and Lennox Head properties, he has his $12.7 million home in the Coopers Shoot hinterland – which he downsized to from his $14 million Coorabell home last year.
As Knappick trades out of Wategos Beach, former GrainCorp chairman Ron Greentree has bought into the neighbourhood for $9.8 million.
Ron Greentree is known as the biggest wheat farmer in the country. Credit:Paul Mathews
Greentree is renowned as one of Australia’s largest wheat farmers after he and the Harris family bought the Milton Downs and neighbouring Boolcarrol properties in the state’s North West Slopes in 2008 for $75 million from the Kahlbetzer family.
The Harris and Greentree family partnership ended a decade ago and Greentree has been selling down his Milton Downs holding in recent years, including a 19,000-hectare portion sold this year reportedly for more than $100 million.
Greentree’s newly acquired Byron Bay digs is known as Palm Court, a three-level house configured as three apartments owned for the last 30 years by the Schofield family.
The Cameron family behind the regional radio station giant Grant Broadcasters have emerged as the $6.89 million buyers of a Cape Cod-style house at Newport.
The Cameron family have bought the Cape Cod-style house overlooking Newport and Bungan beaches.
The purchase in a company name comes six months after Grant Broadcasters chief executive Alison Cameron oversaw the acquisition of the company for $307 million by HT&E, the owner of Australian Radio Network.
Alison Cameron was the third generation to head up Grant Broadcasters.Credit:LinkedIn
Grant Broadcasting – which ran stations from Darwin, the Gold Coast, Launceston and Ballarat, – dates back to 1942, when Cameron’s grandfather Walter T. Grant bought 2DU Dubbo.
The company was for decades run by matriarch Janet Cameron before she handed over the reins to her children Alison, Dugald and Grant.
The 1700-square-metre property overlooking Newport and Bungan beaches had a guide of $5.75 million through McGrath’s David Eden before strong interest meant the guide was raised ahead of auction.
Neurologist Mark Winder and his wife Emma Cowan have their sights set on a Waverley suburb high thanks to the coming launch of their designer home with an $11.9 million guide.
The striking Waverley home of Dr Mark Winder and Emma Cowan goes to auction on October 8.
The striking designer residence featuring a circular staircase to formal and informal living areas, billiard room, music studio, car stacker and 25-metre swimming pool was completed in 2014, three years after the couple purchased the property for $2.75 million.
McGrath’s Luke Hogan and Fraser Turvey are expected to top the suburb high set in 2020 at $8.2 million by head of institutional equities at corporate advisory E&P Financial Alex Rock and his architect wife Elisabeth.
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