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A Wollstonecraft home that was originally built for the late Joseph Clifton Love, a manufacturer who helped establish the Uncle Tobys brand in Sydney through his company Clifford Love & Co, has hit the market for a second time this year.
The five-bedroom, three-bathroom residence was listed in January for $13 million and is now being offered in a fresh campaign with a guide of $10 million through a different agency.
Vendors Hamish Hutton, a construction project manager, and his wife, Nell, an executive at Westpac, could be selling as they are rumoured to have purchased the long-time Cremorne family home of Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons.
Hamish has been the construction project manager at Richard Crookes Constructions since 2021 and ran his own construction business Hutcon from 2006 to 2009, according to his LinkedIn. Nell was formerly a partner at Goldman Sachs, head of global markets for Australia and New Zealand.
The couple bought the one-storey brick house, a 1920s build with restored interiors, for $9.2 million in 2020 from Hugh and Sara Millikin, records show.
There is a modern white kitchen that looks out onto the pool and garden, coffered ceilings and rich timber detail in the main living zones, and ornate high ceilings in the bedrooms.
Leisure and entertainment zones include the gym or games room, wine cellar, marble wet bar, pool and sandstone terraces with city skyline views.
The couple is widely tipped to have bought the $20 million-plus Cremorne residence of Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons.
Wilkinson, a former Today co-host, and FitzSimons, a former Wallaby-turned-author, sold the abode for an undisclosed sum after it passed in at $24.5 million at a private auction in September. A sold sticker on the listing reveals a sale by private treaty on October 28.
The five-bedroom, landmark estate on 3214 square metres, was purchased by the media power couple for $2.95 million in 1998.
Pillinger’s Brad Pillinger and Monika Tu of Black Diamondz Property Concierge sold the property but declined to comment on any aspect of the sale or buyer’s identity. Both will be revealed at settlement.
The agents are selling the Wollstonecraft home and are accepting expressions of interest.
Star property flipper
Former rugby league player-turned-builder Todd Miller, and his artist wife, Diana, have put their Byron Bay home on the market with a price guide of $9.5 million to $9.75 million.
The couple purchased the existing house on the site for $6.5 million in 2022 from Amanda Pelman, records show, and designed and constructed a new house through Todd’s company Ziegler.
Pelman is a music creative director and producer, and signed Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan while at Mushroom Records, according to her personal website.
Diana told this masthead that Todd was the visionary for the “full-gut renovation,” seeing it through from concept to completion alongside his business partner Cain Mahony and a team of tradesmen. Diana used her creativity as an artist, bringing an “intuitive sensibility into the final furnishings and art, layering the spaces with warmth, texture and considered restraint”.
There is a stunning sandstone entry and interiors are a blend of limewash walls, coffered ceilings, timber detail and limestone features.
Entertaining will be a breeze with an expansive terrace with ocean views, a pool, sauna and fire pit.
Todd played rugby league for eight years for teams including the Cronulla Sharks and Brisbane Broncos before moving abroad to play rugby union in New York and London. In London, he met Diana and in 2003 they returned to Australia.
The property is being sold through Su Reynolds of First National Byron.
Hannan family to sell reimagined terrace
A renovated Victorian terrace in Potts Point, owned by the Hannan family, has been offered to the market with a price guide of $14 million, local sources have revealed.
The five-bedroom, five-bathroom home is in the company name of Kilcarra Developments, a boutique property developer, of which Lindsay Hannan and his sons, Julian and Shaun, are listed as directors. Records show they bought the address for $5.5 million in 2021.
Lindsay is also a director of Rathdrum Properties alongside his brother, print baron Michael Hannan. Michael was the chairman of Australian printing group Ovato, which printed the stable of glossy magazines once owned by Kerry Packer, including The Australian Women’s Weekly.
The terrace for sale has undergone a significant renovation by Tom Mark Henry Studio. European oak chevron floors, birch joinery, Calacatta marble and vintage Murano lighting adorn the interiors. There is an alfresco entertainer’s terrace and lift.
The Hannan family are well-versed in selling property.
Michael’s son James, the chief executive of marketing agency SBM, and his wife, Laura, the head of special projects at Yatsal Distributors, sold their contemporary five-bedroom, four-bathroom Vaucluse home for $15.3 million in November.
They also sold their $17 million six-bedroom, five-bathroom Bellevue Hill mansion in 2023 to bikini entrepreneur Natasha Oakley, and her husband, Theo Chambers of Shore Financial.
The Potts Point terrace is listed through Jason Boon and Geoff Cox of Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay and Potts Point, with Maclay Longhurst and Emily Davidson of Sydney Sotheby’s International Realty Woollahra, who all declined to comment.
