Wallabies skipper Michael Hooper lists Fairlight house ahead of Bledisloe Test

The pressure is on for incumbent Wallabies captain Michael Hooper this October. He and the rest of the national team square off against the All Blacks in the Bledisloe Cup Test on October 11, and the day before kick-off is the scheduled auction of his Fairlight house.

The 28-year-old flanker bought the four-bedroom house as a first-home buyer in 2016 for $2,065,000, and added a one-bedroom pad in Queens Park to his budding investment portfolio two years ago for $970,000.

Hooper and his wife Kate are expected to trade up locally on the northern beaches once it is sold. Michael Clarke, of Clarke & Humel, has a guide of $2.3 million to $2.53 million.

Gonski weekender on the market – again 

The little-used Whale Beach weekender of ANZ Bank chairman David Gonski and his wife Orli Wargon has returned to the market with Belle Property’s Laura Mears, still carrying the price guide of $5.5 million to $5.8 million of late 2018 when it was last offered for sale.

The clifftop residence was designed by architect Andrew Coomer by lawyer Tony Bancroft and his wife Cassandra, before they sold it to the Gonskis in 2009 for $5.1 million to move to the end of Rayner Road.

$10m off-market deal in Dover Heights

The good times at fintech juggernaut Afterpay Touch keep translating into bullish sales of eastern suburbs real estate. Take the latest acquisition by the group’s global chief of staff Barry Odes.

Odes and his wife Nicole have paid more than $10 million for a newly built residence in Dover Heights of Marina Belin-Wayne, making it the second highest house sale in the suburb since celebrity accountant Anthony Bell bought the clifftop home of Larry Emdur for $11.5 million three years ago.

The off-market deal was first leaked care of an Instagram post by buyer’s agent Carli Skurnik, but no further details were forthcoming from tagged Sotheby’s agents Barry Goldman and Lisa Kramer.

Odes is cashed up for the purchase, according to the Financial Review’s Rear Window column. In April he cashed in more than $13 million worth of share options, and followed up with another batch worth more than $13 million in August.

The Odes clan will presumably be eventually moving from their near clifftop house on nearby Lyons Street they bought in 2012 for $2.5 million.

It comes a year after Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar bought a $10 million apartment on North Bondi’s Ben Buckler clifftop a year ago, and fellow co-founder David Hancock paid $8 million for a doer-upper in Centennial Park last November.

Meanwhile, at rival buy-now-pay-later fintech Zip Co the chief operating officer Adam Finger bought a Bellevue Hill house for $7.9 million in May.

And Michael Rom, a Zip Money co-founder and chief operating officer of supply chain fintech Octet, looks set to swap his recently sold $4.7 million North Bondi home for more than $9 million digs in Rose Bay.

Records show his wife Terry has bought the contemporary Smyth & Smyth architect-designed residence of Lendlease senior executive John Burton and his wife Marylouise through Knight Frank’s William Laing aned Adam Ross.

Miroshnik’s designer makeover

Rique Miroshnik, wife of high-profile plastic surgeon Michael Miroshnik, has snapped up a $5.3 million house in Bellevue Hill opposite the Rose Bay Golf Course amid talk of another high-end renovation.

Records show the five-bedroom house was sold in less than two weeks by PPD’s Kate Zuppicich on behalf of the Harris family.

The Miroshniks have form when it comes to impressive recreations of the bricks and mortar variety, having bought a house in Vaucluse for $7.15 million six years ago and after a major rebuild flipping it for $36.5 million to Sunny Ngai, son of the late toilet paper king Henry Ngai.

Now based in Rose Bay, the self-professed “breast master” is redesigning the penthouse atop the Zenith Residences at King Cross having bought it for about $10 million in July.