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A four-level Aberfeldie “party house” with a rooftop bar, indoor pool and spa, sauna and home office will have its buyers never wanting to leave home.

The five-bedroom, five-bathroom pad beside the Maribyrnong River at 102 Fawkner St is on the private sale market for $3.4m-$3.6m.

Barry Plant Essendon agent Walter Mahch said the five-month-old property was constructed by the builder who was now selling it.

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“It’s two doors away from Maribyrnong River and it’s got a city view as well,” he said.

“You can swim in the pool 12 months a year because it’s an indoor

Wealthy home buyers went on a spending spree around Australia this year that saw some eye-popping sales, despite an ongoing real estate downturn.

More than $1.05 billion was spent on Australia’s top 30 residential property sales in 2022 alone. See the highest reported 25 sales of the year below.

The staggering spending spree resulted in one of the biggest years of top-end property sales on record, flying in the face of the rest of the market, after the Reserve Bank began the biggest succession of interest rate hikes in 30 years.

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A GOLD Coast mansion that hosted a string of Hollywood celebrities has hit the market.

The celebrity digs in Ashmore, completed in 2009 and once a family home, has most recently been used as a holiday retreat with its elegance, grandeur and prime location making it a magnet for celebrity guests.

The property has hosted director Baz Luhrmann, actress Amber Heard and business magnate Elon Musk.

The house was also used to host events for actor Tom Hanks when he stayed on the Gold Coast earlier this

NEARLY $200m was splashed on 20 homes across Brisbane in 2022, with half of the properties selling for more than $10m each.

So far in 2022, Brisbane has recorded 36 home sales worth more than $5m each, according to Herron Todd White valuers.

That’s not as strong as 2021 when a record 52 sales were recorded over $5m, but the decrease is more about a lack of listings at the top end.

We’ve compiled a list of the top 20 reported home sales of the year in the Queensland capital:

BRISBANE’S 20 BIGGEST HOME SALES OF 2022

1. 673 Musgrave Rd, Robertson

Sale price: $17.25m

Sale date: March 2022

Seller: Albert Long and Teresa Ting

Buyer: Undisclosed

Bobby Fox will be appearing at Carols By Candlelight at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Christmas Eve.

FIRST HOME

Ireland will always be my first home. I was born and raised outside a very small town in the

middle of Co. Longford right in the centre of Ireland. I am the middle child too so there’s quite a theme going on here – perhaps why I felt the need to escape to the other side of the world. I came from such gloriously modest means. Mam and Dad raised five kids on a shoestring budget and I wouldn’t change a bar of it.

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CURRENT HOME

A FULLY rendered house that sold to a Maserati-driving Melbourne buyer has been crowned the Gold Coast’s most viewed home of 2022.

According to PropTrack data, a house named Ruin X at 31 Beaconsfield Drive, Burleigh Waters racked up 68,000 views on realestate.com.au.

That interest translated to an action-packed auction on-site in March.

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Melbourne buyer Chris Shao walked away victorious after he paid $2.713888 million to secure the home after seeing it on social media.

Matt Jamieson and Emma Sweeny were the brains behind the one-of-a-kind rendered house full of arches and curves.

“We wanted

It may have been named Australia’s “Sh*t Town of 2022” but this major regional Queensland city has some cracking real estate at prices that will make cityslickers stuck in gridlock start frothing at the mouth.

Townsville, the unofficial capital of the North, was given the controversial title by satirical Facebook page ‘Sh*t Towns of Australia’ for the second year in a row.

“Brownsville won in an absolute mudslide, registering more than twice the votes of its nearest competitor,” the announcement on the social media site said.

“This is Towntown’s second successive brown crown, capping another successfully sh*t year for the Queensland craphole.”

Townsville secured 30 per cent of the vote ahead of Mount Druitt (14%) in NSW and Alice Springs (12.7%).

Other towns to make the list included Port Pirie (SA), Frankston (Victoria), Port Hedland (WA), Fyshwick (ACT)

Actor, writer and prolific funnyman Damian Callinan has sold the Preston pad where he honed his creative talents for a variety of comedy shows to a globetrotting fan.

And he exited with a joke, informing his agent he had drunk the Moet & Chandon champagne they left for the buyer and replaced it with a bottle of Aldi moscato.

Callinan move into the 1/18 Gilbert Rd two-bedder in 2016 and it was where some of his best gags were conceived for recent comedy shows including Wine Bluffs and his Mayor For A Day series.

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The property’s sale was finalised on December 13 for $450,000, within the $445,000-$480,000 price

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A cash buyer took an early morning flight from Sydney to bid at the auction of a Hollywood Hills-style home in The Gap that eventually sold under the hammer for $2.075m.

“It was our work Christmas party last night,” Pulse Software head of technology Craig Atherstone said.

“Both my partner and I work from home in Brisbane but I flew down for the party and came back this morning. The plane was delayed, but I made it in time.”

Three bidders joined him on the back deck of the stunning Spanish-inspired house at 73 Yarrabee Rd, The Gap for the morning auction, with cicadas and birdsong the only competition for auctioneer

Ten years, three kids and a knockdown-rebuild later, vendors Danni and Ben Fahey farewelled their family’s four-bedroom Hoppers Crossing home on Saturday as they get ready to upsize in Kingsville.

The couple first moved into the 34 Branton Rd pad in 2011 with their two children, and lived there for more than seven years before the arrival of their third child made them re-evaluate the size of the home.

“Renovating it looked like it would cost almost as much as knocking down and rebuilding, so we realised we were better off to build a brand new home and reposition it in the best way possible,” Ms Fahey said.

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