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The Age
31-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Manly Sea Eagles co-owner sells stylish Bellevue Hill home circa $17m
With gardens designed by renowned landscaper Jamie Durie, the home is fitted with state-of-the-art solar panels and a Tesla battery, which allows it to operate almost entirely off the grid. 'It's the best street in the world, especially for surfing families. It's pretty exceptional [place to live],' Trueman told this masthead. Loading A surfing enthusiast and engineer by trade, Trueman has had a long career in various roles, including the project directing Circular Quay's Overseas Passenger Terminal, and more recently NorthConnex. The former McKinsey consultant has turned his focus in recent years to the renewable energy transition, helping businesses and governments reduce pollution in construction and infrastructure projects in particular. The 60-year-old has channelled his passion for preserving the environment as the chief executive for Twiggy and Nicola Forrest's now-defunct Sea the Future, a not-for-profit plastic recycling enterprise. He now runs his boutique advisory firm Bluewater Impact Partners and is a director of not-for-profit Surfrider Foundation Australia, which protects Australia's ocean, beaches and waves. The home is being sold through Michael Clarke of Clarke & Humel Property. Watsons Bay blank canvas sells to real estate scion Meriton executive Ariel Hendler, grandson of Australia's second-richest person, billionaire real estate mogul Harry Triguboff, has emerged as the $15.7 million buyer of an unrenovated Watsons Bay home, settlement records reveal. The 32-year-old is the director of asset management of his grandfather's company, overseeing Meriton's built for rent portfolio, which is the largest of its kind in the country, so he may know a thing or two about renting. He is still based, according to corporate records, at the Vaucluse address of his parents Sharon Hendler, Triguboff's daughter, and her husband, Gary Hendler. His older brother Daniel was announced as Meriton's deputy managing director as part of Triguboff's succession plans. Ariel purchased the four-bedroom, two-bathroom blank canvas with secure access to Camp Cove Reserve in the exclusive harbour enclave from property investor Jason Camuglia, who made a paper profit of $3.32 million after holding it for just four years. Before Camuglia offloaded it, he was renting it out for $3000 a week since 2022. While the home was being offered to the market as a package deal of more than 1300 square metres with a combined asking price of $23 million to $25 million, the neighbouring property set on 441 square metres is still on the market with a $7 million to $7.5 million guide. The selling agent on both homes is Paul Biller of Biller Property, who declined to comment when contacted. Ex Rugby chief's holiday home Rugby Australia's former chief executive Bill Pulver and his landscape architect wife Belinda Gibson have sold their Central Coast weekender for $2.45 million. The sold sticker went up on the couple's Avoca Beach property, which they bought as land for $85,000 in 1988. They went on to rebuild the property in the 2000s, turning it into a contemporary coastal retreat. Billed as a lucrative holiday rental, idyllic weekender or permanent coastal home, the five-bedroom, two-bathroom house set on 885 square metres features floor-to-ceiling glass, bi-fold doors and Blackbutt timber flooring. Pulver was the Union's chief executive over a tumultuous period between 2013 and 2018, overseeing the prolonged decision to axe the Western Force from the Super Rugby competition. The 65-year-old went on to become a director at language data services company Appen, where he made a fortune to the tune of $9.6 million, according to The Australian Financial Review.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Fury as luxury Gold Coast high rise swamped
One of Australia's ritziest high-end apartment buildings has suffered serious flooding during ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, with residents taking to social media to complain about waterlogged carpets and leaking window sills. Aussie DJ WILLO, in a TikTok from midnight on Friday, steps through a water-soaked 14th floor bedroom. The video shows a zip tie holding the bedroom window closed. The young musician, living at the Meriton Southport, claimed the building's management had 'refused' to fix leaks and window seals for more than 48 months. 'Cyclone Alfred has come into our building and flooded our bedroom,' he said. 'And yes, you're seeing that correctly. We have zip ties holding the windows because our building refused to fix our window sills. 'And that is with multiple windows in our apartment. And that's 14 floors up. 'You wouldn't think there would be flooding 14 floors up in an apartment, but here we are. Let's go Meriton. Awesome.' In another update posted two hours later on early Saturday morning, WILLO said the water had gotten into the wardrobe. 'We need answers Mr Triguboff,' a caption to the TikTok reads. Prolific developer Harry Triguboff AO developed the Meriton buildings on the Gold Coast. Another Meriton resident, posting from the Meriton Surfers Paradise complex, said 'so much water' had leaked in as Alfred raged outside. 'I don't think this should with a building that is only two years old,' the man posted. 'Look at all the water that is coming in. There is so much water. And it is coming from every crack. 'And I can feel the wind coming in, even with the windows closed.' TikTokker has posted a video complaining about his Meriton apartment on the Gold Coast. NewsWire has contacted Meriton for a response to the videos. Luxury high-rise apartment complexes like the Meriton buildings dominate the Gold Coast skyline, which has transformed into one of Queensland's premier tourist destinations. Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred was downgraded to a tropical low on Saturday morning, but the weather event has still wreaked havoc across parts of southeast Queensland and northern NSW, including the Gold Coast. The region's beloved Putt Putt Mermaid Beach wasn't spared, with the spot's iconic marker – a giant, yellow golf ball – knocked over into the bushes. The low is sustaining winds near its centre of 55km/h with wind gusts of up to 85km/h. Winds are expected to weaken further as the system moves inland, though heavy rainfall is likely to continue over southeast Queensland and northern NSW. Some 300,000 homes and businesses are also without power. Gold Coast Airport remained shut on Saturday, but management said in an update at 11am that they hoped to resume operations on Sunday. 'The Gold Coast Airport team is on-site performing safety inspections and operational checks of the aerodrome and terminal precinct,' the airport posted to social media. 'If safety and weather conditions allow, we hope to be able to open tomorrow.'
