Foxtel’s Neale Whitaker with accomplice David Novak-Piper at Seven Mile Seaside on the NSW south coast
TV presenter Neale Whitaker and his accomplice David Novak-Piper are “transferring on”, having greater than doubled their cash on their South Coast property.
The Adore it or Record It co-host (Foxtel) and My Reno Guidelines choose (beginning quickly on the 7 Community) confirmed to the Wentworth Courier they’d offered their 4 bed room dwelling on a hectare at Bundewallah close to Berry for about $4.5m.
“We’re very pleased with what we offered it for, we couldn’t have requested for a greater worth,” Whitaker mentioned.
They’d purchased the property for $1,837,500 in mid 2018, finished a serious reno and likewise added a visitor home, however they’d nonetheless doubled their cash.
“That sounds about proper, although we did spend fairly a bit of cash and we’ve constructed it to a really excessive normal and little doubt added an enormous quantity of worth to the property,” he mentioned.
Whitaker had introduced information of the sale in an Instagram video earlier this week, with out revealing the worth, saying it was “bittersweet”.
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They’ve now offered their Bundewallah property for about $4.5m.
Neale Whitaker along with his Adore it or Record it co-host Andrew Winter. Image: Foxtel
“We have now offered our pretty property right here on the NSW South Coast the place we’ve lived for nearly eight years and we’re transferring on,” Whitaker mentioned within the video.
He mentioned David had been ill in recent times and, though he was now significantly better, they’d determined to downsize and “simplify their lives” to a brand new reno undertaking within the space, which they beloved.
When questioned additional this morning, he mentioned: “We’re transferring into city, Berry, we’re not going to be on a property now.
“We’re downsizing, when it comes to the dimensions … I’m searching now on the gorgeous inexperienced paddocks of Bundewallah, which I received’t be in future.
“A two-and-a-half acre property shouldn’t be large by native requirements, nevertheless it’s a variety of us.
“We constructed the visitor home, Taylors of Berry in 2022, and each inch of this property needs to be maintained the entire time.
“David’s large ardour was the gardening and the landscaping, that’s the explanation it seems so lovely… however he hasn’t been in a position to it in recent times.
They’d finished a serious reno.
And added a visitor home, Taylors of Berry.
“We’re our way of life and what we’d like as we become older — we’re each in our sixties now — and we determined to simplify issues and transfer on.”
He doesn’t need to reveal precisely the place they’ve bought, saying merely: “It’s a stunning previous home relationship again to 1916, a weatherboard cottage, very conventional which is ideal for David and I.”
The TV presenter, beforehand with The Block, mentioned it will be “extra a adorning reno than a stuctural reno …I’ve very accustomed to these,” he laughed.
They’d initially thought their Bundewallah property can be their “endlessly dwelling”, however “typically life has a approach of catching you out and you find yourself altering route”.
“Whereas this lovely dwelling hasn’t been our endlessly dwelling, we hope the following one might be, and we’re staying on this neighborhood, we love Berry, it’s a really supportive neighborhood,” Whitaker, who additionally owns a one-bedroom Sydney bolthole in Alexandria, mentioned.
He couldn’t reveal the purchaser of the Bundewallah property, saying solely it was a pair from Sydney’s north shore.
Gross sales agent Carrie Bond of Bond Properties had earlier confirmed to the Courier that the house had offered for about $4.5m just a few weeks in the past, earlier than it may even hit realestate.com.au.
“It was all finished in a short time,” she mentioned.
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