A Thirroul house owned by John Butler Trio bass player Byron Luiters sold at auction this week.
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The recently renovated home is at 29 Fords Road.
According to Australian Property Monitors, rock musician Luiters and wife Laura had owned the property since 2011.
Selling agent, Trever Molenaar from Molenaar and McNeice didn’t disclose the final selling price, however the Mercury understands that it sold for $1.4 million.
Mr Molenaar said it sold to an out of area buyer after a “flurry of bids”.
The home incorporates three to four bedrooms.
“The music room where he used to jam could be another bedroom,” Mr Molenaar told the Mercury earlier this year.
The agent described it as a “really nice entertaining home” with great views.
“It’s architecturally-designed… It’s got DA approval for another top-floor extension,” he said.
“It’s basically renovated from the ground up, and brand new throughout.
“It’s also got views right the way down to Sandon Point.”
Aside from being a member of the popular roots-rock trio, Luiters has also undertaken band work with reality television show The Voice.
Meanwhile, Midnight Oil front-man Peter Garrett and his wife, Doris, have returned to the Southern Highlands, paying $1.2 million for a Kangaroo Valley property.
The two-hectare purchase was made two years after they sold their tree-change property in nearby Mittagong for $2.8 million.
The Garretts are expected to buy a Sydney base, but in the meantime will live at the Kangaroo Valley property, Hartland.
INXS guitarist Tim Farriss and wife Beth are selling their Kangaroo Valley farm/cottage retreat after 30 years.
‘Willabrook’, a 37-hectare property at 30 Parrishs Road has an asking price of $4.5 million to $4.9 million.
Rental availability figures
Vacancy rates have risen throughout Sydney, according to research from the Real Estate Institute of NSW.
REINSW president Leanne Pilkington said the August 2018 ‘REINSW Vacancy Rate Survey’ saw metropolitan Sydney vacancy rates up 0.2 percentage points at 3.0 per cent.
“Vacancy rates in Middle and Inner Sydney are both at 3.1 per cent, an increase of 2.0 percentage points and 4.0 percentage points respectively,” Ms Pilkington said.
In Inner Sydney, vacancy rates rose 2.0 percentage points to 2.9 per cent.
“We have seen a steady and relatively consistent rise in vacancy rates across Sydney as a string of developments reach completion creating an oversupply in the marketplace,” she said.
“As a result rents are falling and properties are staying longer on the market than usual.”
The Illawarra remained steady at 2.0 per cent, with Wollongong’s vacancy rates also unchanged at 2.0 per cent.
In the Hunter, vacancy rates rose 0.1 percentage points to 1.8 per cent, despite Newcastle’s slide of 0.1 percentage points at 2.1 per cent.
Coffs Harbour rose 0.9 percentage points to 3.8 per cent and the Central Coast increased 0.5 percentage points to 2.5 per cent.