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Drawcards included the large block of 4116 square metres, proximity to the train station, five bedrooms and a Palm Springs-style pool.
Family homes nearby usually fetch about $2 million to $2.5 million, and while Murphy declined to comment on the sale price at Gloucester Road, one source with knowledge of the deal pegged it at about $7.5 million.
This family home at 23 Anthony Road, West Ryde sold before auction for $4.18 million.
Murphy also set the North Epping record in November at $3.525 million, when she sold a six-bedroom house at 11 Durham Street.
Other recent Sydney surprises include a new suburb record in West Ryde of $4.18 million, and the $3,315,000 record in Abbotsbury in Sydney’s south-west.
In Melbourne, lockdown-weary buyers are paying a premium for the seaside, such as a $5.05 million deal struck in once-overlooked Frankston this month.
The older-style, five-bedroom house with development potential at 40 Gould Street is set on the absolute beachfront and comes with its own beach box.
40 Gould Street Frankston sold for $5,050,000.Credit:RT Edgar Peninsula
“It is not what you would normally expect, to achieve these sorts of prices,” RT Edgar Peninsula listing agent Vicki Sayers said, adding that the large land size, waterfront position and sweeping views were drawcards for the holiday home buyer.
“It has probably one of the best views I have ever seen.”
The median house price in Frankston, a 45km drive south of the CBD, was $735,000 in December last year, according to Domain data.
On the other side of town, a glamorous family home sold for $6.85 million this summer, a new suburb record for the north-eastern suburb of Templestowe.
10 Summerhill Road, Templestowe sold for $6.85 million.Credit:Barry Plant Manningham
Set on almost 4000 square metres, the six-bedroom residence at 10 Summerhill Road came with all the mod cons including a pool, tennis court, gym with steam room, billiard/theatre room and bar, wine cellar, marble kitchen and butler’s pantry.
Even so, it’s a new benchmark for an area where family homes can be had for $1.5 million and acreages for between $2.5 million and $4.5 million, selling agent Theo Politis of Barry Plant Manningham said.
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“There’s a lot of homes in Templestowe that would fetch that money or more, they just don’t really trade hands,” he said.
Brisbane has also been reaching new highs, as cashed-up southern buyers make a move to the Sunshine State.
In riverside Indooroopilly, the sale of another lavish pad broke the suburb house price record in November, not by an incremental gain but by a huge leap of almost $6 million.
The six-bedroom house, on a 6020-square-metre-block at 78 Jilba Street, traded for $12 million.
“There is nothing even close in Indooroopilly,” selling agent Jason Adcock, of Adcock Prestige, said.
The family home features an infinity pool, entertaining pavilion, pontoon, library and sunken lounge.
78 Jilba Street, Indooroopilly sold for $12 million.Credit:Adcock Prestige
At the other end of the market, a four-bedroom house in the outer southern suburb of Logan Reserve, in the city of Logan, traded for $765,500, a record for its estate.
The median house price in the suburb was just $457,500 last year.
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Further north, Townsville’s record was reset with the private sale of a $6 million mansion at 32 Stirling Drive, Castle Hill.
The highest private treaty sale in the city last year was $3.2 million for 4 Braemar Drive, in the same suburb, through Smith and Elliott’s Sally Elliott.
Both are outliers, and Elliott noted that the middle of the market in Townsville ranges from the high $400,000s to the mid-$600,000s.
In once-affordable Hobart, a penthouse apartment reportedly sold off the plan for an eye-watering $8 million.
The St David luxury apartment complex at 9 Sandy Bay Road stood out for its industrial-style design and parkside location, and the home sold through Harrison Agents’ Tom Harrison.
And in Adelaide, a local family paid $2.65 million for a resort-style home in Hallett Cove, a 20-kilometre drive south of the CBD, breaking the suburb record by more than $1 million. The home traded through Giordano & Partners’ Grant Giordano and Jacqui Illicic.
5 First Street Hallett Cove sold for $2.65 million.Credit:Giordano & Partners
Perth’s property market overall is not back to the record highs reached after the mining boom, but some individual suburbs broke records as prices rose last year.
On the oceanfront in Swanbourne, in the city’s sought-after west, a house on an 878-square-metre block of land at 22 Odern Crescent fetched $13.3 million through Space Real Estate’s Justin Davies.
It far eclipsed the neighbourhood’s next-highest sale of $7.3 million in 2015.