Weekend Sunrise host’s pup-tailored property hits the market
Channel 7 Weekend Sunrise host Matt Doran has put his apartment on the market, in the exclusive eastern Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill.
Doran plans to take advantage of the recovery in the cramped winter property market as he failed to sell the two-bedroom apartment in mid-2021.
It has a June 24 auction guide of $1.8 million through BresicWhitney agents Maclay Longhurst and Zakir Abdallaoui.
After securing the Tresscourt apartment from Sky News presenter Laura Jayes and her husband, former Seven reporter Alex Hart, for $1.385 million in 2017, Doran commissioned a complete remodel by Sydney designer Dylan Farrell.
Doran began his “absolute passion project” with art tailored to the home by artist Vicki Lee.
“It’s honestly going to be tough to part with this place,” Doran told The Sell.
Doran and his wife, Weekend Today executive producer Kendall Bora are yet to purchase.
“I bought it before I met Kendall after I moved back from LA. “The redesign was a big job; the lights and doors and windows custom-made … the centrepiece is a sliding steel door to the loungeroom, which needed 12 people to carry up and install.
“We also extended the outdoor space, almost entirely to satisfy the demands of the galaxy’s most spoilt and demanding and glorious Italian greyhound, Murphy.”
Per PopTrack, the median unit price in Bellevue Hill is $1.357,500, dipping 9.5 per cent over the past year.
It is believed that Murphy will have the final say in their next acquisition.
Doran and Bora will hold onto the Sunny Corner Cottage, a retreat accessed by boat and Berowra Waters and where they tied the knot in July 2021.
The pair paid $1.75 million in 2021 for the 1905 waterfront property and had designer Tasmin Johnson work on its redesign into a luxury private holiday rental and event space.
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