🏆 Brisbane’s Justin Hemmes mini-me lists $12m+ penthouse

(QLD New Farm | 5 bed | 4 bath | 3 car)

How’d they get rich? Adam Flaskas and Ruby Lee list the property — the former being a sort of Brisbane-based mini-me of Justin Hemmes (aka he’s a property and restaurant developer).

What else?

• Justin Hemmes and Adam Flaskas seem to have had a few run-ins as rivals trying to poach one another’s best chefs.

• Adam Flaskas’s latest project looks to be Manly Wharf, having acquired the site for $80m last year.

View the listing here.

🏆 Surgeon lists his Lower North Shore castle for $18m

(NSW Henley | 6 bed | 4 bath | 10 car)

How’d they get rich? Dr Khalid Qidwai migrated to Australia in the mid-70s — running a successful day surgery in Croydon.

What else?

• Dr Qidwai originally bought the house for a little under $1m back in 1986.

• His wife was sadly murdered at the property in 2012 after a contractor bashed her to death.

View the listing here.

🏆 Laser Clinics co-founder is selling his cosmetically touched up $18m Mosman house

(NSW Mosman | 5 bed | 4 bath | 2 car)

How’d they get rich? Babak Moini co-founded and sold Laser Clinics to KKR for about $650m in 2017 — the company was doing about $50m in EBITDA.

What else?

• Moini is selling the Mosman house to “downsize” into the $22m Crown Towers apartment he bought in 2021.

• Meanwhile, his Laser Clinics co-founder is also living large in the Sydney property game having purchased a $69m pad in Point Piper.

View the listing here.

🏆 Rich listers sell Noosa Heads mansion for $30m

(QLD Noosa Heads | 4 bed | 4 bath | 6 car)

How’d they get rich? The mansion was sold by Richard and Mary Delaney who according to REA are rich listers — though nothing can really be found about them online.

What else?

• The Delaney’s also bought two other properties on the street for $17m but have since sold off one of them for $13m

• They reportedly also bought a 19ha lakeside property from the Betty’s Burgers co-founder for $10m in Lake Macdonald.

View the listing here.