The Block cult faves quietly promote record-breaking dwelling

The Block’s 2003 contestants Gavin Atkins and Warren Sonin, lengthy referred to as Gav and Waz, have quietly bought their Sunshine Coast, Queensland, hinterland retreat for $10m.

The couple, who arrange their design agency Designer Boys after competing within the first sequence of the Channel 9 present, purchased the Cooroy Mountain property, Riverdale, for $2.7m in late 2016. The 4ha property adjoins lush rainforest.

They’d assist from Noosa constructing designer Zest Design on the revised floorplan with a number of tweaks, together with a grasp retreat now that includes a research, walk-in wardrobe, and his-and-his ensuites.

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Inside designers Gavin Atkins and Warren Sonin have bought their Cooroy hinterland retreat for $10m.

The house set a neighborhood report. Image: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

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The off-market sale to the Wells household set a Cooroy Mountain report topping the $9.5m paid in 2021 for the Piralilly property on 44ha. There are solely about 70 properties at Cooroy Mountain, within the Noosa Shire about 25km from the coast.

Gav and Waz had been a part of the primary The Block sequence, wherein the groups renovated a four-unit advanced on Bondi’s Roscoe St. They had been the primary same-sex couple to seem on Australian actuality TV, typically renovating of their underwear.

Loopy John, the cellphone retailer in search of to piggyback the high-rating success of the sequence, paid $670,000 after the makeover. Its worth went backwards two years later when Loopy John bought for $560,500 in 2005.

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The house boasts a leafy outlook. Image: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

The duo throughout their time on The Block in 2003.

Sonin had been a gross sales supervisor and Atkins labored in public relations at Landcare Australia, with the duo doing their days jobs through the renovation.

The then Potts Level-based couple loved enormous success with their earlier hinterland retreat at Federal, exterior Byron Bay.

They bought the 23ha property for $3m in 2013, having purchased it in 2007 for $610,000.

The restored and expanded 120-year-old farmhouse hit the market with $14m hopes early final 12 months with out success, then once more in April this 12 months with dramatically revised $5.5m steering via TRG and Ray White.

In response to PropTrack, simply three home have been bought in Cooroy Mountain previously 12 months.

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