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Fashion designer Collette Dinnigan. Picture: David Swift.
INTERNATIONAL fashion designer Collette Dinnigan’s property antenna has turned to a fixer upper south coast property.
And after selling one of her charmingly restored Milton farm stays, she’s bought straight back, though this time she’s secured something right on the coast.
She’s spent $950,000 on a bushland clifftop holding at Rosedale, south of Batemans Bay.
It’s a two bedroom cottage in original condition marketed as a ‘Rosedale treasure’ by Elders agents John and Carly Haslem.
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There’s direct access to the nearby beach from the 555 sqm parcel, although the listing advised the “ancient path down to the beach needs to be rediscovered and groomed.”
What a view.
The existing decking overlooking the oceanfront has views to Jimmy’s Island.
Its a quiet coastal town, with just a few hundred permanents, but it has certainly been on the celebrity radar once before.
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Actor Nicole Kidman was once part of the property scene, having spent $4 million acquiring her nearby beachfront cabins some 14 or so years ago.
It was the late Angus Hawley, Nicole’s then brother-in-law, who swooped into town by helicopter to bid on a prized beachfront holding offered by the Knowlman farming family from Goulburn, who had paid £35 in 1929.
The Kidman family envisaged a $2.5-million compound-type building on the three properties, but in the end they felt there was a lack of privacy preferring their Sutton Forest, Southern Highlands retreat, Bunya Hill.
Rosedale locals were always disappointed that Kidman was there only a handful of times before the holdings were sold off by around 2013.
They’ll be hoping to see more of Dinnigan, and her husband Bradley Cocks, who take a hands-on approach to renovations.
The couple, who have a retreat at Avoca in the Southern Highlands, have been putting together an impressive property portfolio, across Sydney, New South Wales and even internationally.
The couple kicked off with their two cottages at Milton, but now see glamorous international horizons.
They plan to launch a boutique holiday letting service, Bespoke Homes.
Headlining the offerings will a 400- year old farmhouse in Puglia, Italy, which they are restoring.
Dinnigan updated her Instagram followers on the restoration which begun last month. She’s been shopping for old pavers and columns. Back now in a misty Southern Highlands, Dinnigan and Cocks have welcomed Luca, a third dog to their clan.